Author: Alex Irvine
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More Pulp
Got my contributor copies of Retro Pulp Tales in the mail yesterday. Publishers Weekly says, “With six-guns blazing and tentacles flailing, this nifty all-original anthology delivers impressively on the “pure storytelling” promise Lansdale (Flaming London) makes in his intro. The dozen authors manage to address serious issues while remaining true to their roots and the…
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Son of Satan
Just in time to coincide with the release of The Omen, Marvel Comics announced at WizardWorld in Philly that Daimon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan, will be coming back in a five-issue limited series that will land in stores this fall. I’m writing it, and Russ Braun is the artist, and there is an outstanding…
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48 hours
The 48 Hour Film Project came to Portland, Maine, this year, and I had the good fortune to write the screenplay for one of the 14 teams that competed. The film, called Music Box, is linked here. University of Maine new-media professor Raphael DiLuzio put our team together under his 3leggeddog umbrella, and we were…
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Burn, Baby, Burn
The Batman: Inferno cover, at last. The book itself is due out on Halloween, which seems timely given the various costumes. If anyone out there is a fan of both Batman and Blaise Cendrars, this book will be particularly chock-full of goodies; also featured are the Joker, Arkham Asylum, and a new villain whose name…
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Buzz
As you might have seen by now over at John Klima’s EV Zine Blog, I’m going to have a story in the Klima-edited anthology Logorrhea, coming from Bantam in May or June of 2007. The list of contributors is pretty good company: Daniel AbrahamPaolo BacigalupiJay CaselbergClare DudmanHal DuncanTheodora GossLiz HandAlex IrvineJay LakeKelly LinkMichael MoorcockTim PrattDavid…