As I was between assignments in 2007, my old DC Comics colleague Jordan B. Gorfinkel reached out to me about working with his start-up, Avalanche Comics Entertainment. His goal was to produce custom comics for clients or work with them in handling transmedia exploitation of their Intellectual Property. For the next seven years or so, […]
Sometime in June 1983, I was told Comics Scene was being canceled. My newly hired managing editor, Patrick Daniel O’Neill, would be laid off while I would be reassigned within Starlog Press. This reduced me to being the in-house traffic manager for the boxing and pro wrestling magazines being produced by freelance editors. I was […]
I think I first met Marty Pasko as the ubiquitous letter hack, nicknamed Pesky Pasko by editor Julie Schwartz. He was a familiar name to me for some time and then suddenly, he was compiling Julie’s letter pages. I still recall his tender editorial reply to the sister of one reader, James T. McCoy, who […]