by Howard Zimmerman | Dec 12, 2012 | Artists, Publishing, Starlog
Tom Cross, Brian Froud, and Howard Zimmerman Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of my dear friend Tom Cross. At fifty-four, having never smoked a day in his life, he died of lung cancer. He was an artist, an environmentalist, a writer, a visionary, a...
by Howard Zimmerman | Jun 6, 2012 | Howard Zimmerman, Science Fiction, Starlog
As a child of the Fifties, I was nurtured by a society that was rushing to embrace the future. I watched the old Buster Crabbe Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials on TV—we had the first one on our block. And there was Captain Video, Tom...
by Howard Zimmerman | Jun 6, 2012 | Isaac Asimov, Publishing, Starlog
So it’s the late 1970s and I’ve just been hired by the science-fiction media magazine, Starlog. My first task is to review and edit an article by one of my literary gods, Isaac Asimov, on the possibility of faster-than-light travel. More to the point: is...
by Howard Zimmerman | May 25, 2012 | Comic Books, Dinosaurs, Science Fiction, Starlog
When I was a child, I had several major loves. These included science fiction, paleontology, and graphic storytelling. I knew them better as sci-fi, dinosaurs, and comics. Some kids wanted to be a fireman or a cowboy. I wanted to be Buck Rogers. When I was six or...
