Mike Eakins
Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – will publish the first volume of Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Dave Baker’s underground, self-published graphic novel series in 2026 with HALLOWEEN BOY VOL. 1: LAST OF THE HALLOWEEN BOYS. Written, drawn, colored, and lettered by Baker in his signature duotone style, HALLOWEEN BOY VOL. 1: LAST OF THE HALLOWEEN BOYS will collect the initial five issues of Baker’s self-published, double-sized Halloween Boy tales in a single hardcover volume for the first time with a new, never-before-seen cover. The publication will mark Baker’s first full-length comics work since his widely acclaimed metafictional masterpiece Mary Tyler MooreHawk debuted in 2024 from IDW/Top Shelf Comics and his acclaimed contribution to the sold-out Godzilla Versus Los Angeles special, also published by IDW.
Dave Baker had this to say:
“Halloween Boy is my attempt at making a two-fisted adventurer for the post-superhero age. Does the book feature megalomaniacal villains, inter-planetary warfare, and classic pulp-inspired escapades? You bet,””But, it’s also a deeply personal reflection on family, fraternity, and purpose. The comics medium has been obsessively deconstructing and dismantling how we view what a hero is for the past forty years. I think there’s value in that, and some of those tendencies can even be seen in this project. However, when it came to creating The Demon Who Lives, I really wanted to re-construct the heroic iconography that lured me into this great medium as a child. To repurpose, remix, and rebuild the best aspects of these types of stories in a hyper-earnest and sincere way. Hopefully, The Man of a Thousand Fates means half as much to other people as he does to me. After all, the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.”
HALLOWEEN BOY chronicles the voyages of the man known only as Halloween Boy — an adventurer without a past and a combatant of the impossible. Halloween Boy traverses the galaxies taking on impossible quests and defending the innocent in an effort to live up to the legacy of his long-lost father…until his adventures unlock ugly secrets about his origins and his father’s true motives. Can Halloween Boy now face both the truth of the past – and his father himself?!
“As anyone who has experienced Mary Tyler MooreHawk knows by now, Dave Baker is one of the most potently creative voices making and creating comics to emerge within this decade. Dave’s work is like riding a psychic vortex through eight decades of comics history – where Golden Age archetypes, underground comix, postmodern fiction, and, above all, some ripping good yarns all combine into a new kind of intensely calculated storytelling that defies the typical whims of space and time,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson. “HALLOWEEN BOY is a brawling, bloody dose of 21st century pulp fiction with a brain buried underneath all of its bruises. Call your comic shop — because The Demon Who Lives is coming!”
Oni Press will publish Dave Baker’s HALLOWEEN BOY VOL. 1: LAST OF THE HALLOWEEN BOYS on May 26, 2026.
