What makes a good horror artist?
MAN: I really think one of the most important aspects of drawing horror, especially Lovecraftian horror, is the ability to create an atmosphere of dread and despair. Obviously, the ability to draw monstrous things is key, but even more important is the ability to draw the reactions to those monstrous things. I think that’s what makes it resonate with the reader and why I just love what Sunder Raj did with the boys in “The Farm.” SN: To me, and this is something I learned from working with guys like Kelley Jones, it’s a willingness to go dark and maybe not show everything. It’s knowing when to pull the trigger on a reveal and when to keep something in the background. TP: There’s no single way to be a good horror artist. That’s the beauty of it; the very broad range of expression the form permits. Some stories require a solidly believable humanity, so we can feel that these are real people about to get butchered and we don’t want it to happen. Others benefit from a really wacked-out appr
