The Addiction Premieres at New York Comic Con: Exclusive Alitha Martinez Cover Reveal!

Come meet Vincent Zurzolo, David Quinn, Claudia Balboni, and Team Addiction at The Addiction Booth #3537 at New York Comic Con, October 12-15! Don’t miss your likelihood to personal any of a number of variant cowl editions of the primary concern of this daring new sequence, launching at NYCC!

The Addiction:

A health care provider devoted to treating habit harbors a wierd, harmful secret – she will be able to drug you with simply her contact.

Allied together with her lover – a union she’s conflicted about surrendering to – she dangers no matter it takes to be the treatment in a sick, sick world. Up towards drug cartels, corrupt organizations and a wild gallery of colourful criminals, the stakes are excessive – however she is going to use medication to combat the harmful slavery of drug habit, changing into the hero we’d like proper now.

Co-creator / Writer Vincent (Metropolis Comics, ComicConnect.com) Zurzolo presents an introduction,

“If you had a second chance at life, What would you do? Dr. Niki Tino, a workaholic driven to fight addiction, became so successful at helping people find recovery that a local drug cartel kidnapped her and shot her up with a cocktail of drugs ‘to put her out of business.’ The withdrawals, the highs and lows a drug addict with a lifelong addiction goes through, Niki experienced it all in one night. She died… and was reborn, chemically altered, to step up her war on addiction with stunning new chemical powers she must learn to master – her second chance.”

Writer / Co-creator David (Faust, Dr. Strange) Quinn provides, “Comic book heroes stereotypically wrestle with chaos on a cosmic scale. We find it interesting and valuable that Niki and her man Enzo fight a very real, down-to-earth problem, and man-made plague –addiction. Niki’s strange powers spiral her into the darkest places humans can go, mentally and physically, but when she stands up for the chance of recovery for all of us, Niki finds hope. But her every win triggers all forces against her to escalate their deadly game. So anything can – and will – happen.”

Eisner Award-nominated artist Claudia (Killer Queens, Fairlady) Balboni illustrates, bringing her elegant visible presents for motion, humor, and human drama to play. “Claudia has already earned a reputation for her beautiful art,” says Vincent, “But her dramatic and nuanced storytelling on this story rocks.”

David provides, “Colorist Brad (Stray Dogs, Local Man) Simpson’s colors paint the surface of the story in modern, slick tones – but when drama veers into darkness or altered states of hallucination, his colors explode to an emotional level – it is ‘transportational.’ And letterer Dave Sharpe, a seasoned pro, helps us voice the characters and their story with personality, style, and flair. We are so lucky to have this team.”

The first three-issue sequence can even provide a stellar gallery of prime illustrators, together with Andres Labrada, David Mack, Artgerm, Amanda Conner, Alitha Martinez, Robotcat, Claudia Balboni, and Tim Vigil.

The Addiction is meant for teen and grownup readers and accommodates illustrated depictions of substance abuse and comedian e-book violence.

An internet site devoted to the sequence will go stay after NYCC at https://theaddiction.co

For media inquiries, contact: dq@theaddiction.co

For gross sales and licensing inquiries, contact: vz@theaddiction.co

Check out the preview:

Meet Team Addiction!

Vincent Zurzolo. Creator/Writer

is President of Metropolis Collectibles, the world’s largest dealership for classic comics and public sale home ComicConnect.com. Fascinated by comics since he was a boy, Vincent began dealing in comics at 15. Graduating from St. John’s University, he bought comics on the streets of Manhattan along with his eye on changing into the most important comedian seller on the earth. In 1999, he merged firms and achieved that objective.

Throughout his profession, Vincent has been a comic book seller, auctioneer, TV producer, radio present host, conference promoter, and Guinness World Record holder as the primary particular person to promote a comic book for 1,000,000 {dollars}. He is a media spokesman for the comedian market, having appeared on numerous TV and radio reveals, newspapers, magazines, and social media.

Vincent at all times dreamed of making a comic book e-book. Now, with author David Quinn, Claudia Balboni, and the remainder of the workforce, he’s proud to current The Addiction!

David Quinn. Writer/Creator

creates content material for comics, movie and theater, together with Go to Sleep, Little Creep (Crown Books for Young Readers), The Littlest Bitch (Sellers) Not for Children Children’s Books (Sirius) and I Sing the Moon (Rocketboots!) David’s finest identified for the Nightvision, 777: The Wrath and Faust horror franchises. Brian Yuzna directed the characteristic Faust: Love of the Damned (Filmax/Lions Gate 2000) based mostly on his screenplay. A deluxe full Faust Omnibus Hardcover haunts comedian retailers in October 2023.

Other tales embody Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Midnight Sons and Carnage, Vampirella (Harris), DC’s Phobias, and Lady Death (Chaos!) Aliens/Predator (Dark Horse) Ascension (Top Cow) and even The Amazin’ Mets (Ultimate Sports). Marvel reprints of David’s tales embody Absolute Carnage (2021), Carnage, the Epic Collection (2023), Doctor Strange: Afterlife (2021), Doctor Strange: Nightmare on Bleecker Street (2023), and Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Omnibus, Volume 3 (2022). David blogs at inwalkedquinn.com.

Claudia Balboni. Illustrator

one of the thrilling visible storytellers working in comics right this moment, Claudia’s Eisner-nominated work on Killer Queens (Dark Horse) is successful a devoted fan following and has been acknowledged by The New York Times, the Glaad Media Awards, the Remmi Awards (“Best LGBTQ+ Series”) and the Gayming Awards. Of her artwork on Killer Queens, Panel Patter stated, “This is how you do comics. This is about as fun as they possibly get.”

Other comics she’s illustrated embody Fairlady (picture), Star Trek: The Future Begins, and True Blood: The French Quarter (IDW). Along with the launch of The Addiction, look ahead to her work in a secret undertaking coming from Dark Horse. A graduate of the Academy School of Comics, Claudia lives and works in Rome, Italy.

Brad Simpson. Color Artist

is an American comedian e-book colorist based mostly in Ashland, Oregon. In addition to gracing the pages of many Marvel Comics titles akin to Deadpool, Vengeance, and The Amazing Spider-Man, Simpson’s gorgeous shade selections have additionally proved invaluable in respiratory life into such titles because the long-running Bloodborne, Stray Dogs, Coffin Bound, and the present acclaimed sequence Local Man.

Dave Sharpe. Letterer

graduated The Joe Kubert college in 1990 and went on to the Marvel Bullpen Staff. He went freelance in 2003, moved to PA, and at the moment works for DC (Action Comics 5 years operating), Bad Idea, Bad Egg, Mad Cave, and Dynamite. Happily married, with 2 grown youngsters, Dave performs bass in a number of performing bands.

*Any perceived funding recommendation is that of the blogger and doesn’t signify recommendation on behalf of GoCollect.