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Horror Is Good For You (And Even Better For Your Kids)
One of the core reasons I make books now is because Ray Bradbury scared me so happy, that what I am perpetually compelled to do is, at best, ignite the same flame in a young reader today. Most of my comics, certainly the ones I write myself, are scary ones or revolve around scary themes. At some point I began to notice that they also featured, as protagonists, children. Even when the overall story wasn’t necessarily about them, there they were: peeking from behind some safe remove, watching.
BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS
So before the absolutely crazy season that brought in Dune, Gunpowder Milkshake, The Piano, Titane, etc… I was asked to tackle a new iteration of the Blade Runner universe with the newly released BLACK LOTUS series airing on both Adult Swim and Crunchy Roll. Black Lotus takes place a few years prior to the events of Blade Runner 2049, and is a proper cgi-based anime style and as such is a method of working that is waaaay out of my usual comfort zone. I mean a whole other planet outside.
DUNE
There are bucket list gift projects and there are BUCKET LIST GIFT PROJECTS. Dune was one of these and both. I first read Dune when I was 13. I wasn’t really a fantasy guy nor despite my love of horror was never much down with Stephen King either. No one I knew read much sci fi to begin with, and the premise of the novel struck me as entirely bonkers in a way that I couldn’t escape.
ELECTRIC ANTS & BOYHOODS
Two projects that could not be less alike together in one MC post today as we delve into the work behind the forthcoming Mondo?IFC screen print for Richard Linkletter’s BOYHOOD and THE ELECTRIC ANT of The Folio Society’s massive multi-book tome, THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF PHILIP K DICK, and its own upcoming ltd print from Static Medium. (Both posters will be available this September and details to follow listed below this article).
Meadowlark: A Coming-of-Age Crime Story
The following is an exclusive excerpt from the new graphic novel by Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth, Meadowlark: A Coming-of-Age Crime Story. In this exclusive excerpt, a boy visits the prison where his father works, and has a terrifying encounter that challenges his innocent vision of the world. __________________________________________________ Excerpted from the book MEADOWLARK: A COMING-OF-AGE CRIME STORY by Greg Ruth and Ethan Hawke. Copyright © 2021 by Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth.
GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKIN’
This project was such a crash job with such an insane deadline, I still haven’t fully processed the experience yet. All the work you’ll see below more or less happened in just 3-4 days total. which may be a record for me. Running this fast on something complicated means a lot of potential sloppy landmines getting left everywhere.
Why All Storytellers Should Tell Children’s Stories
“Kids are much braver than adults, sometimes, and so much less easily disturbed. Kids will make their nightmares up out of anything, and the important thing in fiction, if you’re giving them nightmares, is to demonstrate that nightmares are beatable”. –Neil Gaiman At least once. Obviously I don’t think that everyone should do this as a career choice, nor would I expect everyone to be able to tackle children’s stories well.
Shards
A group of five friends rent a cabin in the woods—the next day only four are alive. What happened and why is something the survivors are desperate to unravel. Dawn came and they were still alive. All except for Marcie. Only at the end, they supposed she hadn’t really been Marcie anymore. She was the only one who didn’t come to the cabin as part of a couple.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS from Mari Lwyd, Krampus, Mr. T and all of us at Muddy Colors!
This solstice-y time of year brings a lot of the best and worst of us all, but after a year of us all wrestling with the worst let’s ring out the final major holiday of the dreadful poo tornado that has been 2020 with some old, weird holiday magic? That’s how we’re doing it in Greglandia this year, and everyone’s invited. It’s certainly a weird world out there and I find it intimately comforting that it has been for quite some time.
A Veterans Day Booklist for Children & Teens
On Veterans Day we thank the men and women who serve our country in the military and risk their lives for our freedom. When they return home they often face a battle of a different kind—returning back to civilian life. Here are stories for young children, middle grades and teens exploring themes of loss, change and honor.
San Diego Comic Con 2019 Online Release (Part 2)!
