Content Warnings Body Horror; Gore (mostly cartoonish rather than realistic); Major Character Death
2 Page comics in a variety of horror tones (some are cutely spooky, some absurd, some gory or body horror-y). Each one stands alone, though there are some recurring characters and repeated themes. For example: several with an eldritch horror twist on classic fairy tales; vignettes about cute sheet-ghosts that tend toward sweeter endings; a human predator discovering that his prospective victim is much more dangerous than he is; apparently-normal objects or cute animals actually being lovecraftian horrors; anthropomorphized things exacting revenge against the humans that use them; unexpected bodily transformations; it-was-only-a-nightmare... or-was-it?!, lovingly-illustrated cats as implacable murder-machines, etc.
I'm likely to nom/request a batch of the bedsheet ghost comics as a single canon and possibly a couple of other stand-alones, but there's enough variety in his portfolio that I thought other people might find Very Small Canons of interest among them as well.
The link above is to the artist's official flickr, which has lots of his work but isn't organized in the most painless way for browsing. There are also a lot of listicle sites that have collected selections, like so:
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April 1 - Ankles - Lucy Dacus, Short Horror Comics - Ben Chen
1 April 2025 05:08 pm (UTC)Ankles - Lucy Dacus
(Reccommended by Anonymous!)
Media type: Music Video
Approximate length: 0-10 minutes
F/F - A security guard from an art museum has to retrieve a beautiful woman and return her to where she belongs...the portrait hall in the museum.
Short Horror Comics - Ben Chen
(Reccommended by APgeeksout!)
Media type: Comics (2 pages each)
Approximate length: See Notes
Content Warnings Body Horror; Gore (mostly cartoonish rather than realistic); Major Character Death
2 Page comics in a variety of horror tones (some are cutely spooky, some absurd, some gory or body horror-y). Each one stands alone, though there are some recurring characters and repeated themes. For example: several with an eldritch horror twist on classic fairy tales; vignettes about cute sheet-ghosts that tend toward sweeter endings; a human predator discovering that his prospective victim is much more dangerous than he is; apparently-normal objects or cute animals actually being lovecraftian horrors; anthropomorphized things exacting revenge against the humans that use them; unexpected bodily transformations; it-was-only-a-nightmare... or-was-it?!, lovingly-illustrated cats as implacable murder-machines, etc.
I'm likely to nom/request a batch of the bedsheet ghost comics as a single canon and possibly a couple of other stand-alones, but there's enough variety in his portfolio that I thought other people might find Very Small Canons of interest among them as well.
The link above is to the artist's official flickr, which has lots of his work but isn't organized in the most painless way for browsing. There are also a lot of listicle sites that have collected selections, like so:
https://www.pupperish.com/horror-comics
https://itsaww.com/9412/30-horror-comics-with-unexpected-endings-by-artist-ben-chen/
https://designyoutrust.com/2020/04/artist-creates-comics-with-chilling-endings-and-here-s-30-of-the-creepiest-ones/
https://www.brighthumanity.me/story/4708/taiwanese-artist-s-30-horror-comics-with-unexpectedly-creepy-endings/