Nerdly » Titan to unleash ‘The Bloody Best of Lenore’

23rd Aug2017

Titan to unleash ‘The Bloody Best of Lenore’

by Phil Wheat

September 19th sees the release of Roman Dirge’s The Bloody Best of Lenore – a selection of Lenore’s funniest and most manically silly adventures collected together for the first time in a special hardcover edition! Celebrating 25 glorious years of Lenore: The Cute Little Dead Girl, this fantastic collection comes with a brand-new cover by creator Roman Dirge, and includes a stunning embossed 4-D cover!

Eisner-winning Roman Dirge created the black comedy comic character Lenore in 1992 for the San Diego alternative magazine Xenophobe, and the character of Lenore has since become a publishing phenomenon with comic books and graphic novels, and even animation, with Sony creating 26 flash-animated shorts of Lenore for their website, ScreenBlast. Inspired by the poem “Lenore” by Edgar Allan Poe, Dirge’s Lenore comics books has garnered a passionate fanbase over the years as well as celebrity fans including Neil Gaiman (American Gods) and Rosario Dawson (Sin City).

The Bloody Best of Lenore – released in the UK by Titan Comics – collects fan-favourite stories by creator Roman Dirge, including stories like; Ragamuffin – the first appearance of Ragamuffin, the vampiric monster trapped in the body of a cute lil’ doll!; The Fugly Ducking – in Lenore’s twist on the classic tale, Lenore encounters a duckling who dreams about being a swan; The Macabre Mortimer Fledge – the shocking secret of Lenore’s rebirth is revealed in ‘The Macabre Malevolence Of Mortimer Fledge’!

This collection also comes with a special bonus material section “Lenore & Friends” which features never before seen art material, and also includes an afterword written by Roman Dirge.