30 Days of Night
IDW · 2002 · 3 issues
About the series
In 2002, Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith unleashed a chilling horror landmark for IDW with 30 Days of Night, a three-issue miniseries that traps the isolated Alaskan town of Barrow in a month of polar night—and at the mercy of a ruthless vampire horde. Niles’s taut, survival-horror script and Templesmith’s feverish, watercolor-infused art created an atmosphere of inescapable dread, redefining the vampire comic for a modern audience. This stark, original premise launched a long-running franchise, proving that a self-contained horror story could leave a permanent mark on the medium.