Mike Howlett

The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds Mike Howlett

Brief Description: Gory, prurient, and dangerous, this is the story of the most maligned comics in the history of the medium. Brief Description: "A Feral House original hardcover"--T.p. verso. Marc Notes: Includes Ajax/Farrell index and new art master list. Publisher Marketing: Eerie Publications' horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America's newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values lent an air of danger to every issue, daring you to look at (and purchase) them."The Weird of World of Eerie Publications" introduces the reader to Myron Fass, the gun-toting megalomaniac publisher who, with tyranny and glee, made a career of fishing pocketbook change from young readers with the most insidious sort of exploitation. You'll also meet Carl Burgos, who, as editor of Eerie Publications, ground his axe against the entire comics industry. Slumming comic art greats and unknown hacks were both employed by Eerie to plagiarize the more inspired work of pre-Code comic art of the 1950s. Somehow these lowbrow abominations influenced a generation of artists who proudly blame career choices (and mental problems) on Eerie Publications. One of them, Stephen R. Bissette ("Swamp Thing," "Taboo," "Tyrant"), provides the introduction for this volume. Here's the sordid background behind this mysterious comics publisher, featuring astonishingly red reproductions of many covers and the most spectacularly creepy art. Review Citations:

New York Times Book Review 02/20/2011 pg. 15 (EAN 9781932595871, Hardcover)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 752 (EAN 9781932595871, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Bissette, Stephen R Stephen R. Bissette is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and publisher. He is best-known for Saga of the Swamp Thing, Taboo, '1963, ' Tyrant, and co-creating John Constantine. Bissette also illustrates books and has authored fiction and non-fiction.