I want to thank all of the HORROR FIENDS at comicmonsters.com for their nominations and votes! I am very flattered. It was an honor and a privilege to take part in their first annual Horror Comic Awards.

Congrats to all the nominees! Every one deserved to win!

Until next time… LET THERE BE MONSTERS!
-REB

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And here’s the official release-
ComicMonsters.com is hosting it’s first annual Horror Comic Awards. The awards fans of Horror Comics have been waiting for. Voting is open via the ComicMonsters.com site on December 24th, 2009 and ends on December 31st, 2009. Best of Luck to the Nominees……May the most brutal comic prevail!!!

The categories and nominees for 2009 are:

Writer of the Year:
Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead - Image Comics
Tim Seeley - Hack/Slash - Devil’s Due Publishing
Peter Milligan - Hellblazer - Vertigo/DC Comics
Phil Hester - The Darkness - Top Cow Productions
Steve Niles - Batman: Gotham After Midnight - DC Comics
Jason Aaron - Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics
Mike Mignola - Hellboy - Dark Horse Comics
Garth Ennis - Crossed - Avatar Press

Artist of the Year:
Jason Shawn Alexander - Dead Irons - Dynamite Entertainment
Jason Craig - Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash Nightmare Warriors - Dynamite Entertainment/Wildstorm/DC Comics
Rob E. Brown - Bane of the Werewolf - Silver Phoenix Entertainment
Steve Pugh - Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead - Radical Publishing
Emma Rios - Hexed - BOOM! Studios
Charlie Adlard - The Walking Dead - Image Comics
Jacen Burrows - Crossed - Avatar Press
Duncan Fegredo - Hellboy - Dark Horse Comics

Inker of the Year:
Guy Davis - BPRD: The Black Goddess - Dark Horse Comics
Todd McFarlane - Spawn - Image Comics
Ryann Winn - The Darkness - Top Cow Productions
Charlie Adlard - The Walking Dead - Image Comics
Rob E. Brown - Bane of the Werewolf - Silver Phoenix Entertainment
Mico Suayan - Dead of Night: Werewolf by Night - Marvel Comics
Steve Pugh - Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead - Radical Publishing

Colorist of the Year:
Jay Fotos - Locke & Key: Head Games - IDW Publishing
Dave Stewart - BPRD: The Black Goddess - Dark Horse Comics
Drew Berry - Sullengrey: Sacrifice - SLG Publishing
Ian Hannin - Dead of Night: Werewolf by Night - Marvel Comics
Steve Pugh - Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead - Radical Publishing
Dave Casey - Proof - Image Comics
Jean-Francois Beaulieu - Marvel Zombies 4 - Marvel Comics
Wes Dzioba - Aliens - Dark Horse Comics

Best Letterer:
Sal Cipriano - Solomon Grundy - DC Comics
Rus Wooten - Marvel Zombies 4 - Marvel Comics
Rob Leigh - North 40 - Wildstorm/DC Comics
Joe Carmanga - Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics
Chris Crank - Hack/Slash - Devil’s Due Publishing
Kurt Hathaway - Resident Evil - Wildstorm/DC Comics

Best Ongoing Series:
The Walking Dead - Image Comics
Hack/Slash - Devil’s Due Publishing
The Darkness - Top Cow
Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics
Hellblazer - Vertigo/DC Comics
Grimm Fairy Tales - Zenescope Entertainment
28 Days Later - BOOM! Studios
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Dark Horse Comics

Best Mini-Series:
North 40 - WildStorm/DC Comics
Locke & Key: Head Games - IDW Publishing
The Strange Adventures of HP Lovecraft - Image Comics
Solomon Grundy - DC Comics
Marvel Zombies 4 - Marvel Comics
Dead Irons - Dynamite Entertainment
Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead - Radical Publishing
BPRD: The Black Goddess - Dark Horse Comics

Best Anthology:
Zombie Tales - BOOM! Studios
Creepy - Dark Horse Comics
Dark Delicacies - IDW Publishing
Asylum of Horrors - Asylum Press
Cthulhu Tales - BOOM! Studios
House of Mystery – Vertigo/DC Comics
Kolchak Tales Annual - Moonstone Books
Tales from the Crypt - Papercutz

Best Web Comic:
Dr. Shroud
High Moon
Lily of the Valley
La Morte Sisters
Split Lip
Halloween Man
Xombie
Pray for Death

