Back From The Depths Presents : Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2024

Don't fear The Reaper, dude...

It has returned once again! Hallowscream is back with a spine-tingling sixteenth issue!

Here's the Download Link (for Dropbox right click and 'save as') :

Hallowscream 2024 (file size = 75.7 mb) :  MEDIAFIRE   DROPBOX   GOOGLE DRIVE

These are the full contents beyond the cover by Malcolm Kirk...

Page 3 : Are You Down To Suck?  Story & Art by Hydigen 

    

Page 7 : Grim Gallery  Models by Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 8 : Mutant On The Bounty  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

          

Page 11 : Communication Meltdown (Close Encounters of The Glowing Kind)

Story by Paul Bradford, Art by Randy Valiente

     

Page 21 : Terrorvision Guide  by Malcolm Kirk

           

Page 22 : Meanie In A Bottle  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

    

Page 27 : There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard  Story by M.R. James,

Art by Carol Kewley

      

Page 29 : Sister BoneyFace  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

    

Page 30 : Grim Gallery  Art by Ciaran Duke

    

Page 32 : Portal Loo  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

   

Page 37 : Bizarre Beasties : Kraken Toast  by Malcolm Kirk

   

Page 38 : Bizarre Beasties : Not Yeti  by Malcolm Kirk 

   

Page 39 : Salem Slots  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

   

Page 43 : Water of Life  Story by Tim West, Art by Pictsy, Letters by Jim Campbell

    

Page 47 : Funerail  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

    

Page 48 : Bizarre Beasties : Dinotaur  by Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 49 : Bizarre Beasties : Vanshee  by Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 50 : Grim Gallery  Artwork by Andrew Milne

    

Page 52 : Digital Wasteland  Story & Artwork by Gordon Innes

      

Page 57 : Grim Gallery  Artwork by Carol Kewley & John Owens

    

Page 59 : Terror of The Sheep 2 : Chapter 11  Story & Art by Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 63 : At Death's Door  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

       

Page 64 : Back Cover Skull  by Malcolm Kirk

 

You can also download all previous issues of Hallowscream at www.hallowscream.net

Hallowscream! Spinetingling Sixteenth Issue Submission Guidelines

Well, this year's guidelines have shown up a bit later than usual.  As many of the eldritch squelchy things lurking in the dank corners of our dungeons will tell you, "life can get in the way sometimes", but as that scientist chap with the laboratory on the top floor said the other day about something unrelated, "I'm sure we can still get something horrible assembled by the end of October", so we at Back From The Depths are once again looking for contributors for our freaky free annual pdf horror comic, HALLOWSCREAM.  Here are the submission guidelines...

Submissions should be horror orientated and must be weird or spooky to make the final cut.

We are mainly looking for completed comic strips between 1-7 pages in length. Anything already completed is far more likely to make it into the comic.

Script submissions should also preferably be around 1-7 pages in length.

Eerie illustrations and artwork along with interesting horror/comic articles, scary short stories, petrifying poems or anything just plain creepy will also be considered.

To get an idea of the sort of stuff we're after, you can download previous issues of Hallowscream here.

If you're looking to illustrate something, get in contact and we'll give you details of available scripts to see if anything suits your fancy.

We'll also consider material previously published elsewhere, as long as the contributors own the copyright.

Completed artwork can be either colour or black and white, and should preferably be A4 (21cm x 29.7cm) 300 dpi jpeg or png.

Submissions can be sent to merjeagles@yahoo.co.uk or ghastlymcnasty@backfromthedepths.co.uk

As this is a non-profit, small press publication, contributors will not be paid but they will retain copyright on any material submitted.

DEADLINES :

Scripts, articles and text submissions :  Saturday 3rd August 2024

Artwork : Friday 18th October 2024

Completed strips : Sunday 27th October 2024.

The finished issue will be available online as a free pdf by October 31st, with a physical copy becoming available via Lulu.com, at a later date. You can also keep up to date with Hallowscream news via the Facebook Page.

The Christmas Rad-Ion Times (Mega-City One Tri-D Guide) & Judge Dredd In The Chimera Never Dies

Here's part of the upcoming Christmas viewing schedule and by upcoming I mean in about 122 years time...

Basically, it's part of a telly guide for the future metropolis of Mega-City One, from the world of Judge Dredd, made for this year's official 2000ad Forum Advent Calendar.

On the subject of Dredd, the following is a "repeat" from earlier in the year, originally created as an entry for the 2000 AD Art Stars competion...

Click on the images to make them bigger and Jingle Borags, as they say in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.

HotchPotch Issue 10

The final thrill packed issue of HotchPotch is out now on Amazon!

Caspian Thrall and friends accidentally vanquish an evil king, Double O Ducky blows the top off a secret cloning project taking place inside an active volcano, Dank the goblin assassin returns home after wild adventures to find his family under threat from local hoodlums.

