Fans of Avatar’s Holed Up comic title should pick up the June issue of ICE magazine, hitting stands this week. Holed Up is featured as their “Book Of The Month” as “this new twisted family sitcom treat… It’s dark, sick, hilarious and hugely offensive. And as with all good comedy, it’s funny because it’s true”
Readers cannot also be treated to a special Ice online interview with Rich Johnston, found only at their website: www.icemagazine.co.uk, as they don’t put the magazine online, and it can only be bought in UK newsagents.
Holed Up writer Rich Johnston describes the series this way: “Holed Up is my love letter to America. everything I love about your wonderful country is contained within. And Ice magazine, decicated to the exploration of breasts, cars and guns, seems the perfect publication to tell everyone about it. They gave it five stars you know.”
Regarding Holed Up’s success, Johnston remarks: “Shops round here seem to keep selling out of it, but there’s enough shops still with copies, and even more shops reordering the comic to keep everyone up to date with the latest Holed family shenanigans.”
“We’re damn pleased at the reception this book has received, although not surprised, as we’re fortunate to have the finest creative team in comics on this,” says Avatar Publisher William Christensen. Well, he would if I’d asked him, said Rich Johnston as he wrote this press release, basically taking the Wanted/FHM USA puff piece [reported in the comics news recently] and changing it a little.