{"id":315121,"date":"2026-08-06T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315121\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:55:10","slug":"prepare-to-lipsync-for-your-afterlife-as-introduce-you-to-the-queens-of-the-crypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315121\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare To Lipsync For Your Afterlife As Introduce You To The Queens of the Crypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest post written by Queens of the Crypt<\/a> creator DOM&INK<\/a>
DOM&INK\u00a0is a freelance illustrator and author from Bolton, via Narnia. They love to create works themed around queerness, identity, and mental health with a splash of drag, horror, and pop girly icons. Throughout their years illustrating, Dom has worked with and created artwork for Tinder UK, Bumble, Little Mix, iWeigh, BBC, Lenovo, Logitech, and more. Dom also was the official content illustrator for RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK seasons 1\u20135 (and RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK vs. the World season 1). Something they still pinch themselves about daily.<\/p>\n

About Queens of the Crypt<\/a>: E. M. Carroll meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a dash of\u00a0The Rocky Horror Picture Show in this debut young adult graphic novel that is a celebration of horror, queerness, and figuring out who you want to be. Out August 25th 2026.<\/p>\n

Watching Uma Thurman, remove a neon pink gorilla suit whilst also serving face and elaborate hand choreography and\u00a0then\u00a0descend, in her full Poison Ivy costume onto a stage and greet George Clooney\u2019s Batman and Chris \u2018O\u2019 Donnell\u2019s Robin with a \u2018Hello Boys\u2019. That was the moment I knew I became obsessed with the idea of a femme fatale. To me, they weren\u2019t monsters, they were misunderstood icons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Growing up, like any other pre-teen destined-to-be-a-diva-but-stuck-in-their-awkward-pre-coming-out-phase-with-a-bad-fringe-era, I loved Britney Spears and Beyonc\u00e9, but you know whom else I adored? Xenia Onatopp, Emma Peel, Batgirl and of course, Halle Berry\u2019s Catwoman, (yes, you did read that correctly) and without a doubt, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Fierce and dynamic female characters, drag artists and creatures have always inspired me,\u00a0especially\u00a0in creating my first graphic novel,\u00a0Queens of the Crypt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Set in the sleepy, gothic town of Widow\u2019s Creek,\u00a0Queens of the Crypt\u00a0tells the story of teenager Barnaby Jones. Not only do they struggle with their identity and coming out to their parents, but also that their best friend Fi has been added to the list of missing teens in town and\u2026is that a Crypt that they\u2019ve mistakenly unlocked that exists inside their closet\u2026<\/p>\n

Unintentionally summoning the Queens of the Crypt, Barnaby must work with them to solve the disappearances in Widow\u2019s Creek, find Fi and unmask the Faceless Frightener.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nTHE OPERA PHANTOM<\/p>\n

She\u2019s beauty, she\u2019s grace, she\u2019s the most Cryptastique diva around. The Phantom is the leader of the queens, overly dramatic and opinionated, this spooky siren won\u2019t dare leave her chamber if she isn\u2019t wearing couture darling!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beware her sonic vibrato though, those high notes are killer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lipsync For Your Afterlife Song:\u00a0The Phantom of the Opera\u00a0\u2013 The Phantom of the Opera (of course)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nTHE COUNTESS\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vampire royalty that serves face, looks and can reanimate your corpse? Tens across the board! With a penchant for satanic demon blood and an army of bats, The Countess is the most powerful of the queens. However, let\u2019s not mention the three ex wives to her\u2026it\u2019s a touchy subject.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lipsync For Your Afterlife Song:\u00a0Queen of the Night\u00a0\u2013 Whitney Houston<\/p>\n

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\nTHE BOGEYWOMAN<\/p>\n

Stalking your night terrors and stealing your dreams, you\u2019ve probably met The Bogeywoman before. Made of fears, frights and all things not so nice, you are just another plaything to her. No killer clown or nightmare slasher can compare, she is the OG icon of the Nightmare Realm.<\/p>\n

Lipsync For Your Afterlife Song:\u00a0Wuthering Heights\u00a0\u2013 Kate Bush<\/p>\n

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\nLADY INVISIBLE<\/p>\n

If you need a crime solving, then Lady Invisible is your broad! She\u2019s a tough talking, wise cracking ex private investigator who lives for the thrill of the danger and the buzz of a case closed. With a killer right hook, beware of her famous Tizzi Blooms Tailspin Kick. Oh, and did she mention she had a bottomless brunch with Poirot once?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lipsync For Your Afterlife Song:\u00a0A Little Party Never Killed Nobody\u00a0\u2013 Fergie<\/p>\n

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\nMILDRED aka THE CREATURE\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hailing all the way from the Swamp of Shadows, it\u2019s our amphibian and fiercely fin-tastic MILDRED. Once a top scientist who unfortunately ended up turning into THE CREATURE, Mildred relishes working alongside a team like the queens. But don\u2019t let her terrifying appearance fool you, she\u2019s actually got a heart of gold. And a pet kraken.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lipsync For Your Afterlife Song:\u00a0Bring Me To Life\u00a0\u2013 Evanescence\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meet all of these queens in the new graphic novel Queens of the Crypt\u00a0by Dom & Ink<\/a>, on sale August 25, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guest post written by Queens of the Crypt creator DOM&INKDOM&INK\u00a0is a freelance illustrator and author from Bolton, via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-315121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}