Fiona Staples shares her process steps for the cover of the upcoming Criminal Macabre One-Shot: No Peace for Dead Men by Steve Niles. 1. Here are a few cover concepts that I sent off to Steve Niles and Scott Allie for this special one-shot. Steve had mentioned that he’d like to include the Nova, the villainous Salem, and lots of monsters on the cover, so all of these have the car front and center and the witch looming in the background. Both Steve and Scott liked sketch #3 best! 2. This is what my cover pencils look like—fairly crude! The line art all gets painted over in the end anyway. I start out by blocking in colors and shadows like this, to establish a simple palette. 3. The finished...
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Can't wait to get your hands on the new Criminal Macabre One-Shot? We understand. That's why we have this awesome opportunity. Join us for a Live Chat with creator Steve Niles on Twitter! Steve Niles will be hanging out on Twitter this Thursday, Sept. 1st at 11am PT/2pm ET for an hour taking questions from fans about Cal McDonald and his adventures. Get insight into the upcoming Criminal Macabre: No Peace for Dead Men One-Shot! Don't miss this opportunity to talk with Steve Niles! Join us and you could win a copy of Criminal Macabre Omnibus Vol. 1 Join the conversation and ask your questions using the Twitter Hashtag #CriminalMacabre...
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Hey Digital Denizens! This week brings you a host of BPRD and Star Wars, Goon and Mr. Hyde and special adventures into the Fast-Food culture. Don't miss the Digital release of Supersized! Supersized: Strange Tales From A Fast-Food Culture Don't have the App? You can Download it for Free! As Always, make sure to visit Digital.Darkhorse.com weekly for more great sales and offers. On Sale Now! - 08/03/11 B.P.R.D.: The Warning #1-#5 Bundle B.P.R.D.: The Warning #1 B.P.R.D.: The Warning #2 B.P.R.D.: The Warning #3 B.P.R.D.: The Warning #4 B.P.R.D.: The Warning #5 Doctor Solar®, Man of the Atom #7 The Goon #13 Hellboy: The Fury #2 Solomon Kane: Red Shadows Bundle Solomon Kane: Red Shadows #4 Speak of the Devil Bundle Speak of...
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Hey Digital Denizens! Get ready for an amazing month of Digital releases. We've got a whole treasure trove of Star Wars books coming your way and don't miss out on these callout titles from each week: Supersized, Star Wars: Invasion - Revelations, RIPD, Hellboy: The Fury #3, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. Don't have the App? You can Download it for Free! As Always, make sure to visit Digital.Darkhorse.com weekly for more great sales and offers. Release Date: 08/03/11 *Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture Doctor Solar #7 Hellboy: The Fury #2 Solomon Kane: Red Shadows # 4 Speak of the Devil 1-6 Star Wars: Legacy 1-4 Star Wars: Jedi - The Dark Side #3 Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Shipyards of Doom The...
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Get Yours! Oh yes, it’s Comic-Con season, and that means it’s time for . . . Stuff We Always Get! AKA: SWAG When you make your way to the Dark Horse Comics booth at San Diego Comic-Con, expect nothing but the best in treatment and appreciation from the comic publisher with the most! You’ll find . . . —Buffy, The Goon, and Mass Effect trifolds complete with paper dolls —Conan, Domo, Buffy, Angel & Faith, The Guild, Clamp, The Goon, Star Wars, B.P.R.D., and Criminal Macabre buttons —A Drifters/Gate 7 flip poster —The ever-popular Hellboy mask —A picture of yourself in your favorite comic(s) at our Deluxe Green Screen wall —Falling Skies pins at the Falling Skies...
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Hey Digital Denizens! It's the Digital Store Weekend Sale! All single issue Hellboy Comics from: Seed of Destruction, Wake the Devil, Almost Colossus and Box Full of Evil are only $ .99 today, tomorrow and Sunday. Get to the Digital Store now and don't miss these origin tales of HELLBOY. This Summer, Hellboy Goes to War! Also, Don't forget you can get 17 Hellboy Comics for $20 in this Hellboy MegaBundle!...
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Check out the awesome Variant Covers coming out in July! July 6th, 2011 Solomon Kane: Red Shadows #4 Gregory Manchess Cover Solomon Kane: Red Shadows #4 Guy Davis Cover July 13th, 2011 B.P.R.D. : Hell On Earth - Monsters #1 Francesco Francavilla Cover B.P.R.D. : Hell On Earth - Monsters #1 Ryan Sook Cover Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1 Fiona Staples Cover Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1 Phil Noto Cover Star Wars: Invasion - Revelations #1 Dave Dorman Cover Star Wars: Invasion - Revelations #1 Chris Scalf Cover July 20th, 2011 Criminal Macabre/The Goon: When Freaks Collide Eric Powell Cover Criminal Macabre/The Goon: When Freaks Collide Fiona Staples Cover...
