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Christopher Mills

It was his story against mine, but I told mine better.

About Me

I’m a professional freelance writer of comic books and short fiction in a variety of genres, a former editor and art director, and a DVD reviewer.
Since 1990, I've written numerous independent comic books in a variety of genres, including Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, Bloodthirst, Nightmark, Shadow House and the critically acclaimed crime thriller, Gravedigger: The Scavengers, illustrated by Rick Burchett.
I'm the creator of the online adventure strips Femme Noir, Knight & Gale and Perils on Planet X (two of which are currently "transitioning" to print), and I do a little freelance lettering and graphic design here and there. I've also authored a handful of published short stories (with more in the pipeline), and write a regular DVD review column for filmmaker Kevin Smith’s Quick Stop Entertainment.
I've recently had the great opportunity to write stories featuring some of my favorite pop culture icons – Carl Kolchak, The Spider and Captain Midnight – for Moonstone Books , and have placed three of my creator-owned properties – Femme Noir, Perils on Planet X and Gravedigger – at Ape Entertainment.
My taste in entertainment clearly peaked when I was about 15, which certainly explains my embarrassing obsession with James Bond, hardboiled crime fiction, comic books, "Men's Adventure" paperbacks, space opera, Universal-Hammer-Toho Monsters, sword & sorcery sagas, old genre TV shows and vintage B-movies.My Homepage:My Blog:FEMME NOIR Homepage:PERILS ON PLANET X Production Blog:My DVD Reviews:My Crime Comics Blog:

My Interests

WRITING:
Comic Books, Private Eye Fiction, Horror Fiction, Pulp Adventure, Sword & Sorcery READING:
Comic Books, Private Eye Fiction, Horror Fiction, Sword & Sorcery, Science Fiction, Film and Television Non-Fiction, 30's Pulp, 60's Gold Medal PBOs, 70's Men's Adventure PBOs DESIGN:
Magazine, Newspaper and DVD Package Layout and Design FILM:
Classic Horror, Film Noir, 80's Action, Classic Comedies, Cult, Science Fiction, Kaiju, Serials, Spaghetti Westerns, Martial Arts, Blaxploitation, Porn COMICS:
Silver & Bronze Age DC, 80's Independents, Adventure, Crime, Horror

I'd like to meet:

Artists for collaborations, writers, editors, comic pros and fans, pulp and movie buffs.

Music:

Favorite Artists: Albert Collins, Gary Moore, BB King, Johnny Cash, Dean Martin, The Beatles, The Doors, Queen, Kiss, Bob Segar, Royal Crown Revue, The Bomboras, The Ventures, Warren Zevon, Meatloaf, Jerry Goldsmith, Danny Elfman, Lalo Schiffrin, John Barry, Rob Zombie, Meco, Blondie, The Ramones, Elvis Presley, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons Project, George Thorogood, Frank Sinatra,Bobby Darin, Billy Joel...

Movies:

The Big Sleep, Laura, Night of the Living Dead, Aliens, Point Blank, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Conan the Barbarian, Knightriders, The Commitments, Free Enterprise, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Hellboy, Sin City, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Coffy, Re-Animator, The Evil Dead, Bowery At Midnight, Bride of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, King Kong, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Murder My Sweet, His Girl Friday, For A Few Dollars More, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Desperado, Mad Love, Shaft, The Wolf Man, Ed Wood, Big Trouble in Little China, Lone Wolf McQuade, Dirty Harry, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Mighty Peking Man, Hard Ticket To Hawaii, Django, Truck Turner, The Black Cat, Dodgeball, Gun Crazy, The Howling, Escape From New York, Kill Bill, Enter The Dragon, Almost Famous, Flash Gordon, Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein, North by Northwest, Shakespeare In Love, The Professionals, Prime Cut, Clerks, The Sword And the Sorcerer, The Incredibles, Out Of The Past, Spider-Man, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, It Happened One Night, Charlie Chan at the Opera, The Devil Bat, After the Thin Man, The Dirty Dozen, The Octagon, Cannonball, Big Bad Mama, The Narrow Margin, Terror By Night, Bound, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects, Freeway, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Danger: Diabolik, Gojira, Jackie Brown, Sabata, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Heavy Metal, The Little Mermaid, Duck Soup, Arsenic & Old Lace, Caddyshack, The Big Lebowski, To Have and Have Not, Young Frankenstein, Chasing Amy, Blade 2, Where Eagles Dare, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Rock & Roll High School, The Empire Strikes Back, Once Upon A Time In The West, Red Sun, Split Second, The Road To Morocco, Freaks, Leon, Gamera 2: Advent of Legion, Black Mama White Mama, Galaxy Quest, The Sea Hawk, High Plains Drifter, The Crow, House of Usher, Goldfinger, Planet Terror, Children of Men, 28 Weeks Later, Pan's Labyrinth, Fist of Legend, Army of Darkness, Horror Express, The Girl Hunters, Iron Monkey, Hot Fuzz, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang...

