Back in 2008, I wrote a horror graphic novel called Zombie Cop. It was fully painted by the Polish artist Szymon Kudranski, who killed it (in the positive way), and published by Image Comics/Shadowline (Jim Valentino’s imprint at Image). It didn’t make any bestseller lists that I’m aware of, but I don’t think most mainstream […]
Today is Memorial Day. I wrote a considerable amount on my Substack page about death, life, and honoring those who are gone from our lives, and I’m not going to repeat all that here. Please drop in and give it a read over there, and I wish you a peaceful heart on this “holiday” that’s […]
During the course of my life as a fan and my career as a writer/editor/publisher of comics, books, and other stuff, I’ve been to a great many conventions and fannish events of all sorts. I’ve never tried to count them all, and am sure now that I couldn’t, but it might be a hundred or […]
I don’t post every passing thought or action or bit of news on this blog, because that’s not really why I have it. Those things are more appropriate for social media (of which I probably have too many, including Facebook (separate pages for personal stuff, book and writing-specific stuff, and Silverado Press publishing news, and […]
In 2023, bestselling novelist Howard Weinstein and I founded Silverado Press, a micro-press that would publish western/historical fiction. The first two books we released were my short-story collection Byrd’s Luck & Other Western Stories and Howard’s Galloway’s Gamble 2: Lucifer & The Great Baltimore Brawl. Now we’re releasing our first book that wasn’t entirely written […]
NOTE: This is a post from years ago. For some reason, spammers target the original post with hundreds of spam comments every week. Those comments don’t get posted–nothing does without me seeing it first–but deleting them still eats up way too much time. I’ve deleted the original post and am reposting it here, for the […]
Through most of the 1990s, I worked for comics legend Jim Lee–then, as now, one of the most popular and creative artists in the business–at what was alternately called Homage Studios, Aegis Entertainment, and WildStorm Productions. I was initially brought in to write the backs of some trading cards featuring Jim’s series WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action […]
After 30 straight years of attending the San Diego Comic-Con–the grandaddy of them all–I stopped going. That show is amazing…but it’s huge, and so so so crowded. I was there the year an exhibitor put out free shopping bags, and the crowd surged toward it so suddenly that a woman caught up in the swarm […]
Although I’ve participated in Kickstarters and other crowdfunding efforts as an author, I’ve never been the focus of one before. I’m not entirely the focus now, but I am editing–and helping run–a Kickstarter for a new Western anthology. Silverado Press Presents: Western Stories by Today’s Top Writers is, I believe, a multiple first in western […]
Author Pearl Zane Grey (who dropped the Pearl early on) was the first superstar of Western fiction. He grew up reading dime novels, but the first time he wrote a story of his own, his father tore it to pieces and beat Zane for wasting his time on trivialities. Zane persisted, and although he went […]