San Diego Comic Con 2019 Online Release (Part 2)! Aug 12, 2019 Tomorrow we will have the second and final batch of releases from our booth at San Diego Comic Con last month. Included in tomorrow's collection are 100% Soft's incredible take on Ridley Scott's ALIEN, a gorgeous celebration of the GOLDEN AGE OF MARVEL COMICS by Rich Kelly, Greg Ruth's chilling portrait of Mad Titan THANOS, and Matt Ryan Tobin's excellent poster for BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY.
The 52 Weeks Project presents… SONGS OF ICE & FIRE
This is a spoiler-free post, so if you’ve not seen the show’s finale, don’t fear, but I do assume anything more than a year past is fair game.
Mondo's new exclusive Comic-Con posters are cinematic works of art
Are you the type of chap who laments the fact that they’ll never have an original Vincent Van GoBots or a Georgia O’lank kief bru work of art on your wall? Testicles to that my friends, because some of the best art you’ve ever seen is busy rolling out from a wide variety of shops today and they won’t cost you an arm and a leg either. Provided that you can hop a plane flight to San Diego right now and find a ticket scalper for Comic-Con but that’s beside the point.
Sing Your Best Song
Artists are, I would say requisitely so, filled with doubts every day they work. We get it from outside in the form of people and family questioning our choices in pushing the arts, and from inside as we question ourselves our work, what we’re doing and where we’re going. Part of that is as I said, essential to the practice, but it can easily and often suffocate us beyond the point of being of aid to anything at all.
Notorious
With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood’s most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding out in South America.
The Key Moment: Drawing a New Look for Notorious
I’ve done more than a few pieces for Criterion over the years, but Alfred Hitchcock’s spy-noir masterwork Notorious was on an entirely different level from the previous films I’ve worked on. Notorious was the very first Hitchcock I ever saw as a TV/movie-obsessed eight-year-old, and it remains my favorite, largely because of that lifelong nostalgia and the crush on Ingrid Bergman it gave me.
Eric Garza's Top Posters of 2018!
Eric Garza's Top Posters of 2018! Dec 20, 2018 Eric Garza, Creative Director (Posters) In no particular order, here are ten posters that we released in 2018 that really knocked me for a loop. THE INVISIBLE MAN by Jonathan Burton Excellent in the company of excellence. I could've filled all slots of this 'Top XX' list with any of the posters from our UNIVERSAL MONSTERS gallery show way back in January.
Horror is Good For You (and Even Better for Your Kids)
One of the core reasons I make books now is because Ray Bradbury scared me so happy, that what I am perpetually compelled to do is, at best, ignite the same flame in a young reader today. Most of my comics, certainly the ones I write myself, are scary ones or revolve around scary themes. In the last ten years I began to notice that they also featured, as protagonists, children.
A Song for Quiet
Deacon James is a rambling bluesman straight from Georgia, a black man with troubles that he can’t escape, and music that won’t let him go. On a train to Arkham, he meets trouble—visions of nightmares, gaping mouths and grasping tendrils, and a madman who calls himself John Persons. According to the stranger, Deacon is carrying a seed in his head, a thing that will destroy the world if he lets it hatch. The mad ravings chase Deacon to his next gig.
Kazuo Ishiguro Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature to British author Kazuo Ishiguro, whose “novels of great emotional force” shift between literary fiction, science fiction, and horror—sometimes in one book, as in his dystopian coming-of-age tale Never Let Me Go. The Noble Prize is awarded based on body of work; the Academy praised Ishiguro’s for “uncover[ing] the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” Betting service Ladbrokes had pegged Margaret...
Wrestling with Tentacles: Cassandra Khaw and Victor LaValle Take on H.P. Lovecraft
You grow up loving Lovecraft. His stories inspire you to try writing your own weird twisty words, and then one day you come across a letter or an article that explains, in graphic detail, that Mr. Lovecraft thought you were scum. Worse than scum. And now when you look back at his stories you see that you’re not the hero, you’re not even always the villain—you’re just the OTHER. Unknowable and scarier than an eldritch god. Victor LaValle and Cass Khaw could have rejected Lovecraft.
