How do you make horror elements in comics work?

>>89762239
Swamp thing

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>>89762239
im super fucking scared right now of that thing on the left

>>89762266
Pretty sure it's SCP fanart.
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-093

>>89762239
Japan knows

>>89762239
Read Black Hole.

DRR...DRR...DRR...

Read junji Ito.

He uses realistic anatomy and then digfigures some of the character in a way that makes your skin crawl because of the realism.

The other would be to build tension, and then scare the audience with aome really horrorfying images

>>89762239
Good art is a must. It annoys the shit out of me when I read a horror comic and the art is complete trash (see Avatar comics).

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>>89762623
That shit just kept getting deeper.

>>89762239
By doing whatever Junji Ito does...?

>>89762623
This was super cool.

>>89762239
atmosphere and mood certainly are major elements.

>>89765260
>>89767834
>>89768726
Kill yourselves, weaboo trash

>>89769098
But without the weebs the board wouldn't be real anymore

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>horror comic
>generic artstyle you use for superhero comics
>boring story with no real hook, just generically spooky
>lots of really bland uses of gore that aren't effective at all and ruin the moment
>zero sense of dread whatsoever, zero suspense, things just happen from moment to moment
>shitty twist ending
>bonus points: it's a pun

>>89769098
I'm sorry you get mad at people who enjoy media from foreign countries. You'll learn to deal with it when you're older I'm certain.

I tried a Horror thread on here a few days ago asking what the top tier of the genre was and no one answered. Do all horror comics (other than Moore's Swamp Thing) suck?

>>89769312
Yeah, pretty much.
Most writers only have a sense of horror within the grasp of film, so they don't really know what works in comics.

You have Bendis write it

You can't have jump scares in comics, so that takes out 90% of the average horror writer's arsenal

Horror novels work because your imagination fills in the imagery, comic book art doesn't have the same effect

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>>89769440
Hue

>>89769312
I really like Harrow County by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook from Dark Horse

>>89762239
Tension and atmosphere is pretty fucking hard to do in comics.

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>>89762239
Make all of them like this

>>89769824
Is this loss?

>>89769824
Idk, this isn't really that scary

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>>89769483
>comic book art doesn't have the same effect

unless the art explicitly tries to convey disorientation and intensity. That way the viewer cant quite tell what they're looking at, and that creates aprehension and with the right story, fear and big frightens.

Pic related is an absolutely shitty edgy movie but the visuals are phenomenal in this regard.

The thing is that horror comics dont embrace surrealism as much as they probably should.

I don't think comics can be scary

>>89762239
Very strong art that can help make very uncomfortable or tense imagery.

Comics are not a good medium for horror honestly, in fact I'd argue horror is just about the worst genre for a comic book because of how difficult it is to make a format like that scary. Imagery is everything, absolutely fucking everything, in a horror comic.

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>words can be scary
>pictures can be scary
>words and pictures cant be scary

can someone post that comic about the lady searching for her kid or something?
the one that moves when you move

>>89769098
Can I bash in your skull? I'm willing to bet that isn't where you keep your brain.

>>89770027
That really depends on your definition of scary.

If you mean heart racing looking over your shoulder scary I agree, but you can make a comic fairly unsettling.

>>89769880
It's more of an existential dread.

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>>89770139

>>89769880
Still better than most I've seen.

>>89769312
I like Wytches for it's take on witches. Primarily the fact that they have nothing to do with magic.

West is really bad at picturing impassive, flaccid or simply disturbing, understated imagery (with accent on simplicity). Junji Ito for example thrives when presenting relatively crude images in masterful succession.

Actually Corben isn't that far away even though his tone is a bit more diluted due to his amazing drawing talent.

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>>89770149

>>89770139
>>89770149
Grossout =/= scary

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>>89770195

>>89770202
Then what is scary?

>>89762623
093 is probably my favorite SCP. Reading everything until the end, that last Agent report. What came to Earth that was so great and terrible to do that? And if there are more of the 093 disks, will it come to ours?

>>89770149
I mean, if I were a younger me I'd be scared. Present me just thinks this is funny.

>>89770226
Real life.

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>>89770177
>his tone is a bit more diluted
Corben's sense of horror is really rooted in looming dread like Poe or Lovecraft. Like Rat God is never scary, it's just horrifying

>>89769312
Harrow County is pretty good and House of Penance was an enjoyable read. Dunno about any other ongoings.

Has Chilling Adventures of Sabrina started back up? I was really entertained by that series.

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I'm working on and off on a horror comic that I'd like to get done by Halloween. Just something in between my other projects.

This was just a rough sketch of a throwaway monster I was thinking of adding. So I gotta ask, would this sorta art be scary in a horror comic?

