The Sez Dez column has been around a frightening number of years for a range of publishers. But perhaps the most obscure version (at least in comics fans' eyes) was when it had one of its biggest audiences, surfacing in Arena, "the world's fastest-growing men's magazine". I say perhaps because unless you are Italian and of a certain generation, the…
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4/9/11: Before he was a Prisoner, he was DANGER MAN
Still finding mock-up dummies of projects which never were, and have just posted one which would have become a cult classic... Danger Man, taken from the 1960s ITC TV series and with art by the wonderful Jesus Blasco…
Robert Crumb: The Big Jump
Couldn't think where to stick this little strip, so it's ended up here. 'Twas back in the mid-1990s and HM Customs & Excise (Heathrow) had a new department head, obviously keen to flex her muscles. Knockabout's Tony & Carol Bennett had recently published a Robert Crumb collection, My Troubles with Women. As always, they shipped a goodly qua…
General Discussion: Your Views
Wow, that header sounds formal considering my prior letters columns titles have ranged from Battlefield and Letterbox to Post Mortem and Dispatches.
Feel free to use this section to post any general comments about the site and its content. When appropriate I will of course answer any specific questions, but don't go taking advantage of me, you h…
Spamalot
It's so frustrating, the number of blatant spam messages that have to be sifted through and deleted each day. But then, somewhere in the middle of them there will be one little nugget which deserves approval. Here are the nuggets to date...…
Hammer’s House of Dezzer
Bloomin' 'eck, suddenly I'm having a busy time of it. Now I'm being whisked off to Manchester again to do an afternoon talk/Q&A on Hammer Films and my own contribution, House of Hammer, with quizzing inquisitor Adrian Salmon.
Unlike last year's sell-out Audience with Dame Dezna, it's going to be a freebie. So if you're in central M'nchestaaah S…
Dundee Literary Festival 2010
Was flown north of the border (26-27 June) as a guest speaker at Dundee University's Literary Festival. And there was me thinking Scotland had its fair share of literary types without spending money on we(e) Sassenachs.
Scary thing is nobody told me what I was meant to be talking about! But I think I managed to hoof it.
L-R, back row: D…
Vworp 3: Doctor Who pubcon
Fer me sins, I've got caught up in another Doctor Who event...
In Manchester at the Lass O'Gowrie pub (sensible venue!) on Sunday July 18 alongside actress & good buddy Sophie (Ace) Alred, director Graeme Harper, writers Terrance Dicks, Robert Shearman & Andrew Cartmel and artists Chris Achilleos and good egg Adrian Salmon. Hope to see some…
Horror Mags
One for horror film geeks: Famous Monsters of Filmland is being relaunched (yet again!) this summer as a quarterly. America's first horror film title, the Jim Warren published & Forry Ackerman edited mag was a strong influence on many leading film directors of today (and a few magazine editors!). Comics publisher IDW is handling the relaunc…
THE SKINNY
Maybe it's just me, but having produced the Sez Dez column hither and yon for decades now, I felt its latest incarnation for Future Publishing needed a 21st century facelift, so with Sez Dez in small letters ('cos we're all continuity fanboys) it's been reborn as The Skinny.
For those of you in parts of the world unable to locate Comic Heroes m…