Winnebago Graveyard
by Steven Niles
art by Alison Sampson
2017
Winnebago Graveyard is a horror comic that was recommended to me by a friend who is pretty big into horror. (Moreso, it turns out, than I am.)
The comic tells the story of a mom, son, and stepdad on a cross-country RV trip. They stop to attend a rural canival, and when they leave, their RV has been stolen. The local police are no help, their hotel is creepy, and in the middle of the night, a mob of Klan-looking people wearing black robes and carrying torches try to kidnap and ritually murder them.
The family escapes temporarily. They find a garage with a dozen abandoned RVs and then a field with hundreds and hundreds of them, and realize how the town supports itself. The cultists summon a demon bear. The family sets a bunch of stuff on fire. A number of people die gruesomely, and eventually, someone makes it out alive in the original RV.
I liked the cover art more than the interiors, although artist Alison Sampson's slightly grotesque linework suits the story. The coloring is nice and vivid. This one didn't do much for me.
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