>>89770087
Written horror is often scary because of lack of imagery. As soon as you see the monster, it's not as scary as what ever your own mind made up.
Images are often scary because of lack of context. What exactly am I seeing in the picture? Why was it taken? As soon as you hear the story, it's not as scary as what ever your own mind made up.
Comics gives images to the words, and context to the images, in turn ruining both.
While I do think you can make a good horror comic(It's just extremely hard), this is why those two things often work on the own, but rarely together.

>>89770149
>Thats true, he was a racist

I lost it.

>>89770226
Stuff that pokes the snake recognizer in a way that the pattern finder can't parse.

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>>89770226
Atmosphere and execution

>>89770226
yo mama

>>89769483
Anon, if you need a jump scare in the first place it's not good horror.

>>89770210
This is the guy that did the Furry Trap, isn't it?

>>89770326
Check your dimensional privilage.

>>89770335
That's cute though. Death is funny once humanized.

>>89770348
I need an adult.

>>89770451
I am an adult.

>>89770328
This.

>>89770316
Maybe if i could tell what it is

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>>89762239
Ha. I remember using pics by that artist on the left and that photo on the right in a prank on a friend.

I got a buncha photos from /x/ and that artist. I loaded them on an SD card with some creepy music, like the creepy music from Eyes Wide Shut played backwards.

Then I snuck it into a digital frame with sound a friend had in his work space. I had the music quietly playing on it. He got home from work one night and was spooked when he went in the room. Only when it got to an altered pic of a dog figurine we keep sneaking into each others' apartments did he realize I was pranking him.

>>89770316
>>89770500
Imagery horror is fickle. You need to find a sweet spot where what you're showing isn't too ridiculous (so people just find it funny/goofy), isn't too abstract (so people just get confused as to what they're seeing, puzzling over what they're seeing instead of being scared), or too bland (so people doesn't really give a fuck about what is being shown).

>>89770316
no.

>>89762239
body horror

>>89762239
use the page turn to its full effect

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>>89770419
How dare you. Kenn's art is as terrifying as it comes and should be taken at the utmost sincerity

>>89770139

Isn't this pretty much the plot of Dead Space?

>>89769824
I donr get whats happening did he look into a mirror?

>>89769721

It's not really scary or spooky, though.

>>89771116
The artist is known for drawing shit from his dreams
It's not meant to make sense

>>89771030
Yes, now that I think about it.

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>>89762623
It is, here's the page it's on on the artist's behance

https://www.behance.net/gallery/32658881/Art-for-SCP-Foundation-calendar-2016

>>89769312
Idk about top tier, but I like The Coffin.

>>89769824
Is that some Chuck Burns? Keep meaning to check his shit out.

>>89769312
Can't go wrong with Eerie and Creepy Magazine. Hope you like Anthologies because that's most of what Horror is in comics.

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For years I've been meaning to make a tragic romance meets cosmic horror story about a cultish church (that is totally not based on any actual real one) fighting a group of anonymous internet hacktivists. Oddly, I had that loose idea before that shit actually happened on a certain Laotian hand puppet forum.

I wanted to use a King In Yellow type of character as an ancient fear elder god taking over. I had even found an old copy of the book. This even was before the whole True Detective craze that popularized it.

That comic where a guy is turned in an insect monster is pretty good ans was drawn in Paint.

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>>89774130
This one?

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I'm sorry /co/

>>89774195
Yes. I love it. Simple and unsettling.

>>89774119
>cosmic horror
I'll never understand why so many peopl jerk off to cosmic horror. I just refuse to find them at all terrifying.

>>89774227
Son of a bitch. It's like the stupid Candlejack meme but with murder.

Don't blame me, he made me write this post.

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>>89774329

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>>89769891
Like D.O.G.S. of Mars

>>89774227
I'm still not dead!

>>89774227
I remember actually turning around because of how little i was expecting the ending

>>89774227
That's really neat but you could see it coming the second they start telling the story because they just said it's always preceded by the story.

>>89770389
No, Furry Trap is Josh Simmons. This strip is Johnny Ryan.

>>89774227
If they know he's going to kill them anyways, why bother helping in spreading the story?

>>89774329
>>89774364
I like this kind of body horror

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>>89762239
Focus on visuals that are best achieved in a medium that doesn't require high skilled actors or high cost special effects.

Also I feel like horror and comic fans have a big enough overlap that you can go nuts with the writing.

>>89774195

I fucking hate this fucking comic.
Jesus Christ anything with bugs just freaks me out.

But aside from my fear of bugs, this is actually an interesting and good comic.

>>89774437
I had Mignola sign the actual book that graphic is from. He just did the cover and I think some small little doodles inside, but I thought it would be neat.

>>89762266
It's just a girl, anon, calm down. You can't even see her face!

