Oni Press and the world-renowned Archie Comic Publications, Inc. have announced a new and chilling perspective on the ultimate Archie Comics horror tale ever told with the Afterlife with Archie: Mausoleum Edition Vol. 1 – a new staggeringly oversized hardcover re-representing Eisner Award-winning artist Francesco Francavilla’s raw, unexpurgated black-and-white linework in a tombstone-sized format so haunting that it could only be called the “Mausoleum Edition.”
In the days before Halloween 2013, Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and the rest of Riverdale’s beloved icons found themselves utterly transformed and powerfully reimagined as the comic industry’s most unlikely and unexpected horror anti-heroes within the pages of Harvey Award-winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Eisner Award-winning artist Francesco Francavilla’s Afterlife with Archie – detonating the first blast of a sold-out, smash-hit series that would immediately and definitively redefine the art and intensity of Archie Comics for a new generation. Unrelentingly celebrated by critics and ferociously followed by fans, AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE immediately became a jugular-ripping legend in its own time – due in no small part to the terrifying, tense, and uncannily atmospheric artwork of illustrator Francesco Francavilla, who quickly defined himself as one of his generation’s most instantly iconic and sought-after artists over the course of the series’ gut-wrenching run.
Now, on the cusp of the of the upcoming Afterlife with Archie live-action streaming series adaptation slated to debut on Disney+ in 2027, Oni Press and Archie Comics are pulling back the curtain to reveal Francavilla’s complete interior artwork and covers from issues #1-6 in crisp and creepy B&W at the size of full-scale comics artboard and remastered by the artist himself.
NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER, AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE: MAUSOLEUM EDITION VOL. 1 alongside a trove of exclusive add-ons and merchandise – including signatures by co-creators Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla, specialtyAFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE single issue and graphic novel reprints, high-quality t-shirts, enamel pins, limited-edition posters, and more – the Kickstarter campaign is the ultimate way for readers, collectors, and appreciators of original art to experience every disturbing detail of a once-in-a-lifetime horror comics masterpiece … as rendered by a truly legendary talent of the comics medium.
And, rest assured, Afterlife with Archie isn’t quite dead yet… Stay tuned for more news and updates from Oni Press and Archie Comics about the series’ ultimate fate in 2027.
Invite Oni Press and Archie Comics in if you dare this Halloween with Afterlife with Archie: Mausoleum Edition Vol. 1, funding now via Kickstarter.
