Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have lifted the veil on Tortured Hearts 2 #1 – the next tenderly terrifying tome of romance gone dangerously awry hitting store shelves everywhere in January!! Just a few weeks before Valentine’s Day, the infectiously infamous EC Comics is putting it all out there with our latest 56-page, splatter de spectacular celebrating heart- ripping, artery-spurting tales that’ll really get your blood pumping! New relationship got you down? Marital woes weighing too heavy? Here’s some free advice: Sometimes you just need to cut things off—so better start hacking, heh heh!
Join us as we officiate this year’s crop of tenderly terrifying tales with a robust cast of hopelessly deranged romantics left waiting at the altar: Michael W. Conrad, Melissa Flores, Sarah Gailey, Malachi Ward, Ryan Kelly, Sami Kivelä, Jenna Cha, and more surprise blind dates!
We demand justice for the jilted! Get ready to be lovelorn, lonely, and lusting for blood as we grab St. Cupid’s arrow and start twisting in EC’s most frantic collection of sinful symphonies yet! Accept your most volatile valentine of all time when Tortured Hearts 2 #1 arrives in comic shops everywhere on January 27th – featuring horrifically heartbreaking covers from Dustin Weaver, Reiko Murakami, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!
In advance of New York Comic-Con 2026, Oni Press has announced Citizen: Stardust #1 (of 12), the intense and enthralling FIRST ISSUE of a new, prestige maxi-series debuting in April 2027 from Eisner Award nominee Dave Baker and acclaimed artist Malachi Ward! Co-written by Baker and Ward and illustrated by Ward with color art by multiple Eisner Award winner Dave Stewart, Citizen: Stardust #1 reimagines Golden Age cartoonist Fletcher Hanks’ once-forgotten, psycho-surrealist superhero – STARDUST THE SUPER WIZARD – as the fading pop culture mainstay of an alternate America, where the aging actor behind the character’s rise to superstardom is about to discover the terrifying secrets behind his cinematic alter ego…
In 1947, no Hollywood star shined more brightly than Barclay Flagg – the rugged and cocksure leading man better known to an adoring public as Stardust, post-war America’s first and most bankable on-screen superhero. Across dozens of films, serials, and radio shows, he entertained millions in Stardust’s hyper-violent, cinematic spectacles – until an attempted assassination by a crazed fan ended his once-luminous career with a bullet. Twisted by pain, excess, and unfailing ego in the decades since, Flagg’s decaying, Los Angeles mansion – and the fallen star within it – have become rotting effigies of their former selves … until a fortuitous and well-timed invitation arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep. Barclay Flagg has been invited to join The Institute – an experimental arts retreat dedicated to advancing innovation through radical creativity. It’s here that Barclay Flagg can finally craft the long-gestating STARDUST masterpiece he’s always dreamt of making. He can restore his reputation. He can rekindle his celebrity. He can finally save the day. With a near-unlimited budget and an obsessive crew of fellow Institute creators dedicated to bringing his vision to life, Flagg is about to discover that some dreams are too good to be true … and that the two-dimensional comic book hero inside him could never, ever be truly locked away. The Golden Age is over. The time of Stardust shall soon begin.
Created by writer/artist Fletcher Hanks in the pages of Fox Comics’ Fantastic Comics #1 in 1939, the original Stardust The Super-Wizard was one of a handful of colorfully disturbing Hanks creations typified by their seemingly unintentional collision of sadistic violence and maniacally amplified characterization that, when combined, gave the impression of a four-color champion who was more surrealist icon than traditional superhero. Appearing in less than 20 stories across Hanks’ brief, two-year sojourn as a cartoonist, Stardust was largely forgotten – along with rest of his creator’s oeuvre – until he was rediscovered by editor Paul Karasik, who gathered the first substantial appreciation of Hanks’ work in 2007’s Eisner Award-winning collection I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets. Little is known of what became of Hanks following his departure from the comics industry in 1941; after decades of presumed substance abuse, he was discovered dead on a New York City park bench in 1976. Despite their one-time exile in obscurity, STARDUST and his fellow Hanks creations endure as transgressive comic book icons, all cut from the same impossibly singular mold.
