The world of old time radio is a fantasy land where you take the voices and make an entire world. Nothing is better.This collects six forgotten masterpieces. And yes. They are real. Why would you even think to say that we made this shit up? We would never write something ourselves and call it masterpieces. We are too humble for that.Six masterpieces. Well, you can decide.There is the episode of Doctor Jeckyll's Two Face Saloon where a man comes in to play Hangman wi...

There was a website about monsters. It was all about monsters.Sounds fun. But don't bother looking for it. It's gone.The internet is like that.The website is gone but we have the FAQ page. And in honor of anyone who remembers that there used to be a monster website that didn't completely suck, we are publishing this relic of an older internet.The FAQ is a strange thing. Does it really answer the questions everyone asks, or is it more random than that?

A gathering of Anti-Drug comic books. They get together on occasion to bask in each other's brilliance. And like in most parties, they all talk about themselves.Ten anti-drug comics explain why they are so important. They are different from one another, except for their antipathy for drugs. There are the ones where computer kids stop drug dealers. We have the ones with superheroes stopping the drug scourge. There are talky morality plays.And then there is the host of the pa...

What's the secret of writing the killer book title? We know, but we can't tell you. Sorry. Sworn to secrecy. But we can give you one thing that can work for a while. There is a trend that is selling books. But like all book trends, it will not last for long. So you better buy this book, like now, and learn all the secrets to this trend.We probably shouldn't tell you, but hey, we're friends and I can trust you. Putting the word "fuck" in the title is a great way to boost sales. This...

Wouldn't it be cool to call up Santa and find out what's going on up in the North Pole?You bet it would. And thanks to pay call system you were able to call up Santa and see how the preparation for Christmas will be. It cost fifty cents a minute, but it was worth it to get the skinny from Santa and the gang.But what would happen iif you called after Christmas? What would you hear? Would you hear the real story of what it is like to live in the North Pole? Would you hear abo...

In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid.When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books and spend the next week reading them all.I loved all of them, but would they all stand up?

David Macpherson knew the artist Edward Gorey. Well, he knew him a little bit. When David was a young man, he volunteered in the same place Edward Gorey did. This book is a memoir of that time in Cape Cod. It is also a meditation on the people we remember and the people we name drop. What makes a person worth name dropping? Is it acceptable to name drop an artist that you barely knew?

Where is Fancy Bread?There was a seminar on how to write the best book copy and one of the main rules is to get the potential reader's attention by a quick and pertinent question. Ask a question. Grab them. Drag them along to the rest of the ad copy.And this question is the best one yet. Where is Fancy Bread? Not only is it the title of the book, it is everything in the book. Every chapter is another time where Fancy Bread is visiting some location. He is also dressed to th...

Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but some of these were real. All too real.What David Macpherson has given yo...

Josh helps run the science fiction club at his college. It's okay. It's fun enough. And then the djinn showed. He doesn't have genie powers as much as he can manipulate time and space whenever he finds it most amusing.The djinn lives in an action figure playset in the back of the club's space. He will force adventures onto Josh, whether Josh likes it or not. Caliban will appear. Another djinn will show up. Red-headed step children of literature will come out of paperbacks and start...

A lot of people read Perry Rhodan novels. Just not here in the English speaking world. In Germany, the science fiction novels about Perry Rhodan are published once a week. They are rip roaring space operas.There is nearly sixty years of Perry Rhodan novels. But they never took off in America.David Macpherson picked up a bunch of Perry Rhodan novels that were translated and published in the 1970s. He reads eight of those books and takes you along for the ride. While reading the book...

David Macpherson collects original art from comic books and comic strips. He has the original art that was used to make the comic books.As part of this, he has a sub collection that looks at fine art through the lens of comic book art. He has art for comic strips that makes fun of abstract art. He has ones about art forgery. There are pieces about making and understanding art.The work goes from cartoony images to realistic images. The artists in this collection include John...