The 50’s was a drought for the established character actor Peter Lorre, but perhaps things seemed brighter at the start of the decade with his directorial debut, a postwar German thriller, Der Verlorene, or The Lost One, sometimes translated as The Lost Man. Released in 1951, Der Verlorene tells the story of one Dr. Karl Neumeister (Peter Lorre), working at
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List of the top 10 greatest black and white comic book series of all time.
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Welcome back to The Splintering’s Monochrome May event! Today we’re featuring the trade paperback edition of Batman Black and White, the four-issue anthology miniseries published by DC Comics. The individual issues of Batman Black and White included five stories that were eight pages long, and the first collected edition was released in 1998. Each story features the work of a
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In April the crowdfunding campaign for Reaper Book 1: The Cursed Castle, a 100+ page, black and white graphic novel came to an end, successfully raising more than $5 thousand from 128 backers. Written and illustrated by Trisha Cuffari (aka Dannphan), Reaper is a dark fantasy series presented in a manga-style 5″ x 7.5″ format. Here’s the official pitch taken
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of black and white entertainment! Today we’re going to pick apart a lesser-known puzzle game for the Nintendo Game Boy, Daedalian Opus. Published by Vic Tokai in 1990, Daedalian Opus is a Tetris-inspired twist on tangram puzzles. What’s a tangram puzzle? Tangrams are designed around rearranging various two dimensional shapes called
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Fried Comics recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for DREAMQUEST 2, the second installment of a three-issue miniseries. Written by Clay Adams (Red Xmas) and featuring illustrations by Mick Beyers (A Queen of Mars) and colors by Alex Zief (Monster Matador), DREAMQUEST is a sci-fi horror miniseries that “expands on (HP) Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle.” Here’s the official pitch taken from the
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of everything faded and old. Sorta. Today we’re going to pick apart Raging Fighter, a one-on-one fighting game for the Nintendo Game Boy published in 1993 by Konami. As many who lived through the early 90s fighting game craze might recall, fighting games could often be lumped into two categories: the ones that wanted to be Street
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“I see wolf people.” Independent comic book creator NyRiam recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for BONDS: The Cursed Child, a 77-page fantasy graphic novel. The project is fully funded and currently available in-demand, having raised more than $10 thousand at the time of this writing. Written and illustrated by NyRiam, The Cursed Child is the follow-up to BONDS: The Drive,
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Did Vikings have a word for leopard? Independent comic creator Edwin Ascevedo launched a crowdfunding campaign for Raid of the White Leopard, a 16-page comic book featuring black and white artwork and two separate, but interconnected stories. The project is already fully funded, having raised more that $16 hundred at the time of this writing. Written by Edwin Acevedo (The
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Today I’m again sharing a few recent art cards, this time hoping to get some feedback as to whether I should color them or leave them in black and white: The Fly, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, and the Zuul Terror Dog from Ghostbusters. Give the video below a watch and let me know what you think! Thanks for reading! You
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Don’t call him Jack. Independent comic book creator Nick Gibson recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for 2100 Samurai issue 3: A Bridge Too Far, a 20-page, black and white cyberpunk action book with a manga-inspired flare. The project is already fully funded, having raised more than $13 hundred at the time of this writing. Described as a “blending of such
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things inspired by color blindness. Sort of. Not really. Today we’re going to take a look at Night Sky, which was digitally published by Nicalis for the Nintendo 3DS in 2012. Developed by Nicklas Nygren, Night Sky is a unique spin (kill me) on the puzzle platformer, adding rotation physics into the mix as
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…And it’s totally Güey. Brian Butvidas recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for A Güey Zine, a 50+ page comic anthology. Featuring the work of several independent comic book writers and artists, the stories in A Güey Zine include comedy, action, sci-fi, all with an unabashed Latino flare. All of the work for A Güey Zine is already fully completed, even
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Renowned comic book creator Gary Shipman recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for Titan Mouse of Might volume 3, a 68-page graphic novel. Written and illustrated by Shipman (Pakkins’ Land) Titan Mouse of Might is a psychological superhero thriller starring a mighty mou— oooooh, I get it. Here’s the official pitch taken from the Titan Mouse of Might Fund My Comic
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We recently got the chance to read the first three issues of The Brooding Muse, an ongoing horror anthology series.* Let’s just jump into it! A variety of artists and writers bring “illustrated stories of overwhelming fear and lurking death” to The Brooding Muse, which is presented in black and white. Each issue has several stories (anthology), with some of them being serialized
