News Roundup W/E 2020-11-29
Apologies, I missed putting out a news roundup for 11/22, so this post will cover both weeks.
Podcast News
Michele and I interviewed Michael Oden (creator of the Elysian Fields comic) on the Scholars from the Edge of Time segment of the Voice of Olympus show. Episode has been added to the podcast index and can also be streamed here.
For H. P. Lovecast Podcast, the upcoming schedule is going to look like this:
2020-12-06 – Wonder and Glory Forever2020-12-20 – Interview with Nick Mamatas (already recorded)2021-01-03 – Eight Cylinders2021-01-17 – Interview with Jason Parent
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
Rest in Peplum
David Prowse, better reknown as the actor who portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, passed away at the age of 85. His contributions to the sword and sandal genre include:
Dr. Who “The Time Monster” (1972). He was a minotaurUp Pompeii (as an muscular extra)Jabberwocky (1977, Terry Gilliam)
Daria Nicolodi passed away at the age of 70. She was known for her many contributions to Italian cinema in the 70s and 80s and her collaborations with Dario Argento. She appeared in Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989, Enzo G. Castellari)
Miscellanea
The folks at Comicon have quite a few articles that have gone up in the past two weeks:
Retrospective review of Fire and Ice (1983, Ralph Bakshi)Preview of Maestro #4 which has the Hulk fighting HerculesPreview of Conan the Barbarian #16Preview of the Mars Attacks/Red Sonja crossover
