Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch (One Shot)

Adventure, mystery, horror, and humor thrive on every page of the Eisner Award–winning Beasts of Burden. The four-legged occult-investigating team—a heroic gang of dogs and one cat—are doing their best to protect their home, Burden Hill, from a chicken-stealing goblin, a frightful basilisk, and a strange lost herd of sheep!

* This special one-shot reprints three stories from Dark Horse Presents!

Preview Pages in Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch

* Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson return to the characters that won them the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Short Story!

Dark Horse Comics, Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch (One Shot) will be in stores, Wednesday, August 1st. 

Dark Horse Presents #6 Featuring Beasts of Burden

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the comic shop, Dark Horse unleashes another monstrous volume of comics from today's greatest creators! Boasting a brand-new story by Brazilian wunderkind Fabio Moon, this volume also features the second of three new Beasts of Burden stories by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson! Throw in continuing stories by Steve Niles, Robert Love, David Walker, Carla Speed McNeil, Filipe Melo, Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, and Howard Chaykin, and you'll find yourself on the receiving end of another eighty-page dose of ad-free thrills!

* A brand new Beasts of Burden story and a new short by Fabio Moon!

Dark Horse Presents #6 will be out in stores this Wednesday, November 16th. 

San Diego Comic Con Dark Horse Comics Signings, Panels Schedule

DARK HORSE ANNOUNCES SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2011 SCHEDULE!
SIGNINGS, PANELS, AND GREEN SCREENS, OH MY!

July 13, MILWAUKIE, OR—It’s here! San Diego Comic-Con 2011 is upon us, and Dark Horse Comics is telling you all the goods ahead of time! Plan accordingly!

SIGNINGS
Wednesday, July 20
7:30 p.m.—Preview Night Reveal

Thursday, July 21
11 a.m.— Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
11 a.m.—Tara McPherson (The Art of Tara McPherson)
12:30 p.m.—Eric Powell (The Goon)
2 p.m.—Bruce Campbell (My Name Is Bruce) *Ticketed by Lottery
3 p.m.—Morgan Spurlock (Supersized)
3:30 p.m.—Jerry Robinson (Jet Scott)
4:30 p.m.—Jill Thompson (Beasts of Burden)

Friday, July 22
10 a.m.—Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo)
10 a.m.—Rebecca Guay (The Last Dragon)
11 a.m.—Menton3 and Patric Reynolds (The Thing)
11:30 a.m.—Dark Horse Presents Signing: Jim Steranko (Red Tide) and Neal Adams (Blood) *Ticketed by Lottery
12 p.m.—Stephan Martiniere and Michael Heisler (Rage)
1 p.m.—Gerard Way (The Umbrella Academy) *Ticketed by Lottery
3:30 p.m.—Star Wars Signing: Mick Harrison (Dark Times); John Jackson Miller and Michael Heisler (Knight Errant); Scott Allie (Jedi: The Dark Side); Rob Chestney (The Old Republic: Threat of Peace); Alexander Freed (The Old Republic: The Lost Suns); Jeremy Barlow (The Clone Wars)
5 p.m.—Falling Skies Signing: Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton, Drew Roy, Colin Cunningham, Sarah Carter, Mark Verheiden *Ticketed by Lottery

Beasts of Burden in Dark Horse Presents #4

Coming to you fresh from the upcoming eighty-page spectacular, Beasts of Burden returns in Dark Horse Presents #4!

Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s lovable and crafty team of critters is back in action for a story that will tempt your taste buds and leave you wanting more!   

Adventure, mystery, horror, and humor thrive on every page of Beasts of Burden—a comic-book series that will capture readers’ hearts and haunt their dreams.

Award-winning comics creators Evan Dorkin (Milk and Cheese) and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) first introduced these very special investigators in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings and the other Dark Horse Book of . . . anthologies, for which they won coveted Eisner Awards for Best Short Story and Best Painter.

Darkhorse Comics: Jill Thompson - First Female Creator to Win Comics Category of Reuben Awards

Jill Thompson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society award at the very prestigious Reuben Awards Ceremony this past weekend.  She was presented with this award for her work in Dark Horse Comics Beasts of Burden.

The most amazing thing is that Jill Thompson is the first female creator to win in the comics category in the history of the Rueben Awards.  The previous Dark Horse Comics creators who have received this honor are Paul Chadwick, Stan Sakai and Frank Miller. 

 Jill Thompson's credits include being a New York Times Best Selling graphic novelist, as well as winning many Eisner awards for her work on Scary Godmother, The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings and The Dark Horse Book of the Dead. 

The collected trade Scary Godmother: Comic Book Stories will be on sale in stores June 15th

Beasts of Burden returns this fall! Look for their first appearance in issue #4 of the eighty-page anthology, Dark Horse Presents!, on sale in September!