‘The Breakfast Club’ in a graveyard
Legendary horror author R.L. Stine and rising star artist Carola Borelli (Spider-Woman) launch a coming-of-age horror series at BOOM! Studios with THE GRAVEYARD CLUB, a new series debuting in both comics shops and bookstores just in time for the Halloween season!
Graves End is as sleepy a town as they come…especially being surrounded by cemeteries, and the local kids can think of nowhere they’d rather wreak harmless havoc. But being surrounded by tombstones comes with the pervasive reminder that in Graves End, there are more dead than the living…
It is an endlessly eerie place with no shortage of strange and dangerous happenings, and when high schooler Parker West pulls what seems like a harmless prank, he may be putting his friends in more danger than he could imagine.
“In The Graveyard Club graphic novels, the teens hang out in the graveyard–because it might be the safest place in town. Their town is surrounded by graveyards. And swarms of red-eyed bats come swooping out every night. And that’s just the BEGINNING of the horror! I’m having a lot of fun with this series!” said best-selling author and horror titan R.L. Stine.
“All the best stories start with ‘it was a quiet town where nothing ever happened’ and this one is no different. A group of teenagers and a graveyard are the ingredients for a crazy story that will keep you on the edge of your seat!” said series artist Carola Borelli.
“I’ve had the great joy of working with Bob on middle grade horror fiction with Just Beyond and adult horror with Stuff of Nightmares so I couldn’t be more excited/terrified to be working with him on some fresh YA scares. Carola is bringing an incredible artistic dynamic to The Graveyard Club that is going to leave readers trying to decide whether to turn the page or hide under the covers…” said Bryce Carlson, Vice President of Editorial & Creative Strategy at BOOM! Studios.
THE GRAVEYARD CLUB #1 will be available in comic shops September 18, 2024 and in bookstores September 17, 2024. It is available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and bookstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including Kindle, iBooks, and Google Play.
About R.L. Stine:
R.L. Stine is one of the best-selling children’s authors in history. Goosebumps, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, has more than 400 million books in print in 32 languages. An all-new New York Times bestselling Goosebumps series, House of Shivers, debuted in September 2023, with two more books to be published in 2024.
The Goosebumps series made R.L. Stine a worldwide publishing celebrity (and Jeopardy answer). His other popular children’s book series include Fear Street, (recently revived as a feature film trilogy), The Garbage Pail Kids, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School. Other titles include: It’s The First Day of School Forever, A Midsummer Night’s Scream, Young Scrooge, Stinetinglers, and three picture books, with Marc Brown—The Little Shop of Monsters, Mary McScary, and Why Did the Monster Cross the Road (2023).
The Goosebumps TV series was the number-one children’s show in America for three years. The episodes can still be seen on Netflix. R.L.’s anthology TV series, R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, won the Emmy Award three years in a row as Best Children’s Show. His newest Disney+ TV series are a new live-action Goosebumps series, executive produced by Scholastic Entertainment and Just Beyond, based on his graphic novels for BOOM! Studios. Two Goosebumps feature films starring Jack Black as R.L. Stine were released in 2015 and 2018. The first film became the #1 film in America. A trilogy of Fear Street movies released in 2021 all reached #1 on Netflix.
RL. Stine lives in New York City with his wife Jane, an editor and publisher. You can connect with him on Twitter @RL_Stine, as well as on Instagram and Facebook. For more information, visit rlstine.com.
About Carola Borelli:
Carola Borelli is a comic book artist who lives in Rome. After completing her studies she worked first as an assistant for IDW and then as an artist for various independent publishers. Over the years she has worked with publishers such as Image Comics, Archie Comics, Marvel Comics and now BOOM! Studios.
THE GRAVEYARD CLUB is the newest release from BOOM! Studios’ eponymous imprint, home to critically acclaimed original series, including BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, and Ron Garney; Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera; Grim by Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano; Stuff of Nightmares by R.L. Stine and A.L. Kaplan; Damn Them All by Simon Spurrier and Charlie Adlard; Once Upon a Time at the End of the World by Jason Aaron, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Leila del Duca, and Nick Dragotta; Know Your Station by Sarah Gailey and Liana Kangas; A Vicious Circle by Mattson Tomlin and Lee Bermejo; The Neighbors by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Letizia Cadonici; Ghostlore by Cullen Bunn and Leomacs; Sirens of the City by Joanne Starer and Khary Randolph; Coda by Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara; Rare Flavours by Ram V and Filipe Andrade; Underheist by David and Maria Lapham; and Animal Pound by Tom King and Peter Gross. The imprint also publishes popular licensed properties, including Dune: House Corrino from Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Simone Ragazzon; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers by Melissa Flores and Simona Di Gianfelice; and The Expanse: Dragon Tooth by Andy Diggle and Rubine. For continuing news on THE GRAVEYARD CLUB comic books and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.
Brian Isaacs - Executive Editor / Publisher