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Just stumbled across this funny feature on Fangoria's website...

Dark Horse has announced CREEPY COMICS #1 will be out this July 15th. I've been writing a twisted little three-part story which will run through the first few issues titled, THE CURSE. Jason Shawn Alexander is supplying painted artwork... Eric Powell is painting the cover... and check out the rest of the incredible artist lineup!

I'm very excited to get this out there. This book is going to be gorgeous.

From DarkHorse.com:

What's black and white and clawing its way onto your reading list? It's the newly resurrected Creepy, of course! Now, don't fret, my putrid pets -- these new terror tales are cut from the same cursed cloth as the outlandish originals, telling contemporary horror stories with gorgeously ghoulish art from a lineup that'll make you lose your head! Original Creepy artist Angelo Torres teams up with devilish Dan Braun on "Hell Hound Blues"; Michael Woods and artist Saskia Gutekunst serve up a dose of "Chemical 13"; Neil Kleid and Brian Churilla provide "All the Help You Need" at a weird weight-loss camp; and jaundiced Jason Shawn Alexander brings his phenomenal painting skills to Joe Harris's "The Curse"! Plus Bernie Wrightson, the return of "Loathsome Lore," and more. All this, plus one classic story from Uncle Creepy's dank dungeon, and you've got 48 freakish pages of terror to bring home to mummy!
Publication Date: July 15, 2009
Format: b&w, 48 pages
Price: $4.99
UPC: 7 61568 15862 5 00111

And don't forget Eric's limited alternate cover:

We've moved my short films, trailers and other clips to Vimeo... beautiful hosting all around. Check 'em out, if you have a second.

WITCHWISE is looking particularly spiffy with a new transfer.

IGN has a 5-page preview up as of yesterday. The book comes out this Wednesday, 4/1.

Check it out!

Jose Ladronn discusses his painted covers for the BATMAN: BATTLE FOR THE COWL one-shots at Comic Book Resources (including MAN-BAT, written by yours truly).

HarperCollins has hooked me up with an Author Site where you can read more about me, if you care to... and check out previews from THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY graphic novels I've written for them and Fox Atomic.

I think I need to make some edits (if I can figure out how)... but check it out. We'll be embedding video and other goodies at some point.

IGN has a great interview with editor Mike Marts regarding the BATMAN: BATTLE FOR THE COWL event, including some insights into the MAN-BAT one shot I'm doing with Jim Calafiore.

Along the front of the parade route, to be precise. Riding the front rail as the President and Vice-President came by and freezing my ass off on Pennsylvania Avenue. So worth it. So fantastic.

So much of my own identity over these past eight years seems to have been culled from being outraged and sharing those feelings engendered by the most appalling American government I hope we ever see in my lifetime.

Now, a time to lay down arms, fears and to stretch the legs out from the defensive crouch they've been hooked in since 2000. Things are frightening out there and there's so much to brave... but hope is contagious and in strong, strong supply this morning.

DC Solicits have leaked out. IGN has the rundown of the rest of the BATMAN: BATTLE FOR THE COWL event following Batman's apparent death in the R.I.P. and FINAL CRISIS storylines.

I love Man-Bat. I think he's Batman's dark reflection, monstrous yet sympathetic, lost and dangerous but well-meaning, noble and in possession of immense power, rage and pain.

Jim Calafiore's artwork is stunning. We're going for dark and gritty here. Man-Bat is an outcast. He doesn't play well with others. And dark, disturbing things seem to follow wherever he goes.

And ain't that Jose Ladron cover sweet?

In a display of Ticketmaster.com prowess, I have scored highly-coveted and incredibly sparse tickets to the seating erected along the Inaugural Parade route and am heading to Washington tomorrow morning.

Will report back. Should be a hell of an experience.