As it’s Halloween this weekend (not that we even care here in Australia) we thought we’d mention our fave horror comics. Besides the below, we go through the history of Japanese and American comics (including burning comics!), I sing Cher and of course, we discuss some truly frightening things that only comics can get away with.
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1:40 NEWS
A new Asterix animated film in 3D
A new film on the dark manga Pluto to be made by the studio behind Despicable Me
The new Lynd Ward comics prize
Anime characters go on the European stage and sing and dance or something
Clancy Brown and Paul Giamatti set to star in a film adaptation of cult novel John Dies at the End to be helmed by the director of cult fave Bubba Ho-tep
10:40 OH, THE HORROR!
Four Colour Fear from Fantagraphics which reprints some crazy tales from the ’50s
Senate hearings, Frederic Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent and the link between reading violent comics and juvenile delinquency
How Frankenstein inspired Stan Lee’s creation of Hulk
The Drifting Classroom
Marvel’s black and white Tomb of Terror one-shot
The once lost Batman: Hidden Treasures from DC Comics
Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Sandman and the birth of DC’s Vertigo imprint
Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, Eric Powell’s hilarious The Goon, Pinnochio The Vampire Slayer from Slave Labor Graphics
The creepy manga spirals of Uzumaki, the collaborative and surprising Pixu and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Domu
Strange Embrace and FVZA by David Hine
The gorgeous Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead
Justin Randall’s very moody and effective Changing Ways
1:10:18 WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Good Show Sir – only the worst sci-fi/fantasy book covers
