Frank Lovece

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Atomic Age #1 (Nov. 1990): Cover art by Mike Okamoto & Kevin Nowlan

Frank Lovece is an American journalist, author, comedy performer and comic-book writer.

For an Entertainment Weekly article on direct-to-video movies passing themselves off as theatrical releases, he produced the first — and, after the article's publication, only — home video to obtain an MPAA rating. ^[1]

1 Journalism and Internet
2 Comic books
3 Humor
4 Quotes
5 Footnotes
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Journalism and Internet

Lost and Found (2006), by photographer Matthew Jordan Smith and writer Lovece

Lovece has been a New York Newsday stringer since the late 1980s, and a weekly TV columnist since 2003. He has been a movie critic for Film Journal International since 2005, and at various times a columnist for Billboard and Video (now Sound & Vision) magazines, and United Media/NEA, for which he wrote a syndicated newspaper column. He was a contributing editor of Entertainment Weekly, where his duties included reviewer for video releases and comic books, and his work appears in a range of magazines and newspapers.

Lovece has published books on the TV series Taxi, The Brady Bunch and The X-Files, and on the Godzilla movie series. In addition, he and photographer Matthew Jordan Smith collaborated on Lost and Found (Filipacchi, New York, 2006), a photojournalistic record of families of abducted children and the work of The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

As a website editor, Lovece created the sites for Sound & Vision and Popular Photography magazines, and the Sci-Fi Channel sites for Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, The X-Files, The Incredible Hulk, Legend of Earthsea and other television shows, movies and miniseries.

[edit] Comic books

Lovece and artist Mike Okamoto created the four-volume graphic novel Atomic Age (1990-91) for Marvel Comics' Epic imprint. The series was among the items featured in the Bowling Green State University exhibition "The Atomic Age Opens: Selections from the Popular Culture Library." Collaborator Al Williamson won the 1991 Eisner Award for Best Inker for his work on that and other series that awards-year, with Okamoto winning the Russ Manning Award for most promising newcomer.

Lovece's comic-book fiction ranges from such children's comics as the licensed series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, VR Troopers and Masked Rider to horror, with stories in the anthology series Clive Barker's Hellraiser. One of the latter appears in Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best, Volume 1 (ISBN 0-9710249-2-8), though with the last page inexplicably missing.

Other comics work includes Hokum & Hex for Marvel's Razorline imprint, created by Barker, and the Marvel series Nightstalkers, featuring Blade and Doctor Strange. He also wrote stories for The Incredible Hulk and Ghost Rider annuals, as well as inventory stories for Alpha Flight and Harris Comics' Vampirella. His three-part child-abuse drama "Egg" ran in Dark Horse Comics' Dark Horse Presents #110-112. Additionally, he wrote an educational comic book about the American banking system for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

[edit] Humor

From 2001-2003, he performed onstage as part of the New York City improv comedy troupe Wingnuts. His humor writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, New York Newsday, Yahoo!/MSN, and elsewhere.

[edit] Quotes

Dark Horse Comics editor Bob Schreck: "Frank is probably the most under-exploited, most sensitive writer this field has to offer".^[2]

Nuclear Texts & Contexts #6 (Spring 1991): "Atomic Age (Frank Lovece, writer, & Mike Okamoto, artist, Epic Comics) is a four-part series dealing with alien invaders set during the Sputnik era. ... Although no nuclear war is featured, there is plenty of wry satire on Cold War paranoia, and on racism".^[3]