Review
David Hine's Strange Embrace is a masterful piece of horror fiction. Not content to merely show us 'boo' images, or the same old tired vampires and zombies, we are instead taken down a twisting, winding path of terrors both psychological and supernatural. (4/4 stars) --Ken Lowery, Pop Syndicate
An astounding portrayal of sexual perversion, the dark corridors of the human experience, and themes rarely explored in any medium, it will be one to hold onto for a very long time. (5 of 5 bullets) --Tim Hartnett, Line of Fire Reviews
Delving deep into childhood fears, the starkly powerful Strange Embrace establishes David Hine as one of Britain's most exceptional talents. --Time Out
About the Author
David HineÂ’s first published comics were in his own art college publications Primal Scream and Joe Public Comix. After college Dave produced Zero Comix for Record Mirror and was also published in several other English papers and magazines including New Musical Express, City Limits, Time Out and Sounds. He also contributed occasional strips for Knockabout Comix before landing a job as inker on Zoids at Marvel UK. Over the next few years Dave inked hundreds of pages for most of the Marvel UK weekly publications including the wonderful Care Bears and John Carnell & Andy LanningÂ’s creator-owned title The Sleeze Brothers. Steve Cook, who was designing for Fleetway, introduced DaveÂ’s illustrations into the 2000AD spin-off, Crisis, which led to his assignment to the strip Sticky Fingers which was written by Myra Hancock. Dave also created a comic strip with stand-up comedian Tony Allen based on the events in Tiananmen Square which was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Before dedicating himself to full time commercial illustration Dave wrote and drew a series of short stories for Crisis, Revolver and Deadline, followed by three series of Mambo for 2000AD.
