BearManor Media News — q&a

Q & A for BearManor Media: Lawrence Schulman, author of the 2 volumes of Garland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZWVoYifRxY 1. How did your passion for Judy Garland begin?Surprisingly, there was no single moment. I was too young to attend her 1961 Carnegie Hall concerts, but I do remember buying the double-LP of it when it came out that same year. But, well before that I was captivated enough by her – and this even before I was a teenager – to get up at ungodly hours of the night to watch her old films on T.V. I suppose this was from seeing The...

Q & A with Matthew Hahn, author of The Animated Universal Classic Monsters What is the book about?I have attempted to catalogue every cartoon featuring an animated caricature of a Universal Classic Monster. There are seven main monsters—Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Wolfman, the 1943 Phantom of the Opera, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon—plus the Bride. There was a total of approximately forty classic monsters, and we cover about a dozen of them in animation.What do you mean by “animated caricatures”?In the 1930s-50s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and exhibitors preferred...

Q&A with Hans-Åke Lilja, author of Stephen King: Not Just Horror Why did you write Stephen King: Not Just Horror?- My Swedish publisher wanted me to write a book about Stephen King and I agreed but at first I couldn’t find a good topic. There are a ton of books about King and I didn’t just want to write about something that had already been written about but then I remembered that when I give lectures about King the biggest reaction I get is when I tell people that he is the author that has written the books that the...

Q&A for Chris “Sampo” Cornell, author of MSTiepedia - One Man’s Journey Through 30+ Years Of The Best TV Show Ever1. What was your first experience with MST3K?Like most people, I found it channel surfing. But there’s a backstory. Many years before, when the woman who became my wife and I were still dating, we were hanging out in my wife’s apartment with a couple of friends. On our little portable black-and-white TV was a movie called “Women of the Prehistoric Planet.” We got high, settled into the sofa and watched, and essentially did what MST3K does, cracking each other...

1What Inspired you to create a book about Marvel creators?Lothar: Mark was the instigator of this project (like so many of our projects) but I’ve been a lifelong comic book fan and was quite excited to be able to interview some of my favorite comic creators in this way.ChaunceyAs Lothar said, Mark was definitely the inspiration behind starting the book. But, what kept me doing the book was my own stumbling through creativity in life. I find it inspiring to hear about other people's successes and failures, how they made it through, and what serendipitous moments paved the way. In...