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First I want to lay my cards out on the table so you fine readers can know where I am writing from – I love Artist's Edition style books, and I love the ones that IDW and Scott Dunbier, Director of Special Projects for IDW, create I own 31 Artist Edition style books, and 23[...]

We are officially coming up on the three-year anniversary since TNT announced that director M Night Shymalan (Glass) would executive produce a new horror programming block that included his series take on the classic EC comic book series Tales from the Crypt – and it's been a rough three years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfy32uHSgT8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is[...]

The new 4-part series from writer Ande Parks and artist Esteve Polls brings EC style horror to Dynamite Entertainment this December And here we have an exclusive first look inside. San Francisco, 1953 FBI Agent Thomas Jennings has just arrived in the city, fresh-faced and ready to tackle crime in the big city… he thinks[...]

From Papercutz artist Rick Parker (also former Marvel letterer and artist on Marvel's Beavis and Butt-head), we have Weird Zombie-Fantasy… And from Frank Frazetta, we have Weird Science-Fantasy from EC. Rick Parker explains the genesis of this incredibly detailed parody cover: "I was a kid in the mid 50's when those EC covers and MAD Comics came[...]

A discussion between retailer Jon Gorga and creator Drew Ford: Jon Gorga, co-owner of Carmine Street Comics in the West Village district of New York City, sat down recently with comic book creator Drew Ford to discuss a number of his upcoming projects, including Cosmic Waves, a comic book anthology he is trying to publish through[...]

I think this is the definition of irony: one of the most famous moments of the 1954 Senate Hearings which helped prompt the comic book industry to create the Comics Code is an exchange between Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and EC Publisher William Gaines, during which the Senator questioned Gaines about the cover of Crime[...]