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>>89774574
Artist is Simon Stalenhag

here's his website

http://www.simonstalenhag.se

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We posting spooky inspiration, now?

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>>89774227
Around Abimor, never relax.

>>89774573
But he doesn't? The scribe, the tour guide, and the T.V. announcer weren't murdered because they helped him.

>>89774646
I know, I'm the same anon as >>89774329
but eitherway stuff like this and the stuff in Akira is top tier imo

>>89762239
>How do you make horror elements in comics work?
The abnormal has to intrude into the everyday normality in a shocking, haunting or creepy way. Setting has to be rock solid believable to support the unlikely.
Poorly shown setting means fake people have a fake problem, no friction.
The Japanese are the best i've seen at this, the Chinese can do it too: saw a story about a feudal man who had an affair, murdered his wife and ran off with the new woman. It was basically that story until they are travelling through the forest and someone is under a bridge, a woman looking up through the bridge slats with her face covered. He asks who she is and she's silent. It's one of the most ghastly creepy moments in a movie i've ever seen, because a normal story suddenly turns into a haunting, you can feel your nerves being stretched with fear.
Whether it's his guilt or an actual supernatural threat is never resolved, but that moment is where the audience is lifted away from the everyday world into a realm of horror without anyone needing to be sawed to pieces.

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>>89774678
more from that artist in the left of op's pic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw_Beksi%C5%84ski

>>89774696
ooo. bad timing
> Beksiński was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment in February 2005 by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because he refused to lend the teenager any money and threatened him further.

>>89774703
They know from the previous victims that he murdered them after they helped him spread the story.
If spreading the story summons him, then why would they help spread it?

>>89773097
I wanna fuck that tree.

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>>89774749
Ah. Yeah I like it too. I just discovered Stalenhag's art recently and I love it

>>89774795
talk about getting a woody

>>89774764
The Japanese never know how to finish, and it really sours the experience.

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>>89774812
We Epic Mickey concept art time?

>>89774029
Just did a quick google search, is it all Vampirella?

>>89774773
Here's where horror illustration fails to do anything but puzzle or arouse interest.
Beksinski himself does his paintings as a joke you know.

>>89774847
Does anyone do good endings to horror?

>>89774847
All Japanese story telling is pauses broken up by action, westerners who try to copy that make boring versions of.
The expectation of a neat ending with everything revealed is cultural and kind of primitive. It has nothing to do with real life and situates the story/artwork as exactly that: apart from reality so not as scary.

>>89774774
Spreading the story doesn't summon him. He just prefers to do his murdering after giving his victims info about himself. He's the one who approached these people to create each new biography, not the other way around. And like I said earlier, no one who actually helped create any of the works became a victim: we don't see him murdering the scribe, or the tour guide, or the T.V. announcer.

>>89774972
Blade Runner was a good job of that.
Probably why so many nerds say nothing happens in it.

>>89774972
I don't need a neat ending, I just find that I'm disappointed by Japanese endings most of the time. And it's not even a problem with horror, most anime/manga have lame endings as well.

>>89774898
Vampirella is just one host of her own set of comics, I think from the same company.
Hers is the one with more hot chicks than usual. Eerie and Creepy have their own hosts that are decided less sexy, unless you're into that sort of thing.

>>89774979
Oh I thought the guy reading the paper was the scribe. Still though, quit helping murderers selfish ass people.

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What is scarier? The unknown or the distortion of the familiar?

>>89775251
Both at the same time.

>>89775251
Depends on the person, I guess. The distortion of the familiar works wonders on me.

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>>89770139
>>89770149
>>89770195
>>89770210
Lovecraftian type horror. Every fucking time.

What is the idea behind such imagery? It has always stood out to me.

>>89775251

Depends on your type.

But IMO I'd say distortion of the familiar. The unknown can be cool and creepy, but I rarely find it scary.

>>89774764
what's the name of the movie?

>>89774300
We'll because dealing with beings completely and utterly beyond your realm of thought so much that you can barley perceive them without going insane can be pretty terrifying

>>89775843
Johnny Ryan, says so on the first page.

That's one of the few horror themed ones he has, though.

>>89775251
distortion of the familiar for me. The unknown is just fascinating, I've never been scared of Lovecraft as much as I am just intrigued.

But the familiar can be distorted, or warped. Like supermarket but the meat section is just casually human meat and body parts yet no one bats and eye. That is scary to me because it is plausible.

>>89774300
You have to be into it, and the concept is typically something so incomprehensible and horrible that it just breaks you, and if it's really bad it just starts breaking reality. It's all in your head to try to devise what that is and then it tells you "no worse". You're doing all the leg work they're just moving the finish line.

>>89776203
>>89776291
I guess I just have to side with >>89776259. It just doesn't do it for me. For whatever reason, vengeful spirits seem more realistic and threatening than a random space alien showing up to eat the Earth.

