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ScrewYouDinkleberg wrote: Booboofinger wrote: ScrewYouDinkleberg wrote: Booboofinger wrote: I always liked scary and creepy stories.

Back when I was growing up in Brazil, I used to read a lot of horror comics by the defunct Taika publisher.They were so scary that I had to hide them so I would not glance at their covers at night and have nightmares. Like the lovely over to the left. One real cool thing about them was that unlike American comics, they were not subjected to the Comics Code. They had a level of gore and scariness that was even beyond the stuff EC comics used to print and brought on the comics code.After moving to the US I was a big fan of Creepy & Eerie magazines. I also used to love watching old Hammer movies re-runs on TV.

Later I graduated to reading E.A. Poe, Lovecraft and then Stephen King, Clive Barker and Niel Gaiman, pretty much in that order. And then one day, while cruising YouTube at work for something to listen to while I coded, I ran into Russian Sleep Experiment, and that brought me here. Damn, I'm Brazilian and never heard of this comic book before. I guess I was born too late. I wish I could have interest in creepy stuff this early. I'm still a teenager, and I still can't stand reading most horror stories. I think Taika went out of business in the late 70's early eighties. If you are Brazilian, try looking up Nico Rosso, Flavio Colin, Julio Shimamoto and, Eugenio Colonnese E.T. Coelho. They were  some of the artists for those comics. It was some really scary sh*bleep*! I remember once my mom found some of those comics and hid them away...LOL

I'm really glad I got to read those.

So what part of Brasil are you from and are you still living there? Actually, I'm starting to remember sometime in my childhood when I used to play games on the internet with scary screamers (like that stupid labyrinth game with the zombie image). That was back at the time I used to live in my hometown, Florianópolis (I live in a different city from another state nowadays). After my childhood, I just spent my time reading Turma da Mônica comics (including the Teenager version). I never really heard of these artists you mentioned, I'll try to search about them. Yeah, most of them are pretty old (60's though 80's) but I was lucky enough to find copies of these on a camelô or another. I grew up in Rio, so there was lots of those and newsstands on every corner. I think the 70's was the golden age of Brazilian horror comics. It kind of started with Editora Vecchio's reprints of Dr. Spector but later the magazine changed names to Spectro and a lot of the old artists I mentioned came back. Even Eugenio Colonesse who was illustrating medical books. Him and Nico Rosso were my favorites. Shimamoto and Colin had looser styles, but good stories. Shimamoto even did a lot of stories that you almost had to be Brazilian to begin to understand.

Not sure if you read Curupira which I posted here. That is based on a folk tale this uncle aunt of mine used to tell and scared the heebee-jeebies out of me as a kid. I you do read it, leave a comment ;)