Fear the Walking Dead Tweets great promo art for 2B
By Susie Graham
We go back to Mexico for the return of Fear the Walking Dead on Sunday, August 21st. The Fear the Walking Dead Twitter has great art to prepare us.
Each season as we get ready for the return of our favorite show, The Walking Dead, we look forward to trailers and interviews. We have also started to look forward to very interesting cast photos, key art and promotional posters that AMC puts out.
Fear the Walking Dead has followed in that same tradition, but it’s forging its own path in the style and tone of the art it has released over its first 2 seasons.
At the beginning of season 2, we had very nautical photos and sunshine mixed with dark water photos of the cast as the group prepared to leave burning Los Angeles and set sail on Abigail.
Now that we are in Mexico, the art has taken on a distinctly Mexican flare and is using a very simple approach. I find it fabulous. The key art for Comic-con had the Day of the Dead skull with the fingers of the infected reaching for it.
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Now we have the official Fear the Walking Dead Twitter account sprinkling some art in Tweets. There are 3 different styles. Hopefully, we’ll even see more this week from their Twitter to add to the series we’ve seen so far.
First we have a couple travel-style posters for Mexico, reminiscent of vintage travel posters from the 1940s. Our “travelers” are visiting Mexico to get away from their tough every-day life fighting zombies.
The next series is my favorite. It’s simple objects set in the middle of an parchment-like background. A soccer ball, the hotel bell, a sign for Tijuana, and a transistor radio– just simple objects that have new meaning in our new world.
Fear the Walking Dead. AMC.
Fear the Walking Dead. AMC.
Fear the Walking Dead. AMC.
Fear the Walking Dead. AMC.
The last two are reminiscent of the indigenous people who were here before the Spaniards arrived and created the Mexican people. They have the look of woven tapestries, but with zombie motifs. The one is very Toltec, like an eagle, to my mind, but I may be mistaken.
As a former Spanish teacher, I’m enjoying the Mexican cultural influence on the zombie genre. I am looking forward to hearing more Spanish in the show and seeing more Mexican art influence as well. I like that they are going an entirely different direction from the wilderness type art that is used for The Walking Dead.
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I enjoy the photos as well with the walkers and the cast members with captions such as in the featured image, but I really enjoy the art they have chosen that is uniquely Fear the Walking Dead.