We continue our year-long celebration of artist Richard Sala with his vision of the moment right before a young environmentalist is reclaimed by Nature.
You can see some of Richard Sala's black-and-white art, read some of his comics, as well as reviews of books collecting his work at the Shades of Gray blog, by clicking here.
It's one of the many Perils of Peculia: The Night Visitor!
A version of this image was used as a cover for an issue of The Evil Eye, a 12-issue anthology series published by Fantagraphics during the late 1990s. Most of the Peculia stories from the series were reprinted in Peculia and Peculia and the Groom Grove Vampires, with numerous revisions by Sala,
On the second and fourth Fridays of the month, for all of 2022, we're going to bring you one of the late Richard Sala's spooktacular ink-and-watercolor drawings. Some will feature his signature character Peculia, some will be inspired by classic horror films or horror tropes, some will just be strange... but we hope you'll enjoy them as much as we do.
Every month, on the 13th, you'll find another short film here. We hope it will pass the time until Terror Titans springs back to full life next October for another 31 Nights of Halloween!
We're leading off with the first installment of what currently appears to be writer/director Alex Magana's signature series, Smiling Woman. It features a nice merging of a ghost story with modern technology, along with a healthy dose of urban legend sensibility.
Smiling Woman (2019)
Starring: Ariel Fullinwider and Merlynda Sol
Director: Alex Magana
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars
It's a few moments past 1AM, the train station is all but deserted, and a young woman (Fullinwider) is about to have a strange encounter...
