skoden
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Post by skoden on Oct 20, 2021 4:56:51 GMT
I also find Al Columbia's work very creepy. He himself is a pretty intense character. Anyone else follow the massive drama and fallout with his Italian publisher over the Biologic reprint? I guess we'll never see the cheapy the guinea pig book mentioned on Inkstuds.
I didn't follow that, but how would a tasteless rubbernecker find out more?
It was mostly on Hollow Press's social media. I can't remember when exactly, but I'm pretty sure Al posted his take and some other comments on his instagram and elsewhere.
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Post by timbecile on Oct 20, 2021 13:57:24 GMT
The intermittent and self-sabotaging? aspect of Columbia's publication history also makes his work scarier to me, as if he is viscerally struggling against his fascination with stabbing etc. The Drifting Classroom I remember as hundreds of pages of children screaming. Basil Wolverton has a few great horror comics. Also went through a period reading a lot of Harvey horror comics--great art and coloring.
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Post by timbecile on Oct 20, 2021 14:03:42 GMT
Also, I love this panel; we've all been there:
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Post by BubblesZine on Oct 20, 2021 21:22:31 GMT
also of course EC Comics, Tales From The Crypt, The Haunt of Fear. Top tier stuff! Some is perfect spooky and some real deranged. Can't believe I forgot this initially.
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moe
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Post by moe on Oct 29, 2021 3:26:11 GMT
also of course EC Comics, Tales From The Crypt, The Haunt of Fear. Top tier stuff! Some is perfect spooky and some real deranged. Can't believe I forgot this initially. In addition to the EC stuff, I really dig the underground comics that were riffing on that material. Stuff like Thrilling Murder, Insect Fear, and The Bogeyman. Some of those issues are super expensive now, but you can find some for a fair price if you really look. There’s a single issue called Laugh in the Dark that was meant to be The Bogeyman #4 and that goes pretty cheap. I’m hoping one of the Collected Spain volumes will focus on his Lovecraftian horror influenced comics sooner than later. Mike Diana is the torchbearer of that gross-out style Rory Hayes was doing back in the 70s. His comics have some seriously disturbing stuff but they’re always played off as a laugh. That’s something I’ve noticed about a lot of horror comics, it’s a lot more common to find black humor than it is to find the genuinely frightening, and this goes back to the original EC line as well. The most recent book that actually made me feel uneasy was The White People, an Arthur Machen adaptation by Ibraham R. Ineke, a Dutch comic artist. His stuff is imported here and there by Domino Comics, always worth grabbing when available. Casanova Frankenstein does really cool work with horror imagery that isn’t so much frightening as it is a study in alienation and being an outsider, which are both at the heart of so much horror. Lastly, I back the recommendations for The Strange Tale of Panorama Island. I wish Suehiro Maruo’s other works were more readily available!
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Post by k0rnbr34d on Oct 29, 2021 6:07:12 GMT
Gotta recommend Noel Friebert in general. This is his only standard “graphic novel" style release, but I think it is excellent. Not horror in that it will frighten you, but the materials it is made with come from a place of horror (meaning the line work, the the tone, etc.) He also has some good ones in Kramer's that are more like poems as comics, but are still horror. I'll leave a favorite at the bottom of this post, Mathemortician. I think Mark Beyer's Agony fits this same kind of description. Not exactly horror, but it belongs on a Halloween reading list. Idk, I could see it being frightening if you are taking it in at full attention. As far as disturbing/scary comics, see if you can find some scans of 神の左手、悪魔の右手 - God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand by Umezu Kazuo. Not the most amazing thing ever written, but it is definitely disturbing. (Edit: found some scans. Haven't checked if they are all there, but I remember reading it on a site like this, if not this same one.) For my money, the most frightening comics I've ever read are from Nick Drnaso. Beverly is short stories and several of them made me extremely uncomfortable, then Sabrina is his graphic novel that is possibly more frightening. If you like unsettling stuff, check it out. Unsettling like Von Trier or Haneke movies. Not that they are that similar, but in how they make you feel sort of depressed/sick. Noel Friebert in Kramer's 9
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Post by crapmasterzac on Mar 4, 2024 21:46:10 GMT
I've been really enjoying the Devils grin. The last issue has a really great part in a boutique that is some of the creepiest stuff i've seen in a horror comic. It seems so hard to actually scare someone with a comic, but that book so far has been very haunting.
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