Not hapless people tripping around a kitchen being yelled at and making bad food. I prefer Iron Chef and Top Chef to most of the others I’ve seen because I like to see truly excellent chefs making excellent food. Gavin Cruikshank is, I like to say, a mixture of White, Bourdain, and Iggy Pop. And absolutely, Bourdain’s books as well as the autobiography of Marco Pierre White.

I’m devoted to Top Chef, and the British version of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, where is he far less abusive than the asshole role he plays for American crowds. to do battle once more on the television show that once made him very famous.įreakSugar’s Steve Ekstrom spoke with Brian Wood about the develops of the first arc of Starve how the book’s premise closely mirrors the popular culture of competitive cooking reality television and the global rise in food scarcity.įreakSugar: What inspired you to write Starve? Are you a big fan of the Food Network competitions like Chopped or Cutthroat Kitchen? Gavin Cruikshank has this worldly edge sort of like Anthony Bourdain…īrian Wood: I was a fan of the Japanese Iron Chef, and also that Stephen Chow film spoof God Of Cookery, which remains one of the funniest movies I’ve ever watched. Gavin Cruikshank was at the top of his game in a world of reality television as the world’s most prolific competitive chef after years in seclusion, Cruikshank returns to the U.S. His latest project, Starve, from Image Comics, isn’t any different. With projects like The Couriers, Channel Zero, DEMO, and DMZ, Wood has spent years creating thought-provoking stories to capture the minds of his audience.

Also featuring the now-classic Warren Ellis introduction and an all-new cover by Wood, this is the must-have edition.Writer Brian Wood isn’t a stranger to making comic books with socially relevant messages. The Channel Zero Collection contains the original series, the prequel graphic novel Jennie One (illustrated by Becky Cloonan), the best of the two Public Domain design books, and almost fifteen years of extras, rarities, short stories, and unused art. Hitting on themes of freedom of expression, hacking, cutting-edge media manipulation, and police surveillance, it remains as relevant today as it did back then.

Read full overviewĭMZ and The Massive creator Brian Wood launched an all-out assault on the comics medium in 1997 with Channel Zero, an influential, forward-thinking series that combined art, politics, and graphic design in a unique way. DMZ and The Massive creator Brian Wood launched an all-out assault on the comics medium in 1997 with Channel Zero, an influential, forward-thinking series that combined art, politics, and graphic design in a unique way.

Channel Zero by Brian Wood