And that would be my name in the current Fangoria magazine (#280, with Jason Voorhees on the over).No, seriously, you don't understand. I've been a devoted Fango reader since #80, February 1989 (cover story: I, Madman), which I picked up at the now-closed Marlo Bookshop in Northeast Philly's Roosevelt Mall. I still remember the sell line at the top: "How to be a horror screenwriter." As an aspiring horror writer, this magazine was my Bible. Naturally, I gravitated to the word nerd sections the most: the "Nightmare Library" book reviews, Q&As with Clive Barker and Stephen King, guest features by John Skipp and Craig Spector, and the always-excellent "Raving and Drooling" column by David J. Schow (the latter collected in the highly-recommended Wild Hairs). To this day, Fango is my favorite magazine, along with The New Yorker. I'm not kidding, nor being ironic. Put me on a desert island with active subscriptions to these two magazines and I'd do okay.
So when Werewolf By Night finally had a firm release date, I asked my friend Brian (Castaways, Dead of Night: Devil Slayer) Keene if he knew anyone at Fango, and he was generous enough to put me in touch with the "Comic Screams" columnist, Daniel Dickholtz. No, sir, I'm not too proud to pimp myself to Fango. The result? A nice full-page piece that highlights some supercool Mico Suayan art and some yapping from me. Basically, a teenage dream come true.
And I can't help but note that the piece appears exactly 200 issues after the first one I ever bought. My seventeen-year-old self wouldn't have believed it.
