Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are launching a new one-shot comic series titled “ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS,” starting with Charlie Adlard in November 2026, celebrating bold talents from EC Comics.

The press release follows:

Media Release – In advance of Comic-Con International 2026 in San Diego, CA, Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to announce a new series of one-shot celebrations spotlighting the boldest and bloodiest talents from EC’s new class of caustic cartoonists! Our first victim? Comics legend and Eisner Award-winning artist Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead, Of The Earth), who takes center stage this November with ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: CHARLIE ADLARD #1!



For the first time between two covers, survey Adlard’s punishing portfolio of uninvited resurrections, souls sold cheap, and spectacularly sadistic horrors as illustrated in the immortal EC Comics manner (with lots and lots of red, naturally). Plus: A brand-new, never-before-told tale reuniting Adlard with acclaimed writer and fellow survivor of the Tormentor’s rack: Chris Condon ?(Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood)!

Each ad-free ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS special will recollect the artists’ greatest and goriest contributions to the EC Comics canon, alongside a brand-new, pulse-pounding EC shocker specifically scripted for each one-shot special by a cavalcade of “all-slaughter” writing talents, including?Condon, David & Maria Lapham (Underheist), Greg Pak (Planet Hulk), and Ben H. Winters (Archie).



Released monthly through the winter, subsequent installments will include:

ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: DAVID LAPHAM #1
Art & Cover by David Lapham (Stray Bullets, The Hero Trade)
Written by David & Maria Lapham (Underheist), J. Holtham (EC Epitaphs of the Abyss), Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT: New & Improved)? & Joe R. Lansdale (EC Catacomb of Torment, Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo)
December 2026

ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: SAMI KIVELÄ #1
Art & Cover by Sami Kivelä (The Forever Home, Abbott)
Written by Greg Pak (Planet Hulk), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood), & Ben H. Winters (Benjamin, Archie)
January 2027

ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: LEOMACS #1
Art & Cover by Leomacs (Benjamin, DC Black Label’s Rogues)
Written by Ben H. Winters (Benjamin, Archie), Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT: New & Improved), Corinna Bechko (Blood Type), & J. Holtham (EC Epitaphs of the Abyss)
February 2028

“Across nearly a century of comics history, EC Comics has a strong claim to the greatest stable of artists ever assembled by a single publisher. With our new slate of acclaimed EC titles at Oni Press, it’s been a tremendous privilege to continue that terrifying, tantalizing tradition in style by uniting some of the comics industry’s greatest living talents and fastest rising stars alike for new tales of grievous horror and shocking science-fiction,” said Senior Editor Allyson Gronowitz. “Now we’re taking it up a notch with a novel celebration of our newest crop of grisled EC veterans – and what better way to start than with 32 pages of brilliant artwork by the inimitable Charlie Adlard?”

Buckle up, ghoulatics, because EC’s ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS are sure to be the most murderous mags you’ll read all winter! Shovel and lyme not included.

For more on the next traumatizing year of EC Comics’ thrills and chills, join Oni Press at San Diego Comic Con on Thursday, July 24th at 11 am PT in Room 28DE for the “Oni Press: The Loudest Thing in Color” panel presentation! The groundbreaking independent publisher behind the most notorious name in terror’s blockbuster resurrection is about to begin countdown to its 30th anniversary … and to celebrate, we’re unveiling a stunning slate of new releases for 2026 and beyond with creators Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Archie Goes to Hell), Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim), Tradd Moore (Touch Me Someplace Nowhere), Curt Pires & Juan Gedeon (Super Mondo Mega Mutts), and Christian Ward (The Forever Home), alongside President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson, Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn, and more!

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EC Artists From The Abyss: Charlie Adlard #1
Writers: Chris Condon with Tim Seeley
Artist: Charlie Adlard
Cover A: Charlie Adlard
On Sale: 11/11/2026
$5.99 | 32 pgs | No Ads | FC

About EC Comics

As the birthplace of Tales from the Crypt, MAD magazine, Weird Science, and more of the most influential and celebrated comic series ever published, EC Comics has cemented itself as one of the central nerves of American pop culture with a legacy that spans more than seven decades. From 1944 to 1956, EC—established as “Educational Comics” by founder M.C. Gaines and later rebranded “Entertaining Comics” under the leadership of publisher and editor William M. Gaines—led a creative renaissance for the comics industry that, for the first time, elevated the once-derided comics medium into the echelons of English literature and high art. Heralded as “one of the great explosions of vox-pop literature” by Time magazine and “fiercely honest, politically adversarial, [and] visually masterful” by The Comics Journal, EC’s line of comics books—which collectively sold more than ten million copies annually at their peak—entertained and informed in equal measure, using brilliantly crafted tales of horror, science fiction, satire, and battlefield conflict to critique and subvert America’s dark impulses toward violence, racism, inequity, environmental destruction, and war.

Forcibly shuttered by the Comics Code Authority—a pro-censorship group specifically tasked with eradicating EC’s illuminating influence from the American comic book industry—in 1956, EC’s unique brand of subversive storytelling lived on through the continued success of MAD magazine, which would fuel American counterculture through the death of publisher William M. Gaines in 1992. EC’s titles and stories have been adapted in a number of media—including HBO’s long-running Tales from the Crypt franchise of television series and feature films—and continue to be celebrated by multiple generations of comic creators, filmmakers, comedians, and musicians as a seminal influence.

Today, EC Comics’ canon of classic stories can continuously be found in print through new editions at Dark Horse Comics, Taschen, Fantagraphics, and IDW Publishing. In 2024, EC announced a new partnership with multiple Eisner- and Harvey Award–winning publisher Oni Press to produce the first all-new EC Comics titles in nearly seventy years.

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