EEEK!

Eeek! #1-5

by Jason Paulos, Aly Fell (Artist), Frank Forte (Editor)

This retro-style anthology of all-new horror tales is guaranteed to give you the eeries and the creepies! Taking a pinch of black humour from EC comics and mixing it with the art stylings of House of Mystery and Warrencomics, EEEK! blends a heady broth that hits you like a burning incensestick to the retina. Jason Paulos delivers the goods with over 15 tales of revenge, zombies, vampires, ghouls and monsters. Each tale drawn in a different style reminiscent of the B&W horror mags of the 70's and 80's. In 'Deadline of Death' we witness rival comic artists dabbling with malevolent forces that arrive in the form of a chain smoking goatee wearing Satan. In Lights! Camera! Murder!, A lovesick starlet and a ruthless film director embark on a doomed love affair that ends in pieces! In "Easy Prey" A helpless girl, lost in the wilderness ... but is she all that she seems? In "Head Trip" a hippie's love for music goes horribly wrong. A must for fans of horror comics!

Genres: Graphic Novels

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2010

Reviews

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is a love letter to the B&W horror comic magazines of the 60s and 70s, specifically Creepy and Eerie, but you could also include Nightmare, Psycho, and others. As far as the stories go, most are tepid, but honestly a lot of the stories in the original magazines were as well. The strength here is the art, as it truly invokes memories of the stories to which this series is paying tribute. If you enjoy these type of horror magazines, this is worth checking out for the nostalgia alone.

[Kris Shaw · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eeek! is a black and white Horror anthology comic book. What you have here is homage to the point of being so convincing that it becomes authentic in it's own right. Jason Paulos holds Creepy and Eerie in such high esteem and has learned every nuance and technique. If you presented a tattered, aged copy of these stories to someone, they'd be hard pressed to not believe that they were originally published in the early '70s.

Paulos is a one man show, and to give this series a true anthology feel, he employs countless art techniques. He's either a chameleon or schizophrenic...possibly both. Some of his styles are close to the EC greats, others are less illustrious. All of them are well written and possess that wry black humor that made those old school Horror comic books so much fun. This book is definitely worth a read if you can find it.