05/10/13

              Friday: Under Cover (Letter): An unsolicited manuscript needs a cover letter as well written as the story itself. Learn how to make your cover letter professional. De La Salle – West Wing, 1st Floor, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Beyond the Known Horizon: Imagining new, unheard of sciences, beyond what you already...

02/21/13

ScrewAttack.com has been rocking the internet’s face since 2006 with it’s original content and unique spin on everything gaming. We’ve been called “the punk rock of gaming” and truly embrace that.

02/21/13

Life is never dull for Helen McCarthy. Since A-Kon 23, she’s been asked to teach at an English university, review and endorse academic publications on anime, help to put together a costume exhibition, revise and update one of her earlier books  and write a history of manga in three months. She’s also got a publisher reading her novel. On a sadder...

02/02/13

Scott “KaiserNeko” Frerichs is a California-based (now in Lake Charles, LA) amateur voice actor, graphics designer, and project manager of “Dragon Ball Z: Abridged”. Director, co-writer, editor for the show, and the voice behind Zarbon, Burter, Trunks, King Kai, and Gregory, he helped found the group in May 2008. Nick...

Thorpe, Patrick, and Everett Patterson, eds.  The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia.  Fwd. Shigeru Miyamoto.  Afwd. Eiji Aonuma.  Trans. Michael Gombos, Takahiro Moriki, Heidi Plechl, Kumar Sivasubramanian, Aria Tanner, and John Thomas.  Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2013.  $34.99.  277 pp.  Hardback.  ISBN 978-1-616-55941-7.  (Original publication: Aonuma,...

01/10/13

Meet the Publishers of Famous Monsters Philip Kim and Ed Blair.

01/01/13

M.G. “Mike” Keller is a by-product of southern angst and northern anxiety. A transplanted New Jerseyan, he has been interested in guys in rubber suits long before Pulp Fiction made them awkward. He hooked up with Edward Holland and the original incarnation of Monster Attack Team back in the 1990s, helping out with the magazine and occasional other aspects of...

01/01/13

Edward L. Holland is a contributing writer for Famous Monsters of Filmland and Captain of the Monster Attack Team, a Japanese live action magazine based in Texas and California, which he started with makeup artist and co-founder Joe Riley back in 1991. As a grade school student, Edward’s fascination with Japanese monsters, superheroes and rock and roll culture...

01/01/13

The legion of Tokusatsu (Japanese special effects) fans has grown and so has the Monster Attack Team. This year, Captain Edward Holland and Art Director, Mike Keller are ushering in their publishing unit, Phil Kim and Ed Blair the heads of state from Famous Monsters of Filmland and eight time Hugo Award winning artist and Godzilla aficionado, Bob Eggleton. Add...

12/27/12

As the Rondo Award-winning author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master Of Monsters (Chronicle Books, 2007), August has commented on Japanese film and popular culture on radio, television, in print, online, and at conventions and film festivals (on both sides of the Pacific) for more than thirty years. He has been called a “Walking Encyclopedia” of tokusatsu and anime....