The Bloody Best of Lenore

-I love Lenore!- - Rosario Dawson (Iron Fist, The Defenders, Daredevil, Sin City) -I like the way Roman Dirge draws stuff.- - Neil Gaiman -Roman Dirge has the best imagination this side of Tim Burton.- Caroline Thompson, writer, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands -You can’t help but love these characters and the ridiculous antics they get themselves into.- - Horror Talk -Cute, cuddly, terrifying, gross, hilarious and brilliant all at once.- - Geek Syndicate -It’s hilarious in all the wrong ways - which are, of course, the best ways.- - Critical Blast -If you enjoy shows such as Family Guy, or some of the Adult Swim stuff that’s doing the rounds at the moment, then you will love this charming, macabre and very funny collection.- - Curiosity of a Social Misfit -A good wicked read to enjoy if you have slightly twisted tastes- - Teen Librarian -Darkly humorous tale- - Fan Boy Comics -Brilliantly written, smartly drawn / colored, incredibly macabre and an absolute thrill to read.- - The Pullbox Review -If Tim Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cure’s Robert Smith, and the creative team behind South Park getting together to hash out ideas for a collaborative Seussian -childrens- book sounds like a match made in Heck to you, then this is the comic you’ve been praying for.- - Pop Mythology -The book is yet another winner – one of indie comics’ most criminally underrated/under-the-radar/unknown series, in my opinion.- -He’s a master of comic timing – not easy to do in a static format – and visually, somehow manages to make many of his panels pop off the page with movement.- - Bookgasm -Another great addition to the Roman Dirge library.- - Strange Kids Club

Born April 29, 1972, Roman Dirge is an autodidactic, quadruple Eisner nominated artist/writer, magician, and accomplished raconteur. Told by his high school art teachers that he would never become an artist due to his ‘crude drawing style,’ Roman promptly quit art and became a full-time magician, dazzling countless kids’ parties with his astonishing skills of prestidigitation. However, the urge to create comics was too great, and in 1992 he created Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl for the San Diego alternative magazine Xenophobe. Roman would go on to draw 13 issues of Lenore before taking his titular character to Titan Comics in 2009, where Roman still continues to bring his gloriously silly and gothically bizarre worlds to an adoring audience of devoted fans. Roman is much in demand in the animation industry, where he’s worked on a variety of TV shows and commercials as a writer and artist, including the HBO show, Animals and Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim. In 2015, Roman wrote and developed a pilot show for the animated show, Princess Battle Boy for Nickelodeon. He has also written and illustrated three books, the first a collection of his short stories called The Cat With a Really Big Head, his second book, a book of macabre poetry called Something at the Window is Scratching, and 2024’s I Can Count to Ten, the world’s first how-to-count book for adults.