EZ Street

Robert Tinnell is a comic book writer (The Black Forest, The Wicked West, Feast of the Seven Fishes, The Chelation Kid etc), director (Frankenstein and Me), producer (Surf Nazis Must Die) and all round genre and film freak.

Mark Wheatley is a very talented comic book artist whose most famous series so far is probably Frankenstein Mobster.

Bob and Mark have now got together and created a free online comic, EZ Street, that is quite obviously very autobiographical and deals with the inner workings of the comic and film industry. The comic will be published in serial fashion, once a week.

Reason I am telling you that?

Though she hasn’t appeared there yet, Bob says that none other than Veronica Carlson will make a cameo in one of the later issues of the comic!

So keep your eyes out for that appearance! The comic looks fab so far and it is free, so what have you got to lose?

Veronica Carlson at SHOCK IT TO ME! festival in October

News from the Yahoo Hammer Film Group:

"SHOCK IT TO ME! announces this year's first Guest of Honor:

The striking Veronica Carlson, beautiful star of the gothic Hammer Horrors, DRACULA HAS
RISEN FROM THE GRAVE (1968) and FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (1969), will be
appearing all weekend at this year's SHOCK IT TO ME! Classic Horror Film Festival in San
Francisco, California. The third annual SHOCK IT TO ME! takes place at the historic, 1400-
seat Castro Theatre in San Francisco, this coming October 5th, 6th, & 7th. Ms. Carlson will
be meeting and greeting with fans, signing autographs, and appearing on stage to talk
about her short, but indelible, career in horror cinema. (Special thanks to David Nahmod
and Dick Klemensen.)

Click here http://www.myspace.com/shockit2me for more information on SHOCK IT TO
ME! and stay tuned for more Guests of Honor to be announced!"

Veronica Carlson Covergirl

I recently came across this paperback from my collection. I had completely forgotten I even had it.

The Jerry Cotton books are a German series of pulp fiction stories about an FBI agent. They go back to the 1950s and in its pulp fiction form are still published on a weekly basis. There are also monthly paperbacks with his adventures. All in all there are now literally thousands of novels about the character available.

These days the covers can be kind of bland, but up until the 1980s a lot of the covers consisted of scenes from motion pictures. These covers often had little to do with the actual contents of the stories inside, but did create an interesting mood and made you want to read the books.

This cover is from Jerry Cotton paperback # 292 and published in 1985 and of course pictures a young Veronica Carlson. I bet not even she is aware that her photo was used to advertise this franchise.