Don’t miss Citizen: Stardust writer Dave Baker at Oni Press’s panel at New York Comic Con on Friday, October 9, 2026 between 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM in North-Room S 406.1—also featuring creators George Northy (Yuletide), Caitlin Yarsky (Dead Teenagers), Oliver Mertz (A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts), Ryan O’Sullivan (Judge Dredd / Biker Mice from Mars), and Michael E. Uslan (BATMAN producer) alongside Oni Press editors Karl Bollers and Bess Pallares.
Citizen: Stardust #1 (of 12) will arrive in comic shops everywhere in April 2027.
Angel Unzueta; Mike Feehan; Ramon Rosanas, Marcus To
You’ve read the series, now revel in the art that brought to life the critically acclaimed and award-winning Star Trek and Defiant comic series!
Star Trek and Defiant have woven a story consisting of 65 issues’ worth of comics into one interconnected epic. This art book gives you an in-depth look into what made it all possible, focusing on cover art, concept art, and final interior art. Also included are interviews with a select number of artists talking about their process and what makes Star Trek special for them.
Artists include Ramon Rosanas, Francesco Francavilla, Declan Shalvey, Rachael Stott, Malachi Ward, JK Woodward, Liana Kangas, Ángel Unzueta, Angel Hernandez, Marcus To, Megan Levens, and more. In total, over 65 artists are highlighted for their contributions to the series!
THIS MARCH, EC COMICS’ CATACOMB OF TORMENT PROUDLY USHERS A HORROR ICON INTO ITS HALLOWED HALLS! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have announced that award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and comics legend Joe R. Lansdale is joining the ranks of EC Comics’ blood-spattered luminaries with an all-new story, “Picture Perfect,” debuting in March’s Catacomb of Torment #9 alongside Eisner Award-winning artist David Lapham.
The winner of 11 prestigious Bram Stoker Awards, the American Horror Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Edgar Award, Joe R. Lansdale’s career has spanned more than four decades across 50 novels, multiple feature films and television series, and countless short stories and comic books. Known as one of the formative pioneers of the “weird western” genre – wryly colliding classic American gunslinging with mutants, monsters, and Lovecraftian horror – Lansdale is perhaps most frequently recognized for his instant-classic reimagining of the DC Comics anti-hero Jonah Hex (alongside artist Timothy Truman) for the Vertigo imprint in the mid-1990s, as well as his creations Bubba Ho-Tep (subsequently adapted into the cult-hit feature film starring Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell) and his long-running Hap & Leonard series that now spans more than a dozen novels, novellas, and multiple anthologies.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CORPSES! On March 18th, welcome back to the endless maze of the Tormentor’s catacombs . . . where the flesh is freshly flayed and the worst is always yet to come! In the malevolent EC Comics manner, breathe in that acrid stench and prepare for three ribcage-thrumming tales of trepidation wrought from the gaping maws of its latest victims . . . ahem, contributors: Celeste Bronfman, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Joe R. Lansdale, David Lapham, Malachi Ward, and more, only in Catacomb of Torment #9 – featuring a murder of calamitous covers from artists Ariel Olivetti, Yanick Paquette, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!
(W) Daniel Noah, Chris Condon, Jim Perry (A) Dave Chisholm
Chicago, 1967. Magazine writer Harry Kean is dispatched to rural Indiana to investigate the sudden disappearance of Becky Plume, a local teenager who stepped into the national spotlight with staggering photographic evidence of a recent UFO sighting. Frustrated to leave his developing stories in Chicago — and the wife he’s hoping to win back — Harry sets off to expose a hoax but instead finds himself in a labyrinth of high strangeness involving a missing girl, her boyfriend, a UFO, and some mysterious black-clad visitors circling at the perimeter of a mystery more vast than Harry could possibly imagine.
Told across five interconnected, prestige-format issues that will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale, each chapter of HIGH STRANGENESS also includes a feature-length essay by podcaster and researcher Jim Perry (Euphomet) on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each issue.
