DOOR to DOOR, NIGHT by NIGHT Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn & Sally Cantirino
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on the DOOR to DOOR, NIGHT by NIGHT Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn & Sally Cantirino
Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar
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About The Book:
Author: Cullen Bunn
& Sally Cantirino (Illustrations)
Pub. Date: July 25, 2023
Publisher: Vault
Comics
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 128
Find it:
Goodreads, https://books2read.com/DOOR-to-DOOR-NIGHT-by-NIGHT-Vol-1
It’s 1987, and the Heritage Mills sales team travels from town to town, knocking on doors. They're the best at what they do... which also means they're the worst. They're broken, each and every one of them, haunted by closets so full of skeletons, they’re bursting. When they discover a terrible secret behind one fateful door, it opens their eyes to a world full of real monsters hidden in every small town.
Knock, knock. What’s there? Open the door if you dare…
From all-star creators, writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read) and artist Sally Cantirino (I Walk With Monsters, Human Remains) comes the story of a motley crew going to battle against supernatural evil throughout the American South.
For fans of the devilishly delicious blend of nostalgic horror and dark humor, small town secrets, moonlight fright, Stranger Things, Welcome to Night Vale, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, IT, Summer of Night, The Pallbearer’s Club, The Autumnal, Proctor Valley Road, Gideon Falls, The Boys, B.P.R.D., and Something Is Killing the Children.
Volume 1 collects issues #1-4 of the smash 12-issue series!
"It's all kinds of demon-hunting, low-life fun!" -- Cavan Scott (Comic writer, screenwriter & New York Times bestselling author. STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC; TITANS UNITED; SHADOW SERVICE; THE WARD; DEAD SEAS).
“Bunn and Cantirino, as a collaborative team, create a unique, beautiful, and terrifying world filled with monsters we could not imagine.” – Gatecrashers
“…this kind of horror storytelling … delivers across the board.” – The Fandom Post
“A beautiful example of the merging of humor and horror.” – Gatecrashers
“…delivers on its promise …This is absolutely worth picking up.” – Comicon.com
“…supernatural horror at its best.” – Capes and Tights
An Interview with the Author
FROM CULLEN BUNN (writer/co-creator of Door to Door, Night by Night)
When I was a kid, I found a double feature on cable of FRIGHT NIGHT and HOUSE. I remember watching those movies, alone in the living room, mesmerized by what was unfolding before me. If I had to narrow it down to, say, one movie that has influenced DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT the most, it might be FRIGHT NIGHT. The fusion of horror and comedy, the bungling monster hunters. But, really, that night, that double feature might be a more accurate description of the movies that directly inspired the book. Maybe throw a bit of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in there as well.
What real life situations (and people) inspired DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT? The motley sales crew turned moonlighting monster hunters is such a great concept!
The sales team in DOOR TO DOOR are inspired by people I knew growing up. When I was a kid, my dad owned a photography studio and almost all of their business came from doing fundraising for volunteer fire departments. My dad often ran the sales teams himself, traveling all over the country, and I sometimes traveled with him. The idea of picking up hitchhikers and offering jobs on the spot? It came to me because I saw my dad do it at least a half dozen times. He believed that drunks, burn-outs, and outcasts made the best sales crew. They would work hard all day, make a lot of money, and be dead broke and ready to work the very next day. Almost all the members of the team are inspired by people I knew when I was growing up.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE all of the legends, folklore, cryptids, and creatures in this book! With so many in the South (and across America!), how did you choose who/what to focus on?
It was important to me that this not be a book where the monsters were familiar. I didn’t want vampires or werewolves. I wanted really strange creatures. I wanted unusual monsters for this band of unusual monster hunters. I’m a folklore and cryptid junkie, so doing some research about the kind of monsters that might appear in the story was a lot of fun for me. Sometimes, I’d do deep dives on the legends I was looking into. Sometimes, I’d read the name and just let me imagination run wild. I picked these creatures, I guess, because they felt right for that particular issue.
Which cryptids/creatures/legends are your favorites?
It’s hard to pick. I like most of the monsters from the book
quite a bit. If we’re talking about all the issues I’ve written so far, I’d
have to say the river mermaids or Fireball Sally have been my favorites. I love
Sally’s (Cantirino) designs of the mermaids, and the issue in which they appear
is just so visually weird. Fireball Sally, on the other hand, is just cool as
Hell. If we’re talking about just the monsters from the first arc of the book,
I’d have to go with the goblins, mainly because I like their strange
self-defense powers and oddball surgical desires. They’re certainly among the
strangest creatures to appear in the series.