All this and more in this full colour comic anthology for children age 8+

HotchPotch UK Link           HotchPotch US Link

Cosmic Masque XVIII (and a certain freelance peacekeeping agent)

Doctor Who returns to screens this weekend in the first of three 60th anniversary specials and it features a character who first appeared in a comic strip in Doctor Who magazine in the 1980s, namely Beep The Meep.

Coincidentally, a drawing I did of another character the Doctor has met on his comic-strip travels  recently appeared within the pages of issue XVIII of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society's free quarterly digital magazine, Cosmic Masque.

This drawing here.

It accompanies an article on Draw Death's Head Day , Death's Head being the character in question.  Originally created by writer Simon Furman, (whose birthday 'coincides' with DDH Day), and artist Geoff Senior, the robotic bounty hunter freelance peacekeeping agent has encountered quite an eclectic mix of characters over the years. Being a Marvel UK character, there's the obvious array of superheroes, but initially he was a supporting character in the British Transformers comic, before encountering said Doctor and other Marvel UK types, (he even once joined in a fracas started by the aforementioned Meep).

I actually had a letter printed in the original run of Death's Head own comic back in 1989, coincidentally, (again), in an issue which co-starred the seventh Doctor...

There's the letter there...

That building looks familiar.

That toad-like character on the cover, (and the main protagonist in the story), is Josiah W. Dogbolter, who coincidentally, (again), also seems to be making a reappearance in Doctor Who media soon, if that is indeed him on the cover of this new audio drama coming from Big Finish Productions next month, (he has appeared in other Big Finish stories previously)... 

Coincidentally, (this is just getting silly now), Phil Boyce has recently started doing a retrospective of the Death's Head comics over on his Oink! blog.

Click HERE to read the Death's Head entries.

Issue XVIII of Cosmic Masque is available to download HERE, along with the subsequent issue XIX and all previous issues.

Back From The Depths Presents : Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2023

Something comes a-creeping...

Returning from whichever Hell it was banished to for the previous twelve months, Hallowscream is back with a blood-curdling fifteenth issue!

Here's the Download Link (for Dropbox right click and 'save as') :

Hallowscream 2023 (file size = 50 mb) :  MEDIAFIRE   DROPBOX   GOOGLE DRIVE

These are the full contents behind the phantasmaphotographical cover by Malcolm Kirk...

Page 3 : Return Unto Me  Story by Dan Whitehead, Art by Mal Jones

    

Page 9 : Apocaly-Oops!  Story by Tim West, Art by Carol Kewley

    

Page 10 : Deadvertisements  by Malcolm Kirk

          

Page 11 : The Misplaced Tick  Written by Andrés Briano, Illustrated by Ciaran Duke, 

Lettered by Tim West   

     

Page 15 : The Jogger  Story by John Crowther, Art by Emi Utrera 

           

Page 19 : Undercurrent : The Good Samaritan  Story by Paul Bradford, Art by

Randy Valiente

    

Page 27 : Uncle Fred's Puzzle Page  by Malcolm Kirk

      

Page 28 : Terror of The Sheep 2 : Chapter 10  Story and Art by

Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 31 : Called It  Story by Gate Karain, Art by Rob Gaughran, Letters by

Tim West

           

Page 33 : Grim Gallery  Artwork by Tony Rothwell & Andrew Milne

       

Page 36 : Back Cover Skull  by Malcolm Kirk

 

You can also download all previous issues of Hallowscream at www.hallowscream.net

Hallowscream! Fiendish Fifteenth Issue Submission Guidelines

It's the time of the year when we at Back From The Depths are once again looking for contributors for our freaky free annual pdf horror comic, HALLOWSCREAM, so here are the submission guidelines...

Submissions should be horror orientated and must be weird or spooky to make the final cut.

We are mainly looking for completed comic strips between 1-7 pages in length. Anything already completed is far more likely to make it into the comic.

Script submissions should also preferably be around 1-7 pages in length.

Eerie illustrations and artwork along with interesting horror/comic articles, scary short stories, petrifying poems or anything just plain creepy will also be considered.

To get an idea of the sort of stuff we're after, you can download previous issues of Hallowscream here.

If you're looking to illustrate something, get in contact and we'll give you details of available scripts to see if anything suits your fancy.

We'll also consider material previously published elsewhere, as long as the contributors own the copyright.

Completed artwork can be either colour or black and white, and should preferably be A4 (21cm x 29.7cm) 300 dpi jpeg or png.

Submissions can be sent to merjeagles@yahoo.co.uk or ghastlymcnasty@backfromthedepths.co.uk

As this is a non-profit, small press publication, contributors will not be paid but they will retain copyright on any material submitted.

DEADLINES :

Scripts, articles and text submissions :  Monday 31st July 2023

Artwork : Monday 16th October 2023

Completed strips : Friday 27th October 2023.

The finished issue will be available online as a free pdf by October 31st, with a physical copy becoming available via Lulu.com, at a later date. You can also keep up to date with Hallowscream news via the Facebook Page.