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When Sara Benincasa first met Ben Kissel in 2010, she was smitten with him almost immediately. Tall and handsome with boyish features, a six-foot-seven-inch frame, and an aw-shucks Midwestern mien, Kissel was working as a stand-up comic in New York City, just like she was at the time; they both spent a lot of time at the Creek and the Cave, a now-defunct comedy club in Queens. She found him charming and funny, with a quick wit and a willingness to say anything to get a laugh, an edgelord sensibility that...

Z2 Comics has once again teamed up with the team behind The Last Podcast on the Left for The Last Comic Book On The Left Volume 3! Featuring a new group of writers and artists, this horror anthology is now available for pre-order and we have a look at art prints and variant cover art!

"The fevered minds behind The Last Podcast on the Left, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel, have once more joined unholy forces with Z2 Comics for a third tome in the The Last Comic Book on the Left series. Overflowing with stories equally heretic and hilarious, this new anthology has ensnared a new batch of writers and artists to conjure more macabre and profane sequential art inspired by the podcast, featuring doomed descents into Norwegian Black Metal, the Andreasson Affair, the Hollow Moon, and the Edgewood Arsenal (among others).

What other degenerates have been recruited...

Get ready for more extraordinary genre tales from the minds behind Last Podcast of the Left and an all-star group of creators in The Last Comic Book on the Left Volume 2! We have all the details on the recently announced volume, along with an exclusive preview of artwork from Jenna Cha and Koren Shadmi!

Following the launch of The Last Comic Book On The Left this summer, curators of the grotesque Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel will return this Fall with a new volume stuffed with tales disgusting, disturbing, and perversely delightful. Alongside the clandestine organization known as Z2 Comics, the minds behind Last Podcast on the Lefthave recruited a new batch of victims creators devoted to ushering terror and hilarity onto panel and page for The Last Comic Book On The Left Volume 2. These conjurors of the profane will unleash new tales featuring Bigfoot, Philip K. Dick android,...

Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel, the hosts of Last Podcast on the Left, made headlines last year when they teamed up with DC for the horror comic book series Soul Plumber and now they're only a couple of weeks away from their next comic book release! Available on June 21st from Z2 Comics, The Last Comic Book on The Left is a graphic novel that pays homage to horror comics like Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror, with an all-star group of creators, including James Tynion IV, David Dastmalchian, Ryan Cady, Rick Veitch, Morgan Beem, Lukas Ketner, and more! As an exclusive treat just for Daily Dead readers, we have preview pages that you can read right now, featuring a story from Ryan Cady, Morgan Beem, and Fred Stresing:

"Rise From Your Graves! Not a joke, not a gag; like a necromancer, The Last...

Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel, the hosts of Last Podcast on the Left, recently made headlines earlier this year with the announcement that they were creating horror comic book series Soul Plumber for DC, but that's not all! Today, it's been announced that they have teamed up with Z2 Comics for a horror anthology comic book series that should have fans of Creepy and Tales from the Crypt very excited!

Titled The Last Comic Book on the Left, the first volume is due out in spring 2022 and features an all-star list of comic book writers and artists. We have the full press release below, along with a look at the cover art, and an exclusive reveal of Ian McGinty's Detective Popcorn print!

"After producing nearly 500 full episodes exploring the darkest corners of humanity and supernatural dread, horror-comedy connoisseurs Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel are ushering...

From the minds of Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel (the creators of Last Podcast on the Left) and featuring artwork by John McCrea, Soul Plumber is the latest addition to DC's ever-expanding horror imprint, and with the first issue coming out on October 5th, we've been provided with exclusive preview pages to share with Daily Dead readers!

You can check out our exclusive preview below, and to learn more about DC Horror Presents: Soul Plumber #1, visit:

https://www.dccomics.com/comics/dc-horror-presents-soul-plumber-2021/dc-horror-presents-soul-plumber-1

"From Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski and Ben Kissel, the hosts of The Last Podcast On The Left, comes a new six-issue series that dives deep into the sewers of the human soul—also, there are demons.

Edgar Wiggins, a disgraced former seminary student, is desperate to find a way to answer what he believes is his higher calling. He thinks he’s found it in...

Edgar Wiggins is a Soul Plumber, and the hero of the new DC Horror title of the same name, created by The Last Podcast on the Left trio of Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski. The enormously successful podcast, now available exclusively on Spotify, combines comedy and high strangeness for deep dives into the paranormal, ufology, dark history, and true crime.