>>89775843
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFDHynfl1E

Atmospheric art.
Ben Templesmith and Mignola are pretty good examples of what I mean.

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>>89776235
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRRhRlKW3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5o8oe-vzIE

>>89774300
That's how I feel about body horror.

I'm terrified of all kinds of real-life illnesses and yet body horror is absolutely hilarious to me most of the time when I see it in fiction.

>>89774227
>indistinct figure with big smile
fucking STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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>>89776470
Well, it's more than just an alien. Just think of it as a extremely powerful vengeful spirit with a reach and ability you can barely comprehend. There's a reason some of them are called elder gods. They're more powerful than what we historically think of as traditional demons.

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You best start believing in cosmic horror stories.
You're in one.

>>89777979
Did those asshole kids think their cancer-ridden conductor was a skeleton

>>89778147
They thought that fruit who taught gym was a vampire, why the fuck not?

B.P.R.D.'s the best long-form horror comic I've read so far, and I think it really benefits from its creators putting the effort into making a world that's believable first and foremost, with the horrific subversion coming secondary.

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I have no idea where this came from but it's pretty spooky.

I may get some flak for this, but certain issues of Hellblazer were pretty good and creepy. The murder room, issue 140, was pretty creepy.

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ever find an image on your phone and you have no idea how it got there?

>>89769312
horror was actually one of the primary--at least, the most explicit-- targets of 1950's censorship

>>89776470
It really depends on how it's done. Good cosmic horror is less about how bizarre the alien is and more about the absolute dread of something that not only can't be understood but works on such a large scale that you have no way of doing anything about it. It's like thinking about what it's like to be a beetle that one day looked up and noticed a kid with a magnifying glass.

The problem with cosmic horror is that it's ridiculously easy to do wrong though, because too often people focus on the YOU GO INSANE JUST BY LOOKING AT IT LOOK HOW MANY MOUTHS AND TENTACLES IT HAS aspect which misses the point.

Well I guess it depends on what type of horror you like. For me, the best horror I believe should be merely brief and suggestive, the more cryptic and confounding the scarier.

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I keep finding these odd pics. Maybe I was browsing /x/ while drunk.

>>89770027
scary is such an ignorantly non-encompassing synonym of horror its sad

as common as jump scare media is, im glad im actually seeing better, more discomforting horror stuff coming out than just "Boo, so scary"

>>89778598
>LOOK HOW MANY MOUTHS AND TENTACLES IT HAS
This is the part that annoys me. Some people think that just having some weird mess of parts is scary, and it's not. Look at >>89777868 for example, the eldritch abomination on the right isn't in and of itself scary. The fish people there are scarier to me just based on the visual impression.

If a story about this image was well written the monster could be ten times scarier than its worshipers, but just based on the image alone "giant tentacled thing with a giant mouth and a bunch of eyes" isn't really scary.

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This needs a comic

>>89769440
He wants horror, not horrible

>>89769824
The last image throws me off.

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I think horror works best when you view it as the opposite of a joke, the set up works to establish the tone and the world, and the punchline subverts it into a twist that makes sense, but instead of a good joke making you laugh, good horror leaves you with an uncomfortable and confusing mix of emotions

>>89762239
Skeletons.
Lots of em

>>89774227
Wait, so does this mean he simultaneously murdered everyone who was watching or just the one pree-drinking guy?

>>89778855
Those are past murders
The person currently being murdered is (You)

>>89778855
The comic is basically just a really long setup for a LOOK BEHIND YOU moment, so I don't think the writer actually thought it through.

>>89778877
No, I get that those were past murders, but the current "storyteller" is doing so by television. So that means that more than one person can be watching this guy tell the story.

>>89778912
Oh, just the guy in the comic.
In fact, it looks like the guys television automatically changed itself. So the murder probably set it so only this guy saw it.

>>89778912
Maybe it's pre-recorded and the Abimor rigged his DVR to trick him into thinking it was a live broadcast.

Which is kind of a ridiculous amount of work for this one kill but I guess that's just how he rolls? Apparently he waited over a century and decided his next victim should be some shirtless drunk.

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finally a thread on co that isn't tumblr fandom trash.

you want horror read the following:
From Hell
Black Hole
Adamtine
The Sandman (the fact that this hasn't been mentioned yet is a sin)
Hellblazer
Wytches (if snyder would get off his ass and write something)

Also Preacher is a godlike one but more a mix of action/horror than anything else

>>89779117
>Preacher
I struggle to remember any horror from Preacher. I think The Boys had more horror moments as far as Ennis stuff goes.

>>89779142
meat factory guy is creepy enough for the whole series

I remember seeing a comic posted on here that goes into horror territory. The premise was like an interpol version of SCP or something. It was called the Network or something like that. I believe Takeshi Kitano might have been a character in one issue.

