Message from Steve from the Niles Forum…

“The San Diego Comic Con was nothing short of crazy this year. The hall was opened to full capacity and the fans showed up to fill the extra space. This had its good sides and bad sides.

The good was that you could actually walk in the aisles without slamming into a Klingon every two seconds. The bad was that there was no way in HELL to see everything. I know I missed a lot, and worse I missed seeing a lot of folks…”

For the rest of the report, just click here.

Rob Zombie and Niles announced a new horror series to be published by Dark Horse comics. The story, about satanic bikers in mid seventies who torment an aging pro wrestler living out of his RV, promises to push the boundaries of horror. The 4 issue series is scheduled to begin in early 2004. Though Ben Templesmith supplied the art for the announcement flyer, no artist has been chosen as yet.

Pictured to the right are the flyer and photos from the announcement made at the San Diego ComicCon on Friday, July 18th at the Dark Horse Comics booth. Click the images to enlarge.

For more pics go here.

Here’s where Niles will be and when he’ll be there.

FRIDAY JULY 18th

4:00 – 5:00: Signing at the DARK HORSE booth with SPECIAL MYSTERY COLLABORATOR to announce a new Dark Horse Horror series!

5:00- 6:00: STAR WARS signing. Steve will perform his famous Jedi mind trick which makes people buy him free drinks.

SATURDAY JULY 19th

12:00 – 1:00: Signing with CRIMINAL MACABRE signing with BEN TEMPLESMITH at the DARK HORSE BOOTH.

2:00 – 3:00: Signing everything IDW at the IDW booth (#1943) There will be copies of DARK DAYS and THE CAL MCDONALD NOVELS available as well as announcements of TWO NEW IDW SERIES by Niles.

3:00 – 4:00: Signing 30 DAYS OF NIGHT TRADES at the DIAMOND booth.

Hope to see you there!

Official Press Release

San Diego, CA, July 11, 2003. In Las Vegas, it’s sometimes hard to tell the regular people from zombies. But when Steve Niles, the modern master of horror comics, brings out Remains with artist Kieron Dwyer, the differences will become apparent.

Scheduled for spring 2004, Remains is destined to be the next success in a Steve Niles string that includes 30 Days of Night, Dark Days, Wake the Dead, and the Cal McDonald novels and comics. Kieron Dwyer, best known for his work on Last of the Independents, Nocturnals, Avengers and other projects, is the perfect artist to bring Remains to un-life, with a distinctive style and an eye for the right horrific detail.

IDW’s Editor-in-Chief Jeff Mariotte said, “The imagination of Steve Niles is a fertile and twisted wasteland from which the scariest ideas spring forth like flowers, or maybe mutated snails, after a heavy acid rain. Between him and the brilliant Kieron Dwyer, Remains is sure to become an instant terror classic.”

“I’ve been wanting to do two things for a while now; work with Kieron and do a modern living dead story,” says Niles. “Now, with Remains, I get to do both. This is going to be a very sick ride.”

Remains will be a five-issue, standard format comic book miniseries, debuting in late spring.

Rue Morgue Magazine Issue #34 - July/August 2003

The current issue of Rue Morgue Magazine features an in-depth conversation with Steve Niles, who Rue Morgue calls “the comic book medium’s hottest property”. Pick up the latest issue and read the story by Gary Butler, plus a review of the series Criminal Macabre by Niles and Templesmith. Also enter to Win a library of Dark Horse titles including signed copies of Hellboy, The Devil’s Footprints, Criminal Macabre and The Goon! See details inside this issue. ON STANDS NOW!