Has anyone heard of this guy?

About four years ago I found a book in my local comic shop. It was nothing I had ever heard of. A sharp little black and white published by NBM called Boneyard by Richard Moore. The cover is what grabbed me. On the cover was a picture of a man being backed against the wall by a woman. The man is visibly troubled. The woman is clad in nothing more than two deftly placed starfish and some fishing net. Her arm curls around his head, fingers tousling his hair.

No. It’s not porn. It seems Boneyard officially resides in the category of Horror/SciFi/Humor. The woman on the cover? She is strikingly well proportioned. The only thing is….she looks like the daughter of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. With breasts, that is. Large, supple, heaving mounds of….but I digress. Boneyard is a delight to read. I’ve bought every issue since finding that one, and I never get tired of it. The saddest part about the book is that it only ships four times a year. So on the one hand it’s hard to stay invested in the story because you have enough time to forget the last one before receiving the new one, but when I do find it in my “hold-file” at the store it never fails to make me salivate. It is so completely different from anything else I read and could quite possibly be one of the greatest books being written right now.
Quite simply, it’s a story about a graveyard, it’s recent inheritor/owner, Michael Paris, and the residents of the graveyard. There’s Abbey, the vampiress, centuries old, but with that girl-next-door charm oozing from every pore. Glump, the megalomaniacal and eternally failing demon who has an unhealthy obsession with Star Trek. Hildy the Witch and Ralph the Werewolf, little menace and much humor. Oh, and that previously mentioned sea-ductress, that would be Nessie, the swamp creature. Seems she has the hots for any man that’s not her Frankenstein-esque husband, Brutus. Take a representative of each respective monster mythos, give them a liberal helping of humorous self-awareness and you round out the rest of the cast. But it still refuses to take itself too seriously, spurning and spoofing the many cliches of sci-fi and horror stories as backdrop to the budding and disastrous, slow-burn romance between Michael Paris and Abbey the vampire. Well-written and well-timed jokes keep it upbeat and Moore’s unassuming drawing style make it pure joy in black and white. HIs figures (especially his women) are superb and the wealth and variety within the visuals keeps you turning pages.
If I haven’t sold it yet, I probably can’t. But if you’ve never seen/heard of/read Boneyard, you should. The early issues have been collected as graphic novels so you don’t have to worry about back-issues. And those are in full-color! If you get a chance, pick it up, it’s worth your time, and your money.