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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
McCracken, Craig
(1971- ) US director, scriptwriter, producer and animator. After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), McCracken joined Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1993. He contributed two The Powerpuff Girls shorts to the What a Cartoon! (1995-1997) anthology series; these were an update of a film, Whoopass Stew! (1992), he had created ...
Tit-Bits Science Fiction Comics
UK Comic (1953). C Arthur Pearson, Ltd. Six issues. Most artwork and scripts by Ron Turner. 2-3 stories per issue. Cover in colour, but strips in black and white. A seventh issue was completed but not published in the UK, but was later released in France as Aventures de Demain #21 (1957). / Issue #1 opens with "The Dome of Survival": back "in the finite depths of time" (see Time Abyss), Pluto's ...
Darlton, Clark
Pseudonym of German author, translator and editor Walter Ernsting (1920-2005); he also wrote as F MacPatterson. In the 1950s he edited the German Utopia-Magazin (launched 1955), providing it with much original and translated material, usually as Clark Darlton (English sf writers found it easier to publish in German than did German writers; for some time Ernsting sold his stories as translations from the Clark Darlton originals); his first sf publication, Ufo am Nachthimmel ["UFO ...
Lazor Wulf
US animated tv series (2016; 2019-current). Based on the web Comic by Henry Bonsu. Bento Box Entertainment (season one), 6 Point Harness (season two), Williams Street. Developed by Henry Bonsu and Daniel Weidenfeld. Directed by Henry Bonsu. Writers include Sarah Bellardini, Henry Bonsu and Carl Jones. Voice cast includes Quinta Brunson, D.R.A.M., Ettore "Big E" Ewen, Andre Pascoe, Vince Staples, Reginald VelJohnson and J D Witherspoon. Twenty ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...