Oni Press and SpectreVision have unveiled the next glimpse into High Strangeness – a five-part experiment in comic book storytelling influenced by real, documented cases of paranormal phenomena, revealing the liminal spaces where reality and hallucination and science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror. The first issue of the double-sized, prestige format journey into the unknown begins on October 8th withHigh Strangeness: Book One as writer, producer, and real-life experiencer Daniel Noah joins acclaimed writer Chris Condon and Ringo Award–winning artist Dave Chisholm for an unexpected encounter with the strange beings known as the Men in Black . . .
Chicago, 1967. Magazine writer Harry Kean has been dispatched to rural Indiana to investigate the sudden disappearance of Becky Plume, a local teenager who stepped into the national spotlight with staggering photographic evidence of a recent UFO sighting. Frustrated to leave his developing stories in Chicago—and the wife he’s hoping to win back—Harry sets off to expose a hoax but instead finds himself in a labyrinth of high strangeness involving a missing girl, her boyfriend, a UFO, and some mysterious black-clad visitors circling at the perimeter of a mystery more vast than Harry could possibly imagine.
Told across five interconnected, prestige-format issues that will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale, each chapter of High Strangeness also includes a feature-length essay by podcaster and researcher Jim Perry on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each issue.
With future issues featuring High Strangeness architect Daniel Noah joining writers Zac Thompson, Christopher Cantwell, Cecil Castellucci, and Christian Ward alongside dazzling artists Noah Bailey, Valeria Burzo, and Chloe Stawski, High Strangeness will reveal the liminal spaces where reality and hallucination and science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror… Featuring a stunning collection of covers by Jock, Dave Chisholm, Becca Carey, and Malachi Ward, enter High Strangeness: Book One on October 8!
EMBRACE OBVILION AS YOUR PHYSICAL BODY SACRIFICES ITSELF … ALL IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE!Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have revealed a first look at the story “Ham Radio” by Melissa Flores and Claire Roe from Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) – the next installment of the Eisner Award-nominated science-fiction anthology series featuring a stellar group of creators forcing readers beyond the brink of reality itself!
For millennia, mankind has earned to explore the stars. Foolish humans—that was your first mistake! Like a stray space capsule that’s unexpectedly escaped our solar system and is now cursed to rocket forward at ever-escalating velocities that will slowly reduce its crew to a slick film of goo, EC Comics proudly presents a new roster of callously cosmic tales positively oozing with pain, paranoia, and the pent-up regret of human ambition! To copilot this doomed survey of the stars, join writers Chris Condon, Melissa Flores, and Dave Wielgosz as they execute the logarithmic calculations that could save our explorers . . . only for the danger-defying artists Sami Kivelä, Claire Roe, and Riley Rossmo to bear witness to inescapable galactic calamity of their all-too-human hubris. Whoops!
Yes, human, it has been foretold in our data tablets: You will gaze in slackjawed wonder as Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) crosses the vacuum of space to deliver new allotments of optical ingenuity in the form of comic book covers by Lee Bermejo, Tom Fowler, Albert Monteys, and Malachi Ward to begin a eons-long rein of EC Comics-inspired cosmic terror! You wanted to live life as a sentient being … Now pay the price in Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) – on sale September 3rd!
In advance of Comic Con International 2025 in San Diego, CA, Oni Press and SpectreVision – the production company run by partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee – have revealed more details about High Strangeness. The projected announced in 2023 is a five-part experiment in comic book storytelling inspired by first-hand accounts of real paranormal encounters within the dimly lit borderlands of human experience where overlapping phenomena like UFOs, hauntings, cryptid sightings, and inexplicable synchronicities seem to indicate a higher, unseen order of reality…
A decade ago, Daniel Noah – writer, producer, director, and co-founder of SpectreVision, was a typical skeptic … until an awe-inspiring and unexplainable encounter at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado (the haunted hotel that inspired The Shining) left him questioning the verifiable existence of paranormal phenomenon. In the ensuing years, Noah has documented and logged hundreds of otherworldly encounters spanning the superspectrum of “high strangeness” that connects sightings of objects in the sky to haunted places and other perplexing manifestations that seem to extend like fingers from a hidden hand.
