Atomic Age #1 (Nov. 1990): Cover art by Mike Okamoto & Kevin Nowlan

Frank Lovece is an American journalist, author, comedy performer and comic-book writer. Mike Okamoto (born Detroit Michigan, United States) is an American Comic book Artist and commercial illustrator best known for his The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms He was additionally one of the first professional Web journalists, becoming an editor of a Silicon Alley start-up in 1996. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Silicon Alley is a nickname for an area with a concentration of Internet and New media companies in Manhattan, New York City. He later became editor of a television network site, that of the Sci-Fi Channel. A television network is a distribution network for Television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many Television stations

For an Entertainment Weekly article on direct-to-video movies passing themselves off as theatrical releases, he produced the first — and, after the article's publication, only — home video to obtain an MPAA rating. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc ^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Early life and career

Frank Lovece attended West Virginia University, from which he graduated with a degree in communications. West Virginia University is a Coeducational public Research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. He was the arts/entertainment editor of the college newspaper, the Daily Athenaeum, held posts in student government, and interned with both the WWVU statewide radio news and, in Washington, D.C., the USDA Cooperative Extension Service. A student newspaper is a Newspaper run by Students of a University, High school, Middle school, or other school West Virginia University is a Coeducational public Research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. WWVU-FM (aka The Moose) is a radio station serving Morgantown West Virginia and greater Monongalia County WV All-news radio is a Radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of News. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The Cooperative Extension Service, also known as the Extension Service of the USDA, is a non-formal educational program implemented ^[3]

He became a stringer for the New York City newspaper Newsday in the late 1980s, becoming a weekly TV columnist there in 2003. The City of New York Newsday is a daily Tabloid -size Pulitzer Prize winning Newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic ^[3] Lovece's book Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show, was published in 1988, the first of several books he would write on topics including the TV series The Brady Bunch and The X-Files, and on the Godzilla movie series. Taxi is an American sitcom that originally aired from 1978 to 1982 on ABC, and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U The Brady Bunch is an American Television Situation comedy based around a large blended family. The X-Files is a Peabody, Golden Globe and Emmy Award -winning American Science fiction television series created by Chris Carter Etymology Name "Godzilla" is a combination of two Japanese words and.

Comic books

Lovece and artist Mike Okamoto created the four-volume graphic novel Atomic Age (1990-91) for Marvel Comics' Epic imprint. The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating Mike Okamoto (born Detroit Michigan, United States) is an American Comic book Artist and commercial illustrator best known for his A Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Epic Comics was a creator-owned Imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982 lasting through the mid-1990s and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s The series was among the items featured in the Bowling Green State University exhibition "The Atomic Age Opens: Selections from the Popular Culture Library. Bowling Green State University (BGSU is a public four-year institution located in Bowling Green Ohio, USA, about 20 miles south of Toledo Ohio on " Collaborator Al Williamson won the 1991 Eisner Award for Best Inker for his work on that and other series that awards-year, with Okamoto winning the Russ Manning Award for most promising newcomer. Al Williamson (born March 21 1931) is an American cartoonist comic book artist and illustrator of partly Colombian descent best known for his science-fiction The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award is an award presented to a Comic book artist whose first professional work appeared within the previous two years

Lovece went on to write stories for Epic's anthology series Clive Barker's Hellraiser, and wrote the nine-issue run of Hokum & Hex for Marvel's Barker-created Razorline imprint. Hellraiser is a 1987 British Horror film exploring the themes of Sadomasochism, pain as a source of pleasure and morality under duress and fear Hokum & Hex is a Superhero Comic book series published by Marvel Comics ' Razorline Imprint, created by filmmaker and Razorline was an Imprint of American Comic book company Marvel Comics that ran from 1993-1995 Other work includes such children's comics as the licensed series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (including one story penciled by industry legend Steve Ditko), VR Troopers and Masked Rider. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (often abbreviated by fans as MMPR) is an American Live-action Television series, created A penciller (or penciler) is one of a number of types of Artists working within the Comic book industry Steve Ditko (born 2 November 1927) is an American Comic book Artist and Writer best known as the co-creator of the VR Troopers (Virtual Reality Troopers was a syndicated Live action show produced by Saban (creators of the similar Mighty Masked Rider is an American Adaptation of the Japanese television series Kamen Rider BLACK RX, the ninth in a line of series The Hellraiser story "For My Son", by Lovece and artist Bill Koeb, originally published in Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1 (Summer 1992), appears in Checker Publishing's Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best, Volume 1 (ISBN 0-9710249-2-8), though with the last page inexplicably missing; the complete story appears in an authorized, free online version from web publisher Wowio. Bill Koeb is an American Illustrator, painter, and Comic-book Artist whose work includes the Marvel Comics ' series Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author film director and visual artist ^[4]

