In 1965, Joe Wehrle, Jr. launched Fawn the Dark-Eyed. Inspired by the heyday of newspaper comic strips like Flash Gordon and Modesty Blaise, the publication presented Fawn’s adventures in Sunday-sized comic strip pages. Unfortunately, this early…

Way back in the 1970s there was a comic shop in Portland called Old Weird Herald’s run by three women named Hazel, Luana, and Rosie. I visited the shop on NE Broadway only twice, but I’ll…

The wait is over. The print edition of Switchblade Sixx is now available, so what’re you waiting for? Contents William R. Soldan “Seattle” (verse) Scotch Rutherford: Editor’s Corner Quick & Dirty Flash George Garnet “Down Payment”…

From Weirdbook No. 34: “Blood of God” by D.J. Tyrer takes place on an Anglo-Russian survey platform off Russia’s arctic coast. When the survey team discovers an extra-heavy oil deposit things turn dire. Tyrer’s frigid, isolated…

Opening Lines from “Thrill My Soul” by Greg Jenkins, Weirdbook #34 March 2017, reviewed in The Digest Enthusiast book six.

The first issue of Ditkomania since its namesake’s passing in June 2018, opens with Editor Rob Imes Editkorial. “Despite the chatter about Ditko that goes on these days on the internet, I find that the pages…

“Kiefer dropped down the rabbit hole. Deep inside his head he knew the descent into empty darkness was just another shot at teasing Death, an opportunity to rub shoulders with the Reaper. He sucked in a…

From International Science Fiction No. 2 (June 1968): We head back to the U.S.S.R. for the opening story in ISF #2, “The Last Door” by E. Parnov and M. Yemtsew, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. The story’s…

Below are Edd Vick’s comments on digest magazines, from the interview conducted by D. Blake Werts, for The Digest Enthusiast book six: When I was in high school I read all the digests I could lay…