Frank Lovece
{{Short description|American journalist and writer}}
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| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| nationality = American
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| notable works = Atomic Age
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| spouse = Maitland McDonagh{{cite web |last1=Meyer |first1=Ken |title=Ink Stains 14: Nimbus 3 |url=https://comicattack.net/ins-14-nimbus-3/ |website=Ink Stains |date = March 15, 2010 |access-date=28 February 2021}}
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Frank Lovece ({{IPAc-en|l|ɒ|ˈ|v|ɛ|tʃ|ə}}){{cite news|author-link=Maggie Thompson | last= Thompson | first= Maggie | title = Epic Comics Goes Back to the '50s with 'Atomic Age'| work= Comics Buyer's Guide | issue=885 | date = November 2, 1990|quote=...Lovece (pronounced 'lah VETcha')...}} is an American journalist, author, and a comic book writer primarily for Marvel Comics, where he and artist Mike Okamoto created the miniseries Atomic Age. His longest affiliation has been with the New York metropolitan area newspaper Newsday, where he has worked as a feature writer and film critic.
Early life
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants, Frank Lovece moved to the U.S as a toddler and was raised in Keyser and Morgantown, West Virginia.{{cite news|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/149494696/Frank-Lovece-profile-Morgantown-WV-Dominion-Post |last=Abrams |first=Nancy |title=Frank Lovece Makes a Living Writing About TV |work=The Dominion Post |location=Morgantown, West Virginia |date=September 10, 1989 |access-date=July 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019201530/http://www.scribd.com/doc/149494696/Frank-Lovece-profile-Morgantown-WV-Dominion-Post |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |url-status=live |df=mdy }} There his family ran Italian restaurants.{{cite news|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/149494960/Frank-Lovece-profile-The-Newark-Star-Ledger |title=Declassified Information, By the Book |first=Matt Zoller |last=Seitz |author-link=Matt Zoller Seitz |work=The Star-Ledger |location=Newark, New Jersey |date=October 4, 1996 |access-date=July 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019201527/http://www.scribd.com/doc/149494960/Frank-Lovece-profile-The-Newark-Star-Ledger |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |url-status=live |df=mdy }} He attended St. Francis High School and West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he was the arts/entertainment editor of the college newspaper, the Daily Athenaeum. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.
Career
=Early work=
Together with the editors of Consumer Guide, Lovece wrote TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television, published in 1984.Lovece, Frank (1984). [https://books.google.com/books?id=xMBdAWurvLMC TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television]. New York: Beekman House. {{isbn|9780517463673}} {{oclc|11896508}} This was followed by Hailing 'Taxi': The Official Book of the Show (1988) and similar books on topic including the TV series The Brady Bunch and The X-Files.[https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Frank+Lovece "Frank Lovece"]. WorldCat. By 1990, Lovece had become a writer and film critic for Newsday.For example, Lovece, Frank (September 12, 1990). "Red Skelton: Old Jokes Never Die". Newsday.{{cite news |url=http://franklovece.com/about.html |title=FrankLovece.com |publisher=(Official site) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816174037/http://franklovece.com/about.html |archive-date=August 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy |access-date=January 28, 2014 }}Additional, August 16, 2011. In the 1990s, he wrote for Entertainment Weekly.