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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Watterson, Bill
(1958- ) US cartoonist and author, known almost exclusively for his influential Comic strip, the Calvin and Hobbes sequence, which debuted on 18 November 1985 and ended (by his decision) on 31 December 1995, with a famous closing panel showing the real boy Calvin and the imaginary tiger Hobbes tobogganing off into an unending sublimity of winter whiteness, an off-frame "magical world, ol' buddy" (see ...
Kitasei, Yume
(? - ) US management consultant for New York government and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Super" in Metaphorosis for October 2019. Her first novel, The Deep Sky (2023), is a Space Opera set primarily on a Generation Starship carrying an elite corps of humans (see Eugenics) away ...
Camp Camp
US animated online series (2016-2019). Rooster Teeth. Created by Jordan Cwierz and Miles Luna. Executive Producers Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum. Writers include Jordan Cwierz, Gray G Haddock, Miles Luna, Elizabeth Maxwell and Kerry Shawcross. Directed by Yssa Badiola and Jordan Cwierz. Voice cast includes Jen Brown, Lee Eddy, Lindsay Jones, Michael Jones, Yuri Lowenthal, Miles Luna, Shannon McCormick and Yotam Perel. 59 episodes of varying length to date. Colour. / Two new arrivals ...
Bisbee, Eugene Shade
(1864-1933) US author whose first work of sf interest is "A Hundred Thousand Dollar Trance" for The Black Cat in 1896, though it is in fact about a hoax involving Hypnotism; The Treasure of the Ice (1898) is a Lost Race tale set at the south pole, where a civilization of waif Greeks has flourished, partly due to Eugenics; there is little argument in ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...