Hip Hop Comix & Flix has adopted a bold new direction by embracing Genre Comics. The company has already published horror, Cyberfunk, and humor titles, and now plans to expand into more targeted genres exploring space, monsters, demons, and emotions such as paranoia.
Genre comics have an amazing history. In fact, comic books originally began as genre-based storytelling—long before superheroes dominated the shelves. Genre comics focus more on narrative and atmosphere than flashy action.
This new wave is the brainchild of Jeff Carroll, an award-winning horror filmmaker with six streaming horror films, over fifteen published science fiction books, and stories featured in vampire and horror anthologies.
Classic genre comics like Tales from the Crypt, Cracked, and Mad Magazine were immensely popular from the 1930s through the 1990s. Magazines such as Eerie and Creepy emerged to bypass the Comics Code Authority while delivering short, gripping stories. In the U.K., 2000 AD continued the tradition, while Heavy Metal explored dark fantasy and science fiction.
Now, modern publishers like Oni Press are reviving the
legacy of EC Comics—seventy years later—with a fresh variety of genre-driven
stories.
