The Writing (and Publishing) Life.

         I’ve been writing professionally for nearly 50 years,

My first published work was as a radio ad copywriter, for a number of radio stations in Fairfield and New Haven County. I had gotten an internship at a local radio station in 1977, during my senior year in college, as I had been working as a DJ in my college radio station and our station manager referred me to the station.

While that phase of my writing career only lasted a few years, I soon moved into a phase that is—on at least some level—is still with me. In 1981 my first published article appeared in print in Amazing Heroes, a comicbook-themed publication, this was followed by articles in numerous other comicbook, trading card and similar-themed publications, kicking off a nearly two-decade run of articles, interviews, and reviews making me one of the most prolific journalist in the field of comicbook reporting.

I even spent a goodly amount of time writing marketing and PR material for most of the major comicbook companies. This, of course, led to me creating and writing a comic of my own for an Indie company, in 1986. That comicbook was Agent Unknown, for Renegade Press. Unfortunately, that comic only lasted three issues, as there was a massive crash of B&W comics in ’87, so we canceled the comic, and sadly it would be nearly 20 years before I created another comic.

In 2006 I was approached to contribute a short story to a horror comic entitled Psychosis. From there I started contributing stories to several other Indie comicbook companies, including Pronto, Main Enterprises, Red Anvil, and others. In 2025 I inked a publishing deal with Dark Fire Press to produce comics and prose novels. It was here that my comicbook Wülf Girlz, and its accompanying novella Taste the Moon have appeared.

Meanwhile, unwilling to allow my past comicbook stories to disappear into the dustbin of comicbook history, I decided to gather together some of my older work into omnibus editions. The first such edition was Funnybook City, Jump the Shark issue, which collected stories I had published over at Main Enterprises (Funnybook City being the name of my self-publishing company, chosen because my Uncle always referred to comics as “Funnybooks”).

 My second book (which just dropped to Amazon) is titled Funnybook City Yesterday’s Neurosis and contains wok that originally appeared in Guild Works Publications, Atlas Unleashed, and elsewhere. Rounding out this issue are a handful of 500-word flash fiction and other prose stories that I penned. This volume will be followed by a third Funnybook City collection titled Lickety Split Tales which reprints stories I wrote for Pronto Comics. 

I also reprinted two articles from the beginning of my print career entitled Remembering Steve Ditko which covered both Steve Ditko and John Romita Sr.’s respective runs on Spider-Man, which ran in a book I put together for my appearance at the 2025 DitkoCon in Johnstown, PA. A second compilation I produced is called Wings of Man, which gathered together several “flight” stories, including a couple that involved a German Immigrant named Gustave Whitehead who not only lived in my home town, but built and flew a plane two years before the Wright brothers.

Future issues I am planning on publishing include a collection that reprints my Renegade Press Agent Unknown comics, as well as some related stories. I’m also compiling a number of short prose stories for an anthology, as well as writing and producing more Wülf Girlz stories and comics. Hope to see you when they arrive.