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I really shouldn't be clicking on all these images right before I fall asleep...

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Some parts of Courtney Crumrin weren't too bad, though probably more for younger audiences.

>>89774227
Thanks, now I got an awesome free knife!

>>89778748
I dunno, I feel like Bloodborne's a lot better as a game, since a lot of it is figuring out on your own what happened in Yharnam by yourself as you dig around

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>>89769926
rEMINDS ME OF THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZfmPREbTd8

>>89779288
Is that... Blartscape?

>>89779179
Why? They're really comfy.

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>>89770139
>>89770149
>>89770195
>>89770210
>when you get over 40 Insight

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crapped myself tbqh

>>89778733
Scary is an adjective to describe things that induce fear. If discomforting horror horrifies you, then it's scary to you. Literally the film, movie, kino bullshit from /tv/.
Quit being so autistic

>>89770941
Kenn is a great gift to humanity, and so are these edits

>>89774227
Isn't this just the plot of The Bye-Bye Man?

>>89779741
Candyman, bloody mary, etc

>>89779741
>implying the bye bye man didnt rip off the thousands of memetic killer creepypastas

>>89776235
:^(

>tfw nothing in this thread is remotely scary.

>>89779741
Don't say it.
Don't think it.

>>89779765
>>89779767
Sure, I just don't get why it's supposed to be particularly scary. I can reason out why, it just seems silly to me.

Maybe it's just because I read the BLIT stories and those are just sci-fi extrapolations of it.

>>89779741
No the plot of bye bye man was you'll kill yourself for watching such a shitty movie.

>>89778733
>better, more discomforting horror stuff coming out
Where? Horror is pure garbage these days. The only "discomfort" it brings is realization that you wasted hours of your life you could've spent doing or watching something much better.

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Would you be scared, if you see that TV company logo as a kid?

Say what you want but VR is probably the most effective way of delivering horror. Can't wait for affordable headsets and horror games that aren't just jumpscares.

>>89769824
This one comes closest for me. It's short and contextless enough to trigger the goddamn fight-or-flight response without being intriguing.

Comics are a difficult medium for conveying horror, they lack the timing and sound of movies and fill-in-the-blanks imaginative power of literature.

>>89779982
Russian here.
No. I always thought it's Yeltsin in an old woman's wig.

>>89769163
locke and key?

if it is I actually liked it. it wasn't scary but I thought it was a cool adventure

>>89779997
Videogames are capable of doing only the most boring kind of horror.

>>89780042
>it's Yeltsin
Same desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT22uXUI-vg

>>89780058
Vidya is capable of anything
Whether people will buy good horror is the real question

>>89780114
I have never seen a horror game that is actually scary and not the same "boring dark places and ugly houses, laughable-looking monsters, lots of suspenseless walking, jumpscares, cheesy "scary" music" formula of Silent Hill shit. Good horror creators don't flock to videogames.

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Y'know what scares me? Tiny red glowing eyes.

Slow build suspense.
Gotham by Midnight got me into horror comics that way with issue 1.

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>>89762239
From the left side of the thumbnail I thought it was Wojak "the feels guy" descending upon the populace

I'll just leave this here.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-835

>>89780140
You've never played Silent Hill I see

>>89776203
>>89776291
Why is this even scary? Because humans aren't the center of the universe? An ant doesn't give a shit that it can't 'comprehend' say, accounting.

>>89780183
The new canon should rename him Taek D'Nott

>>89778733
Here's your mistake, you think jumpscares is what people mean when they want something scary.
Horror movies we get these days make the mistake of "no jumpscares = instant tension" which results in very boring horror movies because most filmmakers kinda suck at creating suspense.

Session 9 is what I think a really scary movie is and nothing made in the last years comes close to being as good as that. If anything, the genre is stagnating creating a turd after turd after turd.

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>>89770177
>>89768726
>>89767834
While not a horror mangaka, I'm always perplexed as to why no one ever brings up Shintaro Kago.
I've always found his works to be far more disturbing, both visually and thematically, than Junji Ito's.
Even his fetish work is just so impressively strange.

Super Conductive Brain Parataxis unnerved me far more than anything I read from Ito. And it certainly had a more satisfying ending than anything I've read of Ito's as well.

>>89780473
Nice rebuttal.

>>89770139
>>89770149
>>89770195
>>89770210

this is good stuff

>>89780531
Ah, I should mention to those unfamiliar that Shintaro Kago's works are largely surrealist comedy.
I don't think a single one of his stories are straight horror.

>>89762239
It depends. See, as quite a few people have pointed out on this thread, Cinema and Comics are ultimately two different mediums. However, there are a few similarities which can be used.

