Zombie Chicks
Poor Chad. He got eaten by the object of his desire. At least that is how Mike Hampton tells it in the first edition of Zombie Chicks. Not for squeamish lads, this, but truly … colorful. It all goes to show you that, zombie or not, if you lock a gal up in a room and you don’t...
Ghost Girl Rising
I’ve been underground … gaaaad … and that makes me think about WonderCon again and Little Lost Ghost. I met her along with Alan and Brad at WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco last weekend. Her diary introduces her. She is Miss Fit, a character searching the galaxy for her...
WonderCon 2010: Zombima...
A kind of Zombimania had taken hold at WonderCon 2010. Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the place was totally packed with shuffling hordes of true zombies crashing after their umpteenth cup of caffeine. According to the WonderCon staff I talked to—in the hospitality...
Afterlife Guaranteed
The surrealist poets were really onto something. Especially Nanos Valaoritis who was born back in 1921 in my mother’s town, Lausanne. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for a while and that is where I became acquainted with him. He’s one of Greece’s most...
Anime Spirit
Chihiro is my favorite hero. In preparation for all-day-anime at WonderCon, I’m recommending that anyone who hasn’t seen Spirited Away (in English), Hayao Miyazaki’s fantastic film (in Japanese), watch it. Chihiro, a crabby ten-year-old girl, manages to save humans and...