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Whatever the genre at hand, Matt Howarth pushes the envelope. Of all the
many hydra-heads of Matt's creative mind, his horror strips are definitely the
most grisly and vile. They are not intended for those seeking a mild scare.
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THE GUILTY PARTY |
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Perhaps Matt's sickest tour-de-violence, a tale of a group of teenagers who
sneak out to an abandoned house in the woods to have illicit and unprotected
sex and end up being viciously torn to pieces by a physical manifestation of
their unconscious guilt. (published in Saturday Mourning Fly in my Eye, 1989)
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THE POLTERGEIST PAPERS |
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A disturbing look at intense Pre-Menstrual Syndrome and the transference of
aggressive energies. (published in Daughters of Fly in my Eye, 1990)
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MY NAME IS LEGION |
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A blend of horror and action, as the survivors of a crashlanding struggle
to survive their own deviant ways, the ancient evil their crash awakened, and
the Australian aborigine shamen who would destroy them all to save the world.
(published in Fly in my Eye Exposed, 1991)
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BABY'S ON FIRE |
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A short piece of psychological horror involving the teachings of Wilhelm
Reich in the hands of a nervous teenage punk. (published in Taboo 5, 1991)
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CRAZY FOR THE GIRL |
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Matt's feature length horror tale about a kid working in a comic book store
who falls in love with a girl but never has the courage to talk to her.
Instead he uses his vivid and bloody imagination to foster his own self-
inadequacies. (a one-shot comic published by Brave New Words in 1992)
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THE LATCHKEY FIEND |
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Matt's only full color horror strip, in which a latchkey kid discovers the
blood drenched price of coming home late. (published in Asylum 1, 1993)
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REVENGE |
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A strange blend of Dickens and Dick, involving a series of dead babies
found in a trash dump by a pair of homeless kids. (published in Taboo 8,
1995)
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KLEMDIGGERS |
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A fusion of science fiction and horror about a crew of artifact hunters
who are stalked by a haunted spacesuit. (published in Death Rattle 4 &
5, 1996)
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