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Karl Sidon, who is also professional playwright and screenwriter, wanted to separate his work from his new career.
It’s not like there’s no precedent for this happening… the late great David Honigsberg was a science fiction author who was also a rabbi. And played country music, which I don’t think Sidon does.
Prometheus The White Rocket Podcast debuted this week. Hosted by New Pulp Author Van Allen Plexico, the White Rocket Podcast is a one-on-one conversation with the leading figures in the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Pulp and New Pulp, Action and Adventure Literature, Movies, Comics and Television. In episode 1, Mark Bousquet, movie reviewer and…
NBC’s PrimeTime SuperHero, THE CAPE, is facing his biggest foe – ratings. Series star, David Lyons talks about the challenge of being a hero and plans for things on the show to heat up fast. Plus comic sales take a nose dive in January! And be sure to stay on The Point via , RSS,…
What is cool? As comic book fans we are pretty much in the forefront of what cool is. The history of comics is an encyclopedia of coolness. If it were not for rock’n’roll, comics would be the absolute standard of coolness. Take a look all the stuff that comics are responsible for in popular…
Genre fiction in comics tends to be straightforward: it explains the world and the stakes up front, then sends a generally pretty obvious Protagonist off to Do the Thing, which far too often is Saving the World. Brandon Graham, in his afterword to Rain Like Hammers , describes that as being like a Japanese game…
It is with great sadness that we have to report of the passing of Brian M. Thomsen, science fiction author and editor, perhaps best known to comics fans as the co-author of Julius Schwartz’s autobiography, Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics. Brian was an editor at Warner Books during the…
Martin Harry Greenberg, the leading anthologist and packager of short science fiction, fantasy, and superhero prose stories, and senior editor of Tekno Comix, died at his home in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Saturday. He was 70. Marty’s output was staggering– here’s one partial list of the books that he actually received credit on, and here’s…