The first is build up. In order for something to be truly horrifying, you must show why it's scary or get the audience in suspense. The first way of building terror is quite easy. The 'monster' (The thing that inspires terror) must have its powers shown without giving too much away, but letting the audience know it is strong. These powers can be practically anything so long as it shows the audience to be afraid. The second way of building suspense is actually through in my opinion a vastly underrated aspect of the medium. Paneling. How panels are laid out on the page help to pace the story and can help the audience anticipate what happens. From that you can manipulate their expectations.

The second thing that both mediums rely on is story telling. The reason that a lot of horror films fall apart now a days is that they ultimately have no real story to them. It just feels like an excuse to introduce the monster. However in horror the story matters. It needs to build up the world which the monster inhabits. From there you can truly understand the monster for what they are and their place in the universe. Now, this is where you can use the difference between comics and movies to your advantage. Artwork can really set the tone of the story and help with the atmosphere.

The biggest medium difference though is style. Movies, although they have progressed far are still limited by budgets and ease of production. Comics are not limited in that way. In art, one can create all manner of twisted abominations and abnormal shapes that could never be placed on the big screen.

In fact, apart from story the art is ultimately the most important part of a comic. For artwork is what molds the expectation of the audience when they read comics allowing authors the power to play with them.

>>89780547
So you haven't.
Can't really call yourself an authority on horror games then.

>>89780714
>still no rebuttal
>"y-you just didn't play"
Pathetic but expected of /v/ermin.

>>89777868
I'd fuck the girl in the back

>>89769926
Looks like it could be sunless sea concept art

>>89780797
I'm sorry, women can never be scary. They're the least scary things in the universe right there with cats and rabbits.

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>>89780807
Wrong!

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>>89780531
That guy is a strange man.
Strange man.
Love his work though.

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>>89780875
Oh you guys will love this one.

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>>89780531
>Super Conductive Brain Parataxis
Now that's a title I haven't heard in a while. I'd run a storytime if it wasn't for the awful hassle of captcha.

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>>89780531
>>89780875
What do you think this guy faps to?

>>89780885
CEASE AND DESIST

>>89780920
I don't think he faps.
Rather he has a portal which allows him to travel to all of the worlds from which he takes inspiration from. It is there where he fucks everything in sight.

>>89780875
>>89780531
I read an interview with this guy; he works for adult magazines that HAVE to be graphic, but allow him full creative freedom. So he just has fun being as fucking crazy as he can.

>>89780920
The rotting and bloated bodies of schoolgirls that he's exhumed and keeps in the dankness of his basement.

>>89780947
That's really cool. Never knew that, but it certainly explains the absurdity.
Also explains why sex permeates like 95% of his work.

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>>89780971

>>89780947
He certainly has a sense of humor.

From a VICE interview from 2008
>What were you like as an elementary school kid?

That’s the next question? Wow, I didn’t see that coming [laughs]. Well, my parents died when I was one, and the first time I stole I was five years old. I lost my virginity at six and was briefly into bestiality but got over it when I was around seven. Horses were the toughest, man. They’re so damn big.

Stranger Things is pretty much what I would expect a show about SCPs to be like

>>89778855
>>89778892
The news reporter mentions it's a tape

Really into this storytime, thanks anon

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>>89781053
I can relate to this guy too much

I'm not enjoying myself anymore

>>89781062
Can't blame ya
It's a shitty comic

>>89781079
That it?

>>89781062
I too want to rape women and children, while simultaneously eating them alive.

>>89781079
Da fuck was that?

It was creepy, but only because "person sees his family and loved ones being horribly ruined" is a creepy concept in of itself, not because the story itself did it well.

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>>89781079
>page 134

What the fuck is this

Mystery.

As generic and uninspired as it sounds, we fear what we do not understand. The more mysterious and unnatural something is, the more terrifying it has the potential to be.

You use that xenophobia to build up suspense and build up a sense of dread and finally, when you unveil your creation (if you unveil your creation) you do it in a way that perfectly cashes in on all the suspense you've built up to make the whole experience truly terrifying.

>>89762623
Ultimately very disappointing. That little blurb of exposition at the very end didn't explain anything remotely interesting. The atmosphere is good and the world building was decent but the payoff just gave me more questions than chills.

>>89770316
Looks like a very ugly dick

>>89780727
It's funny because they showed an example of a good horror game and you went full "no u". Fucking idiot.

>>89781079

This started off alright, then got kind of dumb, though I guess the ending was okay.

Where's it from, anyway?

>>89781079

I got the impression that he just went crazy and went all John List on his family himself.

>>89769256
>enjoy
more like obsesion if you ask me

>>89782114
>>89782144
We can all see what you posted first. Also, how is enjoying the works of one artist the same as being obsessed?

