Frank Lovece
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].
Lovece and artist Mike Okamoto created the four-volume graphic novel Atomic Age (1990-91) for Marvel Comics' Epic imprint. The series became part of the permanent collection of the Michigan State University Comic Art Library, and 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 series, with Okamoto winning the Russ Manning Award for most promising newcomer.
Lovece's comic-book fiction spans diverse genres and forms, from children's literature, such 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 was chosen for Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best, Volume 1 (ISBN 0971024928), though with the last page inadvertently 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.
He has published books on topics including the TV series Taxi, The Brady Bunch and The X-Files; the Godzilla movie series; and child-abductions and The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. As a website editor, he 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.
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
Quotes
Bob Schreck, Dark Horse Presents #110: "Frank is probably the most under-exploited, most sensitive writer this field has to offer."
Nuclear Texts & Contexts #6 (Spring 1991) [2] (link opens PDF): "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."