BEAR WITNESS TO THE TORMENTOR'S FINAL FATALITY . . . FOR NOW! (But don't worry, she won't be gone for long!) Even as the doors of the Catacomb draw closed in our 40-page finale, EC Comics' most depraved horror hosts conspire to reveal a new legend of lethality that will soon take our readers by surprise! Join us for a fiendish farewell as comics legend James Robinson (Starman, Leave It to Chance) enters the annals of EC history . . . and struggles to leave with all of his skin still attached! Plus: Join fellow comics ?all-scars? Ramón F. Bachs (Star Wars: Bounty Hunters), Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Dead Teenagers), Sina Grace (Iceman), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), and more each take one last turn in the Tormentor's iron maiden . . . and give us an extra-sized, 40-page dose of that EC Comics spectacle de splatter you've come to crave!
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Jude Ellison S. Doyle is an author, journalist, and comic book writer living in upstate New York. Under his former pen name ?Sady Doyle,? Jude founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008. He is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why (Melville House 2016), which has been called ?smart, funny and fearless? (Boston Globe), ?compelling? and ?persuasive? (New York Times Book Review). The Atlantic predicted that ?Trainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon.? Doyle's second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019) was named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and was shortlisted for Starburst Magazine's Brave New Words award. His first non-fiction book under his real name, DILF: Did I Leave Feminism, will be published by Melville House in the fall of 2025. In 2021, Jude published his first comic: Maw, a limited-series horror comic with artist A.L. Kaplan, for Boom! Studios. His follow-up, The Neighbors with artist Letizia Cadonici, was published in 2023, and was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD award for ?Outstanding Comic.? Both are now available in collected editions, and Jude's third series, Be Not Afraid with artist Lisandro Estherren, is forthcoming from BOOM! Studios.
Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed and Not My Bag, which recounts a story of retail hell. He acts as the artist for Shaun Steven Struble's cult hit, The Li'l Depressed Boy, and handles art chores along with co-writing the Image Comics hit series, Burn the Orphanage. Grace has also done illustrations for all-ages readers, including Among the Ghosts, written by Amber Benson, and Penny Dora & the Wishing Box, written by Michael Stock. His previous works include the slice-of-life Books with Pictures, and the neo-noir urban fantasy, Cedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic. For a time, he acted as Editorial Director for Robert Kirkman's Skybound imprint at Image Comics. To date, he's worked for Marvel Comics, IDW, Boom, Dynamite, Valiant and more. His essays have appeared on several websites, most notably Thought Catalog. He lives in Los Angeles, where he can be found in coffee shops working on whatever the next thing may be.
After studying at the Joso School for Comic-Book Artists, Ramón Bachs started publishing books in Spain such as Manticore, Yinn, and Castor & Pollux. A few years later, he did his first American work for Dark Horse Comics (Joker vs. The Mask, Star Wars, Shrek). After several issues of the Gen-13 series for Wildstorm, Bachs drew the acclaimed Detective Comics run Batman: City of Crime with David Lapham for DC Comics. Then he moved over to Marvel and worked with Paul Jenkins on titles such as Generation-M, Civil War: Frontline, WWHulk: Frontline, and Marvel Apes. His further work for DC includes World's Finest, Red Robin, Azrael, the Two Face co-feature in Batman: Streets of Gotham, Batgirl, and Bruce Wayne: The Road Home?Red Robin. Bachs has also drawn all-ages books like Robin: Son of Batman and Hearthstone for Blizzard. His most recent work is Sectaurs for Oni Press, which you can see in this same volume!
David Lapham began his career in the comic industry at the age of twenty working at Valiant Comics learning his craft illustrating and helping to create many original titles, including Shadowman, Harbinger and Rai. He left Valiant to work at Defiant Comics where he co-created Warriors Of Plasm with Jim Shooter. David turned his back on the superhero genre in 1995 to co-found the independent publishing company, El Capitan Books, which began publishing David's comic series Stray Bullets. Lapham has won Eisner Awards for his work on Stray Bullets and Murder Me Dead.