Tightlip Entertainment has enlisted the skills of comic veteran Chuck Dixon, who will write three horror tales for Tales of The Spooky, a comic property about a real life haunted house in New York. From the press release:
Take a ride with Chuck in “Back Seat Terror” with art by Enrique Villagran (Robin) and find out what happens when greed fuels you.
Then take a look at the collection of dolls housed at The Spooky, as the tale of “The Dolls” unfolds in front of you with art by Silvestre showing you why you should never take a child’s toy away.
And finally Chuck Dixon takes us to the attic of the macabre property to have artist Quique Alcatena (Batman, Conan) illustrate the reason you might not want to explain strange sounds away so easily in “The Creeps”.
Preview art for “The Dolls” is shown above. For more information, check out the Tightlip Entertainment website.
August 14th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Hmm, I wonder if Chuck Dixon alienated enough of his mainstream audience (and his editors) through his homophobic comments in the wake of Marvel’s Rawhide Kid series that it brought his career down to the level of writing obscure indie books like this, vs. 5-6 major monthlies at a time while he worked primarily at Marvel and DC.
August 15th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
I love how people think that only the big two publishers matter.. like doing a good indie book is somehow “beneath” a writer or artist. I’ll never subscribe to that kind of thinking.
August 15th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
I don’t think only the big two matter. I do think that Chuck Dixon wrote as many books as possible in his heyday – thereby maximizing his income. And those stories were not exactly densely packed or cerebral. They were formulaic and conveyed nothing about Dixon other than “I’m good at writing formulaic action-adventure comic books”. Compare that to, say for instance, Brian K. Vaughan. He writes almost as many books as Dixon did back then – and they are dense, thought-provoking, innovative, and reveal things about the personality and interest of their writer.