Sexuality and comics are good buddies. Have been for uhm…ever. Not all comics. But a lot of them.
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Aided by publishers like Warren and EC, the horror genre built itself into the foundation of sequential art just as vigorously as superheroes, romance or science fiction. When psychiatrist Frederic Wertham published the misguided comics-skewering Seduction of the Innocent in , the moral crusade was in response to the glorious groundswell of murder, corpses and grotesquery on the comics rack. Despite the beating the genre took from the ensuing Comics Code Authority, horror has spent the following decades creeping out of the recesses around mainstream publishing, with Dark Horse, Vertigo, Image, Humanoids and various manga lines filling our nightmares with harrowing new atrocities. In honor of Halloween, this list proudly presents our favorite comic book chillers, thrillers, slow burns and monster mashes, guaranteed to terrify and provoke readers with all the gory gifts this niche offers. Barrow, Alaska—the top of the world. True to the title, a small population experiences 30 days of continual night during the winter. The vampire horror story writes itself. Archie Chief Creative Director and current Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa matured Archie, Veronica, Jughead, Betty and the other varsity-jacket icons with a teen rating and a buffet of human organs in this excellent series.
The Elder Gods Are Coming: The Resurgence of Lovecraftian Horror
Redlands , from Image Comics, sees brilliant colorist Jordie Bellaire take a turn at writing, while still providing colors. Artist Vanesa R. Del Rey and lettered Clayton Cowles make up the rest of this phenomenal creative team.
Other than superheroes, one genre has ruled the comic book world. Now listen, these are just some of the groundbreaking, vitally important horror comics that have scared the feces out of readers for decades. As a visual medium, comics are perfect for horror. Join us as we look at horrors past and relive some of the greatest terrors ever produced by some of the greatest and sickest imaginations in comics. How does one combine classic crime noir, period drama, and Lovecraftian terror into an ongoing comic that not only scares, it fascinates? For years, Brubaker and Phillips crafted some of the greatest crime fiction in comics with their seminal Criminal , but in Fatale , the creative duo proved they can do high octane horror with the same panache they did cops and robbers. Ad — content continues below. Fatale centers around a seemingly undying woman named Jo who has lived for decades. Jo has the gift or curse to make men become obsessed with her. Jo is pursued across the decades by a Lovecraft-inspired cult that wants to use her for their own nefarious purposes.
