Tag: horror comics
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‘Isness’ Preview Is here
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in Comic NewsLast 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…
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Byron Returns to SLG as Digital-only Comic
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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.
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Daomu #1 Comic Book Review
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Image Comics, $2.99 Writer: Kennedy Xu Art: Ken Chou “Based on the best-selling Tomb Robber’s Journal,” boasts the cover to Daomu #1. Those suddenly feeling excluded for never having heard of the series can be forgiven; the novels are allegedly a big hit in China, and writer Kennedy Xu has adapted his work into comics…
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A Sickness in the Family Graphic Novel Review
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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…
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Zombie Terrors Gets New Release Date, 32-Page Preview
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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…
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‘Isness’ Fotonovel Project Seeks Donors
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in Comic NewsA 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…
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Graphic Novel Review
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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…
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel Review
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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…