In this weekly series, editor Lucas Wetzel spotlights new and unusual comic features from the GoComics A-Z listing.

Feature: Kid Shay Comics
Creator: Josh Shalek
Format: large format, multi-panel
Frequency: 2x a week (Mondays and Thursdays)
Recommended if you like: Zombies, Egypt, mad scientists, crazy uncles, friendly werewolves, Anubis

Since it launched in October 2014, Kid Shay Comics has chronicled the Egyptian adventures of Kate Crane and her crazy uncle Brian, who has a fascination with the zombies outside Cairo. Complete with helicopter crashes, haunted temples and a werewolf named Levon, the "Tomb of the Zombies" sequence in Kid Shay Comics is a suspenseful but lighthearted foray into the realms of the undead - all carried out over the course of Kate's summer vacation. Cartoonist Josh Shalek does a lot with black and white here, with figures that look a little similar to Ted Rall's comics or the Big Nate strips that are drawn by Nate. The size and arrangement of panels differs in each strip, with a change of perspective that keeps the eye occupied and draws anticipation for the next installment. I like the artistic touches such as the middle panel of this strip that illustrate the main character's imagination. Now that the "Tomb of the Zombies" has wrapped up this week, I'm excited to see what's next for Kid Shay Comics. In the meantime, stop by table O-6 at the small press pavilion of San Diego Comic Con from July 8 - 12 and say hello to Josh in person. And...

...read more Kid Shay Comics right here on GoComics.