Happy Birthday, BELA LUGOSI, From Monsterverse Comics!

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Happy Birthday, BELA LUGOSI, From Monsterverse Comics!
By The Editor
October 21, 2010 - 01:55

Monsterverse comics

Happy 128th Birthday to one of the greatest horror icons in cinema history!

Look for the first issue of "BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE" in your local comic shop soon!

We'll be celebrating the launch of the book at the American Cinematheque in the world famous Hollywood Egyptian Theater next week starting at 6:30 PM on Thursday, October 28th! Publisher/Editor Kerry Gammill and West Coast Editor Sam F. Park will be joined by contributors James Farr, Chris Moreno, Rafael Navarro, Charlie Largent, Frank Dietz along with Bela Lugosi, Jr., writer/director Mich Garris and actress Louise Currie.

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On Wednesday, October 27th at 7PM Monsterverse and several of its talented contributors will be at a special signing at Los Angeles' super-horror store, Dark Delicacies.

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More Lugosi comic book celebration events to be announced soon.

Check out the new RETAILERS PAGE at Monsterverse. We have a cool new promotional poster! Be sure and download it.

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"BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE" will be in comic shops during the coming Halloween season. The comic will be a double-sized 48-page color quarterly for $4.99. The first issue contains stories and art by such notables as Kerry Gammill, (SPIDER-MAN and SUPERMAN) James Farr (whose XOMBIE online animated and comic book series is being brought to theater screens by Dreamworks in a live-action production by top writer/producers Orchi and Kurtzman), Chris Moreno (WORLD WAR HULK), John Cassaday, Rob Brown (voted online as horror artist of the year for BANE OF THE WEREWOLF), Derek McCaw, Rafael Navarro (creator of the Xeric Award winning series SONAMBULO), Martin Powell and Eisner Award- winning artist Terry Beatty (THE BATMAN STRIKES), Brian Denham (IRON MAN, ANGEL) and Bruce Timm (designer for Warner Bros animated BATMAN series) and more. The book also features an article by leading Lugosi researcher and author Gary D. Rhodes.

Upcoming issues will feature work by top names in movies and comic books. Directors John Landis and Joe Dante, make-up genius Rick Baker and others are bringing their talent for horror from movies to the illustrated page for the first time. Other contributors will include Steve Niles, Benton Jew, Robert Tinnell, Neil Vokes, Jack Herman, Mike Hoffman, Brian Denham, Hank Mayo and James Groman.