Richard Sala

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1992
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Delphine (Jan-2013)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Hypnotic Tales

    Mining much the same vein as Charles Burns (see Skin Deep ), Sala puts a satiric and surreal spin on elements (e.g., first-person narration, nocturnal and urban settings) derived from noir novels and films to create an outlandish, nightmarish, but so...

  • Residents

    This cutting-edge comic is based upon concepts and characters found on the popular Freak Show album by the Residents available in record shops across the country. Each features story and art based on one of the songs. Included are: Herman and the Hum...

  • The Ghastly Ones and Other Fiendish Frolics: A Gallery of Gruesome Creeps

    The Ghastly Ones and Other Fiendish Frolics follows in the grand and ghoulish tradition of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams in a delightfully gruesome and fanciful, tongue-in-cheek look at maniacs, monsters, and mayhem. Creeping through the pages are ...

  • Peculia

    by Richard Sala
    Sala has developed a distinctive narrative and visual style that can best be described as gothic humor. Peculia, the intrepid heroine, is a precocious and rebellious adventurer who fearlessly...

  • The Chuckling Whatsit

    A genre-defining masterpiece of graphic noir comes back into print.In The Chuckling Whatsit, Sala weaves the gothic cartooning traditions of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams with a densely constructed, melodramatic murder mystery involving astr...

  • Maniac Killer Strikes Again!: Delirious, Mysterious Stories

    A collection of long out of print stories from the late '80s to the early 90s'. Maniac killer is full of deformed monsters and secret societies, of a mirderous clan of cat-masked villians and simple mad scientists.
    In the multi-chapter " Thirteen...

  • Mad Night: Featuring Judy Drood, Girl Detective

    "Gothic horror, madcap comedy, and an old-fashioned murder mystery coalesce perfectly in this chilling graphic novel. For those who always thought the animated introductions to PBS''s ""Mystery"" series were...

  • Peculia and the Groon Grove Vampires

    by Richard Sala
    The book follows five college students, survivors of the dark force of a powerful evil, when they are summoned by someone seven years after a dastardly event, to defeat the evil again. Sala h...

  • Delphine Vol. 1

    A mysterious traveler gets off the train in a small village surrounded by a thick sinister forest. He is searching for Delphine, who vanished with only a scrawled out address on a scrap of paper as a trace. In his newest mystery, Richard Sala takes t...



  • The Grave Robber's Daughter

    by Richard Sala
    In this original graphic novel, when the carnival comes to town, parents in the town of Obidiah's Glenn began to get sick, followed by the teachers, doctors, and the sheriff's department. The...

  • Delphine Vol. 2

    In the second installment of Richard Sala's dark and suspenseful mini-series, the mysterious traveler finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into nightmare territory. The locals seem determined to undermine his every move and he soon finds himself s...

  • Delphine Vol. 4

  • Cat Burglar Black

    K. Westree: Teen Cat Burglar

    When K. Westree arrives at Bellsong Academy, she thinks she's left her cat-burgling past behind her. But K. soon discovers the school has a mystery of its own, a hidden treasure left behind by its founder, and sh...

  • The Hidden

    Eight desperate people are stranded at a snowbound diner. Their phones can only pick brief and perplexing bits of conversation. The radio is filled with static ― although occasional, broken-up bits of news are heard ― reports of some sort of glob...

  • Delphine

    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    A mysterious traveler gets off the train in a small village surrounded by a thick sinister forest. He is searching for Delphine, who vanished with only a scrawled-out address on a scrap of paper as a trace. In his newest chiller, Richard Sala takes t...

  • In A Glass Grotesquely

    This graphic novel is a selection of related short mysteries and thrills, all depicted in Sala’s trademark colorful watercolor washes and sharp, detailed line-work. Rising from the crumbling pages of some forgotten (and nonexistent) pulp magazine c...

  • Violenzia and Other Deadly Amusements

    “Let there be no mercy or forgiveness for they have shown none.” With these words, whispered into the wind, a mysterious young woman leaps into action with wild abandon, twin automatics blazing. Is she a brave and reckless heroine taking on a mon...

  • The Bloody Cardinal

    He was trapped by police in an abandoned asylum which burnt to the ground. The charred remains found in the ashes were presumed to have been his. However, he left behind a journal which has been tied to a string of violent, unsolved murders. Who is b...

  • Phantoms in the Attic

    A limited-edition collection of drawings, watercolor paintings, and short comics.

    Richard Sala has been creating fiendishly clever comics for over twenty years and Fantagraphics Underground is proud to present this special limited-edition coll...



  • Poison Flowers & Pandemonium

    The master of macabre returns with three quirky, campy new graphic novellas, collected in one volume!

    In the graphic novella "The Amazing Adventures of Fantomina Fantomella," the titular heroine is presumed dead ― but the mob realizes they w...

  • Now #10: The New Comics Anthology

    The tenth issue of the Eisner Award-nominated anthology series includes new work by fan favorites, new discoveries, and rare gems, such as cult cartoonist Richard Sala’s unpublished juvenilia. It’s an entire comic book store under one cov...

  • The Ghastly Ones & Other Fiendish Frolics: A Gallery of Gruesome Creeps

    Humorous Horror for Gleeful GhoulsWelcome, fiends, to a gleefully ghoulish look at maniacs, monsters, and mayhem. As you creep through these pages, you'll meet axe-swinging psychos, blood-thirsty beasts, and sinister stalkers of every size and shape&...

  • Night Drive

    This extremely rare, long out-of-print comic book of macabre and mysterious short stories launched the career of one of the medium's most distinctive stylists. Originally self-published in 1984 and never reprinted, this expanded hardcover represents ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Sala has published 23 books.

The next book by Richard Sala, Night Drive, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Richard Sala, Residents, was published in April 1992.

No. Richard Sala does not write books in series.
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