Media
Andres Ponce Art For Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #3
December 20, 2015
Bleeding Cool has some digital versions of pages from Storm Surge #3 in both inked and colored versions, sans text. Click through for other samples.
The world before ‘Star Wars’
December 20, 2015
Inspired in part by the Japanese subgenre of giant robot movies, the 1976 Korean animated feature Robot Taekwon V is a charmingly chintzy-looking cartoon about a heroic scientist who counters his evil counterpart by pitting his lone super-android against the villain’s mechanical army. When the Star Wars robots debuted a year later, they were so charming that they altered the way these kinds of characters were deployed in the years that followed. Pre-1977, robots in 1970s science-fiction movies tended to be personality-free tools of justice or weapons of war. Sometimes they were malicious in another way entirely, as in the 1973 thrillerWestworld and its 1976 sequel Futureworld, where advanced animatronic amusement park attractions develop sentience and begin to kill the guests. In that same sinister vein, the big-screen adaptation of Dean Koontz’s novel Demon Seed, released in April 1977, stars Julie Christie as a woman who gets impregnated by her estranged husband’s supercomputer.
Read the full article @ The Kernel.
Frankenstein: Storm Surge #3 preview
December 20, 2015
Back on the 15th Bleeding Cool had an “Exclusive” preview of the third issue of Frankenstein: Storm Surge. Funnily enough, Comic Book Resources had that same preview a day earlier. Click either link for all the images.
That’s One Creepy Cover Andres Ponce Did For Frankenstein: Storm Surge #2
November 23, 2015
More @ Bleeding Cool.
Dean's home to be moved to third place
November 23, 2015
Dubbed Villa de Formosa as a tribute to the owner’s Taiwanese roots, the three-story house will have 52,000 square feet of living space and subterranean parking under one roof…
Currently, Orange County’s biggest single-family home is the Newport Coast compound owned by Hot Pockets millionaire Paul Merage. Building permit records show it has almost 45,000 square feet on 4.8 acres.
Author Dean Koontz’ Amazing Grace, a four-lot compound in Newport Coast, appears to be Orange County’s second biggest home, with 37,550 square feet of living space and parking, according to building permits.
Read the full article @ OCRegister.com
13 romantic horror movies for a spine-tingling Halloween season date night
October 17, 2015
Odd Thomas makes blastr’s list.
Andres Ponce’s Process Art For Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1
October 17, 2015
[Bleeding Cool has] some process art for Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1. The art is by Andres Ponce with colors by Mohan based on a script by Koontz andChuck Dixon.
Preview of Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1
October 17, 2015
Nothing really new here but FlickeringMyth.com has some images and info about the first issue of the new Frankenstein comic.
Ashley Bell contest on Goodreads
October 17, 2015
Goodreads is giving away a copies of Ashley Bell. You must enter by November 8th.
"Saint Odd by Dean Koontz – Now in Paperback" commercial
October 17, 2015
Frankenstein: Storm Surge #2 preview
August 19, 2015
DEAN KOONTZ’S FRANKENSTEIN: STORM SURGE #2 (OF 6)
Cover: Andres Ponce
Writer: Dean Koontz, Chuck Dixon
Art: Andres Ponce
Dean Koontz continues this all-new modern reimagination of the classic horror tale Frankenstein, created exclusively for comics! As Hurricane Shelley sends refugees fleeing like rats, Victor Frankenstein discovers that his portal to an alternate dimension has been used… and decides that the captive, animated head of Karloff must suffer for keeping its secrets. Meanwhile, Erika Five explores a whole new world, one with its own Karloff to question, a doppelganger just as treacherous as his namesake. Will Victor’s true motives stand revealed?
Source: BleedingCool.com
Reading lists: Who decides what your child reads?
August 18, 2015
There’s nothing like a “mom complains about a book her child is reading” to bring together my library world and my Dean Koontz world…
More @ WTSP.com
Dave Mustaine mentions Dean on Twitter
August 17, 2015
@jpstorie78 @StephenKing Thanks! We had Dean Koontz write our album liner bio once, maybe we can get Stephen, if he does things like this.
— Dave Mustaine (@DaveMustaine) August 17, 2015
Dean featured today by The Pulp Librarian
August 16, 2015
Time for some #badscificovers…
Star Quest, by Dean R Koontz. Ace, 1968. pic.twitter.com/ibLXVd9WZl
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) August 16, 2015
"How to Write 10 Pages a Day" by Stephen King
August 15, 2015
It is totally minor, but King mentions Dean in his article “How to Write 10 Pages a Day” in the April 2001 issue of Writer’s Digest.
Forbidden Panel Episode #137: Odd Thomas (and other topics)
August 1, 2015
Source: http://forbiddenpanel.com/PanelCast/episode-137/
The top 10 audiobooks on Audible.com
July 25, 2015
July 21, 2015 – Ficiton
1. Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee, narrated by Reese Witherspoon (Harper Audio)
2. Armada by Ernest Cline, narrated by Wil Wheaton (Random House Audio)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, narrated by Sissy Spacek (Harper Audio)
4. The Martian by Andy Weir, narrated by B.C. Bray (Podium Publishing)
5. Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as told by Christian by E.L. James, narrated by Zachary Webber (Random House Audio)
6. Die Again: Rizzoli & Isles by Tess Gerritsen, narrated by Tanya Eby (Brilliance Audio)
7. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, narrated by Clare Corbett, Louis Brealey and India Fisher (Penguin Audio)
8. Dust to Dust by Tami Hoag, narrated by David Colacci (Brilliance Audio)
9. You by Caroline Kepnes, narrated by Santino Fontana (Simon & Schuster Audio)
10.The Funhouse by Dean Koontz, narrated by Karen Peakes (Brilliance Audio)
Source: The Houston Chronicle.
DC Comics artist discusses career, life and industry future
July 25, 2015
Fans of DC Comics are no doubt familiar with the drawings of Brett Booth. And today they will get another dose of his creative ways when DC Comics releases “The Flash No. 42.”
Booth, who lives near Fort Hancock (about 50 miles east of El Paso) has worked on The X-Men, Fantastic Four and Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein.
He has also worked on some big names in the DC Universe, doing art for Teen Titans, Justice League of America, Nightwing and Batman/Superman, as well as The Flash, a mainstay in the DC Comics stable.
Red the full article @ The ElPaso Times.
Another Foreign Edition Quiz
July 1, 2015
Here’s another foreign language edition of a Koontz title. Leave your guess in the comments.
Childrens Hospital: “Koontz Is Coming”
June 27, 2015
But when Childrens Hospital gets it right, it really gets it right. That’s the case again for this week’s latest episode, “Koontz Is Coming.” The episode is an homage to British sitcom Fawlty Towersand also a tip of the hat to the work of “the one and only suspense thriller novelist, Dean Koontz.” It’s also another fantastic showing for Childrens Hospital.
Read the whole review @ A.V. Club.
I was previously unaware of this show and just watched this episode. Not sure I’ll watch any more, but it was fun