List your favorite graphic novels or comics from when you were a child and talk about how you see them as an adult.
As a kid, I loved MICRONAUTS, DREADSTAR, and UNCANNY X-MEN, and I still love them today. I think my reasons for loving them were the same then and now, though I might not have been able to define that love back in the day. MICRONAUTS was an exercise in incredible universe-building. It might have been a licensed Marvel book, but Mantlo treated it like his own creator-owned title. DREADSTAR (or maybe ELFQUEST) was maybe the first book I realized was being created by someone who owned and controlled their own stories. UNCANNY X-MEN was a book I collected with my dad, so that was important, but I also loved that Claremont was playing a long game, planting seeds in one issue that might not pay off until 20 issues down the line. That felt like a soap opera. That felt like I was part of that world.
CULLEN: Talk about your favorite (and least favorite!) type of character to create/write about.
My favorite characters are broken people trying to do the right thing, and that’s why I enjoy working on DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT so much. On the other hand, perfect characters who can do no wrong, who can’t fail, who win every fight… they are really dull to write about.
What are some of your favorite:
o Movies (Classic or Current) - The Thing, Alien, Big Trouble in Little
China, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Seven Samurai, Godzilla (yeah, pretty much
all of them), Gamera, the movies of
the Empire Pictures and Full Moon era, and oh-so-many more.
o Books - Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon is my favorite novel, bar none. The Books of Blood, Skeleton Crew, The Dead
Zone, Phantoms, Whispers, Watchers, My Heart is a Chainsaw
o Series (TV/Streaming) - The Office, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Parks
and Recreation, Evil
o Video Games - Bloodborne… and then almost anything from the 80s. I recently
grabbed one of those systems with 8,000 video games that I would have played in
the arcade or on home systems in the 80s, and it’s so much fun. I’m terrible at
them now, but I dig playing them.
Does DOOR TO DOOR have a playlist? If so, can you share?
I thought about putting one together. Maybe I should. When I
think about that time in my life, there are many, many songs that immediately
spring to mind. I remember being on these sales trips and listening to Juice
Newton’s “Queen of Hearts” and Sylvia’s “Nobody” and just about anything by Don
Williams (my dad controlled the radio). I also think there’d be a healthy dose
of Bon Jovi, especially after Johnny Rad joins the team. It would basically be
an 80s road playlist.
About Cullen Bunn:
Cullen
Bunn is a New
York Times bestselling author and prolific writer of
horror/supernatural comics series and graphic novels including THE
SIXTH GUN, HARROW COUNTY, BONE PARISH, THE DAMNED, THE EMPTY MAN, THE GHOUL
NEXT DOOR, BASILISK, SHADOWMAN, and many other titles including The
Last Book You'll Ever Read for Vault Comics. He has fought for his
life against mountain lions and performed on stage as the World’s Youngest
Hypnotist.
Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | Goodreads |
Amazon | BookBub
Sally Cantirino is
a comic artist and illustrator currently based in New Jersey. She has been
self-publishing comics and zines since she was a teenager. Her recent
comics work includes I Walk With Monsters and Human
Remains for Vault Comics, “The Final Girls”, “Last Song”,
and “We Have To Go Back”. She has also done artwork for World Champ Game Co and
bands like La Dispute and Murder By Death.
Website | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Goodreads
Giveaway Details:
2 winners
will receive a finished copy of DOOR to DOOR, NIGHT by NIGHT Vol. 1, US Only.
Ends August 15th, midnight EST.
a Rafflecopter giveawayTour Schedule:
Week One:
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7/17/2023 |
Review/IG Post |
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7/18/2023 |
IG Review |
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7/19/2023 |
Interview |
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7/20/2023 |
Review/IG Post |
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7/21/2023 |
IG Review/LFL Drop Pic |
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7/22/2023 |
IG Post |
Week Two:
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7/23/2023 |
Interview |
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7/24/2023 |
Excerpt |
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7/25/2023 |
Excerpt |
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7/26/2023 |
Review |
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7/27/2023 |
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7/28/2023 |
Excerpt/IG Post |
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7/29/2023 |
IG Review |
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7/30/2023 |
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7/31/2023 |
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8/1/2023 |
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8/2/2023 |
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8/3/2023 |
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8/4/2023 |
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8/5/2023 |
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8/6/2023 |
IG Review |
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8/7/2023 |
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8/8/2023 |
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8/10/2023 |
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8/11/2023 |
Review |
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