Of course, it's a horror graphic novel called 'Lost in the Flood' It's about a small white-trash town with a malignant horror festering at the heart of it. The story follows the chaos of several people's lives, among them a pastor trying to lead his family and congregation into fringe fundamentalism, his wayward teen daughter who's losing herself in sex, drugs, and a dream of getting out of the town, and an out of work drunk who's slowly drowning himself in cheap vodka and self denial. Flourishing along side them is pustulent and riotous growth that creeps out from an abandoned factory that teenagers and bums frequent. As everyone's lives get more and more out of control the horror seeps out from corners and cracks, twisting bodies and minds. People get sick, irritable, violent, overtly sexual, and above all else hungry. Eventually the town is infested with mutant freaks that have abandoned all reason and look only to sate their appetite for flesh. Those not infected only worsen the problem by relying on their own vices for comfort. When the source of all the mutation and cancerous growth finally awakens the town and its inhabitants is already lost to the cruel comforts of true ecstasy. The self cannot stand up to the flood of sensation.

Hopefully that doesn’t sound too cheesy or clichéd. I’m not all that good at writing brief synopses. I’m doing my best to write something very dark thematically, psychologically, and visually. It starts off even enough but slowly builds in tension as the madness, brutality, and mutation escalate. By the end things have gotten pretty out of hand.

I’ve been looking up various artwork that can offer up ideas for what the growth and the thing at the center of it look like as well possible mutations (the more originally and disturbing the better). As I’m sure you’re aware, warhammer 40k has some pretty twisted stuff when it comes to that (Nurgle, Tyranids, Mutants) but I’ve also been looking for illustrations of everything from zombies to fungus, to mollusks. So far, I’ve gotten some good ideas (of which some of your work has been a help).