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...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 15, 2013 | Comic Books
Okay—so I’m a Boomer. Some good from that—“sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll”—and some not so good: aging, friends and relatives passing away, the assassination of the president and his brother, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Vietnam War. But on the plus side, I got to...
by Howard Zimmerman | May 8, 2013 | Movies, Tribute, Visionary Men
Ray Harryhausen died yesterday, on May 7th, at home in London, at the age of 92. This truly marks the end of an era. When Ray was 13 he saw Willis O’Brien’s magical stop-motion work on King Kong, and his path for life was set. I won’t mention all of his films,...
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 | Oct 19, 2012 | Comic Con
The elections are over and President Obama has won an historic second term. The Affordable Care Act—yes, Obamacare—is here to stay, even if some Republican lawmakers are still in denial. The Affordable Care Act is a huge, sprawling, encompassing piece of legislation...
