SDCC News: Award-winning writer and producer Rodney Barnes, writer of Killadelphia and The Mandalorian (see “The Mandalorian Comes to Comics”), has two new graphic novel projects in the works.

The Butcher of Black Bottom, which was announced at Comic-Con, will be published by Barnes’ own publishing house, Zombie Love Studios, after first being serialized on Barnes’ Substack. Barnes will work with Argentinian artist German Erramouspe on the story, which is set in Detroit in the 1920s and was inspired by Jack the Ripper. “The Butcher of Black Bottom speaks to the struggle to find racial harmony in a post-civil war America,” Barnes said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “Where the migration of blacks from the south meets an industrializing north wrestling with its own issues. As one might imagine finding peace was no easy chore.”

Barnes is also scripting Alice Cooper vs. the Prince of Darkness, working with artist Edu Menna. Jason Shawn Alexander, the artist he worked with on Killadelphia, will do the main cover, and the variant cover artists are Stuart Sayger and Andrew Mangum. Dynamite Entertainment will publish the graphic novel but did not announce a release date.

In addition, Barnes is working on a comics adaptation of the 1972 film Blacula, which Zombie Love will publish later this year.

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