Review: Zombiewood Weekly

Rob Sacchetto, 2010, Ulysses Press

'Justin Timberlake: Hot Corpse Couture!'
'Britney Spears: Brit Snacks on Fans!'
'Lindsay Lohan: Career Rises from the grave!'

Hot on the heels of his brilliant Zombie Handbook comes Rob Sacchetto's Zombiewood Weekly: The Celebrity Dead Exposed, an amusing little exercise in satirical gore. Presented as an issue of a gossip mag, ZW is packed full of 'zombified' celebrity portraiture - from Elvis, to George W. Bush, to O.J. Simpson - complete with news snippets (penned by co-contributor Jeremy Wash), and even advertisements aimed at an undead readership. Sacchetto's ability to produce clearly-identifiable likenesses of famous faces, even through layers of advanced decay, is uncanny, and has deservedly earned him a character role in Jonathan Maberry's latest zombie novel, Rot & Ruin.

ZW is a fun publication certain to appeal to that section of zombie fandom who enjoy their zomcoms and zombie walks. And gossip mags.

(ZW is distributed in Australia by Scribo).

Review: The Zombie Handbook

Rob Sacchetto, Scribo Australia, 2009


Following recent disclosure that Mel Gibson uses a lotion derived from (potentially MCD-infected) cow brains, it seems timely to draw public attention to Rob Sacchetto's landmark guide to surviving the coming zombie apocalypse. Covering essential topics such as the varying varieties of various zombies (viral, voodoo, alien-controlled, govt. created, etc), zombie diet and lifestyle, and survival tips, Rob Sacchetto's tome is illustrated throughout by illustrator Rob Sachetto, whose incredibly gory yet useful illustrations illustrate this book.

The Zombie Handbook is already standard reading, along with Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide, in most standard Australian retirement homes and Centrelink offices, and will without a doubt undoubtedly become compulsary reading in all households once the first reports of 'infection' hit the airwaves. Believe me, once you're bitten, you'll be glad of a reference that tells you exactly what's happening to your rapidly-decomposing body.

Buy it. Go on, I'll just wait here.

Oh, and it has four words by Jonathan Maberry. So. Y'know. Credibility.

Sorry - foreword.

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