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Category Archives: Holidays
It’s National Encourage a Young Writer Day 2022!
Here’s the sort of holiday we here at ’Warp Central can get behind a hundred percent: National Library Week 2022 might have wrapped up just yesterday, but now today is National Encourage a Young Writer Day! Although no one seems to … Continue reading
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Happy Tell a Fairy Tale Day 2022!
No one seems to know where it came from, or whose idea it was, but today is National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, a time “to celebrate those beloved stories that we all loved as children, those fictional stories that told … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, e-books, Fantasy, Holidays, Illustrated Classics, Snow White
Tagged brothers grimm, e-books, Fantasy, holidays, illustrated classics, national tell a fairy tale day, snow white
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Happy Kiss a Ginger Day 2022!
According to the calendar site Happy Days 365, today is International Kiss a Ginger Day, a holiday created in 2009 as a “karmic counter event” intended to offset negative comments made about fiery-haired people (e.g., that gingers have no souls, that … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Dark Urban Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Holidays, Horror, Lorelei, Publishing
Tagged comic books, Dark Urban Fantasy, digital comic books, graphic novels, holidays, international kiss a ginger day, lorelei, lorelei presents: house macabre, lorelei: genesis, lorelei: sects and the city, succubus fiction
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Happy Science Fiction Day 2022!
According to the National Day Calendar, National Science Fiction Day was launched in 2011 and was meant to correspond with this being the birth date of legendary sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov—author of the Foundation Trilogy (now the basis for the Apple TV+ … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, Holidays, Illustrated Classics, Princess of Mars, Science Fiction
Tagged a princess of mars, dejah thoris, edgar rice burroughs, holidays, illustrated classics, isaac asimov, john carter, national science fiction day, science fiction, starwarp concepts backlist
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Happy New Year! Welcome to the Future!
It’s 2022 (in case you didn’t get the memo about it), and we’ve now reached the future—at least the future as seen through the dystopian lens of the 1973 sci-fi feature film Soylent Green. Based on the 1966 novel Make Room! Make … Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, charlton heston, harry harrison, make room! make room!, movies, soylent green
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Happy Small Business Saturday 2021!
Hey, shoppers! Sure, yesterday might have been Black Friday, the retail industry’s most notorious day of the year, and in two days you’ll have Cyber Monday, when the Internet shatters from the volume of online sales that will be flooding … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, Comic Books, Dark Urban Fantasy, Digital Comics, Events, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Holidays, Illustrated Classics, Nonfiction, Publishing, Sketchbooks, Young Adult
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DriveThru’s 2021 Black Friday Sale Is Underway!
Beating the rush before the post-Thanksgiving shopping season goes into overdrive this weekend, e-book distributor DriveThru Fiction—along with its sister sites DriveThru Comics and DriveThru RPG—has launched its annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday Weekend Sale, during which you can purchase a ton of … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, e-books, e-tailers, Events, Fantasy, Holidays, Publishing
Tagged black friday, cyber monday, drivethru fiction, e-books, for a few gold pieces more, harbinger of darkness, king kong, snow white
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Happy Love Your Red Hair Day 2021!
According to the National Day Calendar, National Love Your Red Hair Day was created in 2015 by Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti, cofounders of the beauty site How to be a Redhead, and it’s “a day to celebrate the beauty of those gorgeous … Continue reading
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Tagged comic books, digital comic books, graphic novels, holidays, lorelei, lorelei presents: house macabre, lorelei: genesis, lorelei: sects and the city, national love your red hair day, starwarp concepts backlist
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Bob Larkin and Michael Myers: Now That’s Halloween!
To celebrate today’s release of Halloween Kills, the highly anticipated Jamie Lee Curtis–starring sequel to 2018’s Halloween, we’ve dipped into the Bob Larkin Archives to present this appropriately haunting image: an ad Bob painted for TV Guide in 1981, for the NBC broadcast … Continue reading
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