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'More than just another zombie story, Undad is about the challenges of being a husband and father while being (literally) dead inside. A chance encounter with a ragged homeless man leaves Brett Buckley with deep teeth marks in his arm, and a sudden ravenous hunger for living flesh. Unable to control these urges, he consumes the hamster that belongs to his son's class. Fearing that losing his family might cost him the last of his dwindling humanity, Brett must win back their love and respect, all the while attempting to find his new place in the world and reconcile his vegetarian morals with his insatiable appetite for live meat...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Shane Smith noted in an article on website Bleeding Cool that the work was strongly about depression:
Brett Buckley isn’t doing so well relating to his family. In the space of a single morning, he manages to annoy both his children and his wife. He’s deep in a rut, caught in the routines of life, lost in his own dramas. He is dead inside, a condition made a reality later that same day when he is assaulted (and turned) by a filthy hobo who tries to eat him.
And that’s when the next stage of the depression-metaphor rears its ugly head: Brett discovers within himself a monster, a malignant force he can’t control that makes him do things he would otherwise never do.
Source: Bleeding Cool (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/11/09/undad-a-zombie-comic-about-depression/). (Sighted: 7/4/2016)
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Awards
- 2016 shortlisted ACT Writing and Publishing Awards — Fiction
- 2015 finalist Australian Shadows Award — Comics/Graphic Novels
