Short Film

Maurice & The Metal

Written by Aaron Sammut

AFIN 2020 Semi-Finalist

  • 2020
  • 28pp
  • Australia
  • English
  • Superhero
  • Music
  • Comic
Australian

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Synopsis

Maurice & The Metal follows the journey of a young metalhead in the mid ‘80s who unwittingly discovers he has impossible strength whenever he listens to metal. Charged with a HEAVY burden and with nothing but his Walkman, which has been possessed by the spirit of a Black Sabbath roadie, Maurice is fighting to keep metal alive.

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WRITER: Aaron Sammut ILLUSTRATOR: Jesse Hamm

Writer's Biography

Aaron Sammut Writer

Aaron Sammut has worked in the music industry in Brisbane, Australia, as a performance photographer and magazine designer for the past 16 years. He has not worked on comics for Marvel, DC… He has read some though. He simply has an overactive imagination, an unhealthy reliance on music to get him through any situation, seemingly crazy amounts of naivety, mixed with an insatiable determination to see one of his crazy ideas make it all the way to print.

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Recognised in this category at AFIN 2020, as announced that season.

  • Best Comic Semi-Finalist

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