Earlier this year, the surprise announcement that Oni Press is resurrecting EC Comics delighted horror fans around the world, but that was only the begining! More series and creator announcements have been teased, and we're excited to exclusively reveal a new line of variant covers, which you can check out right now! Eisner Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning artist Jay Stephens, the creator of Dwellings, is honoring EC Comics with a new, continuing line of "EC Homage" variants, debuting with Epitaphs From The Abyss #1 and Cruel Universe #1. We have a look at both covers below, along with my personal favorite: Epitaphs From The Abyss #2, featuring Jay Stephens homage of Haunt Of Fear #15 by Johnny Craig!
If It Bleeds, It Leads! Following on from an announcement that rocked the comic book industry just a few short weeks ago – the return of the legendary EC Comics with an all-new line of, never-before-seen titles for summer 2024 – Oni Press,...
If It Bleeds, It Leads! Following on from an announcement that rocked the comic book industry just a few short weeks ago – the return of the legendary EC Comics with an all-new line of, never-before-seen titles for summer 2024 – Oni Press,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The impact of EC Comics cannot be understated, having inspired countless horror creators, including George A. Romero, Stephen King, and many, many more. After nearly 70 years since the last comic book from EC, as first reported by the NY Times, Oni Press has partnered with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. to introduce new EC Comics! Starting this summer, Epitaphs From The Abyss #1 and Cruel Universe #1 will kick off brand-new stories from some of today's best comic book writers, and we have all the details:
"Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic fiction for more than 25 years – is proud to announce a brand-new publishing partnership with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. that will see the full-fledged return of EC Comics to comic shop and bookstore shelves worldwide with a slate of all-new series beginning in the summer of 2024.
Beginning with Epitaphs From The Abyss...
"Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic fiction for more than 25 years – is proud to announce a brand-new publishing partnership with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. that will see the full-fledged return of EC Comics to comic shop and bookstore shelves worldwide with a slate of all-new series beginning in the summer of 2024.
Beginning with Epitaphs From The Abyss...
- 2/19/2024
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Whether it's The Halloween Tree or The October Country or Something Wicked This Way Comes, autumn is a wonderful time to read (or reread) Ray Bradbury's classic works. It's an especially perfect time of year, then, for Fantagraphics to publish Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories (featuring 28 Bradbury stories adapted by EC Comics in the 1950s), and we've been provided with "The Handler" story for Daily Dead readers to enjoy in its entirety ahead of the collection's October 18th publication!
Based on Bradbury's short story of the same name that was published in the 1947 collection Dark Carnival, "The Handler" (with artwork by Graham Ingels and a script by Al Feldstein) can be read in its entirety below!
We also have the official press release with additional details, and to learn more about Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, visit:
https://www.
Based on Bradbury's short story of the same name that was published in the 1947 collection Dark Carnival, "The Handler" (with artwork by Graham Ingels and a script by Al Feldstein) can be read in its entirety below!
We also have the official press release with additional details, and to learn more about Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, visit:
https://www.
- 10/17/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
From the 2001 novel to the Starz TV series and beyond, the world of Neil Gaiman's American Gods is ever-expanding, and it continues to grow today with the release of Dark Horse Comics' American Gods: My Ainsel #1. The first issue in a new story arc featuring the continued adventures of Shadow and Wednesday, the new comic book features eye-catching artwork by Scott Hampton, and we caught up with the artist and colorist in a new Q&A feature to discuss what he enjoyed the most about working on the new story (which also features great cover art like the one shown above by Glenn Fabry).
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Scott! How did the opportunity to work on American Gods: My Ainsel come about, and what interested you in the project?
Scott Hampton: Craig Russell contacted me after he and I collaborated for the...
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Scott! How did the opportunity to work on American Gods: My Ainsel come about, and what interested you in the project?
Scott Hampton: Craig Russell contacted me after he and I collaborated for the...
