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‘Isness’ Preview Is here
Last year I posted a piece about The Isness, Stavit Allweis’s ambitious post-apocalyptic comic project which trades pencils and inks for actors and lavish costume/set design.
If the term “fotonovela” has you thinking of teen magazines, 70s football albums and tabloid cartoon strips, think again; Stavit looks to bring an attention to detail to the technique that might just … read more
Byron Returns to SLG as Digital-only Comic
Once you have survived drugged toads, vampire attacks, and the attempted realignment of reality. What else in life can possibly phase you. Karl Christian Krumpholz tackles that question as his erstwhile hero Byron returns for another set of adventures in an all new comic book series Byron: Die Byron Die, from SLG Publishing. Continue reading
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Tagged Digital Comics, horror comics, indie comics, Slave Labor Graphics, small press
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A Sickness in the Family Graphic Novel Review
2010, Vertigo Crime
Story: Denise Mina
Art: Antonio Fuso, Lee Burmejo (cover)
If countless books and movies are anything to go by, we do love to watch middle classed families fall apart. Denise Mina’s A Sickness in the Family, the latest in DC’s Vertigo Crime imprint, is a gruesome study of one such affluent and revolting clan. The Ushers … read more
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Tagged crime comics, DC Comics, graphic novels, horror comics, Vertigo Comics
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Zombie Terrors Gets New Release Date, 32-Page Preview
Zombie Terrors gets new release date, bumps pages to 184 – Keeps price $14.95
Press Release: Frank Forte, publisher of Asylum Press, announces the release of a new 32-page preview of their newest anthology, Zombie Terrors. ”We had some production delays, but the book looks great.,” says Publisher/Creator Frank Forte, “We should have the books in hand by Nov. 22, … read more
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Tagged comic books, horror comics, indie comics, zombie comics
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‘Isness’ Fotonovel Project Seeks Donors
A bunch of Brooklyn creatives led by multimedia artist Stavit Allweis need your donations to help fund Isness, a gruesome fotonovela chronicling the last 24 hours in the lives of the sole surviving family of a post-apocalyptic future.
For those unaware of what exactly a fotonovela is, the format was essentially a comic book with photos instead of illustrations. … read more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Graphic Novel Review
Campfire, 2010
Script: CEL Welsh
Pencils: Lalit Kumar Sharma
Inks: Jagdish Kumar
Colours: Vijay Sharma
I originally read Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde over a decade ago, but only while reading Campfire’s comic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Victorian morality tale did it occur to me just how difficult a book it must be to adapt. Much … read more
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel Review
Titan Books, 2010
Story: Adapted by Tony Lee from Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Art: Cliff Richards
Go on, admit it. When you first heard the title Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a small part of you was intrigued. You may have rolled your eyes in disgust, or proclaimed the decline of modern literature, but inside you were sniggering.… read more
Indie Comic Spotlight: Lost in the Woods
Paper Street Comics
Story: Gentry Smith, Stan Wedeking
Art: Daniel Wichinson (finishes, covers by Gentry Smith)
Horror titles may constitute a large percentage of all indie and small press comics currently being published, but the medium is rarely used to nearly as good effect as its cinematic counterpart. Sure, horror comics can be gruesome, graphic, gory, and numerous other words … read more
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Tagged comic books, horror comics, indie comics, small press
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American Vampire #1 Comic Book Review
DC/Vertigo, $3.99
Writers: Scott Snyder, Stephen King
Art: Rafael Albuquerque
Colours: Dave McCaig
It’s practically impossible to review American Vampire without first mentioning that Vertigo’s latest marks the comic book debut of Stephen King, who’ll be providing a 5-part secondary tale in this ongoing “vampires through the ages” series from Scott Snyder. And a solid debut it is too, not … read more
Geary’s The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans Strikes in June
This June NBM will be releasing the latest in their ghoulish A Treasury of XXth Century Murder series, The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans. Part of the Junior Library Guild selection, this graphic novel by Rick Geary explores the infamous Louisiana serial killer’s reign of terror.
Press Release below:
Nights of terror! A city awash in blood! New Orleans
4 pages