Comments by Cartoonist Jeffrey H Wood:

• Mutant Ambulatory Radioactive Zombies satirizes the rash of comic book publication in the late 80s and 90s which were known as the "3 adjective and a noun" titles, for their similarity to Eastman and Laird's phenomenally successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• It also illustrates a rather common joke usually associated with parodies of the "zombie" monster genre... since the zombies are actively searching for brains to eat, they shouldn't have any interest in a person without one. How zombies are able to make this distinction is unexplained.
• In the animated television series The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror III" (9F04, 1994), hapless family patriarch Homer is captured by zombies, who thump on his skull, and then wander away disappointed and annoyed. "Brains!" they shout, and look for more promising prey.
• ...but hey, I thought of the joke first.
• This artwork was completed before I had access to adequate desktop publishing equipment... so the dialogue was actually printed separately, pasted on the artwork, and trimmed to fit. So, the original art is a hand-cut collage.
• All of the grey shades were installed with hand-cut zipatones. Adhesive sheets are a lost art form.
• Originally published in the MechANImoids Special X anniversary edition, MU Press, 1994.
• The format of this piece is called the multipanel pinup, which was originally developed for the MechANImoids Special X anniversary edition. The intent is to capture a quick story, event, or vignette on a single sheet of paper, providing only enough detail of character and occasion to engage the reader, and yet minimize the time and effort required by contributing artists. This allows for more artistic input from busy cartoonists, who otherwise would not have time for all of the projects in their "to do" list.