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Clifford Meth

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

About Me

Clifford Meth is one of dark fiction's best-kept secrets.
Barnes and Noble
[Meth's] Crawling From the Wreckage is a tremendous story about disillusionment.
Kurt Vonnegut
Clifford Meth has the touch. Fantasy dark humour and ravishing detail to his characters. Isaac Asimov meets C. S. Lewis meets Beelzebub meets... well, Clifford Meth.
Ian Anderson /Jethro Tull
Snaked is raw and uncompromising and stylish as hell.
Dave Gibbons
This Bastard Planet is a great book.
Leonard Cohen
The only thing about Cliff's writing that makes me crazy is the demented titles he puts on them. They're just so fucking bad. For a guy who writes as well as he does, and who thinks as deeply as he does, I can't figure it out...
Harlan Ellison
Razor sharp dialogue, wonderfully erotic and beautifully said. The meaty characters appear extremely real in front of me.
Jeffrey Jones
Clifford Meth is one of the most brilliant writers of dark fiction out there today.
Bud Plant Comic Art
The way that Meth carefully controls your expectations, then takes an almost sadistic pleasure in messing with your mind is, artistically speaking, a beautiful thing.
SilverBulletComicBooks.com
Clifford Meth writes like whiskey bites: Deceptively smooth until you realize he's put you flat on the floor.
David Gerrold (author of "Trouble with Tribbles")
Meth is one of the more intriguing writers of short stories to arrive in recent years. A damned fine writer. He does not write the easy stories.
The Comic Buyers Guide
Meth is a dangerous writer. He doesn't seem to care if you like him.
Neal Adams
Seriously, you are in for a treat. Meth is a consummate virtuoso of the short story.
Al Feldstein
Meth's writing is fresh and absorbing--clever and replete with surprises.
Stan Lee
Meth is a unique and exciting voice--funny, twisted, visionary. His insights into character and culture are often startling and his stories, always entertaining. I am a huge fan.
Richard Saperstein (Exec. Producer Se7en and JohnQ)
Cliff is a dangerously talented writer.
Pat DiNizio (lead singer / The Smithereens)
Clifford Meth knows things. Dark, dank, nasty things...He doesn't scrape away the barnacles covering the hull of human interaction so much as he lifts up the barnacles, describes what's under them, and then puts the barnacles back and walks away with his hands in his pockets, whistling in the dark.
Peter David
Visit: www.cliffordmeth.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Yusef Islam and Hanry Chinaski, but not on the same night.

Movies:

Scripted THE FUTURIANS for Liberty Media/Starz Entertainment; currently working on SNAKED film for The Genre Company.

Television:

I need TV when I've got T. Rex?

Books:

Books by Clifford Meth:
Crib Death & Other Bedtime Stories, This Bastard Planet, The White Man Dancing, Strange Kaddish (editor), Crawling From the Wreckage (the White Man Limping), Perverts Pedophiles & Other Theologians, Conflicts of Disinterest, Wearing the Horns, Heroes & Villians (with Neal Adams), god's 15 minutes, The Three Tenors: Off-Key (with Dave Cockrum & Wm. Messner-Loebs), METHo.d., and The Uncanny Dave Cockrum...a Tribute (editor)

Recent: Balm in Gilead (editor) and ONE SMALL VOICE

Heroes:

Hank Magitz, Mordechai Anielewicz, z"tl, and Meir Kahane, z"tl

My Blog

12-10-07 -- When the rain comes

We shuffled about outside his apartment building twenty seven years ago, hundreds together in the damp December chill, shell shocked by the news. No one could imagine a world without him... By&nb...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:38:00 PST

12-9-07 -- Own Dave Cockrums personal comics collection

I am representing Dave Cockrum's personal comics collection in an estate sale for his widow... Available immediately are relatively low-end books--all in really nice shape. Don't expect to find a Gian...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:11:00 PST

11-22-07 -- Queers!

Septumus Orion is recording a new death-metal CD around my story "Queers," which I'll be appearing on (spoken word only...my singing days are over). The cover art is by Dave "X-Men" Cockrum and Christ...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:40:00 PST

11-3-07 -- One Small Voice... the countdown

After two years of false starts, my collection ONE SMALL VOICE (which includes a fully rewritten version of my novella "Wearing the Horns" with more than 1,000 additional words along wi...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:32:00 PST

9-20-07 -- SNAKED

Michael Nezter has posted some nice words along with the first look at my new project SNAKED from IDW Publishing. Here's the link: http://forums.millarworld.tv/index.php?showtopic=73407 SNAKED is...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:36:00 PST

4-18-07 - We read your letters...

Amy S. writes:Please post links to some of your work that isn't archived at www.cliffordmeth.com Once I release something into the ether, I usually forget about it--but here's a few exceptions:A pre-r...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PST

4-12-07 - Kurt V

I was saddened to learn this morning of the passing of my friend Kurt Vonnegut. While he and I hadn't spoken in a number of yearslargely because I didn't want to impose on him after his health w...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:57:00 PST

3-19-07 - The Uncanny Dave Cockrum

Aardwolf Publishing will ship The Uncanny Dave Cockrum hardcover in mid-April. I will be signing copies at Midtown Comics in NY City and Forbidden Planet.
Posted by Clifford Meth on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:40:00 PST

12-15-06 - Cat Stevens & Dave Cockrum

I am awe struck by Yusuf Islam's (Cat Stevens) new LP. It was almost worth the 28 years we've waited for it. Yusuf is the benevolent face of Islam. He won't likely get much airplay here, but his ...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:55:00 PST

10-6-06 - Perverts, Pedophiles & Other Theologians

Looks like Perverts, Pedophiles & Other Theologians will be back in print. This book, which I did with Gene Colan for Aardwolf Publishing nearly a decade ago, helped launch my career and was Barne...
Posted by Clifford Meth on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:33:00 PST