A perfect Sunday with... Robert Hack
Night owls, uneasy ghost stories and low budget horror with heart
Every week, a top writer, artist, actor or creator reveals how they’d fill their perfect Sunday, sharing their favourite comfort reads, movies, food… anything that would make their weekend great.
Today, it's the turn of Star Wars: Tales From the Nightlands artist, Robert Hack.
Roberts's perfect Sunday… brunch
I'm a night owl who avoids mornings as much as is possible, so technically every day is a brunch day, I suppose. But I guess something simple like cheese omelet on a baguette.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I paused to think about this question, realized that I hadn't made french toast in a while, and started adding ingredients to my shopping list. So I guess the answer is French toast with fresh fruit, and a dusting of powdered sugar.
Roberts's perfect Sunday… read
I'm currently reading/rereading a collection of M.R. James ghost stories for a project, and you can't ask for better homework that that. Absolutely perfect reading for the season. There's this brilliant sense of, not just horror, but unease. People scratching the veneer of modern life and finding the ancient horrors just beneath.
Roberts's perfect Sunday… comic
If I'm grabbing a Sunday comfort read off of the shelf, I think I might go for a collection of Charles Addams or James Thurber cartoons. As a kid, I repeatedly devoured every New Yorker cartoon collection that my local public library had. This probably also explains the other comedy/horror items on this list. ...It also might explain my art.
Roberts's perfect Sunday... movie
I'm a big fan of low/micro budget horror films. Backyard filmmaking has a handmade charm that just brings me joy. I'm just going to single out a few filmmakers that I've really been enjoying lately. Steve Rudzinski and Aleen Isley are the brilliant minds behind Curtains for Christmas, CarousHELL, and Amityville Christmas Vacation. They're genuinely funny films, with heart, and copious amounts of gore. The perfect combination.
And I also recommend the films of Joe Sherlock. Things 5, Drifter, Dark Zone 13. Again, it's that mix of comedy and horror that I love. Most or all of the films I mentioned are currently streaming on Tubi, so I recommend that you also spend your Sunday watching some excellent low budget horror.
Roberts's perfect Sunday... TV binge
I'm currently enjoying this series of Taskmaster. But if we're talking a Sunday binge... It's Antique Roadshow. Yes, I know, I'm one thousand years old. But my girlfriend and I will genuinely just switch back and forth between US and UK Roadshows on streaming until we've overdosed on Lalique and Steiff.
Roberts's perfect Sunday… podcast
The top of my list for over a decade has been How Did This Get Made. I love movies of questionable quality, and there's nobody better to break them down than June Diane Raphael, Paul Scheer, and Jason Mantzouka.
Roberts's perfect Sunday… album
Rusty Warren's Knockers up.
Roberts's perfect Sunday… treat
As with most comic artists, my Sundays are usually spent drawing the things that are due on Monday But every once in a while, stars and deadlines align and I get to go to the flea market. I'm a big collector of... stuff. And I will happily spend a Sunday rummaging through the accumulated trash and treasures of the past. Vinyl, old books, VHS, movie posters and ephemera... remember, you're not technically a hoarder if all of the stuff is awesome.
As the First Order spreads fear across the galaxy, Leia, Rey, Chewie, and Finn rush to deliver aid to a Twi’lek colony. But upon arriving, they find something much worse than Stormtroopers: the terrifying Nightlander!
The heroes must scramble to stop the otherworldly fiend, lest it escape into the land of the living and make the galaxy its ghastly domain!
Robert Hack is a prolific cover illustrator, artist of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (and painted the opening titles for the Netflix adaptation of the same name), Star Wars, Doctor Who, and can currently be found every month in the pages of Hello Darkness from Boom Studios, and is the artist behind Tales from the Nightlands #3, out 15th December!
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