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By Paul Vaughn, on August 8th, 2011 Alfredo "Freddy" Lopez, Jr. in his studio Photo: JERRY LARA / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Sunday’s edition of the San Antonio Express-News featured an excellent profile of up-and-coming comics and fantasy artist Alfredo “Freddy” Lopez, Jr. The article From fanboy to fantastic – Comic artist Alfredo Lopez Jr. opening eyes around town for the depth [Read it all...]
By Mission Control, on September 6th, 2010 John Picacio in front of his illustration of Elric. LISA KRANTZ / EXPRESS-NEWS
The San Antonio Express-News ran a long feature on artist John Picacio Sunday. Picacio was interviewed by the EN staff writer and Geek Speak blogger extraordinaire René Guzman. The story was in two parts. The first, entitled “Artistic alchemy by John [Read it all...]
By Paul Vaughn, on July 19th, 2010 If you didn’t catch last Sunday’s San Antonio Express-News, you missed Roy Bragg‘s feature on Filk, SF folk music featured at many conventions. Bragg went to the recent ApolloCon in Houston and clearly spent a lot of time listening to and enjoying this staple of con culture. Here’s an excerpt:
A filk song [Read it all...]
By Paul Vaughn, on May 13th, 2010 If you were flipping through the San Antonio Express-News the other day, you might have seen Rene Guzman’s interview with legendary comic book artist Joe Kubert about his new graphic novel Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965 from DC Comics. Now in his eighties, Kubert has been working in the comics field since he was ten or [Read it all...]
By Paul Vaughn, on May 3rd, 2010 Ahead of the release of the first book in his new series, Steve Bennett at the San Antonio Express-news ran an interview with Rick Riordan Sunday. This series, the follow-up to his wildly popular Percy Jackson and the Olympians books, has an Egyptian theme and is aimed at readers from 9 to 12 years old. [Read it all...]
By Paul Vaughn, on April 27th, 2010 Follow ChrisQuinnSA on Twitter for short, sharp doses of Star Wars
I remember as a kid when Star Wars (yes, the original one) came out and we could not get enough of it. My brother had an audio cassette (like an MP3 download only more plastic and rectangular) that was basically a radio-style dramatization [Read it all...]
By Paul Vaughn, on November 30th, 2009 What is the Future of Energy in SA? (Image from CPS Energy)
San Antonio Express-News columnist Cary Clack spun a fantasy allegory this weekend, transposing San Antonio’s recent CPS Energy/Nuclear debacle into a tale of a deceitful wizard and a dangerous and costly dragon. Take a moment and read And the moral of this [Read it all...]
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Mission Control
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JOHN PICACIO is a World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo
Award-nominated illustrator of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature.
On
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SANFORD ALLEN is a musician and author with more than
two dozen horror and dark fantasy stories published.
Sanford Allen | Boxcar
Satan |
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PAUL VAUGHN is a graphic artist,
web designer, writer, consultant and all around techno-geek.
The Mac
Guy | Dingus Design |
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SCOTT A. CUPP is a writer whose work has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award.
Scott A. Cupp |
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