JAWS Meets Edgar Allan Poe in This Exclusive SNIFTER OF TERROR Cover!
Jonathan Barkan
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Beginning this October, AHOY Comics will begin a six-issue run of a new comic book magazine titled Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror! An homage to the days of Tales from the Crypt but mixed with the hilarity of Drunk History, the series will tackle old and new tales alike, giving them a unique, hilarious, and spooky twist!
Today, we bring you an exclusive look at the cover art for issue #4 of Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror, which was created by Mad Magazine alum Richard Williams. The obvious joke here is that it’s a play on the famous poster for Jaws, although there’s something equally terrifying about a large Poe circling underneath the darkness of the ocean…
AHOY Comics is the brainchild of Publisher Hart Seely, an award-winning reporter whose humor and satire has appeared in The New York Times and on National Public Radio; two founding editors of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, Tom Peyer and Stuart Moore; and Chief Creative Officer Frank Cammuso.
“It’s time to expect more from comics,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “AHOY Comics offers a wide breadth of contributors from the worlds of mainstream and indie comics and humor magazines. We’re publishing comic book magazines with full-length stories, backup stories, one-off gags by a bestselling New Yorker cartoonist, political poetry by a regular Politico contributor, and prose stories by Grant Morrison, Cienna Madrid and a sundry of talent. And I don’t want it to sound too serious, because these comic book magazines are both fun and funny. It really is a unique reading experience.”
“There is no house style at AHOY Comics, but one of the things we aim to do is to bring a sense of humor to the comics,” said AHOY Comics “Dark Ops” Manager and Captain Ginger co-creator Stuart Moore. “We’re publishing stories with a strong personal vision that provoke an occasional laugh. You know, like Preacher. Or, more recently, comics written by Mark Russell, whose sensibilities are a great match for ours. It’s a dark humor, we admit.”
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