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By The Editor
June 10, 2011 - 06:59
MONSTERVERSE and its BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE #1 goes DIGITAL!
Starting 6/8/11 on iTunes Apple App Store via iVerse
Media (the iVerse Comics + app) you can download Apple apps
for iPod, iPad and iPhone featuring the first issue
of the acclaimed horror anthology comic book series hosted by Bela
Lugosi in BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE.
iVerse Media, LLC (Home of the Comics+ App) is a digital distribution company focused on distributing and marketing content based applications to mobile devices and desktop screens. iVerse carries content by Marvel Comics, Archie Comics, BOOM! Studios and more!
Inside this horror comic book app is a story by one of the world's top comic book artists, John Cassaday, of ASTONISHING X-MEN and PLANETARY fame!
It has a Basil Gogos cover and a back cover of the sexy vampire Nosferina and painted by Warner animation legend, Bruce Timm!
BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE is a double-sized 52-page color quarterly. The first issue contains stories and art by such notables as Kerry Gammill, (SPIDER-MAN and SUPERMAN) James Farr (XOMBIE), Chris Moreno (WORLD WAR HULK), Rob Brown (voted online as horror artist of the year for BANE OF THE WEREWOLF), Derek McCaw, Rafael Navarro (SONAMBULO), Joe Feire (THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DR. VORNOFF AND LOBO), Martin Powell (THE PHANTOM), Eisner Award-winning artist Terry Beatty (THE BATMAN STRIKES), Sam F. Park and more. The book also features an article by leading Lugosi researcher and author Gary D. Rhodes.
MONSTERVERSE ENTERTAINMENT is a transmedia company headed by its
publisher and editor, the comic book and film design artist, Kerry
Gammill.
Producer/screenwriter Sam F. Park is the west coast editor and a
writer/artist.
A noted cover by Basil Gogos gets high praise for its artist by FRANK
DARABONT (writer/director/producer - AMC's THE LIVING
DEAD).
"Basil Gogo doesn't paint pictures of monsters, and never has. What he does is conjure their essences on canvas like a magician. More than that, he conjures our love of these subjects in a manner that defies description or analysis. How does an artist infuse an entire fan community's love of a whole genre into his brushstrokes? I'll never be able to explain it, but I know I'll always be grateful for it. Seeing Gogos' portraits is revisiting the best friends of my childhood." -FRANK DARABONT
Got your copy of the Lugosi comic? Here is what the comics press is saying:
"It's rare that we reviewers mention editorial work, but it's obvious that editor-in-chief Kerry Gammill and editor Sam Park worked closely with the creators of all of the stories in this issue. The stories are intelligent and focused. They're tight tales, cleverly written and drawn, that are exactly as long as they need to be and no longer. There's a great contrast between wordier and less wordy stories, between stories with slicker art and more underground feeling art. We even get an interesting text piece and a gorgeous back cover by Bruce Timm. This is a really well-assembled comic, and feels like an extremely satisfying package." -Jason Sacks, Comics Bulletin
Issue two of BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE will be available in print this July! With a chilling cover by seven-time Academy Award winner Rick Baker! Listen to what the LA TIMES HERO COMPLEX has to say about it!
http://herocomplex.latimes.
FLESH AND BLOOD: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES!
The very special horror graphic novel series from MONSTERVERSE as created by major talents Robert Tinnell and Neil D. Vokes has received its own FACEBOOK page.
You can follow the coming reports and special promotional events regarding the HALLOWEEN 2011 release of this highly anticipated volume one of FLESH AND BLOOD at:
https://www.facebook.com/
Monsterverse publisher, editor, artist and internationally known storyteller Kerry Gammill (MARVEL TEAM-UP, POWERMAN/IRON FIST, SUPERMAN, INDIANA JONES) is interviewed by Jason Sacks at COMICS BULLETIN:
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/
Monsterverse West Coast Editor Sam F. Park explains the Big Bang Explosion of the Monsterverse at DREAD CENTRAL:
"BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE" is a double-sized 52-page color quarterly (with NO Advertising or House Ads!) and still available for back-order at comic shops through Diamond.
Diamond pre-order # for BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM GRAVE # 2:
MAY111131 F BELA LUGOSI TALES FROM GRAVE #2
Diamond
pre-order # for BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM GRAVE #1:
MAY111132 F BELA LUGOSI TALES FROM GRAVE #1
THE CRITICS AGREE!
AICN HORROR & COMICS EDITOR MARK MILLER (AMBUSH
BUG):
"Finally, I reviewed BELA LUGOSI’S
TALES FROM THE GRAVE #1 in this week’s AICN COMICS REVIEWS
Indie Jones section
and it’s a comic you horror-fiends may want to check out. The book
was released from Monsterverse this week. You can read my full review
of this fantastic horror anthology starring everyone’s favorite
classic vampire written and drawn by some extremely talented folks by
clicking here."
http://www.aintitcool.com/
