oh yeah, cole's work def has an elemental power and kick to it - see also ppl like jay disbrow:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4PAfibQR8xg/TgCiXOTshYI/AAAAAAAAR98/-KW6Kkx_AO8/s1600/1308664042scan0033.jpg
and matt fox:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VSiKZP_C_bw/TonwEP4kiCI/AAAAAAAAAJE/nBXDdEuL_lI/s1600/02_wtcov_1946_07.jpg
these ppl are def a big influence on those underground artists, like rory hayes or s clay wilson, who were well into their horror comix
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm sorry I questioned you on the whole computer coloring thing. I bow to your much superior knowledge of comics history.
And now I have a ton more names to look up and get into. There are worse fates.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 8 August 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
lol p sure you and sic and forks and and others can kick my ass when it comes to knowledge of 'modern' comics
but the point, as always, is SHARING this shit
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 9 August 2012 08:15 (eleven years ago) link
keep meaning to mention on this thread that kirby's SPIRIT WORLD mag has just been given the hardcover reprint treatment by DC, complete w/ the unpublished second issue. first issue featured some of kirby's last collage pieces - here's one of the originals (in the mag it was printed in blue ink only!):
http://www.whatifkirby.com/sites/default/files/comicpages/sw1_pgs2-3_a.jpg?1279079331
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 9 August 2012 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
That was what, very early 1970s? Run it today and people wouldn't bat an eyelash.
― Matt M., Thursday, 9 August 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, August 8, 2012 6:48 PM
if you took the 10¢ off the cover of cole's mask #1 and told me it came out of SF in '68 I'd believe it
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 9 August 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I saw that Kirby book in the store a couple weeks ago. pretty nuts.
― Harvey Cartel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 August 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
While we're repping for Swamp Thing runs (and I agree that Millar's run was good, and among his best work), I'll go ahead and make this my 100th recommendation on ILC of Veitch's solo run, which was solidly horrific in that typically surreal Veitch fashion. And it crossed over pretty heavily with the (previously mentioned) Delano run on Hellblazer, which collectively makes for one of my all-time favorite chunks of comics.
― Old Lunch, Thursday, 9 August 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Getting back to Carl's first question, I have this and it's a pretty good compendium of a lot of type of stuff that's being discussed. Ranges from 1940s to 21st century. You could probably find things you like in it and then explore futher.
http://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Book-Best-Horror-Comics/dp/0786720727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344537217&sr=8-1&keywords=best+horror+comics
― The Thnig, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
and that power records blog reminds me of the greatest thing to ever happen to 6 year old me
a story of DRACULA the WOLFMAN and FRANKENSTEIN
I checked this out from the library on a regular basis. I can still repeat lines of dialogue.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
xpost yeah MM, SPIRIT WORLD is fairly early into jack's 70s DC stint (so still inked by vince coletta, unfortunately.) there was also the companion title, IN THE DAYS OF THE MOB, and a complete SOUL LOVE magazine prepared but never printed, and which sadly isn't in this new h/c - i'm guessing that jack's attempt at an african-american/blaxploitation romance anthology wld prob need a fair amount of contextualising, these days:
http://images.ha.com/lf?set=path%5B4%2F2%2F4%2F8%2F4248385%5D%2Csizedata%5B450x2000%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D
i seem to remember being p disappointed by that Mammoth Horror collection, when i browsed through it - v poor black and white repro of out of copyright material and duff newer stuff. it's a shame, cos the Mammoth Book of Crime Comics, edited by Paul Gravett, is really excellent. In the UK at least these titles have been widely remaindered, btw.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
one last post - wish i knew a lot more abt non-english language horror comics. in the uk in the early 70s there was a short-lived full colour magazine called DRACULA that reprinted some p choice, v psych horror strips by ppl like estaban moroto and this guy, enrik sio, who was doing some wild stuff with colour:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aF-Ofat7rvw/Tuh9wmKt64I/AAAAAAAAEgQ/QOmwm5PGPhg/s1600/Enric-Sio-6_baja.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, that shld be enric sio, tho i have seen it spelt both ways
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
It's possible that the Vicar is being satirically rockist.
I know you not.
