Posted By Dan Greenfield on Mar 12, 2026 | 2 comments

HOPE YOU LIKE IT: The Art of DAKOTA ALEXANDER…

By DAKOTA ALEXANDER

Continuing with my ongoing series of faux comics covers (I got a lot these, folks! Get comfy!), I am steering my attention away from the Big Two and taking us down the dark and sinister road of HORROR and FEAR that was oh, so devilishly and delightfully depicted in the early 1950s within the paranoid pages of EC Comics!

Feast your festering eyeballs upon a few TERROR-filled covers:

Jack Davis

SHUDDER!

Johnny Craig

GASP!

Graham Ingels

COFFINS!!

Suffice it to say, the cover of an EC Comic is a thing of tantalizing illustration and color. It’s meant to seduce your innocent mind, tempt your dark curiosities, and lure you into its pages of macabre tales.

And so when an old friend from high school reached out to me to do a piece for his son involving the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, I immediately thought this would be a great opportunity to have a crack at doing my own version of an EC cover.

Full disclosure: At the time, I had only a very cursory knowledge of this famous cryptid, and so it was suggested to me that I put the creature in “some fire.” Since then, I have become somewhat of a fan of the mysterious monster, and I now know that there is so much more that can be done with the  Mothman (which I actually intend to explore with my own comic, The Hunter!).

And with that, here is my own version of an EC Comic: TALES FROM THE CRYPTIDS: THE MOTHMAN!

Hope you like it.

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Want more of THE ART OF DAKOTA ALEXANDER? Come back next week!

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— A MASTER OF KUNG FU COVER You Never Knew Existed — Because It Didn’t. Click here.

— A Bronze Age BATMAN Series You Never Knew Existed — Because It Didn’t. Click here.

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DAKOTA ALEXANDER is an American artist living in Japan. He’s worked on many projects, such as The Liberty Brigade, The Masters, Charon 13, and G.H.O.S.T. Agents. His latest is his love letter to Bronze Age superhero-horror comics, The Hunter, which is now available at his Etsy, Drums of the Serpent.