Personal / Website News
Sorry folks, I missed a few weeks on doing a news roundup: holidays, other obligations, etc. This roundup will hopefully cover the last few weeks.
New Indie Peplum Comic and Interview
Comic book creator Samuel George London is currently crowd funding his newest endeavor, the neo-peplum comic Band of Warriors. I’ve interviewed London about his comic.
As a side note, expect more posts in the next few months as I do more write ups/reviews/interviews about sword and sandal comics I’ve Kickstarted. These include: Secret Rites, Aztlan, Teoatl, Isidora and the Immortal Chains, and S.P.Q.R.
Podcast News
Two new episodes of H. P. Lovecast Podcast are online. In the first episode Michele Brittany and I discuss “You Will Never Be the Same” by Erica L. Satifka and “Weird Tales” by Fred Chappell from Wonder & Glory Forever, edited by Nick Mamatas. The episode can be streamed at Buzzsprout or your podcast application of preference.
Second, our episode discussing Jason Parent’s Eight Cylinders is also online. Later this month we will be interviewing Parent about this novella.
Both of us also appeared on two Voice of Olympus episodes in the past week. The first was an appearance on Scholars from the Edge of Time and the other on a Sword and Sandal Cinema episode.
Call for Papers
The Call for Abstracts for my collection of essays on neo-medievalism is live. The CFP can be found here.
General Neo-Peplum News
Dr. Jeremy J. Swist interviews power metal band Judicator about their concept album, Let There Be Nothing, which is about the Byzantine general Flavius Belisarius. The interview can be found at his Heavy Metal Classicist website.
Comicon.com has a preview of King Size Conan #1.
RedSharkNews honours Gladiator at 20 years old by looking at its sound design.
Screen Rant has an article called “15 Best Movies With Accurate Depictions Of Ancient History (Including Agora).” Their list (peplum and non-peplum films) is:
- The Fall Of The Roman Empire (1964)
- Red Cliff (2008)
- A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1966)
- Beowulf (2007)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Life of Brian (1979)
- Asterix: The Mansions Of The Gods (2019)
- Alexander (2004)
- Barabbas (1964)
- Hero (2002)
- The Trojan Women (2004)
- Centurion (2010)
- The History Of The World, Part 1 (1981)
- Agora (2009)
- Confucius (2010)
Rest in Peplum
Animator Doug Crane passed away at the age of 85. He contributed to many animated sword and sandal, sword and sorcery, and sword and planet cartoons:
- The Mighty Hercules (1963)
- The Mighty Thor (1966)
- Heavy Metal (1981)
- Various He-Man and She-Ra projects in the 80s
- The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
Italian actor Corrado Olmi passed away at the age of 94. He was in Satyricon (1969, Gian Luigi Polidoro).
Bond Girl Tanya Roberts passed away at the age of 65. Known for her appearance in A View to a Kill and in Charlie’s Angels, for sword and sorcery fans, she stole hearts with her appearance in The Beastmaster (1982, Don Coscarelli).
