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Interview with Sidereal Fortress
New interview at my website! I’ve interviewed so many comic book creators as of late, time to hop over to another medium for a bit. I had the honor to interview the dungeon synth outfit Sidereal Fortress about their neo-peplum album, Circus Maximus. Check it out here.
ICYMI H. P. Lovecast Podcast Episode
ICYMI, a new episode of the HP Lovecast Podcast dropped last weekend. In this episode Michele and I talked about the comic book series Vinegar Teeth from Dark Horse Comics. Vinegar Teeth is more-or-less “The Colour out of Space” made into a buddy cop story. The episode is uploaded to our Buzzsprout website and also available on all major podcast applications.
Also, don’t forget to check out my essay on Vinegar Teeth called “Cullzathro Fhtagn! Magnifying the Carnivalesque in Lovecraft through the Comic Book Series Vinegar Teeth.”
The next episode of H. P. Lovecast will be a fragments episode on Caltiki: The Immortal Monster and will drop on my birthday, June 20th.
HWA Academics Board Updates
I’ve updated the HWA Academics Board with some new CFPs. These include:
- AnnRadCon alumni Dr. Naomi Simone Borwein’s CFP on Global Aboriginal Horror
- Horror Homeroom looking for abstracts for a special issue on Slasher Films
- Howard David Ingham looking for presenters for online conference for Rural Gothic
- Call for abstracts for the The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
- Hellbore has a call for a special issue on Summonings
- The Horror and Monstrosity Studies is seeking proposals for books, collections, and monographs.
CFP for Classical Association Conference 2022
The Classical Association has a CFP out for the 2022 conference in Swansea. More info can be found at their website.
General Neo-Peplum News
Divination Hollow Essay
Great article at Divination Hollow titled “From Hades to The Song of Achilles: Greek Mythology Still Slaps” on the relevance and importance of Greek mythology today, on books to TV shows to fandom.
Interview with Tabernacle
Dr. Jeremy Swift has interviewed UAE heavy/power metal band Tabernacle at his Heavy Metal Classicist website.
Dr. Swist Interview Part 2
Part two of Dr. Swist being on the Against the Lore Podcast is live and can be found here. Part one can be found here.
Isidora #2 Kickstarter Live
G. A Lungaro‘s crowdfunding campaign for issue 2 of his Lovecraft/neo-peplum comic Isidora is now live and can be viewed on Kickstarter.
There is a stretch goal at $3,500 contributors will receive this gorgeous pinup.
Folks, I NEEED this pinup, it’s amazing! So check out the campaign and consider contributing. A reminder: I had the honor to interview G. A Lungaro about Isidora #1, so check that out too.
Rest in Peplum
Ned Beatty passed away on June 13th at the age of 83. His contribution to the peplum genre was portraying Diomed in The Last Days of Pompeii TV miniseries in 1984.