Cover of the Year:
The Astounding Wolfman #16 - Dale Keown - Image Comics
Zombies Tales The Series #10 - Drew Rausch - BOOM! Studios
House of Mystery #13 - Esao Andrews - Vertigo/DC Comics
Dead of Night: Werewolf by Night #3 - Mico Suayan - Marvel Comics
Crossed #4 - Jacen Burrows - Avatar Press
Night of the Living Dead: New York #1 (convention edition) - Mike Wolfer - Avatar Press
Hellblazer #261 - Simon Bisley - Vertigo/DC Comics
Asylum of Horrors #2 - Aly Fell - Asylum Press

Best Kill:
Epilogue #4 - Ethan drinks – IDW Publishing
The Dead #4 - Zombie entrail dinner – Berserker
Batman: Unseen #3 - Invisible decapitation - DC Comics
The Living Corpse Annual #1 - Corpse plunger - Zenescope Entertainment
Jesus Hates Zombies Volume 2 - Zombie baby bashing - Alterna Comics
Incarnate #1 - Mot rips em’ - Radical Publishing
FVZA #2 – Vampire feeding frenzy - Radical Publishing

Best One Shot:
Hack/Slash: Entry Wound - Devil’s Due Publishing
Abe Sapien: The Haunted Boy - Dark Horse Comics
Angel vs. Frankenstein - IDW Publishing
Hector Plasm: Totentanz - image Comics
The Perhapanauts Halloween Spooktacular - Image Comics
Clive Barker’s Seduth 3-D - IDW Publishing
Zombie Tales 2061 - BOOM! Studios
Dead Space Extraction - Image Comics

Best Manga:
Vampire Hunter D Volume 3 - Digital Manga Publishing
Jack Frost Volume 1 - Yen Press
Parasyte Volume 8 - Del Rey
Cirque Du Freak Volume 1 - Yen Press
Dance in the Vampire Bund Volume 4 - Seven Seas
Higurashi When They Cry: Abducted by Demons Arc Volume 2 - Yen Press
Tetragrammaton Labyrinth Volume 5 - Seven Seas
Soul Eater Volume 1 - Yen Press

Best Cross-Over:
The Living Corpse and Hack/Slash - Zenescope Entertainment
Witch Hunter and Night - Monarch Comics/Jester Press
Dethklok and The Goon - Dark Horse Comics
The Darkness and Pitt - Top Cow Productions
Freddy, Jason and Ash - - Dynamite Entertainment/Wildstorm/DC Comics
Kolchak and Barnabas Collins - Moonstone Books

Best Scene:
The Dead #3 - Shower interrupted - Berserker
Crossed #7 - Patrick talks back to his mom - Avatar Press
The Darkness #10 - A thirty foot well of what? - Top Cow Productions
Army of Darkness #20 - Ash meets Brad - Dynamite Entertainment
Jesus Hates Zombies Volume 2 - Nurses don’t get paid enough - Alterna Comics
Locke & Key: Head Games #3 - A look inside Bode’s head - IDW Publishing
The Walking Dead #60 - Morgan finds some bad stuff - Image Comics
Marvel Zombies 4 #2 - Morbius is a monster - Marvel Comics

The 2009 Horror Comic Awards will be determined by fan voting via the following link: Horror Comic Awards

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Look for Bela Lugosi’s Tales From The Grave in early 2010!

ASTOUNDING ARRAY OF MAJOR TALENT LINING UP FOR BELA LUGOSI’S TALES FROM THE GRAVE!

Celebrated writers, comic book professionals and Hollywood horror veterans offer their imagination for the highly anticipated terror anthology series

Dallas, TX - July 20, 2009 — Comic book and horror fans will be ecstatic over the incredible talent lining up for Bela Lugosi’s Tales from the Grave, which is scheduled to premiere in early 2010.

The new full-color anthology - to be done in the classic EC and Warren tradition - will have each fantastic tale hosted by iconic horror film star Bela Lugosi. The book will be the premier publication from Monsterverse Comics, which will launch other horror and monster related titles in the months ahead. Editors Kerry Gammill (Powerman and Iron Fist, Deadly Foes of Spider-Man, Superman, THE OUTER LIMITS) and Kez Wilson (Hammerlocke, Scarlet, Power of the Atom, SPACE JAM) will be adding their artistic talents throughout the series, along with associate editor and writer Sam F. Park (HALFWAY HOUSE, DEATH’S DOOR).

