Tales of the Night Watchman

Tales of the Night Watchman
Publication information
PublisherSo What? Press
Park Slope Reader
Image Comics
Formatongoing series
Genresuperhero
horror
drama
slice of life
Publication date2011-present
No. of issues15
Creative team
Created byDave Kelly & Lara Antal
Written byDave Kelly
Lara Antal
Alyssa Varner
Dean Haspiel
Katrina Lord
Artist(s)Lara Antal
Molly Ostertag
Amanda Scurti
J. Vigants
Victoria Lau
Brett Hobson
Robin Ha
Simon Fraser
Dean Haspiel
George Folz
Allison Conway
Brett R. Scott
Rachel Borenstein
Tim Hamilton
Deena So'Oteh
Letterer(s)DC Hopkins
Colorist(s)Clare DeZutti
Gary Caldwell
Sonia Liao
Vicky Leta
Tom Napolitano
Editor(s)Rachel Pinnelas
April Snellings

Tales of the Night Watchman is an ongoing horror comic book series created by Dave Kelly and Lara Antal. It appears in comic book form published by So What? Press, as a serialized newspaper strip in the Park Slope Reader, and in various titles published by Image Comics. It revolves around a trio of slapdash coffee shop employees who get caught up in a never-ending onslaught of supernatural occurrences around New York City. It began in 2011.

The series features the work of several artists, including ' Simon Fraser and Dean Haspiel and has received six Ringo Award nominations to date: Two for Best Single Issue or Story ("The Steam Banshee" [2020] and "Under the Surface" [2022]); Best Cover Artist - Simon Fraser (2018); Best Inker - Brett Hobson (2021); and two for Best Letterer - DC Hopkins (2021 and 2022); as well as a win by association for Best Anthology (2018) for Mine!, in which a short story from the series appeared.

The three main characters, Nora, her roommate Charlie (who is also the Night Watchman), and the tent-dwelling vagrant, Serena, work at Think Coffee's Union Square location in New York City and live in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg, both of which are prominent fixtures.