Proceeds from book sales go to benefit Frank McKinney’s Caring Home Project Foundation. An amphibious shark, strangler fig trees and blood red remora … oh my! That’s what Ppeekk (pronounced “Peekie”) has to contend with after she moves to Florida and meets Dead Fred. Dead Fred, a small and crispy fish, isn’t really dead … […]
The Saturday Nightmare Expo is really hoping the hungry, shuffling undead will be stopping by this year’s event. To encourage this, they’ve invited George Romero, along with most of the original cast of Night of the Living Dead, to discuss the movie. In addition, the opening night will feature a showing of Roy Frumkes’ new […]
Just found these headlines: Anaheim makes bid to lure Comic-Con from San Diego Anaheim wants Comic-Con to go up, up and away from San Diego Comic-Con may change hosts when contract with San Diego expires What could this mean? My first thought is that there may be more media guests because it’s closer to L.A. […]
Talk about a travel read! You can now read a new Transformers comic on your iPhone through the www.titanpublishing.com/digital. Alas, these comics are only available in the UK and Ireland. The stories are written by Simon Furman, who has this to say about the downloadable comics for the iPhone: “The stories, written by me and […]
It is a dream of mine that The Genre Traveler be a TV show … maybe something like Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations … only focused on genre locations. I’ve been dreaming a lot about it lately and I thought, what if someone came to me and said, “O.K. We want to make this happen and […]
Earlier this week SyFy aired Sunshine, the 2007 film, written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle (both worked on 28 Days Later), about a group of astronauts on a mission to re-ignite the dying sun. I remember when it first came out it had a bit of fan fare and then just seemed […]
Have you ever wanted to travel to the exotic places portrayed in the James Bond films? Well, if you act quickly, you can take advantage of a unique theme travel event: Operation EURO2010:Bond, Bourne and Beyond. The folks at Theme Party People are taking 45 people on an exclusive tour of Italy, Switzerland and France […]
Bond: Do you expect me to talk? Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die! Love that quote!
I just saw this press release the other day: “New Sci-Fi Convention Company Vulcan Events Offers Alternative to Florida Fans” This could be good or it could be bad … it all depends on the conventions. I’ve been to a number of Creation conventions, and although they are able to bring in the stars, they […]