Additionally for Marvel, Lovece wrote for the series Nightstalkers and for The Incredible Hulk and Ghost Rider annuals, as well as an inventory story for Alpha Flight. The Nightstalkers is a fictional trio of preexisting characters in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. This article is about the comic book character and series For all other media appearances see Hulk in other media. Ghost Rider is the name of several fictional Supernatural Antiheroes appearing in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. Alpha Flight is a Fictional group a Marvel Comics Superhero team noteworthy for being one of the few Canadian superhero teams He additionally wrote a Vampirella inventory story for Harris Comics. Vampirella is a Fictional character, a Comic book Vampire heroine created by Forrest J Ackerman for Warren Publishing 's Harris Publications Inc is a magazine publisher located in New York which publishes King Magazine, XXL, Scratch Magazine ^[3] His three-part child-abuse drama "Egg" ran in Dark Horse Comics' Dark Horse Presents #110-112. Dark Horse Comics is one of the largest independent American Comic book publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics Additionally, he wrote an educational comic book about the American banking system for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A banker or bank is a Financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money ^[3]

Lost and Found (2006), by photographer Matthew Jordan Smith and writer Frank Lovece

Later career

By the 1990s, Lovece was a weekly syndicated columnist for United Media/NEA, and a writer for periodicals including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Penthouse, Billboard, and Entertainment Weekly, where he wrote features and reviewed home video releases and comic books. Print syndication is a form of syndication in which News articles columns, or Comic strips are made available to Newspapers, Magazines United Media is a large editorial column and Comic strip Newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E United Media is a large editorial column and Comic strip Newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed The New York Post is the 13th-oldest Newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually Penthouse, a Men 's Magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and Soft-core pornographic pictorials See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or hired for home entertainment A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative

Beginning 1996, he served as a website editor and streaming video producer at Gist TV. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media Streaming multimedia is Multimedia that is constantly received by and normally presented to an end-user while it is being delivered by a streaming provider (the He later became a web editor at Hachette Filipacchi, creating sites for Sound & Vision and Popular Photography magazines, and, from 2001 to 2003, at the Sci-Fi Channel, creating sites for Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, The X-Files, The Incredible Hulk, Legend of Earthsea and other television shows, movies and miniseries. Hachette Filipacchi Médias SA (HFM is the largest Magazine Publisher in the world Sound & Vision is an American Magazine, published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U Popular Photography & Imaging, also called Popular Photography or Pop Photo, is a monthly American consumer magazine founded in 1937 Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of Science fiction Films and television series, the first of which was produced in 1978 Stargate Atlantis (often abbreviated as SGA) is an American - Canadian Science fiction Television program, part of the Legend of Earthsea is a miniseries (later shortened to Earthsea) adapted quite loosely from the award-winning Earthsea novels by Ursula A miniseries (also mini-series) in a serial Storytelling medium is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes Since 2005, in addition to his Newsday column and features, Lovece has been a movie critic for Film Journal International. Newsday is a daily Tabloid -size Pulitzer Prize winning Newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City Film review redirects here for the similar sounding Film revue please visit Revue#Film revues. Film Journal International is a Motion-picture industry Trade magazine published by the American company Nielsen Business Media a division of He had previously been a movie critic for the TV Guide website^[5] and for The Bergen Record. TV Guide is the name of a North American weekly magazine about television programming The Record (colloquially called The Bergen Record or The Record of Hackensack) has the second largest circulation of New Jersey 's daily ^[6]

In 2005, Lovece and photographer Matthew Jordan Smith collaborated on Lost and Found (Filipacchi, New York, 2006; ISBN-13 9781599756110 ISBN 1599756110), a photojournalistic record of families of abducted children and the work of The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ( NCMEC) is a private Non-profit organization established in the United States in 1984 under United ^[7]

Humor

From 2001-2003, Lovece was a member of the New York City improv comedy troupe Wingnuts. The City of New York Improvisational theatre (also known as improv or impro) is a form of Theatre in which the Actors use Improvisational acting techniques His humor writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Yahoo!/MSN, and elsewhere. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc Newsday is a daily Tabloid -size Pulitzer Prize winning Newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City MSN (The M icro' s' oft N etwork is a collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft. ^[3]

Quotes

Dark Horse Comics editor Bob Schreck: "Frank is probably the most under-exploited, most sensitive writer this field has to offer". ^[8]

Nuclear Texts & Contexts #6 (Spring 1991): "Atomic Age (Frank Lovece, writer, & Mike Okamoto, artist, Epic Comics) is a four-part series dealing with alien invaders set during the Sputnik era. Mike Okamoto (born Detroit Michigan, United States) is an American Comic book Artist and commercial illustrator best known for his Epic Comics was a creator-owned Imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982 lasting through the mid-1990s and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s . . . Although no nuclear war is featured, there is plenty of wry satire on Cold War paranoia, and on racism". Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the List of racism-related topics|Racism by country Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that ^[9]

Footnotes

References

• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
• Frank Lovece at the Grand Comic-Book Database
• Clive Barker's Official Site: Comics
• Thompson, Maggie, "'Atomic Age' Features '50s SF". The Grand Comic-Book Database ( GCD) is an Internet -based project to build a Database of Comic book information with the aim that this database Comics Buyer's Guide #885 (November 2, 1990)
• Journalist Pages: Frank Lovece Daylife

External links

• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Lost and Found