December 20th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Creepy Videos |

Franz Kafka’s It’s A Wonderful Life

November 27th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Creepy Videos |

Muppet Labs Experiment 5T832: Ghost Hunt

November 1st, 2009 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Blah |

Back From The Depths Presents HALLOWSCREAM! Hallowe’en Special

It’s Finally here! The 2009 Back From The Depths Hallowe’en Special! An anthology horror comic that’s not for the nervous!

Available as a totally free pdf file from our forum or via Clickwheel. Click the link to visit the Clickwheel site…

http://www.clickwheel.net/features/308

…or right click the attachment at our ning site and “save target as”…

http://backfromthedepths.ning.com/forum/topics/back-from-the-depths-presents

October 15th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blah |

Back From The Depths Needs You! (update)

Just a couple of days ’til the final deadline for submissions to the Back From The Depths horror fanzine (click that skull on the left for more info), but it seems there’s been a problem with my hotmail address and emails have been bouncing back.

So seeing as we’re not having to deal with printers and the like, you can all have another week to send stuff in, (and that can be artwork, full strips, anything horror based and already finished that you think might be suitable).

The final final deadline is now Saturday October 24th and the new email address to send stuff to is…

malcolm_iain_kirk@yahoo.co.uk

October 3rd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Original Comic Strips |

Temple APA Issue Five

Temple APA issue 5 is now available to download as a pdf. Features artwork and strips by Adam Grose, Dave Evans, Dave Hailwood, Paul Eldridge, Simon Mackie, Steve Tanner, Stuart Giddings, Tony Suleri and there’s five pages of old Stick-Man strips by me in there too. There’s also a feature on Insomnia Publications and a Small Press Directory and it’s all been put together by John Kirkham as usual.

File’s quite big. About 81mb I think, but that’s ‘cos it’s packed to the gunnels with stuff. Go take a look.

http://templeapa.ning.com/

To download issue five, right click on the “attachment” at the above link and “Save Target As…” or “Save Link As…” if you’re using Firefox

October 3rd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Movie Trailers |

ABC Warriors Animation Trailer

Ooh…

October 2nd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blah |

Penny Dreadful Newsreel from 1937

 Cartoonist Lew Stringer recently posted links to comic related Pathe newsreels in his blog and one of them is of particular interest to us…

It features Music hall comedian Barry Ono and his “world’s largest collection” of Penny Dreadfuls. Click the image below to watch the newsreel.

September 19th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blah, News |

Misty Souvenir Special

Misty was a girls comic, the first issue of which went on sale in 1978. It was slightly unusual however, as it was also a horror comic, and rather a creepy one at that. It was published by IPC, so it could, (and probably should), be considered Scream‘s gothy big sister and it was every bit as good as that description might suggest…

…and now it’s back.

The Misty Souvenir Special is now available from branches of WH Smiths newsagents in the UK. It costs £3.99 and if you take my advice, you’ll go to your nearest branch as soon as possible and purchase a copy. If for some reason you can’t, then don’t worry, because Egmont will be making it available to buy direct from their website at a later date.

Not only does the special have an excellent selection of strips, but unlike previous issues of Egmont’s “Classic Comics”, the stories featured aren’t part of longer serials. They’re all one-offs, which means you’re not left wondering what happens next.

Trust me, once you’ve read this you’ll be left wanting more and wondering why somebody doesn’t bring it back properly.

Well, actually….

Watch this space for news of a fan produced, (but completely legit and official), all new Misty special coming to you in the next few weeks! Yep.

Misty official website

Egmont Comic Archive

August 25th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Books |

World War Z

A total must for any fan of the zombie genre this outstanding book by Max Brooks gives a unique perspective of the zombie outbreak and aftermath. Subtitled ‘An oral history of the zombie war’ the book consists of a series of interviews with survivors of the zombie apocalypse. It doesn’t have a standard storyline as such but the interviews follow a linear timeline streatched over 10 years that cover the origins and initial outbreaks through to the reclaiming of the world from the zombie hordes.

I’m still persevering with Kirkman’s ‘Walking Dead’ series but ‘World War Z’ manages to give me everything I hoped the meandering ‘Walking Dead’ comic would be, in one simple well written book.

This is also going to be made in to a movie to be released fairly soon and i can’t wait. Thoroughly expect this to be the best zombie movie ever made!

Click here to buy World War Z from Amazon

August 20th, 2009 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Blah, Movie Trailers |

Gothic Horror Is Back!

As demonstrated by these two trailers…

Dorian Gray…

The Wolfman…