Low Red Moon: Messiah of Evil (Gloria Katz & William Huyck, 1973)
Pure, unnecessary beauty lives in the strangest places.
Be Not Afraid is coming to an end. Issue 5 is in comic shops now; the sixth and final installment will be out on Wednesday, February 25th. Comixology is missing some issues, I know, I know, but you can download the entire series to date on Google Play or through Penguin Random House.
Dead Teenagers, a slasher about getting stuck and growing up, will be out on March 18, 2026 from Oni Press, with truly tremendous art by Caitlin Yarsky. Add it to your pull list wherever you buy comics, and read the extended preview here.
Finally: DILF: Did I Leave Feminism, my third book of non-fiction, is available wherever books are sold, via Bookshop.org, and (in smell form) at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab.
Imagine setting out to make a cheap horror movie in 1974. The kind of thing with no real budget and no real actors, where the extras are all laid-off factory workers and the location is just a bunch of Los Angeles shop awnings and grocery stores and movie theaters, shot at night so nobody else will be there. The producer approaches you, and asks if you’ve got a script for a horror movie, and you answer “no, but give us two weeks and we’ll come up with something:” That kind of movie.
Imagine setting out to make a movie, your first movie, under those conditions: Something cheap, something quick, something guaranteed never to be taken seriously. Imagine taking all of that and making something this beautiful:
