Creepshow è uno dei più famosi franchise horror della storia. Il film originale – diretto da George A. Romero e scritto da Stephen King, creatori del brand – nacque come omaggio ai fumetti dell’orrore degli anni '50 della EC Comics, e diede vita a una lunga serie di opere appartenenti a diversi media. Oggi Creepshow, dopo essere recentemente tornato sugli schermi TV come serie firmata da Greg Nicotero, rinasce e torna al fumetto grazie a una serie antologica prodotta dalla Skybound di Robert Kirkman e caratterizzata da storie autoconclusive che brillano della stessa ironia horrorifica delle opere originali. A realizzarle sono stati chiamati talenti come Paul Dini, John McCrea, Kelley Jones, Chris Burnham, David Lapham e molti altri ancora.
Una raccolta di sorprendenti storie da leggere con le luci accese... se non volete che lo zio Creepy venga a visitare i vostri sogni!
Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond and Duck Dodgers. He also developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to Animaniacs (he created Minerva Mink), Freakazoid, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. After leaving Warner Bros. In early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost.
Paul Dini was born in New York City. He attended the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California on an art scholarship. He attended Emerson College in Boston, where he earned a BFA degree in creative writing. (He also took zoology classes at Harvard University.)
During college, he began doing freelance animation scripts for Filmation, and a number of other studios. In 1984, he was hired to work for George Lucas on several of his animation projects.
The episodes of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon that were written by Dini have become favorites amongst the show's fans over the internet, although despite this as well as contributing to interviews on the released box sets of the series, Dini has made no secret of his distaste for Filmation and the He-Man concept. He also wrote an episode of the Generation One Transformers cartoon series and contributed to various episodes of the Ewoks animated series, several of which included rare appearances from the Empire.
In 1989, he was hired at Warner Bros. Animation to work on Tiny Toon Adventures. Later, he moved onto Batman: The Animated Series, where he worked as a writer, producer and editor, later working on Batman Beyond. He continued working with WB animation, working on a number of internal projects, including Krypto the Superdog and Duck Dodgers, until 2004.
He has earned five Emmy awards for his animation work. In a related effort, Dini was also the co-author (with Chip Kidd) of Batman Animated, a 1998 non-fiction coffee table book about the animated Batman franchise.
Dini has also written several comics stories for DC Comics, including an acclaimed oversized graphic novel series illustrated by painter Alex Ross. (A hardcover collection of the Dini and Ross stories was published in late summer 2005 under the title The World's Greatest Superheroes.) Other books written by Dini for DC have featured his Batman Animated creation Harley Quinn as well as classic characters Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Zatanna.
Best known among Dini's original creations is Jingle Belle, the rebellious teen-age daughter of Santa Claus. Dini also created Sheriff Ida Red, the super-powered cowgirl star of a series of books set in Dini's mythical town of Mutant, Texas. Perhaps his greatest character contribution is the introduction of Harley Quinn (along with designs by Bruce Timm) on Batman: The Animated Series.
In 2001 Dini made a cameo appearance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back during the scene in which Jay and Silent Bob wear ridiculous looking costumes for a film being directed by Chris Rock, in which Dini says to them "you guys look pretty bad ass".
In 2006, Dini became the writer for DC Comics' Detective Comics. That same year, he announced that he was writing a hardcover graphic novel starring Zatanna and Black Canary. In 2007, he was announced as the head writer of that company's weekly series, Countdown. Paul Dini is currently co-writing the script for the upcoming Gatchaman movie. Dini is also currently writing a series for Top Cow Productions, based in a character he created, Madame Mirage.
Paul Dini is an active cryptozoologist, hunter and wildlife photographer. On a 1985 trip to Tasmania, he had a possible sighting of a Thylacine. He has also encountered a number of venomous snakes, a Komodo Dragon and a charging Sumatran Rhi
A homage to the horror comics of the 1950s and 1960s - quite good.
Very much in the spirit of the horror comics of last century, these short stories encompass all aspects of horror from vampires to other ghosts and ghouls. The artwork varies naturally from artist to artist but generally the illustrations are clear, detailed and colourful. Thew writing is usually good but there's nothing really new here - it's all been done before. It's still entertaining and good for a new younger audience. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Quando l'ho visto sullo scaffale della fumetteria mi si è fermato il cuore e, all'improvviso, tenendolo tra le man, sono ritornata la bambina che tremava deliziata guardando il film "Creepshow". Fumetto molto bello, da leggere assolutamente.