American journalist and writer
Frank Lovece ()
[4] is an American journalist, author, and a
comic book writer primarily for
Marvel Comics , where he and artist
Mike Okamoto created the miniseries
Atomic Age . His longest affiliation has been with the
New York metropolitan area newspaper
Newsday , where he has worked as a feature writer and film critic.
Early life
Born in
Buenos Aires ,
Argentina , the son of Italian immigrants, Frank Lovece moved to the U.S as a toddler and was raised in
Keyser and
Morgantown, West Virginia .
[1] There his family ran Italian restaurants.
[2] He attended St. Francis High School and
West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he was the arts/entertainment editor of the
college newspaper , the
Daily Athenaeum . He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.
[1]
Career
Early work
Together with the editors of Consumer Guide, Lovece wrote TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television , published in 1984.
[5] This was followed by Hailing 'Taxi': The Official Book of the Show (1988) and similar books on topic including the TV series
The Brady Bunch and
The X-Files .
[6] By 1990, Lovece had become a writer and film critic for
Newsday .
[7]
[8] In the 1990s, he wrote for
Entertainment Weekly .
[9]
[10] He produced the first home video (footage of his own child) in 1991 to obtain an
MPAA rating for an Entertainment Weekly article on how to have
home movies rated.
[11]
[9] He also wrote an unofficial book guide for
Godzilla , but after Godzilla franchise owner
Toho filed 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
Lovece and artist
Mike Okamoto created the four-issue
miniseries
Atomic Age (Nov. 1990 – Feb. 1991) for
Marvel Comics ' creator-owned
Epic Comics imprint.
[14]
[15]
Lovece wrote for
Nightstalkers ,
Hokum & Hex and other Marvel titles, and his and artist Bill Koeb's story "For My Son" in the anthology series
Clive Barker's Hellraiser appears in the Checker Publishing book Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best .
[16]
[17]
Lovece receiving an award for editing
Stan Lee's God Woke at the Independent Publisher Book Awards
Lovece edited the graphic novel
Stan Lee's God Woke , which was written by
Stan Lee and
Fabian Nicieza . It won the 2017
Independent Publisher Book Awards ' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.
[18]
Later career
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 book Lost and Found , a photojournalistic record of families of abducted children and the work of
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children .
[20] [
better source needed ]
Lovece has been a
movie critic for
Film Journal International ,
[21] the
TV Guide website,
[22] and the northern
New Jersey newspaper
The Record .
[23]
[24]
Bibliography
Lovece, Frank. TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television (1984) New York: Beekman House / Publications International.
ISBN
0-517-46367-9
Lovece, Frank, with Jules Franco. Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show (1988) New York:
Prentice Hall Press
ISBN
0-13-372103-5 ,
ISBN
978-0-13-372103-4
Edelstein, Andrew J., and Frank Lovece.
The Brady Bunch Book (1990) New York:
Warner Books .
ISBN
0-446-39137-9
Lovece, Frank (1992). The Television Yearbook . New York:
Perigee Books /
Putnam Publishing .
ISBN
0-399-51702-2 ,
ISBN
978-0-399-51702-0
Lovece, Frank.
The X-Files Declassified (1996) New York:
Citadel Press .
ISBN
0-8065-1745-X ,
ISBN
978-0-8065-1745-2
Lovece, Frank.
Godzilla : The Complete Guide to Moviedom's Mightiest Monster . Originally scheduled 1998 by
William Morrow / Quill .
ISBN
0-688-15603-7 ;
ISBN
978-0-688-15603-9 . Subjected to
prior restraint in U.S.; released overseas.
Smith, Michael Jordan (photographer), and Frank Lovece. Lost and Found (2006) New York:
Filipacchi Publishing .
ISBN
1-59975-611-0 ,
ISBN
978-1-59975-611-0
References
^
a
b
c Abrams, Nancy (September 10, 1989).
"Frank Lovece Makes a Living Writing About TV" .
The Dominion Post .
Morgantown, West Virginia .
Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013 .
^
a
b
Seitz, Matt Zoller (October 4, 1996).
"Declassified Information, By the Book" .
The Star-Ledger .
Newark, New Jersey .
Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013 .
^ Meyer, Ken (March 15, 2010).
"Ink Stains 14: Nimbus 3" . Ink Stains . Retrieved February 28, 2021 .
^
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')...
^ Lovece, Frank (1984).
TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television . New York: Beekman House.
ISBN
9780517463673
OCLC
11896508
^
"Frank Lovece" . WorldCat.
^ For example, Lovece, Frank (September 12, 1990). "Red Skelton: Old Jokes Never Die". Newsday .
^
a
b
"FrankLovece.com" . (Official site). Archived from
the original on August 16, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2014 . Additional, August 16, 2011.
^
a
b Lovece, Frank (August 9, 1991).
"Get your own film rating" .
Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 28, 2021 .
^ Lovece, Frank (November 22, 1996).
"Video Reviews: Superhero Films" .
Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 28, 2021 .
^ Pond, Steve (August 9, 1991).
"The Irish Sweepstakes" .
The Washington Post . Style section, p. D6.
^ Jacobs, Alexandra; Flamm, Matthew (April 24, 1998).
"The inside scoop on the book world" .
Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 28, 2021 .
^ Godzilla: alles über den König der Monster . Germany: Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verlag. 1998.
ISBN
978-3612265968 .
^ Thompson, Maggie (November 2, 1990).
"Epic Comics Goes Back to the '50s with Atomic Age" .
Comics Buyer's Guide . No. 885.
^
"Atomic Age (Marvel, 1990 series)" .
Grand Comics Database .
^
"Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1" .
Marvel Comics . 1992.
^
Gage, Christos N.
"Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best - 2002" . FeoAmante.com .
^ Wiebe, Sheldon (July 18, 2016).
"Comic-Con 2016: POW! Entertainment and Shatner Singularity Introduce Stan Lee's God Woke!" . Eclipse Magazine . Shatner Singularity.
Archived from the original on August 6, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
^
Frank Lovece at
Habitat
^
"Lost and Found " .
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children . 2006. Archived from
the original on May 22, 2011.
^
Frank Lovece at
Film Journal International .
Archived from the original on August 1, 2015.
^
Frank Lovece at
Rotten Tomatoes
^ Lovece, Frank (June 1, 1990).
" 'Recall': In Space, No One Can Hear You Grunt" . (
Total Recall film review)
The Record .
^ Lovece, Frank (December 22, 1990).
" 'Rainman' Takes a Snooze" . (
Awakenings film review) The Record.
External links
"Lovece, Frank" . The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators.
Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2012 .
Meyer, Ken Jr. (March 15, 2010).
"Nimbus 3 (Sept. 1977)" . Ink Stains (column) 14, ComicAttack.net.
Archived from the original on March 24, 2010.
Lovece, Frank, ed. (September 1977).
"Nimbus " (PDF) . Archived from
the original (PDF) on February 27, 2012.