![]() ![]() True to the title, a small population experiences 30 days of continual night during the winter. ![]() Let us know your favorite horror comics in the comments.Įvery time I read Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s grisly vampire yarn 30 Days of Night, I say the same thing over and over: “How did no one ever think of this genius story?” The setting? Barrow, Alaska - the top of the world. ![]() (Could film ever truly capture Ben Templesmith’s gorgeously grotesque figures or commercially reproduce the incessant dread of Charles Burns’ Black Hole?) We thought back to the beginnings of the modern age (mid ‘80s) to hand pick some of our favorite comics that may have kept us up at into the wee hours of the night. The answer is probably Fredric Wertham and the Comics Code that commercially neutered many of these efforts through censorship, but those barriers have been ignored for more than a decade.Įven if there aren’t quite as many horror comics coming out, comics has produced some of the most introspective, provocative, and horrifying storytelling of any medium in the past few decades. ![]() Horror comics hit such a spectacular stride during the ‘40s and ‘50s, under imprints like EC ( Tales From the Crypt) before segueing to Warren ( Creepy, Eerie), that one can’t help but wonder why the genre has never risen to those same heights in the ensuing years. ![]()
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