List of Monster chapters
Written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, "Monster" was published in "Big Comic Original" from December 1994 to December 2001. The 162 chapters were periodically collected into 18 tankōbon volumes published by Shogakukan, the first on 30 June 1995 and the last on 28 February 2002. While writing "Monster", Urasawa began the series "20th Century Boys" in 1999, which would continue after "Monster" had finished.
Monster Fest
From 2011-2015, the Festival Director was Neil Foley, co-founder of Monster Pictures and Monster Fest and director of the 1999 mockumentary film "Bigger than Tina". In 2016, Monster Fest hired Kier-La Janisse, Canadian film programmer and author of "House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films" (FAB Press, 2012) to be the new Festival Director. The 2016 printed program was launched at the Lido Cinema on October 31, 2016 with a screening of Rob Zombie’s "31". While previously known for its emphasis on horror films, the 2016 festival expanded to showcase other genres including crime, action, western, children’s films, animation and documentary. The 2016 festival theme was ‘ritual’ and its concept trailer was an homage to the 1966 film "Eye of the Devil". This theme coincided with the creation of Monster Pictures’ rebranding of its website as ‘The Cult of Monster’ with the festival tagline “Join the Cult!” urging customers to sign up for fortnightly newsletter ‘The Monsterite’ and to attend the Cult of Monster Marathon at the festival, where the first 50 participants would receive a free Cult robe with embroidered Cult of Monster insignia.