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cyberghostface
This EC comic is not a horror story but it did serve the basis for an episode of HBO's Tales from the Crypt with Kirk Douglas in one of the lead roles.
( Scans under the cut... )
alicemacher
Recent concerns about grocery supply-chain disruptions and hoarding made me think of my high school history lessons about World War II food rationing. That in turn reminded me of one of my favourite EC stories, not the least because its title is one of their cleverest puns (the other being "Horror We? How's Bayou?").
( 'Get mad! Get good and mad! Heh... heh...' )
Weird Science-Fantasy: The Flying Machine
Jun. 27th, 2019 04:35 pmalicemacher
"[Krigstein's] second EC job, 'The Flying Machine' [...], was a bona fide comics classic, a rare instance where the artist's style and script were in perfect harmony. Original author Ray Bradbury thought so, too. In a letter [...] Bradbury wrote: '"The Flying Machine" is the finest single piece of art-drawing I've seen in years. Beautiful work: I was so touched and pleased by the concern for detail.'"
-- S.C. Ringgenberg, Master Race: And Other Stories Illustrated by Bernard Krigstein (Fantagraphics, 2018), 211
( 'But there are times when one must lose a little beauty' )
EC Comics' magnum opus: Master Race
Jun. 22nd, 2019 05:40 pmalicemacher
"Krigstein's formal qualities as a storyteller—not the story's subject matter—make 'Master Race' a tour de force. He encapsulates the decade of Nazi terror powerfully but with restraint, never slipping into the Grand Guignol that made EC notorious. The two tiers of wordless staccato panels that climax the story have become justly famous among the comics literate. They have often been described as 'cinematic,' a phrase thoroughly inadequate to the achievement: Krigstein condenses and distends time itself."
--Art Spiegelman, "Ballbuster: Bernard Krigstein's Life Between the Panels," The New Yorker, July 14, 2002
Warning for anti-Semitism.
( 'Run... as you ran from Belsen, Carl!' )
