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Graphic Content’s April Spotlight Is On Hardway Studios!
Bloody-Disgusting.com And Graphic Content Are very excited and proud to announce its all new Publisher Spotlight series! Each month we will be spotlighting a a different company, and partnered together we will be bringing readers exclusive content such as interviews with the creators, artists, and company founders, reviews, contests, previews, and all sorts of bloody good surprises!
So to start off this exciting new endeavor we have teamed up with one of the best Indy publishers in horror right now, Hardway Studios! Hardway has brought readers such titles as “SUICIDE NOTE”, “MORBID MYTHOS”, and the upcoming zombie apocalypse one-shot “THE SHELTER”! Inside you can find all the details on this month’s spotlight to get yourselves amped up! Read on for the skinny on this new series, a huge look inside of “SUICIDE NOTE” and “THE SHELTER”, and more!
In our attempts to solve world hunger, prevent forest fires, and bring you all the bloodiest news that the horror genre has to offer, we here at Graphic Content have been brainstorming on ways to bring readers (that’s you) even more awesome content. It is a tough thing to do, and often times it takes about half a pack of cigarettes and 3 cups of coffee, but we are happy to announce the “Graphic Content Spotlight” series.
Each and every month we will be working in partnership with a new publishing company to bring readers all new exclusive content. This will include contests, interviews, previews, reviews, and MORE from each respective publisher. These spotlights will start (obviously) the first of every month and each week we will be revealing another awesome exclusive for our readers. It’s pretty much like Christmas without the trees, the lights, the ornaments, and most importantly the fruit-cake.
This month Bloody-Disgusting’s Graphic Content will be spotlighting up and coming publishing company, Hardway Studios! The publisher is best known for its “SUICIDE NOTE” graphic novel which has garnered much praise among readers and critics alike.
“Hard Way Studios is about creating new and exciting comic books. The studio was founded by Chris Carpenter and Dwayne Biddix. They wanted to bring their own, and other great stories to the people. We are always looking for established companies to partner with us to print our books for a wider audience! Our goal to to have Hard Way everywhere we can get it! For us to succeed we need the help and input from the public, so always feel free to drop us a line with praise or to tell us what we are doing wrong. We want to be what you, the reader, wants to have. So let us know what you want to see from us! So go forth and spread the word! We are proud to present a sample of what co-founder, Dwayne Biddix, said about why the studio is named HARD WAY…. “Well, Chris and I have had that kinda life… We have had to fight for everything we have, and we always seen to have to do things the hard way. Even when we broke into the business, we did it the hard way. So it became a way of life for us, and when we started to think about launching a studio, we felt that name would fit us perfectly! We also felt that it would be a sentiment most everyone could identify with to some level, so we named it HARD WAY STUDIOS! And we are very proud of the studio and what it represents.”
So to start off our spotlight here is a preview of “SUICIDE NOTE” which is currently available and then a sneak preview of their upcoming zombie apocalypse title “THE SHELTER” that is available for pre-order.
WRITTEN BY: JAMISON KASIAN
ILLUSTRATED BY: DWAYNE BIDDIX
INKS BY: ROB LANSLEY
LETTERS BY: DWAYNE BIDDIX
COVER INKS BY: DWAYNE BIDDIX
“Silence. True Silence. The actual absence of sound. It’s one of the strangest things you can ever experience. It’s….un-nerving. No car engines. No humming electricity. No planes flying overhead. No people walking their dogs. No birds chirping. No squirrels…squirrel-ing. A world cast into infinite silence.”
Join us on this Zombie adventure as we get to know Violet, a young lady destine to find a safe haven from the infestation that left her alone, scared and with no where else to turn, dependent upon herself to survive. Can she make it in time or is the end of the world to tight of a deadline?!”
WRITER: JAMISON KASIAN
PENCILS: DWAYNE BIDDIX
INKS: ROB LANSLEY
LETTERS: BRANT FOWLER
COLORS: ANTHONY LEE
“Cassie receives a strange anonymous suicide note and after reading it she begins a downward slide from a sane and controlled world into a world of twisted nightmarish images, a mysterious man who guides her along the dark path, and a pulling in her mind, to take her life and escape the nightmare. But, if she doesn’t give into to the leading of the note to kill herself she must wonder a shadow world, forever unable to die.”
Stay tuned here to Bloody-Disgusting’s Graphic Content all month long as we bring you interviews with Jamison, Dwayne, Chris, and the entire crew over at Hardway Studios about these titles, and their future stories. Who knows, we might even start giving stuff away.
Comics
‘You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive’ – IDW Dark’s Next Horror Comic Will Make You Question Reality
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively announce You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive, a brand new horror comic from IDW Dark.
From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.
Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”
Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”
“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”
The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.
Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.
IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.
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