EC Comics | Hilary Barta

Squa Tront! Spafon Wood!

Like most kids growing up in the 1960s, I liked monster and sci-fi movies. But the primary inspiration for the aliens and space-men I...

Literal Alien

This is my second collaboration with director/writer/animator/artist Jay Lender. It's part of my ongoing comics project Flip the Script....

Alienation of Affection

This is another "Flip the script" comics collaboration. I penciled the strip first, and showed it to Jay Lender, who then wrote the...

Surly and Sticky

I'm developing a set of stickers that I'll eventually make available on this site. It will be a collection of monsters, aliens, weirdos...

Jack Davis (December 2, 1924 – July 27, 2016)

Here are a few images by Jack Davis, drawn for EC Comics during the 1950s. I chose violent imagery because there is an inherent violence...

Surly Hack Studio

"Hi! you've reached Surly Hack Studio. Leave a message and the Hack will call you back." That message has been on my answering machine...