Comics
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In 2004 IDW Publishing, began production of a series of comics based on Konami's Silent Hill properties. To date, seven distinct titles have been released across 18 different issues. With the exception of Sinner's Reward, all titles have been written by Scott Ciencin, while illustrations have been provided by various artists.
Sinner's Reward was authored by Tom Waltz and illustrated by Steph Stamb, with variant covers illustrated by Justin Randall.
In 2006, Konami released its first Silent Hill comic, titled Cage of Cradle, which was released only in Japan with illustrations provided by Series artist Masahiro Ito. Two others would follow, which were also Japan-exclusives and featuring illustration by Ito.
IDW Publishing Silent Hill comics
All of the following, with the exception of Sinner's Reward, where written by Scott Ciencin and illustrated by various artists:
- Dying Inside (2004)
- Three Bloody Tales: (2005)
- Among the Damned (2004)
- Paint It Black (2005)
- The Grinning Man (2005)
- Hunger (2006)
- Dead/Alive (2006)
- Sinner's Reward (2008)
Dying Inside, Three Bloody Tales, and Dead/Alive were collected into a single trade paperback titled the Silent Hill Omnibus in 2008. In addition to its inclusion into the Omnibus, Dying Inside appeared, alongside Hunger, on the UMD The Silent Hill Experience.
Game/Comic discrepancies
While the IDW comic books are based upon the video game series of Silent Hill, there are noticeable differences, not just with the town's aesthetic element, but also with its history and the nature of the forces at work in Silent Hill. This has led many Silent Hill fans to consider the Silent Hill in the comic books existing in a different fictional universe, much like Silent Hill as it appears in in the movie).
Examples of such discrepancies include:
- In The Grinning Man, the Lakeview Hotel is actually not on Toluca Lake, as opposed to the Lakeview Hotel from Silent Hill 2.
- The comics tend to focus on its own collection of key characters, who have little or no connection to the key characters from the video game franchise, and no characters from the video games are physically introduced into the comics. Monsters, however, are generally based on their Konami counterparts.
- Locations borrowed from the games include-- The Lakeview Hotel, Brookhaven Hospital, The Lighthouse of Silent Hill, and Pete's Bowl-O-Rama. As borrowed entities, the locations have had their attributes altered in order to better fulfill their purpose in the comic universe.
- While the catalyst for the town's increase in power in the video games was Alessa's impregnation with the embryonic form of The Order's God through a ritual conducted by her mother, Dahlia, in Hunger the catalyst of the comic universe is the similar impregnation of a woman, through Whately.
Konami Silent Hill comics
All of the following are illustrated by Masahiro Ito, and both Cage of Cradle and Double under Dusk where written by Hiroyuki Owaku:
- Cage of Cradle (2006)
- Double under Dusk (2007)
- Белый охотник (2008)
