ONI Press Starter Pack 2016

Today's the Final Order Cut off for the upcoming ONI Press Starter Pack 2016. I promise you'll not want to overlook this. It's over 200 pages collecting issue #1's from SEVEN of ONI Press' ongoing books for a ridiculous $5.99! In it you'll be introduced to Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Charles Soule and Alberto Alburquerque's Letter 44, Zander Cannon's Kaijumax, Greg Rucka and Justin Greenwood's Stumptown, Cullen Bunn and Joelle Jones' Helheim, Joshua Hale Fialkov and Gabo's The Life After and of course, the full double sized issue #1 of The BUNKER by Joshua Hale Fialkov and myself.

Now take the diamond order code, NOV151539, to your local comics shop and tell them to pre-order your copy so you'll be sure to get it on release date. Thanks for reading and please consider sharing this post using your preferred social network. 

The BUNKER 15 Color Update

Gonzalo Duarte (colorist for Hellbreak, Big Trouble in Little China and more) has joined us as colorist on the upcoming fourth arc of The BUNKER! Issue 15's FOC is Monday February 15th, so next time you're at your local comics shop, please pre-order using Diamond code, DEC151494. Without being at all overly dramatic, the preservation of The BUNKER needs your pre-orders.

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BUNKER 16 has a cover…and lacks a head.

So images of The BUNKER #16's cover have trickled onto the internet but the marketing blurb for the issue fails to mention something. Very. Important.

Surprise, surprise: the Bunker's empty when the feds get to it. Making Heidi out to be a liar. But Natasha - future Natasha - is facing worse problems. Her immunity may have saved her from the virus, but there are other, more dangerous threats out to get her.

You need to read every issue of the fourth arc of The BUNKER because in issue 16, you'll need to know who dies.

The BUNKER 16

Here's a little progress report on BUNKER 16. Closing in on the final pages of the issue, I thought I'd share this full page image. You don't know it yet but this is a critical moment in an issue full of surprises and…bloodshed.

Stay tooned for future updates when the fourth arc of The BUNKER resumes.

Super Tuesday! Batman Vs. Superman

Welcome to the very first Super Tuesday post! From now on Tuesday's on Joe Infurnari.com are the domain of the superheroic! To kick things off I did this Batman Vs. Superman sketch. I particularly like pitting these two against each other because it's not only an occasion for some amazing fireworks, it's also symbolic of the dance of two opposing worldviews. Batman has come to stand for the world as it is (warts and all) where Superman reflects what the world could be (Paradise). I think we all have to juggle these two impulses in various ways so I think that's why these two seem like they could forever grapple with no clear winner.

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My First Mini Comic, Mandala, Now Online!

Yesterday, I came upon an old digital treasure trove of work. One of those gems was my very first (and only) mini comic, Mandala, from 2007. Above is a sample of one of Mandala's single panel pages. The entire story is told as a narrative loop that can go on for as long as your attention span allows. Thanks to the beauty of web technology you can meditate on the nature of life and loss here.

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The BUNKER Volume 3 In stores TODAY!

The third arc of my ongoing monthly series with Joshua Hale Fialkov and Oni Press lands at local comic shops today! Volume 3 has a starred review from the Library Journal/S

Fialkov, Joshua Hale (text) & Joe Infurnari & others (illus.). The Bunker. Vol. 3. Oni. Dec. 2015. 144p. ISBN 9781620102749. pap. $19.99. SF/GRAPHIC NOVELS

When five friends go to the woods to bury a time capsule, they discover a bunker filled with letters from their future selves describing how they will contribute to the future apocalypse and how they may be able to stop it. Unclear as to the right choices and whether they can really change anything, the friends drift apart owing to inner conflicts and disagreements as to what steps to take to avoid the impending future. In this third volume of Fialkov’s (I, Vampire) series, one of the friends’ future selves continues to push an agenda with unclear motives, causing even more chaos and confusion. Are the letters from the future from themselves, and are they there to help them alter what’s to come? Included in this collection is a stand-alone issue drawn by Brahm Revel (Marvel Knights: X-Men). 
Verdict This is a riveting series that draws you in from the first volume; a great choice for teens and adults who enjoy such TV series as Lost or Sense8. Readers will be on the edge of theirs seats waiting to see what twists and turns the group get involved in next.—Lucy Roehrig, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI

Throwback Thursday: Time F•cker

If you've already read Time F•cker, you might be inclined to call it "ThrowUP Thursday"! Going back to that strip's humble origins on the Trip City website, it was broken up into 4 chapters under the title, "I'm Taking this Laying Down!" That ultimately became the first book, available here online. Above you'll see the title cards for each chapter as it appeared on www.welcometotripcity.com. My ploy was to make them appear very innocent with nods to vintage kids' LP covers with a cute loopy font and the funky logo. Anyone clicking through the strip would have no idea what to expect when the insanity hit and it hits real early.

Time Fucker was the product of a lot of frustration. My work with First Second was just not getting the traction I would have liked. It's difficult to work over a year on a project taking extra jobs just to complete a book only to see it get lost in the marketplace and editorial/marketing mismanagement. It didn't help to never have my voicemails answered after it was all over, too. So I decided I needed to write whatever I worked on next and do my best to be free of cynical comics publishing with its film scripts adaptations, flimsy video game tie-ins, tangential music group stories and other abject failures. I had this idea and the fact that it was so politically incorrect (so much so that only a dedicated publisher would print it), only made it more appealing. It was short and salty (not sweet) and it was the perfect palette cleanser.

Ironically, Time F•cker was instrumental in helping me convert on my next big project. When I met Josh Fialkov at Baltimore Comic Con in 2012, it was his reading of Time F•cker that sealed the deal on working together. As some of you already know, that lead to The BUNKER. That's meaningful because The BUNKER made a huge impact at launch with only Josh and I at the helm. No publishers, no PR drones, no book buyer approvals, no pre-existing fanbase to tap into, no marketing-borne book ideas…NONE OF THAT CYNICAL SHIT. The book was famously dismissed at the time by a mainstream publisher as "too smart for its audience." What it really was, was a great idea in the hands of two passionate creators and that's what it's all about.