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Hey Digital Denizens! It's the Digital Store Weekend Sale! All single issue Criminal Macabre Comics are only $ .99 today, tomorrow and Sunday. Get to the Digital Store now and don't miss Steve Niles' great series. Horror never looked this good....
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Hello Dark Horse fans! Tuesday has come! It's a new week! And we've had quite the smattering of announcements over the past seven days, here's your chance to play catch up! If you've got five minutes, I've got some awesome news to share with you! Free Comic Book Day Unless you've been living under a rock for the past ten years, you know that Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday in May (since 2002). Dark Horse Comics had some excellent titles to share with the world, including a Baltimore/Criminal Macabre flipbook, along with a Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender/Star Wars: Clone Wars book for our younger readers! These had huge amounts of draw in comic book stores across the nation and everyone was scrambling to pick up our...
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If you missed out on picking up your Free Comic Book Day comics at your local comic-book store, you can get them from Dark Horse Digital for a limited time! Downloads will be available starting Wednesday, May 11, and run through the end of the month! Just hop on any computer or Mac iOS device (iPod, iPad, iPhone), go to Digital.DarkHorse.com, and download the free Dark Horse Comics bookshelf app! Both Criminal Macabre/Baltimore and Avatar: The Last Airbender/Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be available for free download! Make sure you check out these awesome titles from Dark Horse and support Free Comic Book Day! Ten years in the running!...
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STEVE NILES’S GREATEST MONSTER MEETS ERIC POWELL’S GOON IN WHEN FREAKS COLLIDE AND FACES PERHAPS HIS GRAVEST THREAT IN NO PEACE FOR DEAD MEN. Cal McDonald’s drug-fueled bravado has entertained fans of horror comics and novels alike. His antics have made for some of the most entertaining blood-soaked noir either medium has ever seen. This year, he returns to comics in two exciting one-shots, each packed with vampires, werewolves, and every other kind of monster the world of supernatural fiction has to offer. To start, he will come face to face with another of Dark Horse’s most well-known antiheroes, Eric Powell’s Goon. These bull-headed bruisers will share panels in an all-new story, When Freaks Collide,...
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In celebration of the triumphant return of our flagship title, Dark Horse Presents, we announce another classic comeback: comics’ favorite alcoholic supernatural detective, Cal McDonald! Following up on yesterday’s announcement of two omnibus collections of all of the previously published Criminal Macabre material, we announce that Cal McDonald will appear in issue #4 of Dark Horse Presents! While “Die Die My Darling” starts out as many of Cal’s recent adventures do--finding our “hero” at odds with his ghoulish sidekick, Mo’Lock--things are far from ordinary on this quiet night in Los Angeles. After a mysterious man unbuttons his coat and offers the duo a case, it becomes...
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Leading off a week of announcements related to the return of comics’ favorite supernatural detective, Dark Horse announces two volumes of Cal McDonald’s illustrated adventures. In 2003, Steve Niles, creator of the 30 Days of Night comics, launched a series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping, alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, possessed muscle cars, mad scientists, werewolves, and much more weirdness! “The first time Cal McDonald saw print was back in 1990,” said creator Steve Niles. “It took another thirteen years to launch what would become Criminal Macabre, and that...
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You'e probably already heard our news about Free Comic Book Day 2011, but that's just the tip of the iceberg of awesome! Here's Dark Horse Editor Scott Allie with a little more info about FCBD 2011! Enjoy! I really pushed to get our horror books in front of people for Free Comic Book Day. While there's epic changes afoot in Hellboy, we also have big upcoming plans for Mignola's Baltimore, and the FCBD story is a great intro to that. Niles and Criminal Macabre were away for a while, so we wanted to make this a strong comeback year. Steve's showing you everything fun about the series in eight pages—monsters, mayhem, humor, and drug abuse. We'll follow it up with the crossover with Eric Powell's The Goon, and then another Cal oneshot...
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The final volume of the grand experiment that was Myspace Dark Horse Presents is in stores now! Here's Senior Editor Scott Allie with a little more about the end of this fan-favorite series. The final volume of Myspace Dark Horse Presents is on sale, and it features a little bit of all the stuff that makes Dark Horse great. We’ve got a new Mass Effect story written by Mac Walters, writer of the video game, and LeVar Burton of Star Trek: Next Gen fame makes his funny-book debut—two sci-fi superstars that Dark Horse brought to comics. Dark Horse Originals, our line of comics-lit graphic novels, is represented by Jaime Hernandez and Gabriel Ba. Dark Horse’s commitment to the horror genre is on display with occult-romance...
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