Editor-in-Chief

Heavy Metal Magazine

Frank Forte is an accomplished writer, editor, designer, storyboard artist and comic book artist. Frank’s film and TV credits include: The Nun 2, The Conjuring:The Devil Made Me Do It, The Big Door Prize, Lovecraft Country, Escape Room, Fantasy Island, Solar Opposites, Dreamwork’s 3Below, Bob’s Burgers, Insidious: The Last Key, Lego: Guardians of the Galaxy, Despicable Me 2, The Emoji Movie, Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, The Super Hero Squad Show, Marvel Heroes 4D, and Lego Hero Factory. Frank’s comic book credits include: Heavy Metal Magazine, Bob’s Burgers, Zombie Terrors, Vampire Macabre, Asylum of Horrors, Warlash, DTOX, Cry for Dawn, Bill The Bull, Nightcry, Satan Gone Wild, and Chicken Soup For Satan among others.

In Frank’s spare time he paints.  Influenced by classic cartoons and comic books, Frank’s paintings are an assemblage of inspiration from what he grew up watching on TV and reading in comic books. Trying to capture the feeling and emotion of a moving cartoon on a flat canvas, Frank’s work incorporates horrific and twisted subjects in disturbingly bizarre situations.  His work has been exhibited at the La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Copro Gallery, Corey Helford Gallery, CASS Contemporary, Dark Art Emporium, Arch Enemy Arts, Phone Booth Gallery, Night Gallery Fine Arts, Cannibal Flower, LTD. Gallery and Hyaena Gallery.

Frank is also the publisher at Asylum Press (www.asylumpress.com), an indy graphic novel and comic book publisher. Asylum Press is a publishing company that produces premium comic books and graphic novels within the horror, science fiction, and action genres.

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