Nik Havert / Pickle Press - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a confessed luddite who's hoping to meet other comic book creators, writers (fiction, erotica, screenplays), martial artists (I'm a certified Jeet Kune Do Concepts instructor with a direct link to the Inosanto Academy in California), music and film buffs, and other oddballs.

My Interests

Writing, comics, martial arts, music, film, art, travel

I'd like to meet:

Comic book creators, writers, martial artists, fellow film and music elitists, and anyone cute and sexy.

Music:

Anything good. My tastes range from Sonny Boy Williamson to John Digweed. The last concert I attended was the the Hives and the last album I bought was "Twinetime" by Twinemen.

Movies:

Again, anything good. My favorite genres are spaghetti western and old monster/sci-fi movies from the 1950's through 1970's (particularly Hammer Studios films and anything with the words "atomic," "giant," "beast," or "It" in the title).

Television:

I don't watch much TV. We don't have cable, and I would only subscribe to it if I could pick and choose the channels I wanted. I enjoy anything well-written, but I watch less than five hours of TV a week.

Books:

Mostly fiction. My main influences are comic book writers. My "Fearsome Five" are (alphabetically): Howard Chaykin, Keith Giffen, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and John Ostrander. My favorite fiction writer is Arthur C. Clarke. Non-fiction? Mostly steam-of-consciousness memoirs like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

Heroes:

My parents. My wife. My Sifu.

My Blog

Misc. comic book reviews 12

City of Tomorrow 1 from Wildstorm/DC Comics (2005): This is the first issue of a wild mini-series by Howard Chaykin, one of my "Fearsome Five" favorite comic book writers. He also draws the whol...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:05:00 PST

The Unread Book Chronicles part 10

I finished Arthur C. Clarke's The Sands of Mars over the weekend. It was Clarke's first published full-novel. His introduction in my copy discusses the now-obvious faults with it (pla...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PST

Upcoming local appearance and project update

Come see me at the South Bend comic book show this weekend from 10am to 4pm. I'll be selling not only Pickle Press books, but lots of cool back issues and pop culture stuff from my collection (i...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:03:00 PST

Misc. comic book reviews 11

Batman ’s 660-661 from DC Comics (2007): John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake make a good team. I loved their take on the Martian Manhunter, and Ostrander is one of my "Fearsome Five" writers.&...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:20:00 PST

Top 20 friends for April 2008

1. Mandy: My groovy wife. 2. Author J.J. Hebert: An indie author who befriended me here on Myspace. Help a struggling brother writer out and check out his work. 3. Billy Bob Driwahl: A Myspace p...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:57:00 PST

The Unread Book Chronicles part 9

I finished Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya yesterday. It’s a sad, well-written tale of an Indian family and the grief they go through over the course of decades. Markandaya th...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:54:00 PST

Huge art posting at Comicspace

I’ve added a lot of new art to my galleries at Comicspace (www.comicspace.com/pickle_press), with more to come. The "Dare" gallery has a new image of the finished cover to "Dare" 2 by Jay Fife. ...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:52:00 PST

Progress report for 3/24/2008 & CBLDF plea

I mailed a sketch of Mysteria to Tim Vigil today. Tim did it for me at the 2006 Pittsburgh convention, and I’ve asked him to ink it and tweak it a bit so it can be included in the first is...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:58:00 PST

The Unread Book Chronicles part 8

I finished The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. It’s a good book about his quest to follow every rule in the Bible as literally as possible for an entire year. There are man...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:25:00 PST

Misc. comic book reviews 10

Action Comics 855 from DC Comics (2007): This is part one of Geoff Johns’ "Escape from Bizarro World" storyline. It’s a fun, weird story that introduces Bizarro World to the modern D...
Posted by Nik Havert / Pickle Press on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:53:00 PST