Clifford Meth

Meth grew up in Rockaway, New Jersey, and attended Morris Hills High School.Staff. [https://web.archive.org/web/19991019002428/http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/magazine/fw98/alumniprofilemeth.html "Alumni Profile: Clifford Lawrence Meth"], FDU Magazine, Fall / Winter 1998, backed up by the Internet Archive as of October 19, 1999. Accessed January 10, 2018. "Born and raised in Rockaway, N.J., Meth began writing poetry at age 12 and hasn't stopped."Meth, Clifford. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AdJlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Clifford+Meth%22+rockaway God's 15 Minutes], p. 81. Aardwolf, 2004. {{ISBN|9781888669084}}. Accessed January 10, 2018. "To know Clifford Meth personally, or better yet, to be his friend or brother (two concepts he takes very seriously) eclipses anything you may imagine about him from reading his short tales. Don't let the angry-young-poet becomes I-coulda'-been-a-contender demeanor fool you — Cliff still packs some non-trivial rage.... He remembers Rockaway. When I first met him back in the early eighties, Cliff was fresh out of Rockaway, NJ. Rockaway is Cliff's home town."Meth, Clifford. [https://books.google.com/books?id=31DBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA284 ComicBook Babylon], p. 284. Aardwolf Publishing, 2013. {{ISBN|9781888669206}}. Accessed January 10, 2018. "Brad Delp (died March 9, 2007 at the age of 55), lead singer of Boston, sang the songs that formed the soundtrack of my early freshman year at Morris Hills High School." He attended Rutgers University and Fairleigh Dickinson University in the United States, and Wroxton College in the United Kingdom.Fairleigh Dickinson Magazine, Spring, 1980

Meth was associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch religious movement in the 1980s, but moved away from the movement following the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1994.Roth, Laurence. "Innovation and orthodox comic books: the case of Mahrwood Press." MELUS 37, no. 2 (2012): 131-156.

In the early 1980s, Meth worked as a staff editor for Electronic DesignMeth, Clifford, Snaked (Introduction,), IDW Publishing, 2008. {{ISBN|1-60010-304-9}}, {{ISBN|978-1-60010-304-9}}Folio Magazine, October 1, 1991. article title? page #? while freelancing for the Los Angeles Times Entertainment Newswire, Fangoria, Starlog, Billboard and other periodicals.Lorah, Michael C. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210126091601/https://www.highlyinfo.com/ "Clifford Meth on 'One Small Voice'"], Newsarama, December 13, 2007

One of Meth's first published fictional works{{cite web |url=http://www.aardwolfpublishing.com/Authors/meth.htm |title=Clifford Lawrence Meth |accessdate=2011-05-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618164355/http://www.aardwolfpublishing.com/Authors/meth.htm |archivedate=2010-06-18 }} was "I, Gezheh", which dealt with abuse. Author Robert Bloch provided an afterword for the story, which was illustrated by Dave Cockrum.{{cite web |url=http://www.aardwolfpublishing.com/Comics-and-books/crib.htm |title=Crib Death & Other Bedtime Stories |accessdate=2011-05-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501201147/http://www.aardwolfpublishing.com/Comics-and-books/crib.htm |archivedate=2010-05-01 }}

With the aid of Cockrum and fantasy artist Gray Morrow, Meth co-founded Aardwolf Publishing, along with business partner Jim Reeber in 1994. The company has published a series of comic books, art portfolios, and collections of illustrated fiction.{{cite web|url=http://aardwolfpublishing.com/ap/|title=Aardwolf Publishing|work=aardwolfpublishing.com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903050851/http://aardwolfpublishing.com/ap/|archivedate=2011-09-03}}

In 2004, Meth joined IDT Entertainment's Creative Development team.Meth, Clifford. [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/meth/108871435740745.htm "Stan Lee: Grand Master - Part Three"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829145803/http://www.comicsbulletin.com/meth/108871435740745.htm |date=2008-08-29 }}, Comics Bulletin, 2004, n.d. and worked on Showtime's Masters of HorrorMeth Addict, [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/meth/112293362429902.htm Update Delirious] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829214121/http://www.comicsbulletin.com/meth/112293362429902.htm |date=2008-08-29 }}. Comics Bulletin (2004) series and ABC's Masters of Science Fiction. In 2004, he was story editor for Gene Roddenberry's Starpoint Academy, an animated feature screenplay IDT hired Peter David to script.David, Peter. [http://www.peterdavid.net/archives/002232.html "Gene Roddenberry's Starpoint Academy"], PeterDavid.net, November 18, 2004. Meth left IDT Entertainment in 2006 when the division was sold to Liberty Media.[http://www.idt.net/about/press/story.aspx?id=15601 "Liberty Media to Acquire IDT Entertainment"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723122112/http://www.idt.net/about/press/story.aspx?id=15601 |date=2011-07-23 }}, IDT press release, May 16, 2006. In 2007 he oversaw the acquisition of IDW Publishing by IDT Corporation and joined IDW as executive vice president, editorial/strategies.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} The following year, producer Richard Saperstein optioned film rights to Meth's IDW horror comic-book series, Snaked, with Meth as screenwriter and an executive producer.Graser, Marc. [https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982118.html?categoryid=1238&cs=1 "Saperstein takes on 'Snaked'"], Variety, March 9, 2008)

