High Fructose Zombies: Chewing the Fat With Braly & Phillips

When ComicBook.com went to New York Comic Con earlier this month, we were treated–pun intended–with a fresh and bizarre take on the zombie apocalypse from Sarah Braly and David Phillips, whose book High Fructose Zombies was set up across the aisle from our booth.It was the couple’s first comic book convention with High Fructose Zombies, a comic they created on their honeymoon, and their first print copies sold out at the show while their Kickstarter campaign has more than doubled its goal with a week or so to go.The hugely entertaining comics revolves around Clea, who’s fighting to save the world from an outbreak of zombies created by exposure to toxic candy bards from an evil confectionary conglomerate that combines the worst elements of the Walt Disney Company and Willy Wonka.Braly and Phillips joined us at the show to talk about the series, for which you can check out a trailer following the interview.Russ Burlingame: For the uninitiated, why don’t you give a quick summary of what High Fructose Zombies is?David Phillips: Not a problem! “When a brand-new candy bar starts turning people into zombies in the small town of Sweet Tooth, it is up to Clea Brown and her ragtag group of friends to stop the evil Yumzy Corporation from raining down the Sugarpocalypse!”RB: Is that your convention pitch?DP: That is the official pitch!RB: And you guys have already eclipsed your mark on Kickstarter, right?