HUMANOIDS ANNOUNCES BRAND NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY ON FRANKENSTEIN CREATOR MARY SHELLEY
- Byron O'Neal
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
Humanoids has announced a forthcoming Kickstarter for Haunted: a brand new bio-comic on Mary Shelley, the visionary young woman who penned Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus at eighteen and changed the world.
After critically-acclaimed releases such as The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television, Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula, and All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Velvet Underground Story, Humanoids and writer-artist Koren Shadmi wanted to focus on a critical female figure in the pop culture zeitgeist. With their 50-year legacy of publishing ground-breaking genre material through Metal Hurlant and beyond, the “Mother of Science Fiction” was the perfect subject.
Timed to Women’s History Month, this project sheds light on Shelley’s upbringing and does not shy away from her strained marriage to Percy Shelley which was colored by tragedy, multiple miscarriages and poverty. That said, it focuses predominantly on her creative conception of the seminal work, even featuring the monster himself as a recurring character in the graphic novel as seen in the below exclusive preview pages.
“We—as a publisher, of course, but also as a culture—owe a lot to Mary Shelley for portraying, so eloquently and with such mature insight, the pains of being human and the pitfalls of pretending to be more than. Frankenstein was and is still today a warning against playing God.” -Publisher Fabrice Giger
Years in the making, the campaign is set to go live on Kickstarter on March 25, as a quieter, yet triumphant finale to this past year’s mania catalyzed by Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride.
PREVIEW PAGES
The campaign is a Kickstarter “Project We Love” and offers Early-Bird pricing, exclusive collector editions, and more!
KOREN SHADMI is an illustrator and cartoonist; he studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC where he now teaches. So far, his graphic novels have been translated to a dozen languages. Koren lives and works in Queens, New York, where he quietly awaits the apocalypse.
Born in 1975 from the cosmic spark of Metal Hurlant, HUMANOIDS has never simply followed the curve of publishing—it has bent it. Through every shift of era, medium, and frontier, the spirit has remained the same: restless, visionary, unafraid to evolve. For over 50 years, Humanoids has championed creator-driven content that explores the power of art beyond boundaries and across genres.
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