Charlie Adlard: Portrait of the Artist as a Walking Dead Man, Pt 1
Back in the nineties, I had the pleasure of working with Charlie Adlard on Topp’s The X-Files comic. Ages later, the man who draws The Walking Dead was kind enough to spend some time catching up on Skype. And it all went something like this…
Pitch Black fans! Vin Diesel with More RIDDICK 3
Calling all Pitch Black fans; its time for the freshest Riddick 3 update with special thanks to actor Vin Diesel. Woo hoo! The star has delivered performances as Richard B. Riddick, the last in the race of Furyans, in the sci-fi offerings: Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, the straight to DVD animation The Chronicles [...]
John Picacio Unveils A Song of Ice and Fire – Game of Thrones – Calendar Art
Fantasy artist John Picacio couldn’t have picked a better time to release the 2012 A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE Calendar. With fans still revved up for HBO’s Game of Thrones series and Comic-Con going full-blast, the colorful depictions of George R. R. Martin’s popular characters will have everyone saying ‘Winter is coming’ as they [...]
Fantastic Figures of Fantasy Book Covers – June 2011
Another month’s end has come and gone, we’re back on schedule after the holiday weekend, and it’s time for Elena and Damon to review headshots for the coveted title of SFF Cover Hottie of the Month for June 2011. This was a good month for numbers but not clear-cut winners. MEN My favorite cover with [...]
Fantastic Figures of Fantasy Book Covers – May 2011
May isn’t quite a distant memory, which means it’s time to look back with fondness at all the pretty covers that appeared at bookstores over the course of last month! Damon and I pick our favorite cover models out of the line up and tell you why they’re the characters we’d most want to meet [...]
Fantastic Figures of Fantasy Book Covers (Men Only) – April 2011
Since April somehow got away from us without a cover hotties post for that month–I blame Game of Thrones, which significantly increased my work load AND distracted me from looking at any other part of SFF fandom–the usual formatted version of this column will return for May. But April was just too good a month for [...]
Vonnie Winslow Crist – interview
Recently, I had the pleasure of reading a great anthology of poems and short stories about the Fae folk, or faeries, by Vonnie Winslow Crist. The stories included ones about giants, dragons, mermaids, Mud People, and more, and they all were enthralling. The collection is titled The Greener Forest. If you don’t know of Vonnie Winslow [...]
Fantastic Figures of Fantasy Book Covers – Feb 2011
Here we are again, another month down and another round of cover art to scour for those gems of character images that make us pick up a book just to get a closer look. It was a slower month this time around on both the male and the female side, but in the end there [...]
Warlock Fists ’90s Hate – Boldly Goes Where Comics Aren’t
This is a bucket and-one for people who hate comics from 1990s (who, as an aside, shouldn’t be more than bench warmers on any opinion team or platform). First, you have the sweet ‘Collector’s Item 1st issue” banner on the cover that’s incredibly useful to comic fans because any comic that has that or any [...]
Fantastic Figures of Fantasy Book Covers – Dec 2010
To me, one of the best aspects of fantasy and science fiction is the opportunity for truly fabulous artwork to accompany the stories. Some of the cover art for books printed in the genre is cartoonish and rough, but some of it is utterly beautiful, exotic, inspiring…fantastic, in every sense of the word. And sometimes [...]
Shipwreck In A Perfect Storm
It’s not a secret that as a kid I was a huge G.I. Joe fan, both of the cartoon and the MARVEL comic run. As you get older two things happen, one, while you still love it, the cartoon becomes a bit harder to re-watch. You’re still smiling for sure, but half the time you’re [...]
Cover Debut – Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
Receiving the Nebula award for Best Novel is no trivial feat. Past winners of this prize include Frank Herbert’s Dune, Flowers for Algernon from Daniel Keyes, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Neuromancer by William Gibson, and Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead. Last year Paolo Bacigalupi took home the award for The [...]
