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Newsarama: OK, let’s start at the beginning Hunter.
What led to Oni Press reviving EC Comics?
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Hunter Gorinson:I think everyone has their one thing and my great passion has always been EC Comics.
EC just always stuck with me as I got into movies and underground music and comedy.
It’s an intensely powerful thing.
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So how did this comeback happen?
And that is currently the project that we are up to our eyeballs in.
They’ve been fantastic partners to work with.
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So this has been a real passion project for you?
Tell us a little bit about those two books… A really great combination of folks!
You’ve mentioned a specific EC tone a couple of times now.
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Could you elaborate on that a little?
The tone and intensity and the point of view is very specific.
One stylistic thing that is vitally important to maintain is the lettering.
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How did Oni pick the creators for this project?
‘Klaus Jansonis doing a story in #2 which still blows my mind!
‘Would you like to write a new EC Comics story?’
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And then watching people’s eyes light up.
How far do your plans for the line stretch?
We’ll continuously be running at least two EC Comics titles a month for the near future.
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They dabbled in it, but they never had a title fully committed to it before.
And then not everything we do over the course of the next year will be an anthology.
That’s the exciting part of doing this.
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That’s part of the reason why we’re not doing Tales from the Crypt #1.
Let’s not do a complete template replica of what EC was 70 years ago.
Epitaphs from the Abyss #1 is published by Oni Press on July 24.
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Cruel Universe #1 follows on August 7.
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