Beyond Jump Scares: True Storytelling in Horror
Read Greg Ruth’s previous article, Horror is Good for You (And Even Better for Your Kids). Horror has a lot to teach us, in terms of narrative, that can be used to tell different kinds of stories—you don’t have to tell scary ones. I’m ignoring the lazy tendency towards shock or gore narratives, which—while technically horror—don’t rate in my book. Jumping out of the closet to spook your little brother for fun can be cute, but it’s hardly rocket science.
“You helped start a war, don’t you want to help me end it?” - Star Trek Discovery’s “Context is for Kings”
By the time I got to the end of “Context is for Kings,” I turned to my wife and said, “This should’ve been the first episode they aired.” It’s the perfect pilot: the bulk of the main cast is introduced, we see the ship for which the show is named, we know that we’re in a war and that Burnham is responsible.
Horror is Good For You (and Even Better for Your Kids)
One of the core reasons I make books now is because Ray Bradbury scared me so happy, that what I am perpetually compelled to do is, at best, ignite the same flame in a young reader today. Most of my comics, certainly the ones I write myself, are scary ones or revolve around scary themes. In the last ten years I began to notice that they also featured, as protagonists, children.
Jon Hamm Joins Good Omens in Expanded Role as the Archangel Gabriel
Amazon Studios announced today that Jon Hamm will join the television adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel Good Omens as the Archangel Gabriel, the primary messenger of God. For those who remember Gabriel as but a minor figure in the book, Gaiman added some interesting intel: The role has been expanded, pulling plot points from the Good Omens sequel that never saw the light of day.
We Dare You to Spend the Night with these 15 Haunted House Stories
Haunted house stories are their own special genre of horror. From moody Gothic tales of bumps in the night, to chilling, gore-filled nail-biters, They all follow a basic template: a group of people enter a house that seems a little…off. The more perceptive among them notice that something’s not right. Inexplicable occurrences pile up like books on a TBR stack, someone discovers a graveyard/occult shrine in the basement, and one by one the rest of the group begins to realize the truth.
Writing Your Fear: Stephen King’s The Shining
Born from a bad dream experienced during a one-night stay at a Colorado hotel that was closing for the season, The Shining is the first book Stephen King wrote from a position of financial stability. The advances for Carrie and ‘Salem’s Lot were in the bank, as was all that paperback money. He had a multi-book contract from Doubleday and he’d gone from worrying about paying the phone bill to being able to move his family to Boulder, CO for a year on a whim.
Download Fall of Fear, a Sampler of Forthcoming Horror from Tor.com Publishing!
Comfort yourself with horror this fall—stories about witches, houses that really hate you, vampires who just won’t go away, or murderous clones of yourself that spawn whenever you bleed… Sound good? GREAT. Tor.com Publishing is offering a free sampler of the four upcoming novellas featuring these tales! Fall of Fear holds portions from: A Long Day in Lychford by Paul Cornell The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford Switchback by Melissa F.
The Wrong Track that Leads to the Right One
I was approached by Irene Gallo to do a piece for Tor.com’s “Where the Trains Turn” by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen, and as typical to my previous efforts, (and despite my swearings to be cured of this method) I ended up doing two. Overall I have always railed against this double work as a poor and time consuming way forward. “Why not just thumbnail it first, you dolt?” is the usual refrain when it comes to confessing this as a recurring event. And I thought for a while that it was true.
A Long Spoon
You may have heard of Johannes Cabal; he is a necromancer and a little infamous. He is also very sensitive to attempts on his life. When a murder of crows tries to . . . well, murder him, and the contents of his bath are transmuted into hot nitric acid, he suspects someone may mean him harm. The trail leads to one of the less travelled parts of Hell itself, and there Cabal will need a guide.
