Marielle Franco Still Present! Now and Forever On March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco was brutally assassinated along with Anderson Gomes, her driver, on her way back from an event for young black women. For those of you who don’t know who Marielle Franco is, she was a Brazilian city councilor from the Maré favela, one […]
Dread & Alive: Duppy Conqueror Dead Hour On February 6, 2021, ZOOLOOK officially released Dread & Alive: Duppy Conqueror as a one-shot comic book issue. Originally written as a short story, the comic book release includes a foldout poster and an exclusive dub reggae track to accompany the story. The legendary Soul Rebel, Philip McIntosh, […]
Dread & Alive Duppy Conqueror On February 6, 2021, ZOOLOOK will officially release the long-awaited Dread & Alive: Duppy Conqueror, a one-shot comic book issue to the masses. Originally written as a short story, the one-shot comic book chronicles Philip’s life as a Duppy Conqueror. A direct descendant of the Jamaican Maroons, Philip’s lineage traces […]
Dread & Alive A Tale of Two Brothers Dread & Alive tells the tale of two Maroon brothers who ruled in the Cockpit Country of Jamaica years after their ancestors fought the colonial British to a standstill to secure their freedom in the First Maroon War. Born free in one of the communal settlements, Cudjoe and Quaco […]
Shadowcatcher Be afraid. Be very afraid. QUACO or Kwakú, the Akan name given to a male born on a Wednesday is a powerful Obeahman, or Shaman (sorcerer). Like his brother, CUDJOE, he is immortal. Born among the Maroons of Jamaica, Quaco ruled over the Cockpit Country alongside his brother Cudjoe. As the feared Obeahman, Quaco […]
ZOOLOOK I Like To Score On July 6, 2007, Pocketgamer.com published a feature on the best digital comics for your PSP, SONY’s multi-talented member of the handheld family. The SONY PlayStation Portable (PSP) was a handheld game console, first released in Japan on December 12, 2004. It reached North America on March 24, 2005. ZOOLOOK […]
Dread & Alive: Nine Night™ DREAD Alert™ ZOOLOOK has been keeping himself very busy on lockdown. Together with Team DREAD, they have officially penciled and inked the first 14 pages of chapter 1 of Dread & Alive: Nine Night™, titled ‘Hide Your Soul’, with nine of those pages digitally colored. ZOOLOOK has also officially announced […]
Dread & Alive Hide Your Soul It’s ‘I’fficial! Production on Dread & Alive: Nine Night has officially begun! IRIE Magazine’s founder and Editor-in-Chief, Nicholas Da Silva, who goes by his artist name, ZOOLOOK, has brought the original team back to produce the next story arc in the Dread & Alive series, Nine Night™. The series timeline […]
Dread & Alive From Babylon to Zion Dread & Alive™ tells the tale of two Maroon brothers who ruled in the Cockpit Country of Jamaica years after their ancestors fought the colonial British to a standstill to secure their freedom in the First Maroon War. Born free in one of the communal settlements, Cudjoe™ and […]
Dread & Alive ComiXstand May 2020 has been a busy month for the artist, ZOOLOOK. The remaining characters for Issue #1 have been finalized as ZOOLOOK begins production for the first chapter of the story arc, ‘Hide Your Soul’. ZOOLOOK will sketch the storyboards for ‘Hide Your Soul’ during the month of June with actual […]
Dread & Alive Myal Man In ZOOLOOK’s Dread & Alive series, Philip McIntosh is the father of Drew McIntosh. A direct descendant of the Jamaican Maroons, Philip’s lineage traces back to the Ashanti people of the Gold Coast of Africa… present-day Ghana. A cultural anthropologist by day, Philip McIntosh is a local legend in the […]
Dread & Alive Obeah Woman In ZOOLOOK’s Dread & Alive series, Maria McIntosh is the mother of Drew McIntosh. An Ethologist (the study of the behavior of African Lions) at the local university, MARIA is highly intelligent and speaks English with a Jamaican accent. She is also well-versed in Patois. But everything is not what […]