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Historic Wally Wood Shock SuspenStories #6 Cover Art Heads to Auction Historic Wally Wood Shock SuspenStories #6 Cover Art Heads to Auction Posted on Shock SuspenStories #6 will go up for bid at Heritage Auctions June 17-19 Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction. The story behind this cover is a forceful condemnation of hate groups in America. As Steven Spielberg noted in the 2017 Shock SuspenStories collection containing this issue, "For the first time, Gaines attacked subjects like r...

“Blood Club”: The Bizarre & Beautiful Work of Charles Burns Charles Burns excels at making people feel uncomfortable. Born September 27, 1955, Burns has been making incredible comics since his debut in the early 1980s. Simultaneously, he’s cultivated a career as one of the most coveted and respected illustrators in the magazine industry. Today we celebrate one of the most unique voices in comics. Raised by art-loving parents and a father who read comics, Charles Burns absorbed a medley of...

What Critics Said About 2004s Saw James Wan and Leigh Whannell burst onto the scene in 2004 with their twisty morality tale about a killer that likes to play games. What did critics have to say about Saw? Lionsgate They Said What?! is a biweekly column in which we explore the highs and lows of film criticism through history. How did critics feel about a certain movie at the time, and do we see it differently now? In this entry, Chris Coffel explores the original critical reception of the 2004 t...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Stephen King is widely recognized as one of the most prolific popular writers in modernity, and that was a reputation that he earned early in his career. It was only a year-and-a-half after his first novel, Carrie, was published that the earliest Constant Readers had their second opportunity to experience King’s sophom...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard While Stephen King has worked in a wide variety of mediums over the course of his stunning and storied career, what’s pretty remarkable is that he has spent shockingly little time in the world of comics. He has penned an adaptation of Creepshow (which was a film directly inspired by the EC Comics he loved growing up); contributed to a special Marvel comic in 1985 called “Heroes for Hope: Starring The X-Men” (which was made to raise awareness of hung...

Nothing is original. Everything borrows from somewhere. Deep Rising is no exception, but the old pans that today comprise the bulk of the film’s 28% Rotten Tomatoes score missed what a boisterous, bloody good time it is, monsters at sea mixed with Sommers’ love for adventure and snappy humor. “Hilarious” is hardly the first word one might reach for to describe a movie where people get sucked up like spaghetti by colossal oceanic worms that “drink” their prey rather...

Allnighter to Bring Online Comic Phenomenon LETS PLAY to Television Ensemble Rom-Com Series Adapting the Multimillion-Subscriber Webcomic Hit Charts Loves and Losses of Female Video Game Developer News provided by Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Allnighter today announced that it will be bringing the massively popular, romantic comedy webcomic, LETS PLAY, and its devoted, multimillion-strong weekly readership to television as a live-action seri...

Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez (2021), presents the story of American underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez, known for creating the Zap Comix book series and the character “Trashman.”  Rodriguez’s inspiration came from his colourful experiences growing up in Buffalo’s East Side where he did everything from joining the outlaw motorcycle club to being an advocate for left-wing politics exposing the realities of growing up in the Civil Rights era. And of course, he took inspi...

A history of adaptations of the beloved, twisted horror comics. By Diana Prince · @kinky_horror · April 29, 2021, 3:29 PM CDT EC Comics THE CRYPT OF TERROR. Heh-Heh! I see youre horror-hungry again, boils and ghouls! Prepare your stomachs for another savory serving of screams! From our cauldron to your molting minds, its a tasteless taste of history, seasoned with the most delectable ingredients: gore, ghouls and gags! In the Fearsome Fifties, EC Comics satiated our appeti...

"Night of the Living Late Show" Sees Creepshow Go Out on a High Note The latest episode of Creepshow stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Honest! Shudder The second season of Shudder’s Creepshow anthology series has come to an end after just five episodes. Don’t worry, though, as a third season has already been greenlit. Each previous episode has featured two story segments, but the finale features only one — “Night of the Living Late Show” — and while it may not be the best th...