Max Brooks reveals the inspiration behind ‘The Zombie Survival Guide’ was boobs

Max Brooks explains to Conan how seeing boobs for the first time, back in 1985, inspired his best-selling book The Zombie Survival Guide.

I watched Mel Brooks movies and wanted to be a comic. Max Brooks watched skin flicks and wanted to write about the end of the human race. Funny world.

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