While the countdown continues for the Kickstarter campaign for Crazy 8 Press’ Thrilling Adventure Yarns Volume II, here’s a little taste from my story, the sixth outing starring Leo Persky, aka Terrance Strange, investigative reporter for “the world’s only reliable newspaper,” the Weekly World News.… Read the rest
Continue reading about But first, a few words from “Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2021”
Once upon a time, the mighty Warner Entertainment was known as Warner Bros. and it wasn’t so mighty. In fact, in 1968, it was sold to Steve Ross’s Kinney National Company, a small conglomerate consisting of a Hollywood talent agency, parking lots, cleaning companies, and funeral homes for $64 million.… Read the rest
Continue reading about Obscurities: Look, Up in the Sky…It’s Super-Kinney!
That’s the line Humphrey Bogart (as down on his luck gold prospector Fred C. Dobbs) uses on the Man in the White Suit (played by director John Houston) he keeps accosting for a handout in the 1948 film classic, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.… Read the rest
Continue reading about “Say, Mister, Could You Stake a Fellow American to a Meal?”
Back in 1989, DC Comics had procedures for getting proposals for new titles through what they called “the pipeline.” I assume they still have procedures; I wouldn’t know, since, with the exception of Karen Berger’s recent and reasoned rejection of a project I proposed to her, I haven’t tried to sell anything to DC in years.… Read the rest
I’ve finally had it. I just can’t take it anymore. Effective immediately, there’s some online comics columnists I’m deleting from my bookmark and reading lists.
It’s not that I don’t agree with their points and positions; in many cases, we’re actually on the same page on matters creative, social, and political.… Read the rest
Continue reading about Don’t Believe Everything You Read, Part II
I get to play in all sorts of cool creative sandboxes. I’ve just finished a short story featuring Lee Falk’s Phantom and a Scooby Doo comic book script, am currently working on a Batman story book for young reluctant readers (with another one, starring Wonder Woman, waiting in the wings), after which I will hope immediately onto a comic book script for a Bart Simpson story.… Read the rest
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