by Howard Zimmerman | Jan 25, 2014 | Area 51, Graphic Novels
I am pleased to announce that Z File has completed contracts to produce two wildly different titles for two new clients. Zenith Books has commissioned a nonfiction graphic history of the famously secretive Area 51. And North River Press has commissioned a graphic...
by Howard Zimmerman | Dec 3, 2013 | Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction, Starlog, Tribute
I first met Harlan Ellison in 1977. It was a Friday afternoon in late summer. He was in town for a while, staying at Spinrad’s apartment. I had recently been promoted to Editor of Starlog magazine, and I was there to meet and interview Harlan for a...
by Howard Zimmerman | Nov 19, 2013 | Comic Con, Harlan Ellison, Star Wars, Starlog, Tribute
So there I am, walking the floor of a major science-fiction convention in a New York City hotel, circa 1980. Back in the day, comic books and artwork and merchandise were always part of any con. I was the editor in chief of Starlog magazine and a guest of...
by Howard Zimmerman | Nov 4, 2013 | Comic Con, Publishing, Starlog
I am a short person. Not by choice, you understand. I come from a long line of short folks on both sides of the family. When fully grown, I reached the unassuming height of five foot eight inches. But when I was a kid, I was really small. When I danced with my mother...
by Howard Zimmerman | Oct 30, 2013 | Comic Con
The New York Comic Con at the Javitz Convention Center just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The good news is that the show gets better organized each year, and though there were just as many people attending as do the San Diego Con, you could get around much better....
by Howard Zimmerman | Oct 10, 2013 | Star Wars, Starlog
Back in the day, when I was editor in chief of Starlogmagazine, we did extensive coverage of all “star-related” things, especially Trek and Wars. We covered Star Wars from the time the first movie was in early production. We interviewed...
by Howard Zimmerman | Oct 8, 2013 | Adaptation, Graphic Novels, Upcoming Books
It’s an exciting time for Z File, as we’ve just signed contracts with two new clients, North River Press and Zenith Press, and will be producing new nonfiction graphic novels for them. The success of graphic nonfiction has been an eye-opener to traditional book...
by Howard Zimmerman | Sep 4, 2013 | Publishing, Science Fiction, Tribute
The future died two days ago, with the passing of science-fiction giant and legend Frederick Pohl. Pohl was the last of the original Futurians, the direct link back to Hugo Gernsback and the beginnings of American science fiction. He was part of the first sci-fi fan...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 30, 2013 | Comic Books, Publishing, Rock Scene Magazine, Starlog
The late 1970s and early 1980s saw the greatest explosion of science fiction since the 1940s, when the genre had found its first audience here in America. In 1977, Starlog magazine published a preview of an upcoming new space-opera that was causing a buzz, a little...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 22, 2013 | Isaac Asimov, Publishing
The first project I did with Byron Preiss was called ”The Bank Street Collections.” They were four paperback anthologies filled with graphic adaptations of genre stories—science fiction, horror, mystery, and fantasy—that were produced in conjunction with the Bank...