>>89782189
>media from foreign countries=/=one artist

>>89782239
Works by one artist from a foreign country = media from a foreign country.
I fucking despise most shit that comes from the states, but there's also plenty of shit from there that I do like, which means that I enjoy media from that country, just not all of it.

>>89778748
Being a video is a much better medium for bloodborne.

>>89782278
assuming that all media comes from us or japan
damn you're ignorant

>>89782352
How the fuck did I ever say that? Are you retarded?

>>89780885
This is my fetish

>>89779721
What is this?

You don't. There are no spooky scary comics.

Which is why I find it funny reading Alan Moore's comments on horror comics.

>>89762239
Sell the rights to Hollywood. Well, not that Hollywood makes good horror.

>>89782499
Link me bitch. Pretty please.

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The Void
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6QiQqiMK6E

The Offering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuuugEg2K0E

The Force of Will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjSnFPKAEA4

Metachaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btj0Q3VXIac

Scorn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvBo_rKleNw

A Shadow out of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c

Thresher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqNdbHHWtBc

AM1200
https://vimeo.com/102372269

Pig Pen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfcAwc0UTVY

The Bunyip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrYO-Mog60

This ain't really /co/ but since we are having a scary thread i might as well share these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw_HKzo9Ync
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV0I-iA5lJU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyknT4uchM

>>89780506
I think the idea is that ants understand as much about accounting as we humans do about life and existence.

>>89780828
Tentacles /Weird limbs comming form a portal in the sky will be always my favourite horror imagery.
It works so well in a level I can't explain. Plus points If ou never see the whole fucker trying to go thru.

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>>89762239
Obscurity
Oppression
Inevitability

Horror Comics are the still frames of something terrible

>>89781215
Understandable, although I enjoyed it. SCPs do have a tendency to rely on "we just don't knooow" punchlines.
The SCP concept originated on /x/ and there are a metric fuckton of articles of varying quality (though nothing too creepypasta-tier, as the site does have some form of quality control). Some are just straight up sci-fi withough any horror elements. Very easy to lose a couple hours there.

>>89782546
Yes, I remember these but forgot the name

Thanks, I've been looking for these

Anyone who has ever claimed to be scared from reading a novel or anything from Stephen King should be euthanised on the spot

>>89782604
This is only creepy because it looks like someone's weird fetish.

This is my Milwaukee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnPT1qH8qE

>>89782364
if it is so give me an example of horror comic that are not from this 2 countries

>>89782497
A manga called "The Promised Neverland"

It's very good. It has some horror elements but it's mostly about the suspence.

>>89781267
There is no good horror game, you fucking idiot.
I swear, /v/ermin are the worst kind of human trash.

>>89782706
What does that have to do with anything? I never specified horror comics, I said media.

>>89782732
because this is a horror comic thread

>>89782604
Did he eat the entire universe except the space inside jon's house?

>>89781267
Oh and
>M-MUH SHITTY GAMES R GUD U DIN PLAY IF U DISAGREE
>showed an example
Kek. Keep crying.

>>89782773
So? That is unrelated to the discussion on wether consuming some media from a country is the same as being obsessed with all media from that country.

>>89782655
Anyone who enjoys Stephen King in any capacity should be euthanized on the spot.
Him praising Hunger Games bitch as an example of a good writer only shows how low his literary standards are. Or him praising Hush yet shittalking Kubrick's Shining shows that he has no understanding what makes horror good.

>>89782872
The movie with the killer car was pretty fun though

>>89781267
Don't give idiot trolls the attention they seek.

>>89770239

You are the cancer that killed SCP.

SCPs are supposed to be mysterious and spooky, not 500 page fanfictions about boring horseshit in other dimensions.

>>89782889
That's the thing. I ended up enjoying movies based on his works far more than his actual works and I'm generally an autistic "adaptations of books always suck" nitpicker.

>>89782900
>anyone I disagree with is le troll
God forbid someone doesn't find your shitty game scary. No, all people should have low standards.

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>>89782796
>consuming some media from a country is the same as being obsessed with all media from that country

that because you really want out of your way to discuss a topic that is not related for this board they are 5-6 japanese boards both cartoons and comic related
but you insist to post on a non-japanese related media board that the move of a guy obses with that type media if he can't stop talking over that subject went isn't necessary

>>89782872
My only problem with the Kubrick Shining is that Jack Nicholson is crazy looking to start, so him snapping isn't a shock. Admittedly the guy from Wings they got to be Jack in the miniseries wasn't the best choice either.

>>89782991
I'm not the guy who's been talking about Ito, I'm just saying that consuming some media from a country is not the same as being obsessed with the country and everything it shits out. Liking Ito does not make you a weaboo, and talking about his work, in a thread about how horror works in comics is on topic because people are discussion wether or not you can make it work in that art form, origin of country is unrelated.

