![]() ![]() “The EC line represents a high-water mark in the history of commercial comics,” he wrote in an e-mail. Gary Groth, Fantagraphics president and editor of its EC Library, thinks he knows. So why, decades after its death, is EC still alive - and even thriving? ![]() IDW also put out biographies this year of Wood and EC’s indispensable editor-writer-artist, Al Feldstein. ![]() IDW Publishing is producing stunning, portfolio-size Artist’s Editions, with work by EC all-stars like Wally Wood, Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman (who created Mad magazine) and others. Just last month, Fantagraphics released two more albums in its EC Comics Library, started last year, and will soon publish its first volume of illustrator interviews in “The EC Artists.” Dark Horse Comics has revived the EC Archives, and will continue the series with “Tales From the Crypt: Volume 4,” next month. ![]() This is a chilling and improbable tale of the living dead: Even though they were savaged by the politeness police and left lifeless some 60 years ago, EC comic books, which spawned notorious titles like Tales From the Crypt, Shock SuspenStories and Mad, have become the comics that refused to die. ![]()
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