Media Release -- Sick of dopey diaries from countless whiny wimps or never-ending sappy vampire romances? Well, so is The Crypt-Keeper, and in the all-new TALES FROM THE CRYPT Graphic Novel from Papercutz he retaliates with "Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid" and "DieLite," two painfully funny parodies of these putrid pop-culture trends.

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Social Media Release -- TALES FROM THE CRYPT #13, on the stands in July, digs into one of the most in-demand pop-culture phenomena: the stunningly popular DIARY OF A WIMPY KID graphic novels.

The Stinky Dead Kid -- TALES’ version of the Wimpy Kid -- appears in two stories. “Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid” explains exactly how he became a Stinky Dead Kid, and “Guitar Demon” (a satire on the computer game GUITAR HERO) pits him into battle with a popular musical toy possessed by an evil entity.

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Governor Sarah Palin's appearance on the cover of TALES FROM THE CRYPT #8 -- on sale Wednesday, October 22 -- is making headlines. The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Daily News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and online news outlets Gawker and Wired News have generated news stories about the comic book -- and the Associated Press is distributing the L.A. Times' story worldwide. It's already appeared on the websites of the Oakland Tribune, Iowa's Quad City Times, the Portland Oregonian, and other papers.

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Booklist calls him “an immense talent.” The New York Times Book Review praises his “folklorist’s eye for telling detail” and “ front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace.” He’s won five Bram Stoker horror awards... And now Joe R. Lansdale, best-selling author of Leather Maiden, Bubba Ho-Tep, and The Bottoms, is writing TALES FROM THE CRYPT! In issue #7’s “Moonlight Sonata,” written with Lansdale’s brother John and drawn by Chris Noeth, a mugger thinks he's hit the jackpot when his victim's keys open a millionaire's house; but things change when he finds werewolves in the basement.

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