Scott Hampton Graphic Novel

 Scott Hampton, creator and / or artist on such notable projects as Pigeons From Hell, Silverheels, the Batman Graphic Novel Night Cries, Neil Gaiman's American Gods and a host of other projects has just started a Kickstarter campaign for a 150-page horror graphic novel. The art is completed and the money is being raised to print it.

In Scott's words:

About ten years ago, my graphic novel, The Upturned Stone, was optioned for a movie and I decided to use that windfall to fund a personal project that I’d been dreaming about for quite a while – essentially, a horror movie on paper – called Trespassers.

Trespassers – my take on the cabin in the woods sub-genre – took fifteen months to complete, and while it is also a fully painted work, is a pretty radical departure from The Upturned Stone. At approximately 150 pages it's also considerably longer.

I’ve always been drawn to stories where the protagonists are up against an elusive enemy who's hard to find and even to see. In Trespassers, the other-worldly creatures can only be revealed in flashes of lightning, making their appearance unpredictable and especially frightening. 

Once I finished this graphic novel, I took a two-week nap, then got back to work earning dollars.:) Now, ten years later, I’m working on a BIG project for a book publisher that will take the better part of two years to complete (another long nap is looming), and since I don’t want to be entirely forgotten while I'm toiling away I’m thinking now might be the perfect time to bring this baby out. I hope folks enjoy reading this as much as I did making it. Thanks again for the support. Cheers!

 

You can participate in the Kickstarter campaign here. Below are images of a couple pages from the book. 

The Complete Web of Horror

 Web of Horror only lasted for three issues, but what a run it was. The black and white horror comic magazine featured the talents of Bernie Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Mike Kaluta, Frank Brunner, Ralph Reese and others.

Stories from these issues have been reprinted across various books collecting the work of the individual artists or later horror comic anthologies. But here is the chance to own a hardcover collection of all three issues PLUS previously unpublished stories from the never published issue #4 and stories destined for the magazine that saw print elsewhere.

There's also informative introductions and historical material.

AND if you pledge $100 (all the money going to pay royalties to the creators and their estates) you get the hardcover book, a slipcase, a bookplate signed by Mike Kaluta, and a set of Web of Horror bookmarks. For a $30 pledge you can get a set of Web of Horror postcards.

The book will be published by Fantagraphics, but only if the money can be raised to pay the royalties. As of this writing there's only seven left of the package that includes the book. Please pledge to this worthwhile project now! Pledge at the link below.

The Complete Web of Horror Indiegogo Page

UPDATE: Goal has been met and all books with slipcases and signed bookplate have been sold. Some postcard sets still available. You will be able to purchase the regular book from Fantagraphics in 2023.

 

 

The Complete Web of Horror Indiegogo Page.

Michael Kaluta and House of Mystery, 1972-1973

Michael Kaluta did many fantastic covers for House of Mystery and other DC mystery titles. Here's some House of Mystery covers from early in his DC career.

House of Mystery #200, March 1972.

House of Mystery #201, April 1972.

House of Mystery #202, May 1972.

House of Mystery #210, January 1973.

House of Mystery #212, March 1973.


These and many more Kaluta comics are available in my eBay store.

The Wrightson Completionist: Part 11

The eleventh in a series of posts highlighting oddball Bernie Wrightson items in my collection.

What do you do when you've bought all the Bernie Wrightson stuff, except for the stuff that's really expensive (S&N The Stand book, weird-ass Nakotomi prints they made five of) or impossible to find (Nozdrovia, Gothic Blimp)? The answer is you start buying foreign editions of his work, which I've spent a lot time doing the last couple years.

Here's an Italian edition of Wrightson's masterwork: the illustrated Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus by Mary W. Shelley. It's smaller than the Dark Horse edition or the original Dodd-Mead edition, about 7" x 9 3/4". It has the full endpapers and all the illustrations. Like the Dark Horse edition, there are small greyish vignettes from the illustration on the previous page.

Nothing here you haven't seen before, but if you're a nut about this like me, it's worth getting. As of this writing, it's available on the Italian Amazon page, your regular Amazon user name and password will work. It ended up costing me about $35 with postage. It took about two or three or weeks to get it in the mail. The book is published by a company called Oscar Ink. It's a hardcover and is 302 pages.

Ciao everybody!

Richard Corben Warren Magazine Covers

Creepy #146, Summer 1985.

Eerie #77, Sept. 1976.

Eerie #86, Sept. 1977.

Eerie #90, Feb. 1978.

Bernie Wrighson Frankenstein Portfolio

The first of Bernie Wrightson's three Frankenstein portfolios. This was released by Tyrannosaurus Press in 1977 in a signed and numbered limited edition of 1000.

Frank Frazetta Creepy Covers

Creepy #1, April 1965.

Creepy #3, June 1965.

Creepy #4, August 1965.

Bernie Wrightson Art Auction

Frank Darabont is selling his Bernie Wrightson art collection. Check under your couch cushions for some spare change and put in your bids! You can view the auction catalog or order a hard copy of it here.
Below is an image of the cover and a couple of the pieces for sale.

More Ghost Stories!

Some original art from ghost story anthologies.

Les Edwards, Victorian Ghost Stories, 1996.

Steve Crisp, Ghost Stories, no date.

Steve Crisp, The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, 1984.

Ghost Stories!

A collection of covers for the pulp Ghost Stories. These examples were published between 1926 and 1930.

Bernie Wrightson Jack O' Lanterns

Secrets of Haunted House #5, January 1976.

Secrets of Haunted House #44, January 1982.

House of Mystery #256, February 1978.

House of Secrets #139, January 1976.