February, 2009
Video: Fresh Ink Online With Gerard Wayl 2/1/09
Feb. 1, 2009
Special guest host Gerard Way discusses his favorite comics on this week's Fresh Ink Online. Read More...
The Latest Bettie Page Products Arrive from Dark Horse 2/2/09
Feb. 1, 2009
Dark Horse is proud to announce the latest line of products based on the pop-culture phenomenon -- Bettie Page. Read More...
Enter the Dark Horse/Fangoria Horror Contest 2/3/09
Feb. 2, 2009
Fangoria's Comic Screams has teamed up with Dark Horse to give readers a look at some of the best horror comics and anthologies available anywhere. Even better, they're giving readers a chance to WIN copies of some favorites from the ever-growing DARK HORSE library! Read More...
The Biggest Names in Crime Comics Make a Killing with Noir 2/6/09
Feb. 6, 2009
Noir -- Bleak tales of murder and deceit have long been a staple of film and pulp fiction, introducing audiences to private dicks, femmes fatales, conflicted criminals, and a verbal and visual style that would come to be known as “noir.” With comics riding a crime fiction renaissance, Dark Horse presents <i>Noir</i>, a pitch-black anthology of original stories representing the best -- and darkest -- of the genre. Read More...
Acclaimed Comic Creators Make Horror a Family Affair with Pixu: The Mark of Evil 2/6/09
Feb. 6, 2009
“<i>The story telling [in</i> Pixu<i>] is beautiful, creating a real sense of dread and supernatural menace. Smart, subtle and genuinely disturbing.”—Mike Mignola, creator of</i> Hellboy Read More...
Best-selling Author Jane Yolen comes to Dark Horse 2/6/09
Feb. 6, 2009
Jane Yolen, the best-selling author <i>Newsweek</i> called “The Hans Christian Andersen of America,” comes to Dark Horse with her upcoming graphic novel <i>The Last Dragon</i>. Painted by legendary fantasy artist Rebecca Guay, <i>The Last Dragon</i> is a textured and lyrical story of adventure, homelands, and heroism the hard way. Read More...
Dark Horse Continues to Collect the Best Comics on the Web with the Release of Sinfest! 2/6/09
Feb. 6, 2009
“The webcomic to end all webcomics” has landed at Dark Horse! <i>Sinfest</i> is one of the most-read and longest-running webcomics out there, exploring religion, advertising, sex, and politics in a way fleen.com calls “both brutally funny and devastatingly on-target.” In an era when many syndicated newspaper strips are watered down and uninspired, creator Tatsuya Ishida draws on influences ranging from <i>Calvin and Hobbes</i> and <i>Peanuts</i> to manga and pop culture to bring us a fresh take on familiar concepts. Web traffic on Sinfest.net averages 1.7 million unique visitors per month and 300,000 page hits per day. Read More...
Vogster and Dark Horse Comics Partner to Unleash Unbound Saga Video Game and Comic-Book Series 2/6/09
Feb. 6, 2009
Unbound Saga <i>delivers “One-Two Punch” on the Sony PlayStation Portable™ (PSP) and in comic-book stores this June!</i Read More...
Werewolves and Vampires Duke It Out for Control of the Moon . . . Finally! 2/6/09
Feb. 6, 2009
Over the years, Dark Horse Comics has brought you only the best in monster-versus-monster showdowns. You gasped at <i>Aliens vs. Predator</i>. You screamed in terror at <i>Godzilla vs. Barkley</i>. And now, Dark Horse is proud to present the pinnacle of monster-versus-monster comics -- <i>Werewolves on the Moon: Versus Vampires</i>! Read More...
Whedon's Tales of the Vampires Resurrected with Fresh Blood 2/7/09
Feb. 6, 2009
In 2004, <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i> creator Joss Whedon reunited with writers from his hit TV show and delivered a twelve-issue comic series telling the stories of different vampires throughout time -- <i>Tales of the Vampires</i>. Now, nearly five years later, Whedon welcomes two of the brightest rising stars in the art world, Becky Cloonan (<i>American Virgin</i>) and Vasilis Lolos (<i>Last Call</i>), into the Buffyverse with a <i>Tales of the Vampire</i> one-shot. Read More...