CELL :: The Stephen King Project

tomer :: for the first time in it's history Entertainment Weekly magazine is running an excerpt of a novel. CELL is King's homage to zombie films and his goriest, most horrific novel in years. from Amazon: 'In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind.' the hero of the book does not own a cell phone and therefore not infected.

The opening scene unfolds in the Boston Common (a park) by an ice-cream truck. our hero, a struggling cartoonist, just sold his first Graphic novel ( ! ) and filled with optimism, stands in line to get himself an ice-cream just as the cell phone meltdown hits.

since the excerpt is spread over five pages, I've created these spots referring the story's exposition about the world being destroyed within a month -- the idea is to have a mundane street corner transitioning into a burning ruin. the destruction is broken down into five stages so the reader is experiencing a sense of time passing watching the images and reading the story. this will also play to the hero's profession (a comic book artist) by lightly quoting a famous Crumb strip called 'a short history of america'

I tried keeping the color light, positive and pastel so to support the ice-cream / day in the park atmosphere and let the gore exist in contrast.