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Distinctive stories.New possibilities for the screen.

Explore film and television development opportunities from SHP Comics. Our catalog spans horror, science fiction, adult comedy, and family adventure.

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Comics to film

Stories built to travel

Strong visual storytelling, with characters and worlds built to sustain an audience’s imagination.

Technical Support, adapted from the world of EroTech, shows how an SHP story can travel from comics to film. We are now seeking partners for the next adaptations.

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The catalog

Seven properties

  1. 01

    Woodstake

    Horror / dark comedy / period setting

    A vampire at Woodstock. Peace and love never stood a chance.

    When a vampire descends on the Woodstock music festival in 1969, a gathering built on peace, music, and idealism becomes a hunting ground. Woodstake blends gothic horror, dark comedy, and counterculture satire in a story with an unmistakable cinematic hook.

  2. 02

    EroTech

    Adult comedy / science fiction / corporate satire

    Bad bosses. Crazy coworkers. Sex robots. What could go wrong?

    Inside a Silicon Valley startup producing artificial companions, Samantha Jenkins must navigate unstable technology, office politics, and a spectacular shortage of good judgment. EroTech combines workplace comedy with an adult exploration of intimacy, power, and the promises technology cannot keep. It is the source world of the award-winning short Technical Support.

  3. 03

    The Killing Machine

    Military space opera

    First Contact. Artificial Intelligence. Interstellar War.

    The discovery of a mysterious object beneath Earth’s ocean floor leads humanity toward an interstellar gateway and a disastrous first contact. At the center of the conflict, an artificial intelligence must confront what it means to become a weapon. Award winner, Best Graphic Novel or Manga, at The New York Science Fiction and Horror Film Festival.

  4. 04

    Zicky: Wrath of the Rat King

    Family fantasy / portal adventure

    One ordinary kid. Two worlds to save.

    By day, Zicky is a kid whose siblings dismiss his adventures as imagination. By night, he is a ninja in a dangerous fantasy world. When the Rat King threatens to cross into reality, Zicky must find the courage to protect both worlds.

  5. 05

    Sight

    Science fiction / survival horror

    She can see the future. Surviving it is another matter.

    Angelina, an amateur boxer haunted by visions since childhood, has learned to live at the margins. When those visions turn apocalyptic, she must confront a collapsing world, an alien threat, and the responsibility of protecting someone besides herself.

  6. 06

    B.O. Wolf

    Coming-of-age fantasy

    Ancient monsters. An all-too-familiar world.

    The epic of Beowulf unfolds alongside the lives of children in a 1980s middle school, where tabletop adventures begin to echo real threats. Across the two timelines, monsters take the form of bullying, censorship, and abuses of power.

  7. 07

    Tales of the Macabre

    Classic horror anthology

    Classic horror, brought vividly into view.

    Joan Boix’s graphic adaptations explore death, obsession, paranoia, and the unknown through stories by writers including Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Franz Kafka. Girl From Mars is the first planned film in an anthology inspired by the collection.

Development inquiries

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Contact us to discuss adaptation opportunities, current availability, and project materials.

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