>>89782995
Well, that much I agree, but it's Jack Nicholson. He can't really help it.

>>89782624

>''We just don't knooow''

Except its kind of an inside joke that they do know the true function of most of the SCP but only the OS-5 can access these info so it ain't like the average SCP worker will ever get an hint that thing ain't as they seem. There a tons of SCP that are pretty much a coverup for the SCP itself so others within the org don't go an mess with it (or one of those other organization that work like them in-universe) like that end of time fatso sitting on pillars or that one SCP you can't ever remember, well I remember that its implied somewhere else to be the result of a SCP containment procedure, just like how SCP-093 is implied to be the inter-dimensional gatehub by which our true ancestor/proto-SCP escaped their original universe that got fucked up by being strangely similar to those present within SCP-093, implying they actually comes from a pseudo-meta-realit/meta-limbo that that exist on certain frequency of radiowave that the Proto-SCP tried to tap into for divine powers as to rule/contain/protect the world, SCP-2998 if I remember well, and that basically our reality is a safeboat from the pandora box we opened as whatever the fuck was in these radiowave is spilling out into the multiverse

I remember a shot comics of a guy collecting small houses and then eventually getting his own house snatched by somebody. If only I could find it... It wasn't really scary, but the art style was both a bit creepy and amazing.

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>>89783086
>origin of country is unrelated.

>>89783191
What a bunch of pseudoscience garbage. Way to kill off any sense of dread.
The best SCPs are standalone and don't require muh lore.

>>89783261
In this case it is. I'm not saying that people should start threads specifically to discuss his work, but in a thread specifically discussing of horror works in a medium like comics, his work is related to the discussion, since he makes horror comics.

>>89783284

Actually I just wrote what I think I could figure out of the text, the way its written its far more clever than how I wrote it, at least the reveal. Its far more between the lines and implied, like if you don't know what scp-093 is prior to reading that SCP you just won't realize that you're probably speaking of the same thing.

>>89782542
>Scorn

I want to play that NAW

>>89783311
>anime horror comic not west one

is not related to this board

if you really want to discuss his work or similar to his work go to /a/

>>89783386
It is not related to the board no, but it is related to the discussion, which is related to the board.

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>>89783444

>>89783488
Thanks.

>>89783497
you're welcome anime fag

>>89769483
>comic book art doesn't have the same effect
maybe not the art itself, but I disagree

The Crooked Man story in Hellboy did do a number on me

>>89783586
Kek, I don't even go to /a/. Why don't you yell at the people discussing movies, or books in the thread too? They are equally unrelated to board topic, but related to the thread topic.
You should stop obsessing over the weaboogieman, it's not healthy.

>>89783650
kek why you're bitching about i just say welcome

>>89780885

Want to learn of a real life parasite that do something worse than that, like a fly that put down his eggs inside the sinuses of Caribou or another that on the flank of these same guys so the larva lodge itself under the skin, afterward starting to travel slowly to the back of the animal. or Flatworm the size of 1$ coin that eat stripes off your liver as they eat the surface or make kist grow inside the muscles so it end up looking like a grapefruit of flesh was growing from it

Parasitism is probably the weirdest and most specialized kind of lifeforms I've seen to date. Couldn't even survive if it wasn't from the predation of their host species, it boggle my mind trying to figure out how such a thing can even happens in nature, like how the fuck do you pass from a more-or-less sovereign organism to one that is entirely dependent on a host to survive or simply pass from the larval stage to the adult state, with even a juvenile state inbetween for certain species.

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>>89769163
>horror comic
>it's cthulu shit
>le one million spooky tentacles of d00m xD *glomps*

>>89783763
>anime fag
Sure did my friend.
But lets stop bitching at each other, I'd rather discuss the actual topic of the thread, than debate board rules, and meta topics. Also the guy who brought up Ito either isn't in the thread any more, or stopped talking about him, so this is really a pointless debate.

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>>89783813
>horror comic
>it's cthulu shit
>Actually embraces and tries to find a way of conveying a descent into madness through coloring, framing, and timing.

That's why Providence is a gift from god.

>>89769163
Is gore ever effective?
It always ruins everything unless it's implied and lets your imagination play scary visuals on itself.

>>89769098
Bu what's so bad about Junji Ito's work? You have to judge a comic book story for what happens inside of it and how it looks, not for the country it came from.

>>89783870
>Is gore ever effective?
New 52 Animal Man.

>>89774227

>ancient egypt
>only 2000 years ago

murrican education

>>89783870
Characters stumbling across a scene of carnage with gore strewn about can be effective in its own way. What caused the carnage? Is the destruction in some form of significant pattern? Stuff like that can ratchet up tension in ways that a few drops of blood can't, though that's not to say smears and drops of blood can't be terrifying on their own. Especially when said trails terminate in a wall.