Recently, I wrote about my time working with Jordan B. Gorfinkel and Avalanche Comics Entertainment. I ended by referencing Valiant Comics, intending to write about my multiple years of consulting with them. As I began to prepare this, it turned out that much of the email archive was gone, and mysteriously, my file on the […]
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 […]
In late 1981, just about the time Comics Scene was debuting, I got a call from Jim Shooter, inviting me to lunch. The Marvel Editor-in-Chief met me with Jim Starlin in tow to discuss the company’s new creator-owned contracts, which enticed Starlin back to the company. The first work to benefit from this would be […]