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!