Nomination for horror comic ‘The Me You Love In The Dark’

Comics
Written By Chris Well

For fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman

The first collected edition of horror romance comic The Me You Love In The Dark is nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel category. Writer Skottie Young (I Hate Fairyland, Deadpool, Strange Academy) and artist Jorge Corona (No. 1 With A Bullet, Super Sons, Feathers) follow up their critically acclaimed series Middlewest with this haunting tale.

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About the book The Me You Love In The Dark Vol. 1

An artist named Ro retreats from the grind of the city to an old house in a small town to find solace and inspiration without realizing the muse within is not what she expected. Fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman will enjoy this beautiful, dark, and disturbing story of discovery, love, and terror.

“A fantastic start to what promises to be a rich, dark, and vibrant tale.”
—ComicBook.com

“For a book about an artist, this comic lives up to the quality of an expert painter through color and linework.”
—AIPT

“A brilliant and balanced beginning.”
—The GWW

“A classic haunted house story with a modern twist.”
—Geek’d Out

Categories: Horror Graphic Novels, Romance Graphic Novels

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About the creators

Skottie Young got his start at Marvel on titles like Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider Clan, Human Torch, and Venom. He soon began adapting the L. Frank Baum Land of Oz novels at Marvel with Eric Shanower. He is best known for writing and drawing the hit series Rocket Raccoon, illustrating the children’s book Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman, and the Young Marvel variant covers. He’s also the cartoonist of I Hate Fairyland and writer/co-creator of Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark with artist/co-creator Jorge Corona, and artist/co-creator of Twig with writer Kyle Strahm.

Jorge Corona is a Venezuelan sequential artist and the winner of the 2015 Russ Manning Award. A writer and illustrator, his works include We are… Robin, Nightwing, and The Flash for DC Comics; Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack, Adventure Time Comics, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons, and others for BOOM! Studios. Corona is also the co-creator of Goners and No. 1 With A Bullet (Nominated for the 2018 Eisner Awards for Best Cover Artist) alongside Jacob Semahn for Image Comics, and creator of Feathers, his all-ages dark fantasy, for Archaia Entertainment.

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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