Joseph Schmalke is a comics creator, writer, and illustrator residing in Westbrook, Maine. Joe is the writer/artist on several horror comics— including THE ELECTRIC BLACK, THE CALAMITOUS BLACK DEVILS, THE INFERNAL PACT, and CHERRY BLACKBIRD, and WE DON'T KILL SPIDERS. He is also the writer and co-creator of the role-playing dark comedy MURDER HOBO and artist for PHANTOM STARKILLER and COUNT DRACO KNUCKLEDUSTER. You can find his work featured on variant covers for Image comics, Boom! studios, Behmouth, Vault comics, IDW, Mad Cave, and Scout comics. You will also find his artwork on Exclusive MARVEL and FYE t-shirts, Super 7 /Killer Bootlegs’ card art, and A Sound of Thunder’s IT WAS METAL graphic novel anthology and all the artwork for their upcoming album The Krimson Kult.  (less)