Johnny Zito — writer / artist / futurist

When Tony Trov, Christine Larsen and I submitted LaMorte Sisters to Zuda Comics, we produced a bunch of extra pages that had to be cut.

We posted FOUR deleted pages on The Zuda Blog. Check it out!

-Johnny Zito

Tony and I have an interview up at the brand-spanking-new Zuda Blog.

We talk about Black Cherry Bombshells, LaMorte Sisters and the brave tale of how we came to America.

Most of it’s bullshit. All of it is silly.

-Johnny Zito

Moon Girl leaps back into action against the Sugar Plum Fairy. This mystery terrorist seeks to unite the criminal masses into a zombie army of transcendence.

Moon Girl is available through Comixolgy on web and mobile devices thanks to iTunes.

Read the existential super hero crisis at www.MoonGirlFightsCrime.com

-Johnny Zito

Yesterday; Tony Trov and I (Black Cherry Bombshells & LaMorte Sisters & Moon Girl) donated our entire comic book collections to Reading is Fundamental. (That’s how committed to the digital revolution we are.)

We came up with 5,000 comics between us. That sum was doubled by other donations totaling 10gs.

Reading is Fundamental will distribute the comics to their after school programs around the country. This promotes literacy and hopefully expands the comic book reading audience to a new generation.

If anyone else is interested RiF will be accepting donations for the rest of the school year as we look for ways to make this a permanent operation.

Beth Pettit
RiF Comic Book Donation Drive
St. Aloysius Education Clinic
219 West 132nd Street
New York, NY 10027

Thanks in advance for any help you can throw our way.

-Johnny Zito

Check out PopMatters review of Moon Girl in which they very graciously refer to myself, Tony Trov and Rahzzah as “The New Kings of Episodic Comics…”

Wow! Right? It’s a really flattering review and we hope you’ll take their advice and read Moon Girl.

Click HERE to read PopMatters review.

Click HERE to read Moon Girl.

-Johnny Zito

We did an interview with CBS/KYW’s John Ostapkovich to talk about Moon Girl.

Moon Girl is the story of masked vigilantes waging war against the bourgeois of 1950’s New York. It’s like the Dark Knight meets Mad Men, avaliable online and iPhones everywhere.

This was a ‘Mobile-Devices-Are-A-Content-Game-Changer’ pieces. So if tech and comics are your thing, check it out. The interview is replaying all day (2/17) on KYW 1060. There’s a stub on the site.

Click HERE to listen to CBS/KYW.

Click HERE to read CBS/KYW.

Click HERE to read Moon Girl.

-Johnny Zito

PopMattes gave Black Cherry Bombshells and amazing review. Critic Kevin M. Brettauer compared our Girl Gang vs Zombie epic to George Orwell and Animal Farm.

In a good way!

Click HERE to read the review at PopMatters.

Click HERE to read the Black Cherry Bombshells.

-Johnny Zito

It’s not a hilarious Abbott and Costello set up. The Rhazzah, famous Moon Girl artist, has graced Tony and I with a LaMorte Sisters pin up of Maddie. Click the image for a closer look at our vampy new girl.

I love the Philly skyline as he’s drawn it. He points the camera East toward Society Hill and Old City where the buildings are older; French Gothic through Art Deco.

Click HERE to read LaMorte Sisters.

Click HERE to read Moon Girl.

-Johnny Zito

Big fans of PopMatters and we were lucky enough for them to give a flattering review to LaMorte Sisters.

PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism with scope broadly cast on all things pop culture.

Click HERE to read the review at PopMatters.

Click HERE to read LaMorte Sisters.

-Johnny Zito

Life According To Roda thinks you should check out Moon Girl.

I couldn’t agree more.

Click HERE to read our review.

Click HERE to read Moon Girl.

-Johnny Zito

Phillyst knows what’s up. They gave Moon Girl a lil shot today.

Click HERE to read the interview.

Click HERE to read Moon Girl on your computer of mobile devices.

-Johnny Zito

Moon Girl Debuts today. We did an interview at Comics Are Evil to promote.

This was a seriously fun (???) interview. Really digging the site too.

Click HERE to read our interview with Comics are Evil.

Click HERE to read Moon Girl #1.

-Johnny Zito

Alan Moore’s “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” inspired this homage. However, instead of literary classics I use 90’s American Television as my launch pad.

Read Part 1 HERE.

Nikita drives through the midnight desert alone.

The weight of her mission hangs heavy on her shoulders. A killer is on the loose. Her orders are clear. Her mind is clouded.

Suddenly something appears on the road; a blur on the horizon, small and red. A goat? A man?

The experienced spy jerks the wheel to avoid collision. The car slides into a tail spin and flips end over end until the steel body is a tangled wreck.

“Help!” Nikita screams but there’s no answer, “Help! I’m trapped!” Nikita discovers she is bleeding out from a gaping belly wound. “No…”

She struggles to climb from her twisted cage but the darkness takes her.

Nikita’s eyes flutter shut.

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Comic Book Resources gave us a nice write up about our new iPhone comic, Moon Girl.

“Super Heroes are tricky,” Zito said. “We find they work best when re-contextualized to the 1940s – 60s. We took a lot of inspiration from ‘Justice League: New Frontier’ and ‘Marvels.’ ‘Moon Girl, is based on a Golden Age superhero created by Gardner Fox for EC Comics in the 1940s. The copyright has slipped into public domain so we started there.”

“It’s ‘The Dark Knight’ meets ‘Mad Men,’” Trov said when describing the book. “Clare is a Russian princess exiled to New York. When enemies from the past threaten her new life, the repressed Warrior Queen fights back. The media catches wind of her nocturnal crusade and christen her Moon Girl.”

Zito added that Moon Girl is a “champion of the counter culture,” and represents a movement of young people “fed up with the corporatism and conformity” of post World War II.

“The urban legends of Moon Girl inspire the ‘Super Manifesto’ - a post-human gospel,” he said. “Activists subvert the establishment by dressing in bright Technicolor clothes and taking futuristic new names. Extremists turn to violence and terror, expecting to shock the system into change. Only Moon Girl stands between them and us, anarchy and order.”

Check out the interview HERE.

Read a free preview of Moon Girl HERE.

-Johnny Zito

Kingpin of Pain just crossed the 10,000 view threshold.

It was created for the 48 Hour Film Competition 2009 Philadelphia.

A family man competes in a tournament of the world’s greatest warriors to wield a sword of epic power.

Assigned Elements:
Character: Dan Crocker, Artist
Prop: a wallet
Line of Dialogue: “Do you even know what that means?

Staring: Stoya
Awarded Best Editing and Best Special Effects