Television:

Star Trek, The Wild Wild West, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hercules, Xena, Peter Gunn, The Rockford Files, Remington Steele, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Have Gun Will Travel, I Spy, Fawlty Towers, The Man From UNCLE, Maverick, The Avengers, UFO, Futurama, Battlestar Galactica (Both series), Land of the Lost, The Flash, Buck Rogers, Babylon 5, Farscape, Firefly, Magnum PI, Space:1999, Wanted Dead or Alive, Jonny Quest, The Prisoner, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Coupling, The Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Batman, Heroes, Ugly Betty, Jericho, Northern Exposure, Doctor Who....

Books:

Favorite Authors: Donald Hamilton, Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Ian Fleming, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lester Dent, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, Lin Carter, Robert E. Howard, Karl Edward Wagner, Gardner Fox, Lawrence Block, Bill Pronzini, Robert Crais, Greg Rucka, Richard Matheson, H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Norvell Page, Alan Dean Foster, Donald Westlake, Richard Stark, Roger Zelazny, Dan Simmons, Raymond Chandler, Rob Kantner, Andrew Vachss, Robert Heinlein, John D. MacDonald, Richard S. Prather, Dan J. Marlowe, Warren Murphy, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Hugh B. Cave, Ed Gorman, Clive Cussler...

My Blog

FEMME NOIR Update!

I just wanted to remind everyone that the first issue of my creator-owned miniseries, FEMME NOIR: THE DARK CITY DIARIES, drawn by the legendary Joe Staton, will be in (some) stores in the next few wee...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:00 PST

FEMME NOIR & KOLCHAK In New PREVIEWS

The May Edition of Diamond Comics Distribution's PREVIEWS catalog will be in stores this Wednesday, April 23rd, and will contain the solicitation for the second issue of the Femme Noir: Dark City Diar...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:00 PST

FEMME NOIR in PREVIEWS Now!

Yeah, I know I’m pushing this hard, but, hey, this is a big deal for me. It is, after all, my first new, creator-owned comic book in four years, and the book I’m hoping will help jump-star...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:13:00 PST

Big, BIG Week!

The first issue of Moonstone’s KOLCHAK TALES: NIGHT STALKER OF THE LIVING DEAD, which I wrote and lettered, is on Diamond’s list of comic books shipping this week, and should be on your lo...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:08:00 PST

KOLCHAK TALES 2 in March PREVIEWS

The second issue of my Kolchak Tales miniseries, Night Stalker of the Living Dead, is listed in the March 2008 edition of Diamond Comics Distributors PREVIEWS catalog, which should be available now.To...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:34:00 PST

Kolchak Interview @ PULSE

I was just interviewed by Jen Contino of the Comicon PULSE comics news site about the forthcoming KOLCHAK TALES: NIGHT STALKER OF THE LIVING DEAD miniseries that I wrote for Moonstone Books.The interv...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:02:00 PST

PERILS ON PLANET X!

One of the exciting new comics projects I have in the works for this year is the interplanetary swashbuckler, PERILS ON PLANET X  scripted by yours truly, drawn by the astounding Gene Gonzales and co...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:48:00 PST

Year’s End -- Year’s Beginning

Well, 2007 is just about over, and not a moment too soon.Unless this is your first visit to this weblog, you know that 2007 was a year of hell for yours truly, a year that began with having a cancerou...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:04:00 PST

Top DVDs of ’07

Over on my Personal Blog, I've posted my top fifteen favorite DVD releases of 2007.The list covers everything from horror to 40's B-mysteries to Spaghetti Westerns to 70's kidvid.Check it out....
Posted by Christopher Mills on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:39:00 PST

Werewolves for Christmas!

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Moonstone Monsters prose anthology, WEREWOLVES: DEAD MOON RISING, is arriving in comic shops today, and will soon be hitting bookstore shelves.Here's wh...
Posted by Christopher Mills on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:00 PST