William Blain, the Comics Wizard of Gourock

  Image taken from This Was The Wizard , courtesy of Down The Tubes Eventually Willie Blain became Managing Editor of all of the Thomson lin...

Six Quarter-Centuries of Clark Ashton Smith

He and his followers were well armed and accoutered. Some of the men bore coils of rope and grapplinghooks to be employed in the escalade of...

Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams

... Interesting choice of cover illustration. Since it's C.L. Moore's birthday, I thought I'd talk a wee bit about Jirel. I disc...

Kaiju Rising: 10 Days to Go

I hadn't had the chance to discuss this new collection of short stories which is just the sort of thing I love, but recent revelations ...

The Problem with Humans

The plight of the misunderstood orc Taking a brief time out from my work, I've been having a gander at several things. One was G. Willow...

Ray Harryhausen - Requiescat in Pace

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I w...