BOO! Jay Stephens’ DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOW’S EVE SPECIAL Tricks and Treats into Comic Shops Everywhere October 30th!
Welcome Back To Elwich, The Town Where Every Piece Of Candy Is Just A Razor Blade Waiting To Be Revealed!
DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOW'S EVE SPECIAL
COVER A BY JAY STEPHENS
PORTLAND, OR (September 23, 2024) – TRICK OR TREAT! LIVE OR DIE! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to unveil the first look inside DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOW’S EVE SPECIAL #1 – coming to comic shops everywhere on October 30th! Emmy Award–winning, Eisner Award–nominated comics master Jay Stephens (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) captures the Halloween spirit in all of its blood-spattered, candy-colored glory in the first-ever standalone, double-sized DWELLINGS special out October 30th. . . before the series makes its much-demanded return with DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES in 2025!
This Halloween, return to the terrifyingly tranquil streets that Dwellings calls home—as seen through the eyes of visitor Wolfgang LeGant! But Wolfgang is no ordinary tourist: He's convinced he's actually a seasoned vampire hunter, and this delusion has drawn him to Elwich to drive a stake through the once-unassuming town's thriving “Saguinarian” goth subculture. But when Wolfgang meets Emmaline Momenta, a young woman similarly possessed by the idea that she’s a real vampire, irrational faith may be the only thing capable of stopping a mass murder in the making . . .
"In each stand-alone Dwellings tale, I strive to summon the vibe of different styles of horror cinema that I grew up with,” said Jay Stephens. “This story ‘Come Hither’ has the taste of old Hammer Films' Gothic sleaze with a whiff of Roger Corman's off-brand literary cinema classics. It's a flipped take of Dracula that also serves as a call back to the previous Dwellings comics... some familiar faces return... some for the last time."
Featuring standard and “skeletonized” covers by Stephens himself, alongside a variant cover from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Katie Skelly (Twisted Romance, Nurse Nurse), the multiple Ringo Award-nominated sensation returns October 30th with 40 pages of all-new content in the DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOW’S EVE SPECIAL #1!
PRAISE FOR DWELLINGS
“Quite possibly the best horror comic of the last 20 years.”—THE COMICS JOURNAL
"DWELLINGS is like Lynchian horror as a Saturday Morning Cartoon.... Probably the most fun I've had while flinching squeamishly on the edge of my seat in quite some time (yes really).... Casper the Friendly Ghost with more gruesome murder is honestly a pretty good description of the atmosphere here.... You can get your Saturday Morning Horror on starting in August." — BOING BOING
“Dwellings is an unnerving collection of interconnected short stories set in the town of Elwich. Each story combines the aesthetics of classic all-ages comics with horror tropes to create a unique, unforgettable reading experience.”—CBR
DWELLINGS ALL HALLOW’S EVE SPECIAL INTERIOR ART BY JAY STEPHENS
COVER A BY JAY STEPHENS
COVER B BY KATIE SKELLY
SKELETAL VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOW’S EVE SPECIAL #1
WRITTEN/ART BY JAY STEPHENS
COVER A BY JAY STEPHENS
COVER B BY KATIE SKELLY
SKELETAL VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
ON SALE OCTOBER 30TH | $5.99 | 40 PAGES | FC
FOC: 10/7/2024
About the Creator
Jay Stephens is a three-decade veteran of the Canadian alt-comics scene, starting out in the early 1990s with the influential creator-owned series' Sin, The Land of Nod, Atomic City Tales, and Jetcat Clubhouse, while also dabbling in licensed comics work like Aliens, Star Wars, Teen Titans, and The Invisibles. Also known for his kids' comic strips, Chick & Dee, Arrowhead, and the syndicated newspaper strip Oh, Brother!, as well as the underground weekly strips, Oddville! and Nod. Jay's side career in film includes working in the Art Department on a few low-budget horror movies, and creating and producing animated television like Jetcat, the Emmy-Award winning Tutenstein, and Cartoon Network's The Secret Saturdays.
About Oni Press
Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, K. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels' Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.