Showing posts with label Web of Horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web of Horror. Show all posts

Saturday, November 12, 2022

The Complete Web of Horror

 Web of Horror only lasted for three issues, but what a run it was. The black and white horror comic magazine featured the talents of Bernie Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Mike Kaluta, Frank Brunner, Ralph Reese and others.

Stories from these issues have been reprinted across various books collecting the work of the individual artists or later horror comic anthologies. But here is the chance to own a hardcover collection of all three issues PLUS previously unpublished stories from the never published issue #4 and stories destined for the magazine that saw print elsewhere.

There's also informative introductions and historical material.

AND if you pledge $100 (all the money going to pay royalties to the creators and their estates) you get the hardcover book, a slipcase, a bookplate signed by Mike Kaluta, and a set of Web of Horror bookmarks. For a $30 pledge you can get a set of Web of Horror postcards.

The book will be published by Fantagraphics, but only if the money can be raised to pay the royalties. As of this writing there's only seven left of the package that includes the book. Please pledge to this worthwhile project now! Pledge at the link below.

The Complete Web of Horror Indiegogo Page

UPDATE: Goal has been met and all books with slipcases and signed bookplate have been sold. Some postcard sets still available. You will be able to purchase the regular book from Fantagraphics in 2023.

 





 

The Complete Web of Horror Indiegogo Page.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Bernie Wrightson: The Monster Jar

The original art for Bernie Wrightson's 1970 unpublished story "The Monster Jar" is for sale on Heritage Auctions website. The story was intended for the never-published fourth issue of Web of Horror.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Web of Horror Art Contest


The third issue of Web of Horror (1970)featured an art contest. Readers were invited to fill in the blank on the operating table with a monster of their imagining. Below is Bernie Wrightson's art as it appeared in the magazine, and below that is a scan of the original art with Wrightson's creature in all its glory.







Thursday, June 25, 2009

Bernie Wrightson: Out on a Limb!

"Out on a Limb!" was originally published in I'll Be Damned #4 (January 1971). Bernie Wrightson drew the story in 1970 and shows some more maturity and individual style than his earlier fanzine work. The Frazetta influence is not as evident and there more of a smoothness and confidence than in his 1969 and 1970 short efforts for DC's mystery titles. That may be because of the better reproduction in this black and white story.

"Out on a Limb!" has been reprinted in The Mutants and The Reaper of Love. It was also reprinted in a butchered form in the British magazine Hammer's House of Horror #21 under the title "One Too Many."

I've included at the end of this post Wrightson's cover for the never-published Web of Horror #4. It's possible this story was intended for that magazine.