In addition to leading comic professionals, several famous horror filmmakers will also be contributing to help celebrate Bela Lugosi’s new role as presenter of these weird tales of terror. The stellar roster of artists and writers includes two major names among comic book fans. Premier horror writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, Gotham After Midnight, Dead, She Said) will be crafting a new story to make readers’ skin crawl. Top artist John Cassaday (Planetary, Astonishing X-Men, Captain America) will be writing and drawing a story as well as providing an alternate cover for the first issue. The standard cover will be a portrait of Bela Lugosi by legendary horror magazine cover artist Basil Gogos (Famous Monsters of Filmland, Monsterscene).

Other writers, artists and filmmakers that readers can expect to see in future issues of the series include:

John Landis, film director (AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, MASTERS OF HORROR)…

Rick Baker, make-up artist/sculptor (AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, THE RING, HELLBOY, THE WOLF MAN)…

Mick Garris, film director/writer/producer (MASTERS OF HORROR, THE STAND, TALES FROM THE CRYPT)…

Bruce Timm, artist/producer (BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, Vampirella)…

Stiles White, screen writer (KNOWING, BOOGEYMAN, POLTERGEIST)…

Brian Denham, artist (Iron Man, The X-Files, Nova, The Avengers)…

Rick Klaw, writer (Weird Business)…

Joe R. Lansdale, writer (Weird Business, Savage Season)…

John Lucas, artist (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Star Trek, Weird Business)…

Rob Brown, artist (Bane of the Werewolf, Marvel Comics Presents, Spiderman, Conan)…

Erik Gist, painter (Upper Deck, DC Comics, Boom! Studios)…

Neil Vokes, artist (The Black Forest, Superman Adventures, Untold Tales of Spider-Man)…

Robert Tinnell, film director/writer (FRANKENSTEIN AND ME, The Black Forest, The Wicked West)…

Martin Powell, writer (Moonstone Comics - The Spider, Scarlet in Gaslight, Frankenstein)…

Larry Blamire, film director/artist (THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA, Tales from the Pub, Steam Wars)…

Frank Dietz, cartoonist/animator (Sketchy Things, Disney’s TARZAN, TREASURE PLANET)…

Terry Beatty, artist (Ms. Tree, Scary Monsters).

Look for more names to be added in the coming weeks.

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Keep up with the details at the official Monsterverse Tales From the Grave website: www.monsterverse.com

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Producing a solid horror comic book such as Bane and keeping studio funds consistent during these hard economic times is certainly a challenge… but you just can’t let it keep a good werewolf down.

After much debate and consideration, REB has also decided to extend book 2 to 29 pages of story from the norm 22. That’s seven extra pages of silver age monstrous mayhem for you and our cursed, gypsy werewolf!
In lieu of distribution/marketing issues, REB sees this as an advantage rather than a disadvantage - ” The chapter structure and character revelations ultimately demanded the additional story pages… I want to give these characters all the space they need to evolve and fuse. And this seems to give me the chance to do so. Suffocating them will only diminish the quality of the overall work. Besides, the fans deserve the best that I can give them.” - So prepare yourself monster fan for a grinding, dark tale of true gothic horror!

Look out classic horror movie fans!
Soon Coming - A special announcement regarding REB and a new horror anthology comic book debuting in early 2010.
“Comic fans and horror fans are gona love it!”

Get the latest in classic horror news at the Classic Horror Filmboard.

Bane of the Werewolf avatars!

Reb took some time out this morning to create these monstrously fun banners for all you werewolf-fiends out there! Toss them around… drag them to your favorite monster site or comic book forum!

Let there be Monsters!

“Wow! That was so much more than the preview pages could even make it appear to be. - This book was meant to convey that old style of horror and it does a marvelous job. - Full of the great monster elements that I love to read about (the black arts, wired sci-fi experiments). Nice touches really sell it as a whole package that you can not be disappointed about, I know I wasn’t.”
-Dan Royer (puyaybusto), Horror Comic Book Reviews - Full Review

“Hoooooowwl !!!! Look out all you werewolf and comic book fans, there’s a new beast in town.”
-Cybershizoid, Horror Movie and Magazine Blog - Full Post

A special thanks too all you fiendish, monster fans at comicmonsters.com, The Classic Horror Filmboard, Werewolf News, and Horror News!
Fans that wish to write to the Bane of the Werewolf letters page, Letters from the Damned, may send all correspondence to thedamned@silverphoenix.net.
Don’t miss this chance to get YOUR creepy copy of Bane of the Werewolf Book 1 at www.silverphoenix.net. while your there, place your preorder for Bane of the Werewolf Book 2. This is one you won’t want to miss monster freaks! The werewolf Eliphas vs The werewolf Janos, in a tale that can only be called - RESURRECTION!

