Eisner Award-Nominated Letterer of BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE and MARVELS, ComicCraft Co-Founder Joins EC’s Star-Studded Resurgence at Oni Press
THIS SUMMER, EC COMICS IS RETURNING WITH A VENGEANCE AT ONI PRESS – AND, THOUGH THE TIMES MAY HAVE CHANGED, THE LETTERING REMAINS THE SAME! Oni Press is proud to announce that Eisner Award-nominated and legendary letterer Richard Starkings will be joining the groundbreaking publisher’s upcoming resurrection of the notorious EC Comics line in the pages of July’s EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1 and August’s CRUEL UNIVERSE #1 to redefine EC’s iconic “Leroy” lettering style for the new millennium.
Over the course of a four-decade career, Richard Starkings has helped define the visual aesthetic and instantly recognizable iconography of the comics medium with contributions to hundreds of series across thousands of issues, including seminal works like Alan Moore & Brian Bolland’s BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross’ MARVELS, Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale’s BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN and DARK VICTORY, and Brian Michael Bendis & David Finch’s NEW AVENGERS. Starkings is also an accomplished creator in his own right with his long-running Image Comics series ELEPHANTMEN earning multiple Eisner Awards nominations since its debut in 2006.
Said Starkings, who, naturally, lettered in his own quote:
It all begins EC Comics surges out of the grave with a jugular-pounding, 40-page horror milestone on July 24th in EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1 – featuring four self-contained exercises in adrenaline from Brian Azzarello (Batman: Damned) and Vlad Legostaev (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Chris Condon (That Texas Blood) and Peter Krause (Irredeemable), J. Holtham (Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale) and Jorge Fornés (Batman), and Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Grim) and Phil Hester (Green Arrow), and more deadly surprises — including the first glimpse of EC’s new cast of horror hosts . . .!
And then . . . Two short weeks later on August 7th, bizarre tales of time and space enter our dimensional plane on CRUEL UNIVERSE #1 – featuring 40, all-new pages of destructive wonder with cosmic implications from the irradiated imaginations of Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko (Invisible Republic, The Space Between) and Caitlin Yarsky (Black Hammer: Reborn), Chris Condon (That Texas Blood) and Jonathan Case (Green River Killer), Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT) and Kano (Immortal Iron Fist), and Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters (CBS’ Tracker, The Last Policeman) and Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place)!
IN 2024, THE MOST NOTORIOUS NAME IN TERROR IS BACK! EC COMICS LIVES AGAIN AT ONI PRESS!
EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1 (of 5)
WRITTEN BY BRIAN AZZARELLO, CHRIS CONDON, J. HOLTHAM & STEPHANIE PHILLIPS
ART BY JORGE FORNES, PHIL HESTER, PETER KRAUSE, VLAD LEGOSTAEV
COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO
COVER B BY ANDREA SORRENTINO WITH DAVE STEWART
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES
HORROR HOST VARIANT (1:100) BY DUSTIN WEAVER
FOIL COVER (GOLD) BY LEE BERMEJO
FOIL COVER (SILVER) BY ANDREA SORRENTINO WITH DAVE STEWART
BLANK COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
ON SALE JULY 24TH | $4.99 (STANDARD) | $7.99 (FOIL) | 40 PGS | FC
IOC: 05/30/2024
FOC: 07/01/2024
CRUEL UNIVERSE #1 (of 5)
WRITTEN BY CORINNA BECHKO, CHRIS CONDON, MATT KINDT & BEN H. WINTERS
ART BY JONATHAN CASE, KANO, ARTYOM TOPILIN & CAITLIN YARSKY
COVER A BY GREG SMALLWOOD
COVER B BY J.H. WILLIAMS III
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY J.H. WILLIAMS III
SPA FON VARIANT (1:100) BY TOM FOWLER WITH BILL CRABTREE
FOIL COVER (SILVER) BY GREG SMALLWOOD
FOIL COVER (GOLD) BY J.H. WILLIAMS III
BLANK COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
ON SALE AUGUST 7TH | $4.99 (STANDARD) | $7.99 (FOIL) | 40 PGS | FC
IOC: 06/27/2024
FOC: 07/15/2024
EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #2 (of 5)
WRITTEN BY JASON AARON, TYLER CROOK, MATT KINDT
ART BY TYLER CROOK, KLAUS JANSON, JORGE FORNES
COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO
COVER B BY ADAM POLLINA
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY ADAM POLLINA
EC ARCHIVE VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES
ON SALE AUGUST 21ST, 2024 | $4.99 (STANDARD) |$ 7.99 (FOIL) | 40 PAGES | FC
IOC: 06/27/2024FOC: 07/29/2024