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JCV

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About Me

Executive Editor and Associate Publisher of Gemstone Publishing, the home of THE OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE, THE OFFICIAL PRICE GUIDE TO DISNEY COLLECTIBLES, HAKE'S PRICE GUIDE TO CHARACTER TOYS,THE EC ARCHIVES, SCOOP, and Disney comics.Creator or Co-Creator of ZOMBIE-PROOF, the Harvey Award-nominated ANTIQUES: THE COMIC STRIP, McCANDLESS & COMPANY, TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ROMANCES, DEAD INSPECTOR, SFPD, THE WORLD AT WAR and other projects.Co-writer of the graphic novel series 24 (based on the the Fox TV series) and frequent co-writer of SHI (for Dark Horse and various publishers).My 24 work has been featured in EMMY MAGAZINE, TV GUIDE, 24 MAGAZINE, and WIZARD. I also wrote the 24 Season 4 trading cards and expansion set from Artbox Entertainment.Contributor to THE SUPER-VILLAIN BOOK, STEPPING THROUGH THE STARGATE, MORE FUND COMICS, ACTOR COMICS PRESENTS, ANTIQUE TRADER, THE JOURNAL OF ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES and other publications.

My Interests

Faith, family, friends, reading, writing, baseball, football, basketball & hockey (Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Mavericks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Navy football, Maryland basketball), politics, business

I'd like to meet:

Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, Roberto Clemente

Music:

Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Van Morrison, Go-Go's, Police, Henry Mancini film and TV themes, Los Lonely Boys, Del Paxton, Dave Brubeck, Counting Crows, B.B.King, Eric Clapton, Cap'n Geech & the Shrimp Shack Shooters

Movies:

(in no particular order) Citizen Kane, Raiders of the Lost Ark, When Harry Met Sally, For The Love of the Game, Field of Dreams, The Shootist, Patton, Planet of the Apes (orginal, puh-leeze), Manhattan, Animal House, Sin City, Desperadoes, El Mariachi, Ghostbusters, The Ghost Breakers, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, One Two Three, That Thing You Do, Apollo 13, Red Dawn, True Grit, Big Jake, The Joy Luck Club, Rear Window, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Home Alone, Miracle on 34th Street, Breakfast Club, Soylent Green, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Grand Canyon, Mumford, Barcelona, Love Actually, Star Wars, Rushmore, George Lucas in Love, Office Space, The Quiet Man

Television:

CURRENT: 24, Burn Notice, Battlestar Galactica, Monk, Psych, The Shield, ER, Heroes. OLDER STUFF: Magnum PI, Moonlighting, House of Cards, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, To The Manor Born, Fawlty Towers, The Bob Newhart Show.

Books:

Destructive Generation, Ask The Dust, The Hunt for Red October, The Flight of the Intruder, The Spike, Postcards from the Edge, and The Bible.

Heroes:

The big J.C. and many others of lesser stature

My Blog

New ZOMBIE-PROOF Short Story... FREE!

Over on the ZOMBIE-PROOF MySpace Page, we've started posting installments of an all-new Zombie-Proof tale, "Zombie-Proof: Escape From Big D," which details events immediately priort to our three-part ...
Posted by JCV on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:53:00 PST

ANTIQUES: THE COMIC STRIP Now on MySpace!

I just started a new MySpace page for ANTIQUES: THE COMIC STRIP, the Harvey Award-nominated weekly newspaper strip I did with Brendon and Brian Fraim. Click here (or the title) to take a look. It...
Posted by JCV on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:49:00 PST

ZOMBIE-PROOF no. 3 On Sale March 26, 2008

MORE online at MySpace/Zombieproofing....
Posted by JCV on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:49:00 PST

Zombie-Proof Blogging?

I've started a new blog for Zombie-Proof, and you can find it at www.myspace.com/zombieproofing. It has a lot of art and behind-the-scenes stuff about the mini-series. I hope you'll check it out.I als...
Posted by JCV on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:54:00 PST

ZOMBIE-PROOF 3 to the PRINTER

Zombie-Proof 3, featuring a killer cover by Vincent Spencer and an equally killer variant cover by David Michael Beck (Jonah Hex) is off to press now. It is a tad late, but that's our fault and not th...
Posted by JCV on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:48:00 PST

Harvey Awards Nominating Ballots Now Online

The nominating ballots are now online and the deadline for turning them in is March 21, 2008. Here's the Scoop story!...
Posted by JCV on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:38:00 PST

ANTIQUES Gets Harvey Nomination

The 2007 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced with the release of the final ballot, presented by the Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con. Named in honor of the...
Posted by JCV on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:14:00 PST

STAN LEE GUESTS STARS IN ANTIQUES: THE COMIC STRIP

Joins with Creators for Hero Initiative Benefit Stan Lee, comic book creator, spokesman and living legend, is adding another to his illustrious list of credits: comic strip guest star. The entertainme...
Posted by JCV on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:55:00 PST

24 - First Night of Season Six

WOW!I can't believe that I thought the first hour was just going to be the average (meaning really good) episode of 24. I had avoided all the spoilers and done my level best to only pick up what one c...
Posted by JCV on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:04:00 PST

Signing This Weekend at Geppi's Entertainment Museum

The new season of the critically acclaimed hit series 24 is set to begin with a two-night, four-hour premiere on Sunday and Monday, January 14-15, 2007, but fans of the show can start their discussion...
Posted by JCV on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:21:00 PST