In 2008, Meth launched IDW Publishing's "New Classics of the Fantastic Series", which published out-of-print Hugo and Nebula Award-winning books, beginning with Robert Silverberg's Nightwings.DeNardo, John. [http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2008/08/idw-announces-new-science-fiction-line/ "IDW Announces New Science Fiction Line"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721112510/http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2008/08/idw-announces-new-science-fiction-line/ |date=2011-07-21 }}, SF Signal, August 29, 2008

In 2008, Meth established the Dave & Paty Cockrum Scholarship at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art.{{cite web|url=http://thecliffordmethod.blogspot.com/2008/03/and-nowthe-dave-paty-cockrum.html|title=Everyone's Wrong and I'm Right: And now…The Dave & Paty Cockrum Scholarship|author=CLIFFORD METH|work=thecliffordmethod.blogspot.com}} In 2010, Meth founded the Kars4Kids Literacy Program,{{cite web|url=http://www.comicmix.com/news/2010/10/11/will-stan-lee-sing-the-kars4kids-jingle/|title=Will Stan Lee Sing the Kars4Kids Jingle?|work=ComicMix}} which has made significant contributions to such universities as Seton Hall University.{{cite web|url=http://southorange.patch.com/articles/kars4kids-literacy-program-donates-talmud-to-seton-hall|title=Kars4Kids Literacy Program Donates Talmud to Seton Hall|work=South Orange, New Jersey Patch}}

On numerous occasions Meth has spearheaded campaigns to raise money and awareness for financially challenged comics’ creators, including Gene Colan,{{cite web |url=http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/05/15/gene-colan-benefit-update/ |title=Gene Colan benefit update | The Beat |accessdate=2010-10-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803060236/http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/05/15/gene-colan-benefit-update/ |archivedate=2010-08-03 }} William Messner-Loebs{{cite web|url=http://www.comicsbulletin.com/news/110921817611315.htm|title=Clifford Meth and Neal Adams Tag-Team for Messner-Loebs|author=Jason Brice|work=comicsbulletin.com}} and Dave Simons.{{cite web|url=http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2009/06/looking-back-with-dave-simons.html|title=20th Century Danny Boy: Looking Back With Dave Simons|author=Daniel Best|work=ohdannyboy.blogspot.com}}

• girl (chapbook) (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983)
• Snaked (with Rufus Dayglo, IDW Publishing, 2007)
• One Small Voice (IDW Publishing, 2008)
• Billboards (IDW Publishing, 2009)
• Dave Cockrum's X-Men Artifact Edition (Marvel Entertainment/IDW Publishing, 2020) (Afterword)

• Crib Death & Other Bedtime Stories (Aardwolf Publishing, 1995)
• This Bastard Planet: Another Crib Death (Aardwolf Publishing, 1995)
• The White Man Dancing (Aardwolf Publishing, 1996)
• Crawling From the Wreckage: The White Man Limping (Aardwolf Publishing, 1996)
• Crib Death: The Babysitter's Companion (Aardwolf Publishing, 1997)
• Perverts, Pedophiles & Other Theologians (Aardwolf Publishing, 1997)
• Conflicts of Disinterest (Aardwolf Publishing, 1998)
• Wearing The Horns (Aardwolf Publishing, 2003)
• god's 15 minutes (Aardwolf Publishing, 2004)
• METHo.d. (Aardwolf Publishing, 2006)
• Meth, Colan & Other Theologians (Aardwolf Publishing, 2008)
• Comic Book Babylon (Aardwolf Publishing, 2013)
• ''Dave Cockrum's Futurians Return' (Aardwolf Publishing, 2014)

• Strange Kaddish (Aardwolf Publishing, 1996)
• Stranger Kaddish (Aardwolf Publishing, 1997)
• Heroes and Villains (with Neal Adams), (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2005)
• Balm in Gilead (Mahrwood Press, 2007)
• The Uncanny Dave Cockrum (Aardwolf Publishing, 2007)
• Nightwings by Robert Silverberg (IDW Publishing, New Classics of the Fantastic, 2008)
• Hothouse by Brian Aldiss (IDW Publishing, New Classics of the Fantastic, 2009)
• Dare by Philip Jose Farmer (IDW Publishing, New Classics of the Fantastic, 2009)
• Rogue Dragon by Avram Davidson (IDW Publishing, New Classics of the Fantastic, 2009)
• Lori by Robert Bloch (IDW Publishing, New Classics of the Fantastic, 2009)
• The Invincible Gene Colan (Marvel Entertainment, 2010)
• Rich Buckler: Artist, Innovator (Aardwolf Publishing, 2016)

In 2008, the album Caged by Septimus Orion included a recording of Meth's short story "Queers", accompanied by music and sound effects.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

• August 2014 Inkwell Awards Special Ambassador (August 2014 – present){{cite web|url=http://www.inkwellawards.com/?page_id=413|title=Inkwell Awards}}

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