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Tripwire Talks To Tom Peyer About Ahoy’s Edgar Allen Poe’s Snifter Of Blood
A Drop Of The Hard Stuff
Tripwire’s consulting editor Scott Braden talks to Tom Peyer about Ahoy’s Edgar Allen Poe’s Snifter Of Blood anthology out now…
TRIPWIRE: What is the secret origin behind this anthology title? How did it come about?
TOM PEYER: We were thinking about licensing a famous horror property (the name of which I will, fittingly, take to my grave). Then we thought, why should we risk all the money and let the property’s owner have all the say? So we looked around for someone who was:
TOM PEYER: We were thinking about licensing a famous horror property (the name of which I will, fittingly, take to my grave). Then we thought, why should we risk all the money and let the property’s owner have all the say? So we looked around for someone who was:
1) Dead, so we wouldn’t have to listen to them;2) Dead a long time, so we wouldn’t have to pay anyone;3) Associated with genre fiction;4) Sporting a widely recognised face;5) Mockable.
Only one person checked all of those boxes.
TW: It’s been three years since the predecessor of Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood, Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror, premiered at comic book shops everywhere. Why the name change?
TP: We wanted to keep starting with issue #1, because we want it plain that you’re not coming into the middle of anything. It’s an anthology. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve read us before, you’ll still get it. If we keep the same title, we get into labeling volume two, volume three, and then we have that problem again. So we keep changing its name, like it’s some dashing international thief who has so far eluded the police.
TW: The talent that this comic attracts is phenomenal. Who is contributing strips to the anthology title this time around?
TP: We have some really fine work this time by Dean Motter, Rick Geary, Holly Interlandi, Greg Scott, and many others. The first issue had our traditional Monster Serials chapter by Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg; these are like little Hammer films about the creatures they used to sell you sugary cereals when you were a kid. Or maybe still. I don’t know what you eat, and please don’t write in to tell me.
TP: We have some really fine work this time by Dean Motter, Rick Geary, Holly Interlandi, Greg Scott, and many others. The first issue had our traditional Monster Serials chapter by Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg; these are like little Hammer films about the creatures they used to sell you sugary cereals when you were a kid. Or maybe still. I don’t know what you eat, and please don’t write in to tell me.
TW: Why is Monster Serials so popular with readers and fans, and will it one day be collected on its own?
TP: We’re discussing that very thing; we’ll tell you when we know for sure. As for why it’s so popular, I just think it’s the high quality of the art and writing. It’s a really good piece. And of course it’s ridiculous, or we wouldn’t be publishing it.
TW: Comics and comic book properties are everywhere now: TV, movies, video games, toys, and more. Do sales in the Direct Market reflect this, or do you think comic books have reached a plateau with the audience at large?
TP: I hope this isn’t disappointing, butI have no idea what’s going on. I just keep my head down and work on these things, and every day I can keep doing it is a day I’m grateful for. You wouldn’t want me running your business. I have no head for it. But I do have a lot of opinions about monsters, starships, superpowers . . . at my age. Sad, isn’t it?
Edgar Allen Poe’s Snifter Of Blood is out now from Ahoy
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