{{cite magazine |last1=Lovece |first1=Frank |title=Get your own film rating |url=https://ew.com/article/1991/08/09/get-your-own-film-rating/ |access-date=March 28, 2021 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=August 9, 1991}}{{cite magazine |last1=Lovece |first1=Frank |title=Video Reviews: Superhero Films |url=https://ew.com/article/1996/11/22/video-reviews-superhero-films/ |access-date=March 28, 2021 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=November 22, 1996}} He produced the first home video (footage of his own child) in 1991 to obtain an MPAA rating for an Entertainment Weekly article on how to have home movies rated.Pond, Steve (August 9, 1991). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/08/09/the-irish-sweepstakes/f06f7cac-24ef-41cf-821f-c6b2bff907ff/ "The Irish Sweepstakes"]. The Washington Post. Style section, p. D6. He also wrote an unofficial book guide for Godzilla, but after Godzilla franchise owner Toho filed a lawsuit, a district court judge in 1998 issued a preliminary injunction blocking the book from release in the United States due to alleged trademark violation.{{cite magazine |last1=Jacobs |first1=Alexandra |last2=Flamm |first2=Matthew |title=The inside scoop on the book world |url=https://ew.com/article/1998/04/24/inside-scoop-book-world-10/ |access-date=March 28, 2021 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=April 24, 1998}} The book was published in Europe with no issues.{{cite book|title= Godzilla: alles über den König der Monster|publisher= Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verlag|location=Germany|year=1998|isbn=978-3612265968}}
=Comic books=
Lovece and artist Mike Okamoto created the four-issue miniseries Atomic Age (Nov. 1990 – Feb. 1991) for Marvel Comics' creator-owned Epic Comics imprint.{{cite news|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/490966093/Epic-Comics-Goes-Back-to-the-50s-with-ATOMIC-AGE|title=Epic Comics Goes Back to the '50s with Atomic Age|work=Comics Buyer's Guide |issue=885 |date=November 2, 1990|first= Maggie|last=Thompson}}{{cite web|url=https://www.comics.org/series/4011/ |title=Atomic Age (Marvel, 1990 series)|publisher=Grand Comics Database}}
Lovece wrote for Nightstalkers, Hokum & Hex and other Marvel titles, and his and artist Bill Koeb's story "For My Son" in the anthology series Clive Barker's Hellraiser appears in the Checker Publishing book Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best.{{cite web|url= https://www.comics.org/issue/167431/|title=Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1|date=1992|publisher=Marvel Comics}}{{cite web|url= https://feoamante.com/Comics/Reviews/GHI/Hell_raiser.html| first=Christos N.|last=Gage|authorlink=Christos Gage|title=Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best - 2002|website=FeoAmante.com}}
File:Frank Lovece 2017 at Independent Publisher Book Awards.jpg at the Independent Publisher Book Awards]]
Lovece edited the graphic novel Stan Lee's God Woke, which was written by Stan Lee and Fabian Nicieza. It won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.{{cite web|url=http://eclipsemagazine.com/comic-con-2016-pow-entertainment-and-shatner-singularity-introduce-stan-lees-god-woke/ |title=Comic-Con 2016: POW! Entertainment and Shatner Singularity Introduce Stan Lee's God Woke! |date=July 18, 2016 |access-date=July 22, 2016 |author=Wiebe, Sheldon|publisher=Shatner Singularity |magazine=Eclipse Magazine|archive-date=August 6, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806191247/http://eclipsemagazine.com/comic-con-2016-pow-entertainment-and-shatner-singularity-introduce-stan-lees-god-woke/}}
=Later career=
Lovece has created websites for magazines and television shows{{Better source needed|date=March 2021}} and written articles for, among others, Habitat,[http://www.habitatmag.com/content/search?SearchText=%22Frank+Lovece%22&searchbutton.x=-1011&searchbutton.y=-43 Frank Lovece] at Habitat Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Yahoo!/MSN.
