Steve will be winging his way up to San Fracisco, CA, for a very special signing at The Isotope. Click the flyer below for more information.

And don’t miss James Sime’s The Comic Pimp for Friday, May 28th, in which he talks about the event and chats with Steve and artist Kieron Dwyer.

San Diego, CA, May 27, 2004—The highly anticipated Hyde one-shot, written by Steve Niles, has been canceled. Instead of shipping during its original publication month of June, it will be resolicited for October.

The book has had a change of artists, with brilliant new artist Nick Stakal coming on board. In Niles’s frightening tale of terror, two brilliant but misunderstood scientists race to unlock the mystery of man’s dual nature. They succeed, unleashing a murderous beast on a terrified city. As suspicion and treachery grow, the startling secret of the beast’s origin is revealed. Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) delivers a powerful and frightening tale of duality, deception, and death. Hyde has already been optioned for a motion picture by Dimension Films.

Hyde is a 48-page, full color one-shot with a retail price of $6.99.

San Diego, CA, May 26, 2004—IDW Publishing debuts Steve Niles’s Meeednight Pulps with Secret Skull, an eruption of ghouls, girls, guns and goons. A mysterious killer is on the loose in the city, but this killer only kills bad guys—or those about to be bad.

Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, Remains) and talented newcomer Chuck BB deliver the new horror pulp, bringing all the fun and action of the classic pulp adventures to a modern audience.

“I’ve been wanting to do something really pulpy and fun,” says Niles. “When I saw Chuck’s art I knew I’d found the right man for the job. This is going to be really fun!”

Chuck BB added, “I think Steve and I find common ground with our passionate love of skulls. But this comic has a lot more to boast than simply skinned human craniums. It’s a real story, with characters that I think Steve made easy to relate to. Personally, I’m just psyched to be making comics with Steve Niles, and drawing skulls to boot.”

Secret Skull #1, on sale in September 2004, is a 32-page, full color comic book with a retail price of $3.99.

IDW PUBLISHING is a division of Idea + Design Works, LLC, a revolutionary creative service company with a wide range of clients including The Upper Deck Company, Electronic Arts, Ultima Online, WizKids, Cartoon Network, Sony Online Entertainment, Nickelodeon, and many more. IDW Publishing focuses on a small number of high-quality titles. Among them are CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s 30 Days of Night and its sequels, Dark Days and Return to Barrow; Ashley Wood’s Lore; CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations; Beau Smith’s Wynonna Earp; and Steve Niles’ Wake The Dead. Columbia Pictures has optioned the movie rights to 30 Days of Night, with Sam Raimi attached to produce. Konami is producing a video game based on CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations. Dimension Films has optioned the movie rights to Wake The Dead and Hyde.

We now have RETURN TO BARROW #3 available for purchase in our online store. Get a signed copy today!

Additionally, we’ve put our remaining stock of SPAWN related books on sale. Steve’s work on SPAWN, HELLSPAWN and SPAWN: THE DARK AGES represents some of Steve’s earliest mainstream work. We’re running low on stock, though, and decided let’s blow out the rest! Priced now at only $4, signed by Steve naturally, this is a great opportunity to pick up some great books at a very reasonable price. HELLSPAWN can be found on this page and SPAWN and SPAWN THE DARK AGES can be found right here. While supplies last!!!

Added some new covers to the images section as well as some comics to the store today.

You can now find the covers to ALEISTER ARCANE #2, REMAINS #1 and DAWN OF THE DEAD #2 in the Cover Gallery on this here site.

In the SteveNiles.com store, we’ve got a number of new comics as well as something special for the ladies. In addition to copies of ALEISTER ARCANE #2, REMAINS #1 and DAWN OF THE DEAD #2 now available for purchase, we have something extra special for the ladies! Our new Homicide Girl Women’s Tank Top! And it’s available exclusively at the SteveNiles.com store.

Official Press Release

The creative team behind 30 Days of Night, Wizard magazine’s “breakout hit of 2002,” launch a new series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, and werewolves. The best-selling comics series is collected in this massive graphic novel, including the hard-to-find short from last Halloween’s Drawing on Your Nightmares special issue, and a new cover by Templesmith!

MGM has picked up the film rights to Steve Niles’ and Ben Teplesmith’s comic book miniseries Criminal Macabre through Dark Horse Entertainment!

The Criminal Macabre: A Cal Mcdonald Mystery tpb features the writing talents of Steve Niles and art by Ben Templesmith. It arrives in stores April 28, with a retail price of $17.95.

The good people at Entertainment Weekly gave 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: RETURN TO BARROW high marks in their most recent issue. They said:

Horror writer Steve Niles and idiosyncratically scribbly artist Ben Templesmith scored a sleeper hit with their clever 2002 tale of a vampire attack on a darkness-swallowed Alaskan town. In this third installment, the bloodsuckers are back – and Niles has concocted enough fresh suspense to allay any fears that 30 Days of Night is being overfranchised (after the horde of spin-offs, what’s next, fang floss?). Will Barrow’s new sheriff coax the secrets from the frost Barrow survivors? And what’s with the gory headless vamp? It all plays like the Wachowskis taking on Anne Rice…without all the lame-ass philosophy. A- – Tom Russo