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Independent video game development studio The Retro Room Games has announced that Batty Zabella, an all-new point-and-click adventure game for the original Nintendo Game Boy. Blending horror and comedy elements with classic point-and-click gameplay, Batty Zabella follows the exploits of the fetching titular heroine as she solves puzzles, explores the mysterious grounds of her house and saves her family from
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“This place is already known as ‘The Badlands,’ but now we have to deal with ghost hauntings? I’m packing it all up and going back to Texas.” -Anonymous Badlands resident Independent comic book creator George Alexopoulos (aka GPrime85) and prominent YouTube culture critic Razörfist launched a crowdfunding campaign for Ghost of the Badlands, a 105-page graphic novel presented in black
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Over the weekend, Riot Press launched a crowdfunding campaign for Zorro and the Phantasm Cult of Hollywood Hills, 1955, a 24-page, black and white comic book. The project is already fully funded, having raised more than $3 thousand at the time of this writing. Written and illustrated by Patrick Thomas Parnell,* Zorro and the Phantasm Cult is a reimagining of
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It’s been far too many months since we’ve run one of our themed events (like our Festival of Dread, 80s August & Jolly Jinglings). So I’m happy to say that one of our longest running events is Monochrome May is back, and with it, a celebration of black and white games, comics, movies, and all things chiaroscuro. But that doesn’t
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things chromatically challenged. Today we’re going to pick away at Fiendish chapter one, a 46-page comic (more if you count chapter 2 preview pages) written and illustrated by Irene A. Strychalski. Set in the cold lands of Northern Europe, Fiendish is a horror/fantasy book strictly intended for a mature audience. The project
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Alleyway was probably just fine for 80s and 90s kids looking for a simple game to play with their new Game Boy. But is it worth a pick up today?
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things spectrum impaired. Today we’re going to look at A High School Girl in the Crusades, a 22-page comic that was successfully crowdfunded earlier in 2022. Written by Jon Del Arroz (Deus Vult) and featuring artwork by Dachul Akamoto, A High School Girl in the Crusades is a comedic adventure intended to parody the Isekai
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things weiß und schwartz. Today we’re going to do another Silent Movie Review, this time looking at one of the early Sherlock Holmes serials. Based on the short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip is a silent film directed by Maurice Elvey. It was created in 1921 as the eighth of the Stoll
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On Wednesday, independent comic book creator (and really-real descendent of Bram Stoker) Clint Stoker launched a crowdfunding campaign for Dracula, a 56-page, black & white, hardcover(!) graphic novel. In addition to already being fully funded, all of the story, art, lettering and prepress are 100% complete, so there should be fewer hangups getting Dracula into the backers’ clutches. Written by
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Retro publisher Incube8 Games and indie developer Mike Yamato recently announced that 2021: Moon Escape is coming soon to Nintendo Switch eShop. The game is an open-world adventure featuring minimalist retro aesthetics and a fully developed sci-fi story. Here’s the official breakdown of 2021: Moon Escape from Incube8 Games: Set in a galaxy devastated by an unprecedented war, you will
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things color deficient. Today we’re unboxing our Indiegogo-exclusive copy of The Girl with the Mega Fists by Tyler Carpenter. Without further ado, straight to the video! Thanks for watching today. We appreciate all feedback – positive, constructive, or colorful. Thanks for reading! You can check out more of our Monochrome
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things chromatically-challenged. In the early 90s, my parents acquired our family’s first computer. We picked it up second-hand, so it’s fair to say that it was not state-of-the-art, even by the standards of the time. But what is most important for the purpose of this story, is that it came
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On Sunday, independent comic book creator and Splatto Comics founder Richard C. Meyer launched a crowdfunding campaign for both Iron Sights 3 and Impossible Stars 2. Iron Sights is an over-the-top, gritty crime series, while Impossible Stars is a sci-fi tale set in Earth’s distant future. Here’s the official breakdown of the campaign from the Iron Sights 3 and Impossible
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things color deficient. Speaking of deficient, today we’re going to take a look at The DeaDBeat, a 112-page graphic novel by Jeremy Massey and published by Alterna Comics in YEAR. The story was originally published as four mini comics, but the Alterna edition collects the entire tale in a handy
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of black and white entertainment. No, not that kind…. Written and illustrated by Ibai Canales (Iron Sights, The Abductables), Decimators is a cautionary science fiction tale set in a politically correct, dystopian future. The age of nanotechnology is upon us, and humanity has overstepped its bounds. Upon recognizing that the nanobots now living in
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