30 Days of Night is a three-issue horror comic book mini-series written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith and published by IDW Publishing in 2002. All three parties co-own the property.
Plot: In Barrow, Alaska, seventy percent of the population of five hundred and some dwellers travels on the day of the last sunset, since the town will stay along the next thirty days without sun light. Sheriff Eben Oleson and Deputy Billy Kitka find many cell phones burned on the road. Then they receive a phone call from the local creator telling that his dogs have been slaughtered; later Eben finds the operator of the cell tower decapitated. He arrests a troublemaker drifter and the stranger frightens him telling that “they are coming and the locals will be dead”. Sooner Eben discovers that the town is under siege and attacked by a gang of bloodthirsty vampires, and together with a few survivors, they hide in a empty cellar expecting for the next sunrise.
Awards
30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow garnered Steve Niles’s and Ben Templesmith’s first Eisner Award nominations in 2005. These included:
* Nomination, best limited series
* Nomination, best writer (Steve Niles)
* Nomination, best painter/multimedia artist (Ben Templesmith)
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