- 3/14/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
I Bury The Living
Blu-ray
Shout! Factory
1958 / B&W / 1:85 / / 76 min. / Street Date April 25, 2017
Starring: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel.
Cinematography: Frederick Gately
Film Editor: Frank Sullivan
Written by Louis Garfinkle
Produced by Albert Band, Louis Garfinkle
Directed by Albert Band
I Bury the Living implicates us in a primal childhood thought-crime… what if you stepped on a crack and really did break your mother’s back? What if simply wishing someone dead made it so? Guilt, pure and simple, gives this off–kilter 50’s chiller its lasting power.
The film boasts an off–kilter leading man as well with the crater-faced Richard Boone as Robert Kraft, a small town business man railroaded into managing the family run cemetery. To make matters worse, the perennially gloomy Kraft, already skittish about his disconcerting new position, is saddled with a decrepit, unnaturally chilly workplace watched over by an unnerving bit of decoration, an...
Blu-ray
Shout! Factory
1958 / B&W / 1:85 / / 76 min. / Street Date April 25, 2017
Starring: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel.
Cinematography: Frederick Gately
Film Editor: Frank Sullivan
Written by Louis Garfinkle
Produced by Albert Band, Louis Garfinkle
Directed by Albert Band
I Bury the Living implicates us in a primal childhood thought-crime… what if you stepped on a crack and really did break your mother’s back? What if simply wishing someone dead made it so? Guilt, pure and simple, gives this off–kilter 50’s chiller its lasting power.
The film boasts an off–kilter leading man as well with the crater-faced Richard Boone as Robert Kraft, a small town business man railroaded into managing the family run cemetery. To make matters worse, the perennially gloomy Kraft, already skittish about his disconcerting new position, is saddled with a decrepit, unnaturally chilly workplace watched over by an unnerving bit of decoration, an...
- 4/29/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Few comics sit at the intersection of “fan beloved,” “industry defining,” and “absolutely impossible to acquire” the way the EC Comics library does. For a while they almost felt like Comics’ very own Holy Grail. On one hand, you’ve got the Tales From The Crypt brand itself, which has left an indelible mark on pop culture with films, cable TV series, Saturday morning cartoons, and a line of revival graphic novels from Papercutz — a proud legacy, to be sure. But on the other hand, you enter into the more nebulous region of pop cultural osmosis, and it’s there that the legend of Bill Gaines’ little comic line that could grows to gargantuan levels. The baby boomers that ate his ghoulish “mags” up in the early ‘50s eventually grew into the genre fiction movers and shakers of the ‘70s and ‘80s — from cult directors like George Romero and Joe Dante,...
- 6/23/2015
- by Luke Dorian Blackwood
- SoundOnSight
Stephen King and George A. Romero grew up reading EC Comics. The macabre mayhem packed within those paneled pages provided horrific food for thought to the minds that would later produce awesome works of terror. Now Fright Rags is paying tribute to the timelessly influential horror comics publisher with a set of limited edition T-shirts featuring designs of classic EC Comics covers.
Fright Rags’ EC Comics shirts will be available for pre-order beginning this Friday, September 26th at 10:00am Est, and they are set to ship in early November. Expect a 5-6 week shipping period on all orders. These customized shirts are $27 per item, limited to 250 apiece, are printed in full color on 100% cotton shirts, and are available in the following shirts and sizes:
T-shirt – Small – 5x-Large Girl Shirt – Small – 2x-Large Zippered Hoodie (+ $20 design on back) – Small – 3x-Large
The artists and titles of the shirts are as follows:
EC...
Fright Rags’ EC Comics shirts will be available for pre-order beginning this Friday, September 26th at 10:00am Est, and they are set to ship in early November. Expect a 5-6 week shipping period on all orders. These customized shirts are $27 per item, limited to 250 apiece, are printed in full color on 100% cotton shirts, and are available in the following shirts and sizes:
T-shirt – Small – 5x-Large Girl Shirt – Small – 2x-Large Zippered Hoodie (+ $20 design on back) – Small – 3x-Large
The artists and titles of the shirts are as follows:
EC...
