COMEDIAN Jimmy Carr has written his first comic strip.
The stand-up comedian, Jimmy carr, who hosts Channel 4's panel show 8 out of 10 Cats, has penned an exclusive tale of "violent point-scoring and social alienation" for the latest issue of CLiNT.
The story, Entitled Beat My Score, is described as "a nihilistic satirical sideswipe at the glamorisation of violence, tackling the difficult and disturbing effects as seen in school shootings around the world. Its manga-styled images by Japanese artist Ryusuke Hamamoto will resonate in the brain like a ricochet long after the final shots have been fired."
The premise of the tale is: When every action is assessed for its potential as a Tweet, and every success is accompanied by Achievement Points, what will one maladjusted Japanese college student do to claim pole position?
CLiNT, which launched last September, has already featured the first look at Kick-Ass 2, Mark Millar's sequel to the comic that inspired Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation.
Jimmy Carr's Beat My Score will feature in CLiNT issue 9, which is on sale from tomorrow, June 30.
TV presenter Jonathan Ross and comedians Frankie Boyle and Stewart Lee have also presented their comic-strip debuts in the Titan Magazines publication.
Turf, by Jonathan Ross and acclaimed artist Tommy Lee Edwards, mixes vampires, aliens and gangsters in a period thriller, while Rex Royd, by Frankie Boyle, introduces The Renaissance Man of Madness in a supervillain strip.
Kick-Ass creator and CLiNT editor Mark Millar said: "We've been incredibly lucky in this first nine months. We just got nominated for a big award before we've even reached our first birthday and the talent line-up has been unmatchable. We've had people as diverse as Victoria Coren, Ian Rankin, Jonathan Ross and Frankie Boyle in here and now we've got Jimmy Carr doing comic books. It's crazy.
"What's nice is that Jimmy rose to the occasion and gave us maybe my favourite story in the comic so far. It's such a beautifully simple idea I sent it to my agents and suggested they set the movie up. I couldn't be happier with it
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