How Long Should That Sword & Sorcery Epic Be?
One of the great things about our crazy Amazon-driven book world is that book length matters less than it used to. In the world of Read More
One of the great things about our crazy Amazon-driven book world is that book length matters less than it used to. In the world of Read More
The term “Graphic Novel’ was coined in November 1964 by Richard Kyle in the pages of the fanzine, Alpha-Cappa. It started to get more traction Read More
I was recently ruminating with my cousin about how our kids, now all in their twenties, don’t want the legacies we have gathered. Legacies? Millions Read More
Sword & Sorcery has become a term of derision since the 1980s. There are good reasons for this but much of that derision is out Read More
Literary types may act proud over the slang in Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange or the linguistic hybrids of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake but fanboys and girls Read More
Sword & Sorcery is published in many places but the magazines listed here, though not always big publications, were important to the sub-genre. Many of Read More
Unlike Conan and the works of Robert E. Howard, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (forget about any of Read More
The word “fantasy” is problematic to the researcher. If you are looking for Heroic Fantasy or Sword & Sorcery or even Epic Fantasy comics with Read More
History has a strange way of inspiring horror writers. In the records of the Romans there is mention of a strange race that lived in Read More
The barbarian hero hacks his way through an army of undead to finally come face-to-face with the evil necromancer who has been terrorizing the countryside. Read More