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Frank Lovece

Frank Lovece(/lɒˈvɛtʃə/)[4]is an American journalist, author, and acomic bookwriter primarily forMarvel Comics,where he and artistMike Okamotocreated the miniseriesAtomic Age.His longest affiliation has been with theNew York metropolitan areanewspaperNewsday,where he has worked as a feature writer and film critic.

Frank Lovece
Lovece at theEast Coast Comiccon
Born1957 (age 66–67)[1][2]
Buenos Aires,Argentina
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
Atomic Age
Spouse(s)Maitland McDonagh[3]

Early life

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Born inBuenos Aires,Argentina,the son of Italian immigrants, Frank Lovece moved to the U.S as a toddler and was raised inKeyserandMorgantown, West Virginia.[1]There his family ran Italian restaurants.[2]He attended St. Francis High School andWest Virginia Universityin Morgantown, where he was the arts/entertainment editor of thecollege newspaper,theDaily Athenaeum.He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.[1]

Career

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Early work

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Together with the editors of Consumer Guide, Lovece wroteTV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television,published in 1984.[5]This was followed byHailing 'Taxi': The Official Book of the Show(1988) and similar books on topic including the TV seriesThe Brady BunchandThe X-Files.[6]By 1990, Lovece had become a writer and film critic forNewsday.[7][8]In the 1990s, he wrote forEntertainment Weekly.[9][10]He produced the first home video (footage of his own child) in 1991 to obtain anMPAArating for anEntertainment Weeklyarticle on how to havehome moviesrated.[11][9]He also wrote an unofficial book guide forGodzilla,but afterGodzillafranchise ownerTohofiled a lawsuit, a district court judge in 1998 issued a preliminary injunction blocking the book from release in the United States due to alleged trademark violation.[12]The book was published in Europe with no issues.[13]

Comic books

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Lovece and artistMike Okamotocreated the four-issueminiseriesAtomic Age(Nov. 1990 – Feb. 1991) forMarvel Comics' creator-ownedEpic Comicsimprint.[14][15]

Lovece wrote forNightstalkers,Hokum & Hexand other Marvel titles, and his and artist Bill Koeb's story "For My Son" in the anthology seriesClive Barker's Hellraiserappears in the Checker Publishing bookClive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best.[16][17]

Lovece receiving an award for editingStan Lee's God Wokeat the Independent Publisher Book Awards

Lovece edited the graphic novelStan Lee's God Woke,which was written byStan LeeandFabian Nicieza.It won the 2017Independent Publisher Book Awards' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.[18]

Later career

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Lovece has created websites for magazines and television shows[8][better source needed]and written articles for, among others,Habitat,[19]Entertainment Weekly,Newsday,Yahoo!/MSN.

In 2005, Lovece and photographer Matthew Jordan Smith collaborated on the bookLost and Found,a photojournalistic record of families of abducted children and the work ofThe National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.[20][better source needed]

Lovece has been amovie criticforFilm Journal International,[21]theTV Guidewebsite,[22]and the northernNew JerseynewspaperThe Record.[23][24]

Bibliography

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  • Lovece, Frank.TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television(1984) New York: Beekman House / Publications International.ISBN0-517-46367-9
  • Lovece, Frank, with Jules Franco.Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show(1988) New York:Prentice Hall PressISBN0-13-372103-5,ISBN978-0-13-372103-4
  • Edelstein, Andrew J., and Frank Lovece.The Brady BunchBook(1990) New York:Warner Books.ISBN0-446-39137-9
  • Lovece, Frank (1992).The Television Yearbook.New York:Perigee Books/Putnam Publishing.ISBN0-399-51702-2,ISBN978-0-399-51702-0
  • Lovece, Frank.The X-FilesDeclassified(1996) New York:Citadel Press.ISBN0-8065-1745-X,ISBN978-0-8065-1745-2
  • Lovece, Frank.Godzilla:The Complete Guide to Moviedom's Mightiest Monster.Originally scheduled 1998 byWilliam Morrow / Quill.ISBN0-688-15603-7;ISBN978-0-688-15603-9.Subjected toprior restraintin U.S.; released overseas.
  • Smith, Michael Jordan (photographer), and Frank Lovece.Lost and Found(2006) New York:Filipacchi Publishing.ISBN1-59975-611-0,ISBN978-1-59975-611-0