ROLLING THUNDER by Kate Messner , Greg Ruth | Kirkus Reviews
A tribute to the massive annual motorcycle rally in Washington, D.C., that honors our country’s veterans. Fittingly for an event that is all about remembering, Ruth’s illustrations depict hazy, often translucent figures riding through misty golden light past the towering statue of Abraham Lincoln to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
INDEH: Native Stories and the Graphic Novel - In Conversation with Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth
INDEH: Native Stories and the Graphic Novel – In Conversation with Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth Add to calendar Add to shortlist INDEH: Native Stories and the Graphic Novel – In Conversation with Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth October 06, 2016, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 1A06 Language: English A conversation with creators Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth on the making of their graphic novel, INDEH, and the essential power of native stories in our lives today.
Hardcover Graphic Books
Hardcover Graphic Books - July 17, 2016 This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. Best Sellers Lists Navigation July 17, 2016 See next Best Seller list New this week FIGHT CLUB 2 by Chuck Palahniuk and Cameron Stewart Dark Horse In this sequel to the 1996 novel, Tyler Durden re–emerges to once again create mayhem. Buy New this week WHITE SAND, VOL.
Hardcover Graphic Books
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Hardcover Graphic Books
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Where the Trains Turn
I don’t like to think about the past. But I cannot stop remembering my son. Emma Nightingale prefers to remain grounded in reality as much as possible. Yet she’s willing to indulge her nine year-old son Rupert’s fascination with trains, as it brings him closer to his father, Gunnar, from whom she is separated. Once a month, Gunnar and Rupert venture out to follow the rails and watch the trains pass. Their trips have been pleasant, if uneventful, until one afternoon Rupert returns in tears.
Freedom is Space for the Spirit
“Freedom is Space for the Spirit” by Glen Hirshberg is a fantasy about a middle-aged German, drawn back to Russia by a mysterious invitation from a friend he knew during the wild, exuberant period in the midst of the break-up of the Soviet Union. Upon his arrival in St. Petersburg, he begins to see bears, wandering and seemingly lost. Vasily’s message arrived by telegram, and Thomas couldn’t bring himself to open it right away. His assumption was that another of the old gang had died.
The Caretakers
“The Caretakers” by David Nickle is a strange tale about a group of people called to a meeting with their intimidating boss. The newest member of their organization is not so sure she wants to even be there. The meeting with Miss Erish started earlier than scheduled, in a room other than the one arranged. That meant they were all late, even Evelyn Simmons, who had flown in the day before and, unable to properly sleep owing to the time difference, risen long before the dawn.
Finnegan’s Field
“Finnegan’s Field” by Angela Slatter is a dark fantasy novelette about a six year old child who mysteriously disappears for three years, only to return home just as mysteriously — but not quite the same. At least, not to her mother. In Irish lore, when children go under the hill, they don’t come out again. Ever. When children go under the hill, they stay where they’re put. Forever. When children go under the hill, parents, though they pray and search, don’t truly think to see them anymore. Never.
THE 2015 ILLUSTRATION MASTER CLASS: Lessons Learned and Unlearned
By Greg Ruth I'm sure you've all seen a bunch of Facebooks posts and tweets and whatever about this program that Rebecca Guay established a mere eight years ago. If not, and this is your first introduction to the program, boy howdy are you in for a treat. Simply put, it's a week of intensive studio work and training in Amherst College led by Rebecca and a veritable gaggle of artists that would knock your socks off.
Meet Your Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell in the First Look at the BBC Miniseries
The BBC has released the first promotional photo from its miniseries adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s Hugo-winning novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell! Here’s Bertie Carvel (Les Misérables) and Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes, The World’s End) in-character as dueling magicians Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell.
Selfies
“Selfies,” by Lavie Tidhar, is a creepy little horror tale about the fate of a young woman who makes the mistake of a lifetime when she buys a new phone in the local mall. This short story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by consulting editor Ellen Datlow. #733 In one of the last pictures I am running. I am running down the street and it is dark, the street lamps are dim and the light oozes down sickly and yellow.
Why Horror is Good For You (and Even Better for Your Kids)
One of the core reasons I make books now is because Ray Bradbury scared me so happy, that what I am perpetually compelled to do is, at best, ignite the same flame in a young reader today. Most of my comics, certainly the ones I write myself, are scary ones or revolve around scary themes. In the last ten years I began to notice that they also featured, as protagonists, children.
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