- 9/22/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
When Max Gaines died in 1947 from a boating accident he left the family business, EC Comics Company, (which stood for alternately Entertaining Comics and Educational Comics) to his son William “Bill” Gaines. Rather than follow in his father’s footsteps and publish illustrated bible adaptations for the little ones, he instead published graphic horror, crime and science fiction comics that, keeping true to the company name, were both entertaining and educational (nearly all stories had a moral and the evildoer always got his comeuppance in the end). Titles included Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Shock SuspenStories, Two Fisted Tales and a little humor book called Mad Magazine. Crude and violent, it was only a matter of time before parental outrage would bubble and burst into a torrent of censorship. In 1954 the now infamous congressional hearings over juvenile delinquency and their relation to comic books (led by Dr.
- 8/13/2013
- by Andrew Perez
- SoundOnSight
Trick or Treat Studios makes amazing masks for Halloween or really anytime your feel like creeping out your friends. All the masks are hand-crafted by master mask makers who take inspiration from film and their own twisted imaginations.
Masks include Halloween II, The Thing, and completely original designs like the Clowns of Death series. Uncle Creepy, from Creepy comics, is featured here.
Some details from the site:
"Over 285 issues of Creepy have been published and Uncle Creepy himself has been drawn by some of the best artist in the world, including Neal Adams, Dan Adkins, Reed Crandall, Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, Steve Ditko, Frank Frazetta, Gray Morrow, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Wally Wood and Bernie Wrightson.
Now for the first time in almost 20 years, Trick or Treat Studios and New Comics Company, LLC is proud to offer the Offically Licensed Uncle Creepy Halloween Mask!
Masks include Halloween II, The Thing, and completely original designs like the Clowns of Death series. Uncle Creepy, from Creepy comics, is featured here.
Some details from the site:
"Over 285 issues of Creepy have been published and Uncle Creepy himself has been drawn by some of the best artist in the world, including Neal Adams, Dan Adkins, Reed Crandall, Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, Steve Ditko, Frank Frazetta, Gray Morrow, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Wally Wood and Bernie Wrightson.
Now for the first time in almost 20 years, Trick or Treat Studios and New Comics Company, LLC is proud to offer the Offically Licensed Uncle Creepy Halloween Mask!
- 1/30/2013
- by Sara Castillo
- FEARnet
Dark Horse Comics Editor-in-Chief Scott Allie had an in-depth chat with the Eisner Award-winning writer/artist David Lapham on a wide range of topics including his adaptation of The Strain, the upcoming Ferals, the ups and downs of the comics world, blowing off steam on Twitter, and lots more.
Scott Allie: After breaking into superhero comics, you really made a name for yourself with Stray Bullets, which did two things: It (1) established you as a brilliant crime cartoonist and (2) marked a pinnacle of self-publishing, creator-owned success. Lately you've been a lot busier on licensed books. What's different about the industry now, as opposed to the late Nineties?
David Lapham: Thanks! I'll start by talking about the mid-Nineties, which is when we started Stray Bullets, and the movement of self-publishing, small press, and just independent-driven comics. For the record, I personally was never a self-publisher. Maria, my wife and business partner,...
Scott Allie: After breaking into superhero comics, you really made a name for yourself with Stray Bullets, which did two things: It (1) established you as a brilliant crime cartoonist and (2) marked a pinnacle of self-publishing, creator-owned success. Lately you've been a lot busier on licensed books. What's different about the industry now, as opposed to the late Nineties?
David Lapham: Thanks! I'll start by talking about the mid-Nineties, which is when we started Stray Bullets, and the movement of self-publishing, small press, and just independent-driven comics. For the record, I personally was never a self-publisher. Maria, my wife and business partner,...
- 11/10/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Wow. This blasted the cobwebs away! Californian post-hardcore quintet In Fear and Faith have thrown everything at their latest self-titled offering, and it really shows.
