Stephen R. Bissette

Before the groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. comic book market with the revitalization of the horror comic book Swamp Thing. Moore's classic, critically acclaimed Swamp Thing stories are now collected with brand-new coloring in Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 1.In 1983, a revolutionary English writer joined a trio of trailblazing American artists to revitalize a longstanding comic book icon. By the time they'd finished their work four years later, SWAMP THING by Alan Moore, Stephen R, Bissette, John Totleben, and Rick Veitch was universally recognized as one of the handful of titles that defined a new era of complexity and depth in modern graphic storytelling, and their run on the series remains one of the medium's most enduring masterpieces.Now DC Comics and Vertigo are proud to present an all-new vision of this landmark achievement. Comprising three deluxe hardcover volumes, ABSOLUTE SWAMP THING BY ALAN MOORE debuts completely new coloring for every page, crafted exclusively for this definitive collector's edition by legendary color artist Steve Oliff (Akira, Miracleman). This first volume includes the issues THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #20-34 and SWAMP THING ANNUAL #2 and features a monumental new afterword from Bissette accompanied by a wealth of historic behind-the-scenes material from the title's original creative team.

MONSTER #34 - Boasting eye-poppingly colorful "Kappa" cover art by Ian Coleman, our first issue of MONSTER in about a year is yet another monstrously HUGE 370-page behemoth, cram-jammed from cover-to-cover with all manner of exotic creature feature loveliness Articles this ish include in-depth coverage of Yōkai Monsters in folklore and cinema (etc.) by Jolyon Yates and Michael Hauss; Parts 4]5 of Stephen R. Bissette's epic career-spanning article on/interview with American D.I.Y. master monster-maker Brett Piper; Daniel Best's piece about the now-lost silent era Australian spook shocker FISHER'S GHOST (1924); the second and final part of "Channel of Darkness," Stephen Jilks' retrospective of BBC-TV's 1970s horror programming (including DOCTOR WHO and much more); "The Horror of the Unseen," David SHEER FILTH Flint's article covering The Beeb's gothic ghost stories for Christmas; the second instalment of Christos Mouroukis' film-by-film overview of the GODZILLA movie series; plus "The House that Josh Built," Troy Howarth's (second) M interview with up-'n'-coming young indie filmmaker Joshua Kennedy, whose latest TLC production HOUSE OF THE GORGON (co-starring Hammer glamour gals Veronica Carlson and Martine Beswicke ) will be premiering at Monster Bash 2019. In addition to all our coverage of Japanese kaidan/kaiju fare this issue, we've also got plentiful other international content too, including reviews of cinematic exotica from other such parts of the globe as India, Italy, Argentina, Malaysia, and the U.S. of A. Other writing contributors for M #34 include: Shamya Dasgupta, Kinshuk Gaur, Dennis Capicik, Mart n N ez, Eric Messina, Les Moore, Tim Paxton, and Steve Fenton. Other original artworks were contributed by BC Sterrett, Marcio Costa, and Denis St. John.

A tale of hope set amongst the hyper violence of the19th century, RED RANGE tells the tale of Red Mask, a tough vigilante that ridesagainst the tragic racism of a klan-dominated Texas. Written by Joe Lansdale andillustrated by the legendary Sam Glanzman, RED RANGE offers an unerring ear forexotic period and regional dialect, racial unrest and strange happenings thatfind their mark 18 years after its original publication.

Michael H. Price and John Wooley continue their exploration of the Badlands of Grindhouse Cinema with "Forgotten Horrors to the Nth Degree" -- an expanded compilation of their acclaimed "Forgotten Horrors" columns for FANGORIA magazine, and a continuation of the long-running FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of movie-history books, spanning from 1929 into times more recent. The Afterword is by artist and film theorist Stephen R. Bissette, who chronicles a wealth of chillers with origins in his native Vermont. The cappers include a comprehensive survey of the bizarre filmmaking career of Larry Buchanan (of "Mars Needs Women"), a sampling of Mike Price's long-out-of-print newspaper and New York Times News Service columns, a primary-source history of the Gore Film Trilogy of Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman, and a study-in-depth of Leo Fong's career in martial-arts thrillers.