BOTTOMFEEDER BOTTOMFEEDER In this debut novel by B. H. Fingerman, you will find a comical and creepy foray into the life of a working-class vampire. A man can go missing in New York City. A life can disappear. Teeth can sharpen, skin go pale, eyes reject the sun. One day, you’re human. The next, you’re a vampire, with an un-dying taste for blood. Set in the New York of prostitutes, junkies, and lonely hearts, Bottomfeeder tells the story of Philip, a smart-ass in a dead-end job, whose life takes an unusual turn after he tangles with a vampire. Now, spurred by a bloodlust stronger than his humanity, he haunts the abandoned streets alone, trying to maintain a semblance of normalcy while searching for prey. ISBN-10: 1-59582-097-3 Page count: 272 pp ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-097-6 Format: Trade Paper Price: $12.95 (Higher in Canada) Rights: Worldwide English Publisher: M Press Author residence: New York City Writer: B. H. Fingerman Genre: Fiction Size: 5 x 8 Publication date: January 2007 AUTHOR BIO Bob Fingerman is a twenty-year veteran of the comic book field. His books include the critically acclaimed Beg the Question and White Like She (both Fantagraphics). Other books include the recently released humor collection You Deserved it and ZombieWorld: Winter’s Dregs and Other Stories (both Dark Horse Books), to which Fingerman contributed the title tale. Future releases include Recess Pieces, a humor/ horror zombie yarn set in a public school (Dark Horse Books). This is his first prose novel. Fingerman, like his vampire, lives in New York City. PRAISE FOR Author’s PREVIOUS WORK • “If you captured, hogtied, and extracted DNA from the respective brainpans of Chuck Palahniuk, Philip Roth, and Bram Stoker, the resulting, recombinant literary mutation would resemble nothing so much as Fingerman’s debut novel Bottomfeeder. Laugh-packed, horrific, boldly reprehensible, socially astute, and slave to no known trend, Fingerman has come up with a book that pretty much bleeds genius.” —Jerry Stahl, author I, Fatty; Permanent Midnight • “As usual, Fingerman catches New York with its pants down, and drags us along for a heady ride with lots of laughs and some moments of genuine pathos.” —David Wellington, author, Monster Island KEY SALES POINTS • Bottomfeeder is the debut prose novel of the critically acclaimed and award-winning artist Bob Fingerman. • The author is also known for his features in Cracked, Penthouse, Heavy Metal, National Lampoon, and High Times. •Though the standard-bearers for the indie-comics boom of the mid-’90s were cartoonists based on the West Coast—New York wasn’t left out of the action. One of the movement’s leading lights was Queens- born Bob Fingerman, whose comic book Minimum Wage charted the relationship of working-class hipsters Rob Hoffman and Sylvia Fanucci. —Time Out New York PROMOTION & PUBLICITY • $20,000 marketing budget. • National review attention from humor and popular-culture publications, such as Entertainment Weekly and Maxim. • Promotion on fan sites and author’s website: www.bobfingerman.com • Author signings at bookstores and conventions. • Promotional mailings to reviewers. • Representation at comics shows. • Promotion on publisher website (www.mpressbooks.com) M PREss TiTlEs aRE availaBlE FROM: Publishers Group West, 1700 Fourth Street, Berkeley, California 94710 800-788-3123 [email protected] .