Author Archives: Steven

Artist Bob Larkin Headlines a Bloodthirsty Comic Collection

Hey, comic fans, it’s time to promote an upcoming project involving one of the StarWarp Concepts crew! Available for preorder right now from online retailers and your local comic shops is Morbius Epic Collection: The End of a Living Vampire, a … Continue reading

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Talking Comics Publishing with J.D. Calderon

This past Sunday night, I made a return appearance to J.D. Calderon’s YouTube interview series Indy Comics Explained, joining fellow comic-creating guests Randy Zimmerman (Tales from the Aniverse), Evan K. Pozios (Time Grunts), Joe D. McFee (Amazonia: The Continuing Adventures … Continue reading

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You Better Watch Out…

Happy holidays from all of us to you and yours! Stay safe and stay well!

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She’s a Big-Screen Wonder…Again!

This Friday, December 25th (Christmas Day!) is the much-delayed U.S. theater release (and simultaneous HBOMax streaming debut) of Wonder Woman 1984, the latest entry in Warner Bros.’ DC Comics movie universe and the sequel to 2017’s box-office hit Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot … Continue reading

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A Belated Farewell to the Roosevelt Hotel, a New York Icon

Phil Seuling will hold another Comic Book Marketplace 1/13, 10–5, at the Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Ave. and 45th St. Paperbacks, comic books, movie-memory stuff, sports memorabilia, and much more for true fans.—“Other Events: Happenings,” New York Magazine, January 14, 1985 The … Continue reading

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Farewell to BookExpo and BookCon

The publishing industry was stunned last week when convention organizer Reed Exhibitions announced that, effective immediately, it was putting an end to its annual trade-show gathering called BookExpo, as well as Expo’s spin-off event, BookCon. It was the coronavirus that … Continue reading

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Happy Red Planet Day 2020!

According to the calendar site Happy Days 365, Red Planet Day “honors the launch of the spacecraft Mariner 4, a robotic interplanetary probe on 28th November 1964 by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In the eight months it was on its … Continue reading

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Happy Local Comic Shop Day 2020!

Hey, comic fans! Today is Local Comic Shop Day. It’s an annual appreciation “conceived and implemented by ComicsPRO comic book specialty retailers to call attention to locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their unique and vital role in being … Continue reading

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SWC Horror Bites Welcome a Different Kind of Christmas Ghost

“Short tales to appease your monstrous hunger for suspense” is how we describe SWC Horror Bites, a series of done-in-one digital chapbooks that currently consist of Clemence Annie Housman’s White Fell: The Werewolf and Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Now that … Continue reading

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Happy Love Your Red Hair Day 2020!

As the old saying goes, you learn something new every day. According to the National Day Calendar, today is National Love Your Red Hair Day, an annual event created in 2015 by Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti, cofounders of the beauty site … Continue reading

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