Last Saturday was a busy day if you were a Doctor Who fan in New York City. The first episode of the new series, Asylum of the Daleks, had its US premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater, the largest single-screen theater in the city they could lay their hands on. After a minor frenzy to obtain…
Can’t get enough of your favorite Night Stalker or the best looking PI the Sixties had to offer? Then hang on, because in January 2013, Kolchak and Honey West are teaming up, courtesy of Moonstone! Kolchak & Honey West #1Story: Janet L. HetheringtonArt: Ronn SuttonCovers: Malcolm Mclinton, Ronn Sutton, Hayden Davis40pgs, color, $3.99 Two top-tier…
This is a Muppet News Flash: Puppeteer Jerry Nelson, the man behind Sesame Street muppet Count von Count, died yesterday at age 78. Nelson, a cast member of the show for over 40 years, also brought to life the characters Herry Monster, Fat Blue, Sherlock Hemlock and the Amazing Mumford. Nelson’s first job with the…
Josepha Sherman, folklorist, anthologist, and science fiction and fantasy author and editor, has died at the age of 65. Josepha published many books over the years, know equally for her tie-in work on Star Trek, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Highlander, Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, and Xena, her original fiction such as the Prince of the Sidhe…
Friends with Boys, the new graphic novel by Faith Erin Hicks (whose The War at Ellsmere I reviewed in a huge round-up month),has an oddly ill-fitting title; it’s the story of a teenager, Maggie, who is starting in a public highschool after her mother (who home-schooled her and her three older brothers — all of…
Rachel Hulin is a photographer whose son Henry loves to fly, or at least loves to pretend he is. So she chose to do a couple of series of photos of him doing so. Naturally, some well-meaning busybodies worried the child was in some danger during these exploits. “I never throw him, and I never move…
One of the primary rules for writing is “Write what you know.” As I’ve discussed before, the corollary question becomes “what do you know?” I can write characters that, on the surface, are totally unlike me because underlying there are elements that true for both of us. Granted, I need to get the details of…
Warner Bros. have put out some fantastic shorts during their DC Nation programming block on Cartoon Network. They are evolving one of those into a series – Teen Titans Go! Itâs almost a continuation of the old Teen Titans animated series but either way, sounds like fun. I know a lot of folks were hoping…
Harry Harrison, best known for his character Jim DiGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (adapted into film as Soylent Green) died yesterday at the age of 87. Harrison started as a comics illustrator in 1947, notably with EC Comics’ two science fiction comic books, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science,…
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL has started Season Four on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Rob Huebel and even Henry Winkler are excited about sharing some news on the upcoming episodes plus more with Will Farrell and Zach Galifianakis and THE CAMPAIGN, and is it fan fiction coming true? “Mulder & Scully sitting in a tree……”…
We’re very happy to announce that the Harvey Awards have upgraded their web site (with a little help from us) and is now able to take votes directly online instead of downloading a ballot and emailing (or even just mailing, shudder) it back. It is hoped that this will increase the voting turnout tremendously. The…
Noted Comic Writer ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ Mike Bullock contributed as one of the authors to TALES OF THE ROOK, the first ever anthology set in veteran New Pulp Author Barry Reese’s universe and featuring his best known character, The Rook! The Anthology debuted in May under the Reese Unlimited imprint from Pro Se Productions and features works by…
