Save dogan! patient: a 6-issue series about isolation, anxiety, and zombies! | Jerrod D. Brito

Dogan Brown is trapped in a clinic during a #zombie apocalypse, and he needs YOUR help! The #crowdfunding campaign for PATIENT, a six-issue #horror graphic novel is now live! https://www.fundmycomic.com/campaign/Patient_Comic ​Logline: When a deadly virus confines a depressed, anxiety-ridden stoner and a sardonic receptionist to a clinic full of zombies––with no communication to the outside world––the unlikely team must work through their issues with themselves and each other to find the will and means to survive. Hello! My name is Jerrod D. Brito, and I'm an award-winning screenwriter (Adalynn, 2023, Horned, 2023), filmmaker, and published author from Denver, Colorado. My work has been distributed by Full Moon Entertainment, screened at TromaDance, and has been performed by the Pandemic Collective Theater Company.​ ​I’m asking for help to bring my 6-issue graphic novel, Patient, to life. On the surface, Patient is a mix of horror and comedy that plays out during a zombie outbreak. But deep down, it’s a story about isolation, anxiety, coping skills (or lack thereof), and a commentary about how people do and/or don’t relate to each other in times of crisis. Many of the zombie comics I've read are more about the bigger picture. They've been about surviving zombies, starvation, people in your group that you shouldn't trust, etc. Though all of those still matter in this series, the focus is more on the internal struggles of someone with a lot of physical and mental ailments, and how he relates to someone who processes their situation in a much different way. There's a complete arc for the protagonists, whether they survive or not, but I think their psychological and emotional growth is just as important as the bloody zombie action. PATIENT Written by Jerrod D. Brito Art by Buğra Batuhan Berah (Variant cover: Martin Gimenez)