(The Quad-Shot, 2013)
Created by Michael Drace Fountain, Marcel Losada,
James Ninness, and Joe Pezzula
Artwork by Various
Colors & Lettering by Ben Gilbert
Designed by Shannon Forey
Horror comics come and go with the ages. In the 50’s EC did it’s very best to entrance the children of America all the while making their parents blanche at the images contained therein. Later there were the somewhat tamer horror comics of the Continue reading
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“Vault of Horror” #26
(EC Classic Reprints, 1974)
WRITERS: Al Feldstein, Bill Gaines
ARTISTS: Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, Sid Check & Graham Ingels
Greetings from the Wasteland!
Between 1989 and 1996 the world of cable television was in the white-knuckled, hysteria-inducing grip of Tales from the Crypt. HBO had great success with the series, though I never watched it when it was televised. My first experience with Tales was when a friend taped an episode and we watched later. (To this day it remains one of my favorite episodes, “Top Billing” Season 3 Ep. 5, in which John Astin (the 60’s Gomez Addams) plays an eccentric casting director and…I’ll not spoil the ending here, it’s too sweet.) It was only later that I realized it was a popular comic in the early fifties, and that led me to read more about their demonization (how appropriate) and the development of the CCA. Continue reading
BAG & BORED 