Graham Ingels

Graham John Ingels was born on June 7, 1915, and died on April 4, 1991. He is best remembered as a comic book and magazine illustrator whose work for EC Comics in the 1950s defined the visual language of horror. Ingels’s path into comics began in the early 1940s, and he found his true home at EC, where he became the primary artist for *The Haunt of Fear* and *Tales from the Crypt*, horror titles written and edited by Al Feldstein, as well as *The Vault of Horror*, co-edited by Feldstein and Johnny Craig. His distinctive, moody style—full of shadow, decay, and grotesque detail—led EC to promote him as "Ghastly Graham Ingels," a nickname he embraced, signing his work "Ghastly" from 1952 onward. He collaborated closely with Feldstein on many of the most memorable stories of the era. After EC’s horror line collapsed under the Comics Code, Ingels largely left the industry, later teaching art. His legacy endures as one of the most singular and influential horror artists of the Golden Age.