ALICE IN CHAINS Singer Recalls Love Of Comic Books

February 22, 2010

The Pulse of Radio reports: ALICE IN CHAINS recently teamed up with Popcult and Devil's Due Comics to create a comic book "sequel" to the conceptual video for the band's current single, "Your Decision". Fans can post their ideas for follow-up chapters at a special web page for viewing and voting by the public. The five submissions given the most positive votes will be used as the basis for a five-chapter comic book that will be drawn by a professional artist and posted online as a free PDF download.

Although the band will be involved in the judging, only singer William DuVall says he used to be a comic book fan himself. "When I was really little, like four or five years old, and people asked me what I wanted to be, I used to say 'cartoonist,' and I was huge into the Batman," he says. "Like, I knew the whole history of it from the '30s to, you know, what was then the present day and absolutely loved it. Not as much anymore, there's a lot of graphic novel stuff coming out that's really cool and I brush up against it, but I used to be avid."

The grand prize winner for the best single entry will win a trip to meet and see ALICE IN CHAINS in New York City on March 9.

The contest is running now and will close on Friday, February 26, with the finished comic book to be posted online a short time later.

"Your Decision" comes off the band's 2009 album, "Black Gives Way To Blue", their first all-new release in 14 years. The song was No. 1 on the rock radio chart last week.

ALICE IN CHAINS is currently on a North American tour that brings the band to St. Louis on Monday night (February 22).

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