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Corinna Bechko Discusses Her BLOOD TYPE

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 21, 2025March 20, 2025The Comic VaultBlood Type, Columns, Corinna Bechko, Danica Davidson, EC Comics, Interviews, Oni Press, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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photo of author Stacy Cain — Corinna Bechko
(Photo by Stacy Cain)

Blood Type, which will be hitting stores this summer from Oni Press, is the first time the EC Comics line is offering a standalone, serialized horror series. Its seed was the short story “Blood Type” in Epitaphs from the Abyss, and now writer Corinna Bechko has the opportunity to expand on what she created. Cemetery Dance spoke with Bechko about how Blood Type is getting its own series, why she feels at home in horror, and what it’s like working on an EC property.Continue Reading

Derek Charm’s Toxic Summer

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 1, 2024April 30, 2024The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Derek Charm, Interviews, Oni Press, The Comic Vault, Toxic SummerLeave a comment

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cover of Toxic Summer #1 Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Derek Charm is mixing horror with humor in his new comic, Toxic Summer, and its first issue drops on May 1 from Oni Press. High school graduates and friends Ben and Leo are expecting a great summer as lifeguards, but things go from bad to worse when there’s a toxic spill. Charm spoke to Cemetery Dance about his influences, the extremes of horror and humor, and what he hopes readers take away from his newest work. Continue Reading

Exclusive Excerpt: LIGHTS from Brenna Thummler and Oni Press

Cemetery Dance OnlineSeptember 5, 2023September 2, 2023Book Excerpts, The Comic VaultBrenna Thummler, Columns, Danica Davidson, Excerpt, Lights, Oni Press, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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Lights, the final graphic novel in the Sheets trilogy, is being released by Oni
Press on September 6. The stories follow Marjorie Glatt, ghost enthusiast
Eliza Duncan, and their ghost friend Wendell, who wants to know more about his past life.

As a special exclusive, Cemetery Dance is able to publish the following excerpt before publication day. Creator Brenna Thummler, who says that ghost stories were part of her daily routine growing up, said in an exclusive quote to Cemetery Dance, “Lights is the last step in the trilogy’s healing process, and proves that the best kind of self-growth is the lifting up of others rather than the lifting up of oneself.”Continue Reading

Horror/Western Hybrid THE SIXTH GUN Rides Again

Cemetery Dance OnlineJuly 3, 2023June 29, 2023The Comic VaultBrian Hurtt, Columns, Cullen Bunn, Danica Davidson, Kickstarter, Oni Press, The Comic Vault, The Sixth GunLeave a comment

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There is a lot of stuff going on with Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s comic series The Sixth Gun, including a Kickstarter for deluxe hardcover omnibus editions. This is the longest running creator-owned series released by Oni Press, and it mixes horror, fantasy and Westerns into a unique and popular story form. Both Bunn and Hurtt spoke to Cemetery Dance about their Kickstarter campaign, their upcoming Sixth Gun comics, and what it is they like about writing and drawing in the horror genre.Continue Reading

Review: Dead Dudes by Christopher Sebela and Ben Sears

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 10, 2023March 5, 2023Reviews, The Comic VaultBen Sears, Christopher Sebela, Columns, Dead Dudes, Joshua Gage, Oni Press, Reviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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cover of dead dudes Dead Dudes written by Christopher Sebela, illustrated by Ben Sears, colored by Ryan Hill and Warren Wucinich, lettered by Crank!
Oni Press (September 2020)
126 pages; $19.99 paperback
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Trev, Kent, and Brian, collectively known as Ghostbros, are three struggling television paranormal investigators. Their show is about to be cancelled due to low ratings. Their competitors, Parawarriors, are stealing their audience with their new gadgets and their ability to not just investigate ghosts, but actually fight them. To save their show, Trev forces Kent and Brian to go to the most haunted place he can imagine: Edgeway Penitentiary in rural Montana. The team gets there and, within hours, discover that not only are ghosts real, but they are willing to kill. That’s when the problems really being in the young adult graphic novel, Dead Dudes.Continue Reading

Review: Silk Hills by Brian Level and Ryan Ferrier

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 19, 2022May 16, 2022ReviewsBrian Level, Joshua Gage, Oni Press, Reviews, Ryan Ferrier, Silk Hills, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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Silk Hills by Brian Level and Ryan Ferrier
Oni Press (May 24, 2022)
176 pages; $24.99 hardcover
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Brian Level is a cartoonist, tattooer, and a writer who has contributed to premiere comic books including Star Wars, Batman, Spider-Man, Avengers and Deadpool. Ryan Ferrier is a Canadian comic book writer, published by every major North American comics company, and best known for his original comic series such as Kennel Block Blues, Death Orb, I Can Sell You A Body, the highly celebrated D4VE trilogy, and the acclaimed graphic novel Criminy. Ryan has also written for some of pop culture’s most beloved properties, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Marvel’s Deadpool, DC’s Batman, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, G.I. Joe, and Planet of the Apes. Their newest graphic novel is Silk Hills, a really strong paranormal horror story that is sure to entertain readers.Continue Reading

Review: ‘The Damned Vol. 1: Three Days Dead’ by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt and Bill Crabtree

Cemetery Dance OnlineJuly 17, 2017July 16, 2017ReviewsBill Crabtree, Brian Hurtt, Cullen Bunn, Joshua Gage, Oni Press, Reviews, The Damned Volume 1Leave a comment

The Damned Vol. 1: Three Days Dead by Cullenn Bunn, Brian Hurtt and Bill Crabtree
Oni Press (March 2017)
152 pages, $9.99 paperback; $1.99 e-book
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

The Damned Volume 1: Three Days Dead can only be described as horror noir. It’s set during prohibition, when mobsters and criminal organizations build fortune peddling vice to the citizens of the city. However, those sins are controlled not by human gangsters, but by rival families of demons. The long-standing feud between two of the families is about the come to an end thanks to a brokered deal to consolidate power. But before things can be finalized, the bookkeeper tasked to brokering the deal is kidnapped along with a ledger that could spell doom for all the families.Continue Reading

Review: 'Blood Feud' #1 by Cullen Bunn, Drew Moss and Nick Filardi

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 2, 2015Reviews, The Comic VaultBlood Feud, Blu Gilliand, Comics, Cullen Bunn, Drew Moss, Featured, Nick Filardi, Oni Press, ReviewsLeave a comment

Blood Feud #1 by Cullen Bunn (W), Drew Moss (A), and Nick Filardi (C)
Oni Press (October 7, 2015)
$3.99
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

A lot of people are going to look at the variant cover of Blood Feud #1 – the one modeled after the poster for the original Friday the 13th movie – and assume it’s a slasher series. I know I did. And while it’s definitely a horror book, there’s a lot more going on than a psycho stalker in a mask.Continue Reading

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