And with Soul Plumber, the deep dives continue by — as Zebrowski describes him — a tolerant and pure-hearted “wet Chihuahua” of a man driven by a sincere belief in a loving God, but is just too weird to fit in anywhere. The gas station attendant builds a pirated version of a machine intended to deliver souls from Satan, but ends up getting more than he bargains for when he goes after a demon.

While an original concept, the second title from the new DC imprint draws from older, weirder...

Shudder, AMC’s genre streamer, has ordered Behind The Monsters a docu-series exploring how Chucky, Michael Myers, Pinhead and more came to be icons of the horror genre. The series is written and directed by Gabrielle Binkley and Anthony Uro and hails from Stage 3 Productions.

The six-part docu-series will see each of the installments focus on a single horror character. Additional series subjects are Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Candyman. Episodes will feature interviews with experts, the writers, directors and actors from the original films that made each character a horror legend. Additional experts and guests set to appear include Drac & Swan Boulet (The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula), Horror Noire documentary writer and producer Ashlee Blackwell, The Last Podcast on the Left’s Ben Kissel and Henry Zebrowski, Blumhouse producer Ryan Turek and filmmakers Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination), April Wolfe, David Bruckner (Hellraiser reboot) and filmmaker and drag artist Peaches Christ.

DC's horror imprint just announced Soul Plumber, a brand-new six-issue series from the hosts of Last Podcast on the Left!

Burbank, CA — July 14, 2021 — Finally, exorcism made easy in DC Horror Presents: Soul Plumber.

From Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel, the hosts of "The Last Podcast On The Left," comes a new six-issue series that dives deep into the sewers of the human soul—also, there are demons.

Edgar Wiggins, a disgraced former seminary student, is desperate to find a way to answer what he believes is his higher calling. He thinks he’s found it in a seminar hosted in a hotel conference room by the Soul Plumbers, who have a machine that could be the secret to delivering souls from Satan. Edgar’s too broke to buy in, but that’s not enough to stop this true devotee: he steals the blueprints and builds a pirated version...

One of the most troubling problems with the true-crime genre, if you ask the hosts of the megahit Last Podcast on the Left, can be summed up with the 2019 Netflix docuseries Conversations With a Killer, or, as co-host Marcus Parks calls it, “that fucking Ted Bundy series.” Parks and his Last Podcast co-creators frequently deride the documentary — as well as Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, the contemporaneous biopic starring Zac Efron — for making the serial killer seem brilliant and suave, while glossing over less-appealing details. “I think it’s...

When Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski first premiered their darkly comic true crime and paranormal podcast, The Last Podcast on the Left, in 2011, pop culture was in a much different, perhaps less murder-y place. Landmark true crime podcast series Serial was still three years away, Netflix’s whodunnit Making a Murderer was four years out, and Ted Bundy was still a monster and not a charming antihero played by Zac Efron.

Yes, as is often the case for early podcast trailblazers, the rest of the world caught up. For Kissel, Parks, and Zebrowski, this meant suddenly living in an environment where their deathly niche interests had gone mainstream.

“We’ve always done this show because these are the things we’re interested in and these are the things we liked talking about,” Parks adds. “It actually makes life a little easier as people, because we used to get...

Comedian Kevin Barnett, who co-created the Fox series Rel with Lil Rel Howery and Josh Rabinowitz, has died.

UTA, Barnett's talent agency, confirmed the news Tuesday on Twitter: "We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and client Kevin Barnett. He was an incredible talent and a wonderful person. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. We will miss him."

Ben Kissel, who hosted the podcast Round Table of Gentlemen with Barnett, remembered the comic on Twitter. "Dear Last Podcast family," Kissel wrote. "It’s with a heavy heart we inform you of the ...

Things at podcast network The Roost are about to take a distinctly spooky turn. Creative force Rooster Teeth is announcing on Tubefilter that it has brought horror podcast The Last Podcast on the Left into its network's ranks, and will be the podcast's exclusive sales partner.

The Last Podcast on the Left currently boasts more than one million weekly downloads, and has been delving into the dark side since 2011, covering a wide range of topics including (but very much not limited to) serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the mass suicide at Jonestown, ghost cats of the South, Satanism, and spectrophilia. Hosts and longtime friends Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski also host Last Stream on the Left, a spinoff show livestreamed weekly on Adult Swim.

“We couldn’t be happier to have The Last Podcast on the Left join our team,” Alan Abdine, senior vice president of business development at Rooster Teeth,...