Cullen Bunn's Blog

Two of my creator-owned books are going into second printings!

Unearth, which came out this week is sold out at the distributor level. A second printing (Diamond Code MAY198071) will hit comic shops on Wednesday, August 7. The final order cutoff for comic shop retailers is Monday, July 15.

Even though it doesn’t get released until the end of the month, Knights Temporal #1 has sold out ahead of release. AfterShock has announced that the debut issue will get a second printing. The second printing can be ordered with Diamond code MAY199157.

Pleased to announce that I’m writing my second Valiant Entertainment book–ROKU–which releases in October!

Roku is perhaps the deadliest assassin in the Valiant Universe, and this is her first solo series. I’m sending her on a globe-trotting adventure where she will not get a chance to catch her breath. This is The Killer meets Hard-Boiled meets Replacement Killers meets John Wick… with psychic assassins.

Comic Book Resources just posted a brief interview about the book along with some preview pages!

Check it out HERE.

This week, UNEARTH #1 comes out from Image Comics. UNEARTH is a subterranean horror story written by Kyle Strahm and myself and illustrated by Baldemar Rivas. Check out THIS INTERVIEW for a little taste of what the book is all about!

Later this month, KNIGHTS TEMPORAL hits the stands! Check out this interview I did with Syfy Wire for some secrets about the book and some cool preview pages! Check it out HERE!

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As you may have heard, I’m writing the new PUNK MAMBO series for Valiant. The series launches in April, but there are interviews rolling out right now! Check out this Comiccon.com interview with my editor Lysa Hawkin and myself! 

“This January, the Archie Horror line expands with Blossoms 666 from writer Cullen Bunn, artist Laura Braga, colorist Matt Herms, and letterer Jack Morelli. The five-issue mini-series follows the wealthy and popular Jason and Cheryl Blossom as you know and love them…except one of them is the Anti-Christ. Both of them are fighting for the title and no one in Riverdale is safe.”

Read more about Blossoms 666 at the link !

“The CW has put in development Super Clean, a dramedy based on the upcoming graphic novel, from GLOW co-executive producer Sascha Rothchild and CBS TV Studios. The comic,  SuperCLEAN, was created by Heath Amodio and Cullen Bunn.”

Learn more at the link!

“Dynamite Entertainment announced today the creative team of Cullen Bunn (Pumpkinhead, Deadpool) and Blacky Shepherd (Pumpkinhead, Voltron) will be squaring off two horror icons this winter with  It’s vampire versus mad scientist in a battle that threatens to tear the gates of the underworld asunder!”

Read more at this link!

As a kid, I often went fishing at the creek with my old man. He had a nice fishing boat, lots of expensive rods and reels, and he often took the family out on ocean fishing excursions. But he still liked taking old fashioned cane poles out to the creek to fish for catfish. I went with him frequently. (One of his favorite fishing spots was near a country club, and we often squeezed through a break in the fence and snuck across the golf course to get there.) For some reason, I always took a big stack of horror comics with me to read on the muddy bank. House of Mystery, Ghosts, House of Secrets, Creepy, Eerie, Haunted Library, you name it. I never brought superhero books. Only horror tales seemed right while sitting in the eerie, early morning light. I loved those anthologies so much. They absolutely played a big role in the writer I would become.

Over the past couple of decades, I’ve written many short horror stories. Many of those stories were collected in the book A PASSAGE IN BLACK from Omaha Bound. That

book, if you haven’t read it yet, has some of my earliest work in it, but I wanted to showcase everything so readers could see who I am and where I came from.

And now—right here!—I’m announcing that my love of horror comic anthologies and my love of horror short fiction is coming together like peanut butter and jelly! In just a couple

of weeks, I will be launching a Kickstarter for CULLEN BUNN PRESENTS: A PASSAGE IN BLACK! This book will feature comic book adaptations of some of my short horror stories from the prose collection. I have brought together an amazing group of writers and artists to bring these stories to life. Just check out the list!

Cindy Bunn and Baldemar Rivas – “Why Sing the Sirens”

Kevin Watkins and Adam McLaughlin – “School for the Dead”

Anton Kromoff and Bob Freeman – “Dance, Dance, Upon the Night of the Ball”

Heath Amodio and Daniele Sera – “Last Night of the Fair”

Josh Roberts and David Moscati – “Feast of Crows”

JimmyZ Johnston and Isaac Crawford – “Piasa Dreams”

Jeff Lawler and Fran Strukan – “Still Waters”

AE Steuve and Arjuna Susini – “For Her Love”

Sonica Ellis and Rowan MacColl – “Someday Dolls”

Tim Mayer – “A Passage in Black”

And yours truly working with Marcos Marz on something new!

With special appearances by Blacky Shepherd!

A logo designed by the Kucharek Brothers!

And a cover by Kyle Strahm!

Omaha Bound is once again helping with the design and printing of the project, so I’m confident it is going to be a fantastic book!

I want this book to represent amazing talent that readers might not be familiar with, and I think these folks have accomplished something amazing. They took these prose stories and ran with them. They made them their own and did something special with them.

And here’s some more exciting news. Assuming the Kickstarter, which launches around the first of October, is successful, I plan on making this an annual project. The next volume, though, will feature all new stories by the various collaborators (and myself). This will be a way for me to contribute to the legacy of horror anthology comics in my own way. CULLEN BUNN PRESENTS A PASSAGE IN BLACK is my Creepy, my Eerie.

I really think we’re on the verge of something exciting here. All the stories are written. All the art should be complete by the end of September. I hope you will all join me on this journey! Stay tuned for the official launch-day announcement!

Cullen Bunn and Mark Torres’ Cold Spots#1 is out now from Image and Tripwire’s editor-in-chief Joel Meadows spoke to Bunn recently about the new series read more at the link!