Read a Complete Beasts of Burden Story
- Posted by Johanna on June 22, 2010 at 8:41 am
- Category: Graphic Novel News
Out this week is Beasts of Burden, the gorgeous graphic novel by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson about dogs who fight mystical forces. (But that description doesn’t do the series justice, or attest to the immense creative skill on display here.) The book collects the four issue miniseries along with the earlier short stories from the various Dark Horse Book of … anthologies. This complete story, “Stray”, provided by Dark Horse, originally appeared in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings. Enjoy!
July 9, 2010 at 2:10 AM
[...] Other notable arrivals this week include the second volume of Katsuhiro Otomo’s sci-fi classic AKIRA (Kodansha) and the second volume of the bacteria-infested Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture (Del Rey), which ought to come with its own complimentary bottle of Purell. For folks who are willing to cross the aisle and try a good old-fashioned American comic, I highly recommend Jill Thompson and Evan Dorkin’s Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites (Dark Horse), one of the most original and beautifully illustrated horror series in recent memory. For more information about the series, click here; to read a complete BoB story, click here. [...]
September 29, 2010 at 8:54 AM
[...] design sketches with Thompson’s notes; and advertising art with the beasts. You can read the first story, “Stray”, online, and others are available at Dark Horse’s website. (The publisher provided a review [...]