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Book Announcement Book publisher Pill Hill Press has acquired “Monstermatt’s Bad Monster Jokes Vol.1“, written by Monstermatt Patterson, illustrated by Kyle Kaczmarczyk, with a forward by Joe Moe, for their non-fiction imprint WestNeb Books. After a brief and successful run with a previous publisher, author Monstermatt Patterson and illustrator Kyle Kaczmarczyk left in hopes of… [Continue Reading]
Picking up where I previously left off, one of the highlights of the trip to Comic Con 2008 was the news of Benicio Del Toro wishing to meet with Forry in his hotel room. This announcement came to us very unexpectedly, the very morning before Del Toro was due to fly out of San Diego…. [Continue Reading]
Last time I spoke a bit about Dave Marchant and the circumstances under which I first met him. Today I’ll go forward from that and talk a bit about Comic Con 2008 and my experiences there, one of which would involve my biggest celebrity introduction to date. Upon arriving at the hotel in San Diego,… [Continue Reading]
This piece is written in honor of a true Forry fan and friend: David J. Marchant. I first encountered Dave during the lead-up to the 2008 edition of Comic Con, which Forry was due to attend in San Diego. At that point I’d been living with him for only a few weeks and barely had time to settle… [Continue Reading]
The first of Forry’s birthday celebrations I attended coincided with my very first trip to Los Angeles. This would’ve been his 90th in November, 2006. Prior to that time, the only long-distance trip I’d taken was the one to see Forry in Pennsylvania earlier that year. All these firsts filled me with both anticipation and… [Continue Reading]
Forry’s famous phone number, 666-6326, was not, as some suspect, chosen for its devilish connotations. Rather, FJA looked at the letters that correspond to each of the numbers on a telephone dial and determined to formulate something suitably sci-fi. As he put it… “I was living in San Francisco at the time, in my parents’ home at 530 Staples Ave., telephone… [Continue Reading]
Sometime around 2002 I gained a home internet connection and it would change my life forever. At first I was very sheepish about contributing to chat rooms or message boards, but soon I found courage enough to post in minor ways on IMDb, and later Scarlet Street. The latter was operated by Richard Valley, publisher… [Continue Reading]
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