Tag: Berni Wrightson

In comic books today, there’s no scarier name than Steve Niles. The New Jersey native took vampires to a new snowy frontier in “30 Days of Night“ and carved out an unexpected new niche — the first tough-guy-junkie-ghostbuster-in-L.A. character – with the Cal MacDonald adventures in “Criminal Macabre“ (think “Rockford Files” and “Shaun of the Dead” but with an injection of “Permanent Midnight“). Niles also collaborated with one of his own heroes, the horror-comics titan Bernie Wrightson, for “Dead, She Said,” a nasty bit of retro horror that was equal parts Lew Archer and George A. Romero. Now Wrightson and Niles are taking a lighter approach to their dark impulses with “Doc Macabre,” which features a young, eager specialist in supernatural investigation who hires himself out to anyone with a poltergeist problem or life issues involving the undead. We caught up with Niles, who lives in Southern California and ...