SpectreVision is teaming with Oni Press and a mind-bending cast of premier comics storytellers – including superstars Chris Condon, Dave Chisholm, Zac Thompson, Noah Bailey, Christopher Cantwell, Valeria Burzo, Cecil Castellucci, Chloe Stawski, and Christian Ward. The five ad-free, prestige-format issues will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale informed by Noah’s own real-life glimpses of nonhuman intelligence.
In the first double-sized, 40-page chapter debuting this October: Noah joins co-writer Chris Condon and artist Dave Chisholm for an unexpected encounter with the enigmatic Men in Black in 1967 as magazine writer Harry Kean is dispatched to rural Indiana to investigate the sudden disappearance of Becky Plume, a local teenager who stepped into the national spotlight with staggering photographic evidence of a recent UFO sighting. Frustrated to leave his developing stories in Chicago—and the wife he’s hoping to win back—Harry sets off to expose a hoax but instead finds himself in a labyrinth of high strangeness involving a missing girl, her boyfriend, a UFO, and some mysterious black-clad visitors circling at the perimeter of a mystery more vast than Harry could possibly imagine.
Each ad-free installment of High Strangeness will be packaged in Oni’s deluxe prestige format with cardstock covers, upgraded paper quality, and 40 pages of content – including a feature-length essay by podcaster and researcher Jim Perry on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each issue.
High Strangeness: Book One – 1967arrives in comic shops everywhere on October 8th with a stunning collection of covers by Jock, Dave Chisholm, Becca Carey, and Malachi Ward.
Find out more when High Strangeness transmits directly from San Diego Comic Con on Saturday, July 26th at the Neil Morgan Auditorium in the San Diego Central Library with a live podcast taping of SpectreVision Radio Live. Exclusively at SDCC, on SpectreVision co-founders Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah and Euphomet creator and host Jim Perry for a live podcast taping exploring SpectreVision’s first comics collaboration for a wide-ranging, investigative conversation a will surveil the liminal spaces where reality, hallucination, science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror with writers Christopher Cantwell and Chris Condon, Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson, and Senior Editor Bess Pallares.
(W) Ben H. Winters (A) Leomacs $4.99 July 16, 2025
Legendary science-fiction novelist Benjamin J. Carp has just been resurrected 40 years after his death . . . and that’s not even the strangest thing that’s going to happen to him today.
In an effort to unravel the mystery of author Benjamin J. Carp’s unexpected reappearance, Benjamin and his newfound companion, Marcus, travel to the arid Joshua Tree desert, where they discover the secret lair of a cabal of scientists eager to revive the minds of some of history’s greatest thinkers in an effort to save humanity from its greatest weakness: lack of imagination. Are they to be believed . . . or is this just more sci-fi hokum torn from a chapter in one of Carp’s beloved novels?
Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award–winning novelist Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy) teams with rising star Leomacs (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss, Basketful of Heads) to recite the next haunting chapter of 2025’s mesmerizing science-fiction daydream with profound implications for the fate of the universe, as delivered in a prestige, ad-free format.
HE DOESN’T KNOW WHY HE’S HERE – MAN? ROBOT? SIMULACRUM? OR DREAM? –Oni Press gives readers their first look inside Benjamin #2, the second issue from ground-breaking miniseries by Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award winner Ben H. Winters and rising star Leomacs! A mind-bending tale that looks at identity and reality, Benjamin #2 will leave you questioning everything.
Legendary science-fiction novelist Benjamin J. Carp has just been resurrected 40 years after his death . . . and that’s not even the strangest thing that’s going to happen to him today.
In an effort to unravel the mystery of author Benjamin J. Carp’s unexpected reappearance, Benjamin and his newfound companion, Marcus, travel to the arid Joshua Tree desert, where they discover the secret lair of a cabal of scientists eager to revive the minds of some of history’s greatest thinkers in an effort to save humanity from its greatest weakness: lack of imagination. Are they to be believed . . . or is this just more sci-fi hokum torn from a chapter in one of Carp’s beloved novels?
Presented in a prestige, ad-free format with 32 pages of story content and premium cardstock covers on every issue, Benjamin #2will rise and walk in comic shops everywhere on July 16th, 2025 with gorgeous covers by multiple Eisner Award winner Christian Ward and visionary artist Malachi Ward.