You can now preorder Bane of the Werewolf Issue 2 at www.silverphoenix.net

Preview - Bane of the Werewolf Book 2 - RESURRECTION

BANE OF THE WEREWOLF #2
Head of the Magus: Chapter Two
RESURRECTION! w/a Rob E. Brown [REB]
Forever cursed by the sign of the pentagram, Eliphas Moreau, finds himself recovering from a near fatal fall, mended to health by a locale village girl. The warlock, Baphomet, raises the werewolf Janos from the grave to aid in his search for the black Book of Life leading to a brawl between the two werebeasts - Father versus Son in a grizzly confrontation with Eliphas’ new love interest trapped between the two!
-AND- Dr. Orlock keeps to his agenda in his constant search for the answers to life and death as he attempts to revive the world’s most nefarious monster!

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Saturday, May 9 – 1:21 PM

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Comments:

Roukas Says:

May 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

I remember thoroughly enjoying the werewolf vs. werewolf fight in “Wolf” with Jack Nicholson, and it looks like the similar conflict here could be even better. I haven’t been in a comic book shop in at least two years…I should be more on top of things!

Also, the whole idea of werewolf origins fascinates me; I love seeing how each different author / creator will conceive of how such a creature could come into being! That’s usually what creates the delicious terror for me, not the ensuing slash-fests.

Publication Date: 2009
Format: B&W - 28 pages
Price: $3.75

I just finished a fantastic first edition today. But first a question? Are you an old school horror fan?, Do you like classic monsters, such as the Werewolf and Frankenstein?, Does the pentagram still make you think of full moons and lycanthropes in the middle of the night? Then you deserve to check out the first edition from Silver Phoenix Entertainment called “Bane of the Werewolf.

Written and created by Rob E. Brown there is no denying where his artistic influences come from. While I admit being out of the comic circles for quite some time one look at this comic and your sure to start reliving your days as a classic comic reader. Full of darkly detailed rich pen work, Rob has created an instantaneous time travel of old school artistry gone modern release. A classic tale of man vs the evil beast inside of him we find our main character Eliphas the gypsy traveler. Though the gypsy life has been a hard one and in our introduction we find him tied to pole.

As panels pop out with fantastical pen work we learn of his origin and past to the present point of his current manhood and destiny. It appears that fate is written with a werewolf in mind and Eliphas has come full circle.

Melana, his witch of a mother comes to aid with news of his past, present and future. It is not without sorrow and regrets revealing to someone who they truly are and the circumstances. This is also a time for confrontation as a hulking hunchback of a giant lurches forward from the depths of the forest.

Olund the monstrous hunchback giant who challenges the man beast to battle enrages the inner demon within him after Melana releases her spell to protect Eliphas from transformation. A duel to the death ensues and Melana is powerless to assist having to deal with Olund’s master the Warlock.

The issue I received features a very sturdy full color cover that easily stands over most off the shelf printings. The inside is printed on nice stock with rich blacks and contrast throughout. While the writing is unmistakably elegant in its wording and choice of narration the pen work is of extremely high standards. Each frame contains an impressive amount of detail making this a collector item to have.

Back pages contain information on subscriptions, purchasing of shirts and some back page commentaries. It’s definitely a nice looking piece of work that could only be benefited more by full color. Comic fans will appreciate the nostalgic pages within and hunger for more!

Available a www.silverphoenix.net

REVIEWED BY “BONE DIGGER”
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BANE OF THE WEREWOLF #2
Head of the Magus: Chapter Two
RESURRECTION! w/a Rob E. Brown [REB]
Forever cursed by the sign of the pentagram, Eliphas Moreau, finds himself recovering from a near fatal fall, mended to health by a locale village girl. The warlock, Baphomet, raises the werewolf Janos from the grave to aid in his search for the black Book of Life leading to a brawl between the two werebeasts - Father versus Son in a grizzly confrontation with Eliphas’ new love interest trapped between the two!
-AND- Dr. Orlock keeps to his agenda in his constant search for the answers to life and death as he attempts to revive the world’s most nefarious monster!

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