With Swamp Thing, there are some gruesome scenes in the early Alan Moore run, but it does not have the air of ongoing dread one gets from real horror. Or maybe it does, I have not read the issues I have in a while. The one where Swamp Thing visits hell is a bit horrory, but I think you need more from horror than just seeing something horrible happen to someone - I think something manifestly uncanny needs to threaten or deliver actual harm to a point of view character.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
I think "you are a vegetable that thinks it's a human" is pretty manifestly uncanny.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
Demons, imps and demon possession all over the place until "Rite of Spring," then vampires, werewolves and zombies in American Gothic, then more demons and Evil Hand shakes hands with Good Hand. Pretty horror-y.
― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Saturday, 11 August 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
No to mention Jason Blod being all 'David Warner in The Omen' with the insurance salesman when he first appears.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Saturday, 11 August 2012 07:47 (eleven years ago) link
the whole arcane storyline is 100% horror
― the choogler and the chosen one (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 12 August 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
Most of what I would recommend has already been mentioned. The Richard Corben Creepy reprint is lovely- it was overseen by Jose Villarrubia, IIRC, and while I'm not really qualified to judge the reproduction looks great to me. It and the Wrightson reprint are super-cheap on Amazon, too, or at least they were the last time I looked. And while they're not straight horror per se, Corben's Hellboy stories (especially the Appalachian witch story "The Crooked Man") are fucking amazing.
For horror manga, Junji Ito absolutely- start with the short "The Enigma of Amigara Fault," which is included in the second volume of Gyo, and move on to Uzumaki (and the hilarious/brilliant Higuchinsky movie if you're so inclined) and Gyo itself from there. Gyo is half out of print in English, but if you're interested I can hook you up with a scan- just email me through ILX.
Hideshi Hino is another one of horror manga's big names and well worth your time, though he's a casualty of Dark Horse's manga reprints falling out of print in the US.
I can also recommend a recent-ish series called Fuan no Tane- it's an anthology series of very short pieces, often fragmentary or totally unresolved, and at its best it can be amazingly effective:
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j289/ThreshholdLurker/02_018-1.jpghttp://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j289/ThreshholdLurker/02_106-1.jpghttp://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j289/ThreshholdLurker/01_029.jpg
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, forgot to mention: Fuan no Tane isn't licensed in the US and only available through fan-made translations. Again, if anyone's interested, just let me know and I'll send over a zip/CBR file.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Only posting it here because it was mentioned a number of times itt: complete collection of Misty being released in September.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Saturday, 25 June 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
Has anyone attempted a comprehensive bibliography of horror anthology comics? And/or pulp and magazine stories? And if anyone has made the attempt, can you let me know in which asylum they're currently residing?
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 August 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Any good horror comics blogs out there? Preferably ones that link to/post free whole stories (old or new). I managed to read loads of Junji Ito online, and followed DC Pages of Fear for the short amount of time it ran, but I seem to be out of luck when searching for more stuff to sink my teeth into.
― emil.y, Monday, 29 August 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
If you can figure out DC++, there's a comics room there where I went on a deep dive and found scans of pretty much every comics anthology title that I was aware of and many that I wasn't. That's part of my problem: I have thousands of these things without any quick & easy way of knowing what material they contain short of opening them up and 'flipping' through.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
I spent hours scouring through DC anthologies to find a particular Lee Marrs story that had burned itself into my brain as a kid.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
Old Lunch- There's a book called Ghastly Terror with a complete index of pre-code American horror comics (Four Color Fear might have that too, can't remember). There's also The Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study Of The Black And White Publications Of The 1950s, 1960s And 1970s. I've never heard of a complete horror anthology listing though.
Emily- This blog is regularly updated and features mostly 50s comics but occasionally newer stuff. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 29 August 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Nice, thanks Robert!
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Ooh, cool, that looks great, RAG.
― emil.y, Monday, 29 August 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
The deluxe complete edition of Junji Ito's Tomie is coming out in the UK on the 3rd of January:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1421590565/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3ENYW8WV04AUU&coliid=I2SVPU7GD92Y4A
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 24 December 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link
This new collection also looks vmic:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Junji-Itos-Dissolving-Classroom-Ito/dp/1942993854/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Q2XJZCTK43R838TS2JNC
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 24 December 2016 12:19 (seven years ago) link