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Author Archives: Steven
SWC at 30: Convention Memories: New York Comicon 1994
It’s New York Comicon—but probably not the one you were expecting! Held by Great Eastern Conventions at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers on the northern edge of Times Square (a welcome change from the Penn Hotel), the show boasted such … Continue reading
Posted in Convention Reports, Conventions, louis small jr., StarWarp Concepts History, Steven A. Roman
Tagged convention memories, convention reports, conventions, fauve, holly golightly, louis small jr., new york comicon 1994, starwarp concepts 30th anniversary, steven a. roman, swc at 30
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Happy International Tabletop Day 2023!
Celebrated on the first Saturday in June, International Tabletop Day is an annual event celebrating tabletop and board games of all sorts, launched in 2013 by creator Boyan Radakovich and originally hosted on actress (and gamer) Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fantasy, Writing Reference Books
Tagged events, game masters, international tabletop day, richard c. white, rpg gaming, terra incognito: a guide to building the worlds of your imagination, tracy hickman, world building, writers reference, writing reference
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SWC at 30: Lorelei’s Brief Resurrection
Continuing the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. When we left off, the year 1995 had seen the end of SWC’s Lorelei series and the blink-and-you-missed-it debut of Heartstopper, a “bad girl” comic that I canceled after … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Lorelei, StarWarp Concepts History, Steven A. Roman
Tagged chainsaw chuck majewski, comic books, david c. matthews, lorelei, lorelei presents: house macabre, lorelei returns special, power comics, scott shriver, starwarp concepts 30th anniversary, steven a. roman, swc at 30, uriel caton
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Hail to the King (Kong): Fay Wray and Bruce Cabot
Hey, Monster Kids! The celebration of King Kong’s 90th anniversary this year continues with the return of our Kong-related feature Hail to the King (Kong), a series of occasional posts in which we spotlight images related to the god-emperor of Skull … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, Illustrated Classics, movies
Tagged bruce cabot, delos w. lovelace, edgar wallace, fay wray, hail to the king kong, illustrated classics, james a. creelman, king kong, king kong 1933, king kong 90th anniversary, merian c. cooper, movies, novelizations, paul tuma, ruth rose
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Summertime, and the Reading Is Easy…
Next Monday, May 29, is Memorial Day in the United States—a time when the country takes a moment to recognize the sacrifices of the members of our armed forces who’ve given their lives to protect our and the world’s freedoms. … Continue reading
Posted in Carmilla, Classic Fiction, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Holidays, Horror, Illustrated Classics, Lorelei, Nonfiction, Princess of Mars, Reading, Science Fiction, Summer Reading, Writing Reference Books
Tagged a princess of mars, carmilla, comic books, edgar rice burroughs, from the stars a vampiress, graphic novels, holidays, horror classics, illustrated classics, j. sheridan le fanu, lorelei, lorelei presents: house macabre, lorelei: sects and the city, memorial day, nonfiction, reading, richard c. white, science fiction, starwarp concepts backlist, steven a. roman, succubus fiction, summer reading, terra incognito: a guide to building the worlds of your imagination, vampire fiction, vampirella, world building, writers reference, writing reference
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SWC at 30: Exit: the Monster Hunter!
Continuing the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Last week, I was telling you the history of Heartstopper: a 1994 femme-fatale spin-off from the Lorelei comic series I was publishing at the time. Starring an … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, heartstopper, Sebastienne Mazarin, StarWarp Concepts History, Steven A. Roman
Tagged alan larsen, david c. matthews, fauve, heartstopper, heartstopper/trollords, holly golightly, millennium publications, paul fricke, scott beaderstadt, sebastienne mazarin, starwarp concepts 30th anniversary, steven a. roman, swc at 30, trollords, uriel caton, zeea adams
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SWC at 30: Convention Memories: Uticon 1992
It was while I was still making the rounds as a small-press-comic publisher that September 1992 saw me hop an Amtrak train and head upstate to the city of Utica for a one-day comic con. The show, created by comics … Continue reading
Posted in Convention Reports, Conventions, StarWarp Concepts History, Steven A. Roman
Tagged bob elinskas, convention memories, convention reports, conventions, starwarp concepts 30th anniversary, swc at 30, uticon
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SWC at 30: Enter: The Monster Hunter!
Continuing the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Part 1 covered our earliest days, as a small-press publishing house that dealt in digest-size comics starring Lorelei and the supernatural superhero team Troubleshooters, Incorporated. In Part … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, heartstopper, louis small jr., nightcry, Sebastienne Mazarin, StarWarp Concepts History, Steven A. Roman
Tagged alan larsen, comic books, dan peters, david c. matthews, heartstopper, joe monks, louis small jr., millennium publications, nightcry, sebastienne mazarin, starwarp concepts 30th anniversary, steven a. roman, swc at 30, uriel caton, visual anarchy
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A Vampire Lord…But Probably Not the One You Were Expecting
We finish out a week of announcements with yet more news of an upcoming project—except this one isn’t a comic book! Coming this winter from indie publishing house Black Coat Press is the anthology Tales of the Shadowmen 20: Fin de Siecle … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, Publishing Announcements, Steven A. Roman, Vampires
Tagged black coat press, jean-marc lofficier, john polidori, lord ruthven, paul feval, publishing announcements, steven a. roman, tales of the shadowmen, tales of the shadowmen 20: fin de siecle, the wandering jew, vampire fiction
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Lorelei Meets the Mummies? The Crossover No One Expected (Including Me!)
It’s been a week for announcements, hasn’t it? On Tuesday, I revealed StarWarp Concepts’ first licensed-comic project, the sci-fi miniseries Lester del Rey’s Time Ring, by the creative team of writer Steven A. Roman (that’s me!) and artist Eliseu Gouveia. Yesterday, … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Lorelei, Publishing Announcements, Steven A. Roman
Tagged boom press, comic books, crossover comics, crowdfunding, kickstarter, lorelei, lorelei/sisterhood of the mummy, mummy comics, publishing announcements, richard boom, sisterhood of the mummy, steven a. roman, succubus fiction
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