References

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  1. ^abcAbrams, Nancy (September 10, 1989)."Frank Lovece Makes a Living Writing About TV".The Dominion Post.Morgantown, West Virginia.Archivedfrom the original on October 19, 2013.RetrievedJuly 5,2013.
  2. ^abSeitz, Matt Zoller(October 4, 1996)."Declassified Information, By the Book".The Star-Ledger.Newark, New Jersey.Archivedfrom the original on October 19, 2013.RetrievedJuly 5,2013.
  3. ^Meyer, Ken (March 15, 2010)."Ink Stains 14: Nimbus 3".Ink Stains.RetrievedFebruary 28,2021.
  4. ^Thompson, Maggie(November 2, 1990). "Epic Comics Goes Back to the '50s with 'Atomic Age'".Comics Buyer's Guide.No. 885....Lovece (pronounced 'lah VETcha')...
  5. ^Lovece, Frank (1984).TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television.New York: Beekman House.ISBN9780517463673OCLC11896508
  6. ^"Frank Lovece".WorldCat.
  7. ^For example, Lovece, Frank (September 12, 1990). "Red Skelton: Old Jokes Never Die".Newsday.
  8. ^ab"FrankLovece".(Official site). Archived fromthe originalon August 16, 2011.RetrievedJanuary 28,2014.Additional, August 16, 2011.
  9. ^abLovece, Frank (August 9, 1991)."Get your own film rating".Entertainment Weekly.RetrievedMarch 28,2021.
  10. ^Lovece, Frank (November 22, 1996)."Video Reviews: Superhero Films".Entertainment Weekly.RetrievedMarch 28,2021.
  11. ^Pond, Steve (August 9, 1991)."The Irish Sweepstakes".The Washington Post.Style section, p. D6.
  12. ^Jacobs, Alexandra; Flamm, Matthew (April 24, 1998)."The inside scoop on the book world".Entertainment Weekly.RetrievedMarch 28,2021.
  13. ^Godzilla: alles über den König der Monster.Germany: Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verlag. 1998.ISBN978-3612265968.
  14. ^Thompson, Maggie (November 2, 1990)."Epic Comics Goes Back to the '50s with Atomic Age".Comics Buyer's Guide.No. 885.
  15. ^"Atomic Age (Marvel, 1990 series)".Grand Comics Database.
  16. ^"Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special#1 ".Marvel Comics.1992.
  17. ^Gage, Christos N."Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best- 2002 ".FeoAmante.
  18. ^Wiebe, Sheldon (July 18, 2016)."Comic-Con 2016: POW! Entertainment and Shatner Singularity Introduce Stan Lee's God Woke!".Eclipse Magazine.Shatner Singularity.Archivedfrom the original on August 6, 2016.RetrievedJuly 22,2016.
  19. ^Frank LoveceatHabitat
  20. ^"Lost and Found".National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.2006. Archived fromthe originalon May 22, 2011.
  21. ^Frank LoveceatFilm Journal International.Archivedfrom the original on August 1, 2015.
  22. ^Frank LoveceatRotten Tomatoes
  23. ^Lovece, Frank (June 1, 1990)."'Recall': In Space, No One Can Hear You Grunt ".(Total Recallfilm review)The Record.
  24. ^Lovece, Frank (December 22, 1990)."'Rainman' Takes a Snooze ".(Awakeningsfilm review) The Record.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related toFrank Lovece.
  • "Lovece, Frank".The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators.Archivedfrom the original on May 21, 2013.RetrievedSeptember 13,2012.
  • Meyer, Ken Jr. (March 15, 2010)."Nimbus3 (Sept. 1977) ".Ink Stains (column) 14, ComicAttack.net.Archivedfrom the original on March 24, 2010.
  • Lovece, Frank, ed. (September 1977)."Nimbus"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on February 27, 2012.
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