EC Comics, in collaboration with Pocket Universe Productions has [1] announced a new EC Comics audio drama series based on The Vault of Horror comics.
A new EC Comics retrospective/history book, titled "The Wonderful, Horrible EC Comics Book!"has been announced. The book is written and designed by EC Comics historian Grant Geissman; and it is to be published by Taschen Books.
Tales from the Crypt: The Revolutionary Art of MAD and EC Comics ran through October 27th 2018 at New York's Society of Illustrators' Museum of Illustration. DETAILS HERE.
Colorist for EC Comics, Marie Severin has passed away at the age of 89.
EC Comics artist Russ Heath has passed away at the age of 91.
Artistically MAD: Seven Decades of Satire, an EC-related MAD magazine exhibit ran through Otober 21st 2018 at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library And Museum in Columbus, Ohio, USA. DETAILS HERE.
Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen: The Art of EC Comics ran from May 13, 2016 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Various EC Panels/Talks were held over the run of the exhibit; A list of events is HERE.
Upcoming and Recent EC and EC-Related Releases [ edit ]
The EC Archives: Shock Illustrated releases April 20, 2021 from Dark Horse Books. It will include "the lost fourth issue" of the EC Picto-Fiction series, according to the Amazon (USA site) description.
The EC Comics Library: A Slight Case of Murder and Other Stories releases January 5, 2021 from Fantagraphics Books.
The EC Comics Library: Accidents and Old Lace and Other Stories was released November 24, 2020 from Fantagraphics Books.
The EC Artists Library Slipcase Vol. 5 releases November 17, 2020 from Fantagraphics Books.
The EC Archives: War Against Crime Volume 2 was released June 16, 2020 from Dark Horse Books.
The EC Archives: Impact was released April 14, 2020 from Dark Horse Books.
The EC Archives: Psychoanalysis was released February 25, 2020 from Dark Horse Books.
The EC Comics Library: Man and Superman and Other Stories was released January 28, 2020 from Fantagraphics Books.
The EC Archives: Modern Love was released December 24, 2019 from Dark Horse Books.
The EC Comics Library: Atom Bomb and Other Stories was released October 29, 2019 from Fantagraphics Books.
The EC Comics Library/The EC Artists Library Slipcase Vol. 4 Box Set was released October 29, 2019 from Fantagraphics Books.
Brain Bats of Venus: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Vol. 2 (1942-1952) was released October 22, 2019 from Fantagraphics Books.
EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest, a book-length study of social and political commentary in the EC Comics titles was released March 8, 2019 by Rutgers University Press.
About EC Comics Wiki
This wiki was started as a fork of another wiki that the old EC wiki had been merged into, and is now its own stand-alone wiki with new articles, comic covers, art, and more.
Just what is/are "EC Comics?
EC Comics was a comic book publishing company in the forties and fifties that published titles such as Tales from the Crypt and Weird Science. In the early 90s, a reboot of Two-Fisted Tales was carried out by Harvey Kurtzman, bearing the EC logo; However, the new series lasted only 2 issues. Later on in the 2000s a attempt to relaunch it and print a new series of CRYPTs was carried out by comic publishing company Papercutz, but the title lasted for only 13 issues. Most recently Tales from the Crypt Vol 3 comics were published by Super Genius with EC.
Did You Know?
The EC initials originally stood for “Educational Comics” before changing to “Entertaining Comics”
2020 is the 75th Anniversary Celebration Year for EC comics!
