Adam Szym
@adamszym.bsky.social
I make comics. Usually they're scary.
My book LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS is available now from Oni Press.
My book LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS is available now from Oni Press.
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Adam Szym
@adamszym.bsky.social
· Sep 22
"I happened upon one of those documentary shows about UFOs and abductions that seemed ubiquitous on cable television in the 90s, and it was one of the only times I can remember watching something that genuinely scared me enough to give me nightmares." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/09/22/i...
“I Really Love When Fiction Throws Me Into the Deep End” Adam Szym on Making “Little Visitor”
I’m Kris Bertin, author of a few books of short stories, screenplays that never got made, and Hobtown Mystery Stories, a collection of surrealist small-town folk-horror stories published with ONI P…
www.vol1brooklyn.com
I did a long in depth interview with Kris Bertin, writer of the great Hobtown series, about my new book, what compels me about aliens, working with the unknown, and of course: day jobs.
Give it a read,
@hobtown.bsky.social asks some great questions!
Give it a read,
@hobtown.bsky.social asks some great questions!
RIP Udo Kier, you were in one of the greatest movie posters of all time
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
RIP Udo Kier, you were in one of the greatest movie posters of all time
How good would it feel to hit a button and deploy a Mass Production Evangelion to this parking lot?
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
How good would it feel to hit a button and deploy a Mass Production Evangelion to this parking lot?
I’m listening to the audiobook for The Fort Bragg Cartel and at one point COVID is brought up and the author matter-of-factly states that it broke free from a US funded bioweapons lab in Wuhan China as if this is objective fact? Very weird aside!
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’m listening to the audiobook for The Fort Bragg Cartel and at one point COVID is brought up and the author matter-of-factly states that it broke free from a US funded bioweapons lab in Wuhan China as if this is objective fact? Very weird aside!
Rewatching American Movie. What a wonderful thing.
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Rewatching American Movie. What a wonderful thing.
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HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is here in a WEEK, so I'm offering a HOBTOWN REFRESHER COURSE for those who haven't been paying attention:
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is here in a WEEK, so I'm offering a HOBTOWN REFRESHER COURSE for those who haven't been paying attention:
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If you're a book or comics critic putting together your end of year write-ups and lists and would like to read my new collection shoot me a DM!
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you're a book or comics critic putting together your end of year write-ups and lists and would like to read my new collection shoot me a DM!
The amount of totally different ideas people were throwing around as they filed out of Angel’s Egg was cool to listen to. Everyone felt it was about something else.
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The amount of totally different ideas people were throwing around as they filed out of Angel’s Egg was cool to listen to. Everyone felt it was about something else.
Pondering deeply the tragic tale of Siegmeyer of Catarina in the cinema rn…popcorn can wait…
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Pondering deeply the tragic tale of Siegmeyer of Catarina in the cinema rn…popcorn can wait…
Amazing to learn that Kubrick only found the piano piece which so perfectly defines Eyes Wide Shut a week before they finished editing it and two weeks before he died.
thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...
thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Amazing to learn that Kubrick only found the piano piece which so perfectly defines Eyes Wide Shut a week before they finished editing it and two weeks before he died.
thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...
thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...
Reading this has me even more excited for my annual rewatch of EWS:
thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...
thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...
“That Cut Is Stanley’s Cut”: Nigel Galt on Editing Eyes Wide Shut with Kubrick
What is it to spend 15 months in a room with—let's just speculate—the most influential filmmaker of all-time on his final project, a work for which they did not survive to elaborate upon and left in a...
thefilmstage.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reading this has me even more excited for my annual rewatch of EWS:
thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...
thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...
If you're a book or comics critic putting together your end of year write-ups and lists and would like to read my new collection shoot me a DM!
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you're a book or comics critic putting together your end of year write-ups and lists and would like to read my new collection shoot me a DM!
Finished The Director by Daniel Kehlmann. Great book, highly recommended.
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Finished The Director by Daniel Kehlmann. Great book, highly recommended.
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Fritz Eichenberg, Popsy, wood engraving illustration from Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 1993
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Fritz Eichenberg, Popsy, wood engraving illustration from Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 1993
Does anyone have that tiktok of the guy going "I am a movie fan. When I am sad, movies are there for me..." etc?
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Does anyone have that tiktok of the guy going "I am a movie fan. When I am sad, movies are there for me..." etc?
I don't understand how there hasn't been just one person willing to leak the full Epstein files in all this time. There must have been hundreds of people who have seen at least significant portions of it by now. Have some backbone!
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I don't understand how there hasn't been just one person willing to leak the full Epstein files in all this time. There must have been hundreds of people who have seen at least significant portions of it by now. Have some backbone!
You there! Yes, you. Do you see this book? Yes, this one! This one right here. Do you like how it looks? Yesss, I'm so glad you do. I made it myself. Yes, me, that's right. Can you purchase it? I'm so glad you asked:
bookshop.org/p/books/litt...
bookshop.org/p/books/litt...
Little Visitor & Other Abductions
Check out Little Visitor & Other Abductions - <B>A 2025 New York Public Library Best New Comic for Adults</B><BR> <BR><b>The cast and crew of an obscure film recount a tragedy that occurred during it...
bookshop.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
You there! Yes, you. Do you see this book? Yes, this one! This one right here. Do you like how it looks? Yesss, I'm so glad you do. I made it myself. Yes, me, that's right. Can you purchase it? I'm so glad you asked:
bookshop.org/p/books/litt...
bookshop.org/p/books/litt...
Reposted by Adam Szym
When someone asks me what my favorite Ridley Scott film is
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
When someone asks me what my favorite Ridley Scott film is
Reposted by Adam Szym
September 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
When someone asks me what my favorite Ridley Scott film is
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
When someone asks me what my favorite Ridley Scott film is
You get yourself some real farmer ass apple sauce? Hooo wee babies know how to eat
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
You get yourself some real farmer ass apple sauce? Hooo wee babies know how to eat
How is it possible nobody has ever hired the composer of the OST for the Half-Life mod Neotokyo to score another game:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUp...
Ed Harrison - Tin Soldiers [Neotokyo OST]
YouTube video by flatchersteam
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November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
How is it possible nobody has ever hired the composer of the OST for the Half-Life mod Neotokyo to score another game:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUp...
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The campaign for my latest Kickstarter is now LIVE!
This is a great opportunity to get some books and art from me before I move back to Ireland :)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
This is a great opportunity to get some books and art from me before I move back to Ireland :)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The campaign for my latest Kickstarter is now LIVE!
This is a great opportunity to get some books and art from me before I move back to Ireland :)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
This is a great opportunity to get some books and art from me before I move back to Ireland :)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
Thread about my recent horror comics collection from @oni-press.bsky.social, which you can buy...
HERE:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Little...
HERE:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Little...
It's been one month since LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS, my collection of horror comics from @oni-press.bsky.social, hit store shelves!
If you're looking for something scary to read with one week until 🎃Halloween🎃, look no further.
Grab a copy here:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Little...
If you're looking for something scary to read with one week until 🎃Halloween🎃, look no further.
Grab a copy here:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Little...
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thread about my recent horror comics collection from @oni-press.bsky.social, which you can buy...
HERE:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Little...
HERE:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Little...
This is really sick, go read it!
NEW COMIC
Cultured Mind, Perpetual Feast is now available to read over on my website!
www.willtempest.com/shorts/cultu...
Cultured Mind, Perpetual Feast is now available to read over on my website!
www.willtempest.com/shorts/cultu...
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is really sick, go read it!