Making its long-awaited-by-nobody debut at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this weekend, Rob Talbot’s GraveWorms is a love letter to all the great – and even the not so great – horror comics of yore.
Over over 44 pages, horrible hosts ‘The Baroness’ and ‘The Executioner’ present four short, sharp shocks in the time-honoured EC / Creepshow fashion, with no small amount of bickering between themselves in the process!
Monsters on the rampage, gateways to the beyond and the modern music industry laid bare are just a few things you can expect from this putrid pot-pourri. It’s the first ever solo comic project from Rob, a former teacher and music events organiser, who spent a decade and a half writing for horror-ific movie fan organs like Scream, Diabolique and Starburst, before deciding he’d actually quite like to create something of his own instead of constantly thinking and writing about other people’s work.
Recklessly not letting the fact that he hadn’t drawn anything for over 20 years get in his way. The horrifying results speak for themselves! Dare ye enter the realm of… GraveWorms!
Rob will be selling his comic alongside Bryan and Mary Talbot at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere in the Lakeside Comics Marketplace, where you’ll find many other amazing comic creators and publishers, too – exhibitors guide here.
The Marketplace is free entry for everybody, whether you have a Festival pass or not.
Tickets for the Festival are still available here!
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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