In 2018, Lerner Books published the first English-language translation of artist and writer, Nie Jun’s, called My Beijing, a collection of slice-of-life stories with a sprinkling of magical realism, translated from its original Chinese. This week, Lerner brings us a whole new adventure from Jun that introduces English-language readers to the fantastical world of the…
Ricardo Delgado’s Dracula of Transylvania Promises a Horrifying Yet Fun Addition to Vampire Lore
Ricardo Delgado is well-known for his comic series, Age of Reptiles comics and cites the paintings of Charles R. Knight’s as childhood inspiration. For his latest work, the film and comic artist draws on his childhood adoration of classic monster movies from Hammer and Universal studios, Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula comics, Famous Monsters of Filmland…
Interview: The Beautiful Horror of Natalia Lopes and MystoPress
Natalia Lopes has always wanted to make comics for a living. As of 2019, she has finally begun to live her dream, starting with a successful Kickstarter that that brought the horror anthology Paroxysm to life under Lopes’ MystoPress: “From tales of modern vampires, to the horrifying implications of current events, to the feeling of…
Igniting OMNI Volume 2: An Interview With Melody Cooper
Melting icecaps, raging wildfires and diseases,war—in the world of OMNI, the Earth has had enough. It’s responding to the constant onslaught humans inflict upon it by fighting back. Does one of those ways of fighting back involve granting abilities to certain people? In the first volume of the series, Dr. Cecelia Cobbins discovers her ability…
Ayize Jama-Everett and John Jennings Unpack Their Box of Bones
Horror takes on a whole new meaning when told by and about Black people. With so much of history for people of the African Diaspora bound up in enslavement, it’s difficult to separate any artistic expression from the generational trauma and the continued weight of racism. Though it is as disturbing to read those stories…
A Platform for Philippine Komiks: An Interview With Penlab
Filipino komiks (“comics”) have long had a commercial industry that goes far back as the 1920s, but it has been only until recently that interest in these works has grown outside of the Philippines. With social isolation restrictions still in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists have been turning to ways to expand…
Discover Hope in The Sacrifice of Darkness
If 2020 teaches us anything, it is to find hope in darkness. That hope comes in many forms, even from the past. Roxane Gay’s 2013 short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” is a story of a world plunged into literal perpetual darkness and one family’s hopes to overcome it. Now a graphic novel…
Mariah McCourt Shares Recipes for Disaster and Tea Time in Ash & Thorn Volume 1
If you’ve been following our Cook Your Comics series, you know that we are smitten with Ash & Thorn, the new series from AHOY Comics. In the first volume, available in comic stores now and in bookstores next week, writer Mariah McCourt introduces us to Lottie Thorn and her trainer, Lady Peruvia Ashlington-Voss. Unlike your…
Cartoonist Peter Ricq Firmly Believes That Ghost Are People Too
In a gorgeously illustrated 40-page book, cartoonist Peter Ricq introduces us to Ethan Alby in Ghost are People Too. Ethan is a charming little boy who loves playing with toys and his dog and spending time with his family — even though his family doesn’t actually know that he’s there.
Travelers: Following the Path of Aron Wiesenfeld’s Artistic Journey
Aron Wiesenfeld grew up with comics and became an artist largely because of them, but it’s been a long time since the comics world has seen him. Fans have watched his style evolve from work on X-Men, Cable, and Image Comics’ Team 7 in the early ’90s. These were followed by written and illustrated work…
Ashley Christine’s Midnight 99 Is a Trip for the Lizard Brain
We’ve dealt with alien lizards invading earth before with V. This time, there’s a lot less peeling off human guises to reveal the ghastly lizard creatures beneath, and a lot more sex, drugs, and probably rock n’ roll in Ashley Christine’s Midnight 99, out today from NeoText.
Raising a Glass to Tom Peyer and Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood #1
Edgar Allan Poe might be rolling in his grave, but that won’t stop AHOY Comics’ Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer from keeping the horror and humour pouring in with the new Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood #1.