Opening track ‘The Calm Before Reform’ showcases the vigorous pace and burning intensity that is tantamount through the album, combining the venomous dirty vocals, chugging riffs and pounding double – bass rhythms with a vital, soaring and melodic chorus that implores you to keep on listening. And if you do, you’re in for a taste of how serious these guys are.
Unlike many similar bands of the post-hardcore/alternative metal hybrid genre, In Fear and Faith have used subtle electronic sampling and alternative instrumentation to bring each track to life. The use of piano and violin grants each track a greater emotive scope and an emphasis on the melodic span. This is an aspect that truly allows this band to rise...
Wow. This blasted the cobwebs away! Californian post-hardcore quintet In Fear and Faith have thrown everything at their latest self-titled offering, and it really shows.
Opening track ‘The Calm Before Reform’ showcases the vigorous pace and burning intensity that is tantamount through the album, combining the venomous dirty vocals, chugging riffs and pounding double – bass rhythms with a vital, soaring and melodic chorus that implores you to keep on listening. And if you do, you’re in for a taste of how serious these guys are.
Unlike many similar bands of the post-hardcore/alternative metal hybrid genre, In Fear and Faith have used subtle electronic sampling and alternative instrumentation to bring each track to life. The use of piano and violin grants each track a greater emotive scope and an emphasis on the melodic span. This is an aspect that truly allows this band to rise...
- 10/19/2012
- by Ollie Kemp
- Obsessed with Film
You may have seen that we’ve been covering Fatale on Daily Dead for the last couple of months. I’m more of a casual comic book reader, so although I’ve been hearing good things about this book when it was first released, it wasn’t something I picked up until recently.
Without going into too many details, Fatale is a horror noir tale that should especially appeal to fans of Lovecraft and the first eight issues have been a huge success for Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
I wanted to learn more about the series and where it is headed, so I got in touch with Ed Brubaker and sent a number of questions his way. For those that haven’t read Fatale, you’ll learn a bit more about how it all got started. If you’ve been a fan since the first issue, you’ll be...
Without going into too many details, Fatale is a horror noir tale that should especially appeal to fans of Lovecraft and the first eight issues have been a huge success for Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
I wanted to learn more about the series and where it is headed, so I got in touch with Ed Brubaker and sent a number of questions his way. For those that haven’t read Fatale, you’ll learn a bit more about how it all got started. If you’ve been a fan since the first issue, you’ll be...
- 10/3/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
From Abrams ComicArts and The Manda Group, Sneak Peek author Jim Trombetta's scholarly "The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You To Read!", a 304-page anthology, featuring more than 200 rare covers and 1950's era comic book stories, illustrating 'horror' and 'crime' genres.
Trombetta, formerly an episodic writer for the 1980's TV series "Miami Vice", provides a detailed history for these stories and their creators, with his researched commentary and fascinating subtext, spinning a tale of horror and government censorship as scary as the stories themselves.
Artists featured include Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Steve Ditko, Al Feldstein, Frank Kelly Freas, Russ Heath, Graham Ingels, Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Basil Wolverton.
Before the comic book industry's self-regulated 'Comic Books Code Authority' in the 1950's, companies would publish exploitation comic books, targeting readers (mainly kids) with lurid covers and interior art.
Themes showcased included "...gruesome depictions of murder,...
Trombetta, formerly an episodic writer for the 1980's TV series "Miami Vice", provides a detailed history for these stories and their creators, with his researched commentary and fascinating subtext, spinning a tale of horror and government censorship as scary as the stories themselves.
Artists featured include Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Steve Ditko, Al Feldstein, Frank Kelly Freas, Russ Heath, Graham Ingels, Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Basil Wolverton.
Before the comic book industry's self-regulated 'Comic Books Code Authority' in the 1950's, companies would publish exploitation comic books, targeting readers (mainly kids) with lurid covers and interior art.
Themes showcased included "...gruesome depictions of murder,...
- 12/4/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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