The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.
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Fictioneer Books. pp. 16 - 27. Her six arms were inspired by deities in Hindu mythology."Art Adams interview".
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Waldron was the writer of the Fictioneer series M.I.C.R.A.: Mind Controlled Remote Automaton, which ran 7 issues from 1986–1988.
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In 1974, Kraft founded the specialty science fiction publisher Fictioneer Books. Over the years, Fictioneer has published books by such authors as A. E. van Vogt, Robert E. Howard, Jack London, Otis Adelbert Kline, and Don McGregor. Fictioneer and its imprint Comics Interview Group published magazines including David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview, trade journals such as Comics Revue, and the trade text 100 Hot Tips from Top Comics Creators (1994). In early 1985 Comics Interview Group branched out into comic books by taking on Henry and Audrey Vogel's Southern Knights (previously a self- published series).
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Arthur Adams was born on April 5, 1963Kraft, David Anthony (1987). Comics Interview #46 (1987). Fictioneer Books. pp. 16–27. in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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The short version was printed first, in issue #4 of the magazine REH Lone Star Fictioneer (Spring 1976). The long version was printed the following year in the Zebra paperback Three- Bladed Doom (July 1977). Both of these versions, however, had their beginning and ending substantially re-written by Byron Roark, editor of REH Lone Star Fictioneer. The restored version was printed in issue #10 of the fanzine REH: Two-Gun Raconteur (Winter 2006).
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Originally The Morning Star Press was going to publish adaptations of two other Robert E. Howard stories: Skull-Face and Swords of the Red Brotherhood. Roark, Byron L. (1975). "Interview: Glenn Lord". REH: Lone Star Fictioneer, Vol. 1, No. 1: 36.
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Letter 80, Tolkien, J. R. R., Humphrey Carpenter, and Christopher Tolkien. Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien : a selection. London Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1981. Robert E. Howard, the American author, poet, and widely known pulp magazine "fictioneer", was much impressed by Chesterton's The Ballad of the White Horse.
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31–34 Conway also contributed ideas to the funny animal comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, created by Thomas and Scott Shaw.Shaw, Scott "Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! Vol. 1, No. 1" , OddBallComics.com #1180, October 8, 2007 Thomas and Conway were to be the co-writers of the JLA/Avengers intercompany crossoverGeorge Pérez interview, David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #6 (Fictioneer, Aug. 1983).
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Lin Carter ranked The Book of Ptath as van Vogt's "single best novel"Lin Carter, Imaginary Worlds, Ballantine Books, 1973, pp.85-86 and tried to convince him to write a sequel.A. E. van Vogt, Reflections of A. E. van Vogt, Fictioneer Books, 1975, p.67 R. D. Mullen, however, dismissed the novel, saying he saw no reason to include it in an SF library.
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In addition to self-publishing Cynicalman, Feazell's work has been published by Aardvark-Vanaheim, AC Comics, Arrow Comics, Caliber Press, Fictioneer Books, Last Gasp, NBM Publishing, Eclipse Comics, and First Comics. Steeldragon Press published his series Ant-Boy from 1986–1988. From 2004–2007, he was also a regular contributor to Disney Adventures magazine with his strip "Dizzy Adventures." A regular on the small press comics festival scene, he has appeared at multiple local comic-cons in Michigan.
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Fictioneer, editor and literary agent Oscar J. Friend Oscar Jerome Friend (January 8, 1897 – January 19, 1963) began his career primarily as a pulp fiction author in various genres including horror, Westerns, science fiction, and detective fiction. As a pulp writer he worked with Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Captain Future and Thrilling Wonder Stories. As his career progressed, Oscar Friend authored many novels, which were published worldwide. Friend wrote screenplays, worked as an editor on periodicals, and was co-editor on several anthologies.
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Waldron was co- founder and long-time organizer of the Atlanta Fantasy Fair, an annual trade show devoted to comic books and science fiction/fantasy fandom, from 1975–1987. During this period he edited and published Visions, the official program booklet of the AFF, which also contained original interviews and comics. Throughout the 1980s and a good portion of the 1990s, Waldron wrote stories in the comics field, for such publishers as Fictioneer Books, Disney, and Dark Horse Comics. In 1983 Starblaze Graphics published Lightrunner, an "epic science fiction adventure" written by Waldron and illustrated by Rod Whigham.
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Braham was also a member of the Fictioneers, a group of writers based in Los Angeles who specialized in mystery and western novels. The authors would meet monthly to discuss their work over dinner and drinks. As a member of this group, he was a dedicatee of science fiction writer Richard Matheson's Journal of the Gun Years (1991), along with fellow Fictioneer writers such as William Campbell Gault, William R. Cox, Henry Kuttner, Les Savage Jr., Joe Brennan, Malden Grange Bishop, Chick Coombs, Dean Owens, Bill Fay, Willard Temple, Frank Bonham, Todhunter Ballard and Wilbur S. Peacock.
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Bill Finger recalled that, Kane, who had previously created a sidekick for Peter Pupp, proposed adding a boy named Mercury who would have worn a "super-costume".Comic Book Interview Super Special: Batman, Fictioneer Press, 1989 Robinson suggested a normal human, along with the name "Robin", after Robin Hood books he had read during boyhood, and noting in a 2005 interview he had been inspired by one book's N. C. Wyeth illustrations. The new character, an orphaned circus performer named Dick Grayson, came to live with Bruce Wayne as his young ward in Detective Comics #38 (April 1940) and would inspire many similar sidekicks throughout the Golden Age of comic books.
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In 1979, DC and Marvel agreed to co-publish a crossover series involving the two teams, to be written by Gerry Conway and drawn by George Pérez. The plot of the original crossover was a time travel story involving Marvel's Kang the Conqueror and DC's Lord of Time. Writer/editor Roy Thomas was hired to script the book, based on Conway's plot,Pérez interview, David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #6 (Fictioneer, Aug. 1983). and although work had begun on the series in 1981 (Pérez had penciled 21 pages by mid-1983) and it was scheduled for publication in May 1983,Giordano, Dick. "Meanwhile..." DC comics cover-dated April 1983.
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