In 2005, Lovece and photographer Matthew Jordan Smith collaborated on the book Lost and Found, a photojournalistic record of families of abducted children and the work of The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.{{cite web |url=http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2487 |title=Lost and Found |publisher=National Center for Missing & Exploited Children |date=2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522041231/http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2487 |archive-date=May 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}
Lovece has been a movie critic for Film Journal International,[http://www.filmjournal.com/taxonomy/term/100 Frank Lovece] at Film Journal International. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150801073759/http://www.filmjournal.com/taxonomy/term/100 Archived] from the original on August 1, 2015. the TV Guide website,[https://web.archive.org/web/20071214144651/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-3134/ Frank Lovece] at Rotten Tomatoes and the northern New Jersey newspaper The Record.{{cite news|last=Lovece| first=Frank| url= https://www.scribd.com/doc/150753351/Total-Recall-movie-review | title = 'Recall': In Space, No One Can Hear You Grunt |publisher=(Total Recall film review) The Record |date=June 1, 1990}}{{cite news | url = https://www.scribd.com/doc/150752534/Awakenings-movie-review | title = 'Rainman' Takes a Snooze |last=Lovece| first=Frank| publisher = (Awakenings film review) The Record | date = December 22, 1990}}{{Clear}}
Bibliography
=Books=
- Lovece, Frank. TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television (1984) New York: Beekman House / Publications International. {{ISBN|0-517-46367-9}}
- Lovece, Frank, with Jules Franco. Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show (1988) New York: Prentice Hall Press {{ISBN|0-13-372103-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-13-372103-4}}
- Reissued and updated: Taxi: The Official Fan's Guide (1996) New York: Citadel Press {{ISBN|0-8065-1801-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8065-1801-5}}
- Edelstein, Andrew J., and Frank Lovece. The Brady Bunch Book (1990) New York: Warner Books. {{ISBN|0-446-39137-9}}
- Lovece, Frank (1992). The Television Yearbook. New York: Perigee Books / Putnam Publishing. {{ISBN|0-399-51702-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-399-51702-0}}
- Lovece, Frank. The X-Files Declassified (1996) New York: Citadel Press. {{ISBN|0-8065-1745-X}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8065-1745-2}}
- U.K. edition: The X-Files Declassified : The Truth!: The Unauthorized Guide to the Complete Series (1996) London: Hodder & Stoughton. {{ISBN|0-340-68232-9}}, {{ISBN|978-0-340-68232-6}}
- Lovece, Frank. Godzilla: The Complete Guide to Moviedom's Mightiest Monster. Originally scheduled 1998 by William Morrow / Quill. {{ISBN|0-688-15603-7}}; {{ISBN|978-0-688-15603-9}}. Subjected to prior restraint in U.S.; released overseas.
- Smith, Michael Jordan (photographer), and Frank Lovece. Lost and Found (2006) New York: Filipacchi Publishing. {{ISBN|1-59975-611-0}}, {{ISBN|978-1-59975-611-0}}
=Comics=
==[[Dark Horse Comics]]==
- Dark Horse Presents #110-112 (story "Egg")
==[[Harris Comics]]==
- Creepy (magazine) 1993 Fearbook (story "One Good Deed")
==[[Marvel Comics]]==
- Marvel 2099 Special: The World of Doom #1
- Ghost Rider Annual #2 (backup story)
- The Incredible Hulk Annual (backup story)
- Masked Rider #1
- Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #2
- Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Ninja Rangers/VR Troopers #1-3
==Marvel Comics/[[Epic Comics]]==
- Atomic Age #1-4
- Clive Barker's Hellraiser Dark Holiday Special #1 (story "Nursery Crime")
- Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1 (story "For My Son" - reprinted in Checker Publishing book Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best
==Marvel Comics/[[Razorline]]==
- Hokum & Hex #1-9
- ''Hyperkind Unleashed! #1 (prose short story)
- Razorline: The First Cut #1 (omnibus story reprinted in Ectokid #1
==RZG Commics==
- Phazer #3, 5
- Phazer Crossover #2
References
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External links
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- {{cite web|url=http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/naml25.htm#N573 |title=Lovece, Frank |publisher=The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators |access-date=September 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521020609/http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/naml23.htm |archive-date=May 21, 2013 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}
- {{cite web|url=http://comicattack.net/2010/03/ins-14-nimbus-3/|title= Nimbus 3 (Sept. 1977)|publisher=Ink Stains (column) 14, ComicAttack.net|date=March 15, 2010|first=Ken Jr.|last=Meyer|archive-date=March 24, 2010|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100324235923/http://comicattack.net/2010/03/ins-14-nimbus-3/|url-status=live}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.kenmeyerjr.com/fanzines/nimbus3.pdf|title=Nimbus|issue=3|date=September 1977|editor-first=Frank|editor-last=Lovece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227162305/http://www.kenmeyerjr.com/fanzines/nimbus3.pdf|archive-date=February 27, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
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