(L to R) Tales from the Crypt documentary filmmaker Chip Selby with
legendary author Ray Bradbury and EC Comics writer/artist Al Feldstein.

The final installment of my 8-part IGN FilmForce D-Diary, which follows production of the documentary from the beginning up through the screening and panel discussion at Comic Con, is now up. This week I discuss the the release of the first season of the HBO "Tales from the Crypt" series on DVD (which includes a shortened, edited version of my documentary) and the panel that Grant Geissman and I held last month at Comic Con. Read all about it on IGN FILMFORCE .

Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television! was a labor of love for documentary filmmaker Chip Selby. "I discovered EC Comics through a big coffee table book called The Horror Comics of the 1950's which was published in 1971. And I instantly fell in love with them," Selby said. Like many EC Comics fans, Selby immersed himself in the world of that special comic book company. "When I was a teenager, I read everything I could get my hands on about EC and Bill Gaines," Selby recalled. "And I quickly realized that the story of EC, like the men who were a part of it, was quite special." A veteran of numerous film and television documentary series and specials, Tales from the Crypt is the first show in which Selby has performed almost every creative function: Producer, Writer, Director and Editor. "I did just about everything on this project, except the music and audio post-production," Selby said. "It took a lot longer than it should have, and cost a lot more in sweat equity, but I wanted to make certain that everything in it was as perfect as possible."

Selby's other credits stretch back into the early 1990s when he worked as associate producer on the feature documentary Incident at Oglala which was executive produced by Robert Redford. He also worked as a segment producer on the long-running NBC television series Unsolved Mysteries. He has produced and directed several other documentary specials, including a two hour History Channel documentary on the controversial Warren Commission (which investigated the assassination of President Kennedy). In addition, he has worked as a segment director for all three seasons of the acclaimed myth-busting series, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (now airing on Showtime), and is currently producing and writing his second episode of the Court TV series Forensic Files (the first episode is scheduled to air later this summer).