The Strigoi on Television
The folklore of Europe has given us many creatures of the night. The Strigoi date back to Romanian tales about troubled spirits that rise from Read More
Category: Sword & Sorcery
The Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Jaime Brocal Remohi (1936-2002)
Jaime Brocal, as he is sometimes known in English comics, debuted in comics drawing The Saint for British weeklies. Spanish-born, he created series after series Read More
Link: The End of a Beautiful Friendship: Creators’ Rights
The fight over creators’ rights seems like ancient lore these days, but for those of us who remember Destroyer Duck and all the fuss that Read More
Link: The Battle of Five Armies: Of Orcs and Epics
As I sat watching the last of The Hobbit trilogy of films I realized something. We take so much for granted in the 21st Century. Read More
The Author With a Thousand Heads: Round-Robins
Doc Savage had an adventure called The Thousand Headed Man in 1934. The Thousand Headed Man guards a lost city in the jungle. This piece Read More
Wan Tengri in Conan the Barbarian
Flame Winds was a Sword & Sorcery novel written by Norvell W. Page back in the Pulp days of John W. Campbell. It appeared in Read More
Link: Sword & Sorcery and J. R. R. Tolkien
In September 1937 an English Don named John Ronald Reuel Tolkien published a children’s book called The Hobbit. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Skywald
Skywald Publications was created by former Marvel Comics employee, Sol Brodsky – the Sky of the name, and Israel Waldman – the wald of the Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
Alien Space Bats!
I recently heard that ASB is a neologism used by writers of Alternate History Science Fiction. The term refers to an implausible idea based on Read More