Horror comics boom in our age of anxiety

The New York-based writer sold around five million copies of his "Something is Killing the Children" series, which first appeared in 2019. It follows Erica Slaughter, a mysterious woman with a stuffed octopus, who can see the invisible monsters that have been murdering children in a small American town. Subsequent works "The House on the Lake" or "The Department of Truth" have tackled human survival and conspiracy theories, helping turn Tynion into one of the top-selling independent American comics creators across all genres.