The Iceberg Theory
Hollywood is searching for icebergs. I don’t mean a pointless sequel to Titanic, but story ideas that have a long, unseen history behind them. I Read More
Category: The Lord of the Rings
The Ballantine Fantasy Series by Per. J. Okerstrom
Late in the summer of 1968 the publishing team of Betty and Ian Ballantine recognized that the success of their edition of J. R. R. Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Gray Morrow (1934-2001)
Gray Morrow (1934-2001) was one of the early cheerleaders for Sword & Sorcery along with Wally Wood and Frank Frazetta. He was one of the Read More
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
American Heroic Fantasy Graphic Novels
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
Link: Careful What You Wish For…
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
Link: Sword & Sorcery – What’s in a Name?
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
Mangani, the Language of the Jungle
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
The Magazines of Sword & Sorcery
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
Tolkien vs. Howard Comics
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