Oni Press will release December’s ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: DAVID LAPHAM #1, featuring new and classic works from Eisner Award-winning artist David Lapham, as part of a series honoring notable talents in EC Comics.

The press release follows:

Media Release – 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 reveal December’s ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: DAVID LAPHAM #1 – EC’s next artist-centric celebration of its boldest and bloodiest talents… spotlighting multiple Eisner Award winner and comics master David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Detective Comics) on December 30th!



Re-presenting Lapham’s greatest and goriest contributions to the new EC Comics canon – featuring taut tales of tension and terror penned by collaborators J. Holtham (EC’s Cruel Universe), Matt Kindt (BRZRKR), Joe R. Lansdale (Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo), and more – for the first time between two covers, this ad-free special also features a brand-new, never-before-seen EC shocker illustrated by Lapham and co-written by Maria Lapham (Underheist)! BZZZ! BZZZ! There’s no swatting this one away… especially since it weighs 200 pounds and is coming right for you!

Beginning with November’s ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: CHARLIE ADLARD #1, each ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS special will recollect a “razor-sharp” collection of EC”s “greatest slits” (heh heh) from a different maestro of the macabre – including Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Sami Kivelä (The Forever Home), and Leomacs (Benjamin) – alongside an all-new tale specifically scripted for each one-shot special by a cavalcade of “all-slaughter” writing talents, including Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood),?Greg Pak (Planet Hulk), and Ben H. Winters (Archie).



The first four ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS specials will be released monthly throughout the coming winter – stay warm by curling up and throwing someone you love onto the bonfire, while you read each of these eye-popping issues:

ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: CHARLIE ADLARD #1
Art & Cover by
Charlie Adlard
(The Walking Dead)
Written by Chris Condon with Tim Seeley
November 2026

ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: DAVID LAPHAM #1
Art & Cover by
David Lapham
(Stray Bullets, Knight City)
Written by David & Maria Lapham with J. Holtham, Matt Kindt & Joe R. Lansdale
December 2026

ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: SAMI KIVELÄ #1
Art & Cover by
Sami Kivelä
(The Forever Home, Abbott)
Written by Greg Pak with Chris Condon & Ben H. Winters
January 2027

ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: LEOMACS #1
Art & Cover by Leomacs
(Benjamin, DC Black Label’s Rogues)
Written by Ben H. Winters with Corinna Bechko, J. Holtham & Matt Kindt
February 2028

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EC ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: CHARLIE ADLARD #1
WRITTEN BY CHRIS CONDON with TIM SEELEY
ART BY CHARLIE ADLARD
COVER A BY CHARLIE ADLARD
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY CHARLIE ADLARD
ON SALE NOVEMBER 11, 2026 | $5.99 | 32 PGS | NO ADS | FC

EC ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: DAVID LAPHAM #1
WRITTEN BY J. HOLTHAM, MATT KINDT, JOE R. LANSDALE, DAVID & MARIA LAPHAM
ART BY DAVID LAPHAM
COVER A BY DAVID LAPHAM
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY DAVID LAPHAM
ON SALE DECEMBER 30, 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.

ONI PRESS

THE LOUDEST THING IN COLOR SINCE ‘97. For nearly 30 years, Oni Press has carved a distinctive path as one of the world’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels, including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, Jay Stephens’ Dwellings, Ezra Clayton Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, LySandra Vuong’s Covenant, 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 roster of periodical comics for globally recognized properties including Adventure Time, Biker Mice from Mars, Choose Your Own Adventure, Cult of the Lamb, EC Comics, Murder Drones, Rick and Morty, and more.

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