My 2017 writing plans: On Monday, January 1st, 2017, I start writing what I hope will be the first in a series of 70's pop-styled...

Here's the cover for the upcoming Max Allan Collins "Quarry" novel, Quarry In The Black , from Hard Case Crime books. The s...

Okay, here's a question for the readers of this blog - and the Gravedigger crime comics that I produce with Rick Burchett. If was to pub...

The amazing Robert McGinnis , nearly 90 years-old and not missing a trick, provides this gorgeous cover for Max Allan Collins' latest...

Written by Devin O'Leary Illustrated by Jason Waskey 2 Color, Graphic Novel Comico, 1992 This slender, 48-page graphic novel from ...

Written by Jamie S. Rich Illustrated by Joelle Jones B&W, Hardcover Graphic Novel Oni Press, 2009 Modern authors who attempt period...

On October 14th, Scorpion Releasing presents the 1963 film, The Girl Hunters , starring author Mickey Spillane as his own hardboiled P.I...

The "Quarry" series, chronicling the life of a Vietnam vet-turned-hired killer, is my favorite of author Max Allan Collins' ...

Finally, after more than a decade of trying to pull my comics projects Perils On Planet X (an interplanetary swashbuckler in the Flash Gord...

I swiped this from Paul Bishop's blog . I don't know who the artist is, but it's now one of my favorite crime pulp covers eve...

I have mixed feelings about this preview trailer for the upcoming film, Parker , based on the Richard Stark ( Donald Westlake ) books. I...

Thanks to some recent freelance income, we were able to catch up on our overdue medical and veterinary bills, and even had a little left ove...

As I mentioned in the previous post, I've been enjoying the 1957 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer television series for the past few n...

I just completed these six cover designs for Perfect Crime's upcoming re-issues of author Robert J. Randisi's "Miles Jacoby...

Max Allan Collins has been one of my favorite crime fiction authors since I first discovered his work around 1983. I was a fan of his co...

I was in a bookstore yesterday for the first time in months, and finally got to see the new Hard Case Crime releases from Titan Books. The ...

Never read the book (though I think I'd like to), and have no idea who painted the cover. But I love it.

Cover illustration by the great Mitchell Hooks . The book's pretty good, too.

I am not - generally speaking - much of a fan of literary "gimmicks," especially in mystery fiction, but a while back (I forget ho...