In celebration of the new book, Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews, new “variant covers” featuring the iconic filmmaker and his most iconic creation, The Toxic Avenger, have been made, and The Beat has a first look at the artwork.
Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews features 50 years of the titular director’s interviews, conversations, op-eds, and more, edited by Mathew Klickstein. Kaufman, the Troma Entertainment President and shock king extraordinaire, is behind the films Surf Nazis Must Die, Class of Nuke’ Em High, Tromeo & Juliet. His most popular release is The Toxic Avenger, which is currently being rebooted as a film with Peter Dinklage, set for release later this year, and has also been adapted into a comic book series by Ahoy Comics.
Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews features new variants, including one from The Toxic Avenger writer Matt Bors. Check out the covers below.
“Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews gathers together no-holds-barred commentaries, op-eds, Q&As, arguments, and retorts from the prodigious filmmaker. Considering the typical Troma film is known, if at all, for the brand’s signature egregious gore, unabashedly scandalous sexual fetishism, sophomoric scatology, and provocative contrarianism, it’s easy to understand why Kaufman and his (still metastasizing) oeuvre go without much notice in the mainstream trades or classroom discussions. Like a modern-day P. T. Barnum, if there’s one way that Kaufman finds a pragmatic hold on the cultural zeitgeist, it’s through his tsunamic deluge of often vivacious, often vulgar, often vicious, and often (most dangerous of all) presciently insightful speaking engagements and interviews provided at an almost manic pace across the globe. Complete with an exclusive interview conducted by volume editor Mathew Klickstein, Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews is an extensive deep-dive omnibus from one of cinema’s most indefatigably ardent auteurs who may make us all uproariously laugh but refuses to not be taken deadly seriously.”
The Toxic Avenger Comics #1 from Ahoy Comics by Bors and Fred Harper comes to comic book stores on July 9th, 2025. Check out the main cover (by Harper) and text solicit below.
“You demanded it, so here it is: a new ONGOING series featuring the movies’ grossest hero, masterminded by the hit creative team from 2024’s TOXIC AVENGER miniseries! In this issue’s self-contained horror story, kids are disappearing from Toxie’s hometown of Tromaville, NJ. Did they simply run away from the chemically polluted town? Or is the real explanation even more frightening? Find out before the new TOXIE film hits theaters, THIS SUMMER!”
