Category Archives: Steven A. Roman

DriveThru’s 2023 Black Friday Sale Is Underway!

The Christmas shopping season officially kicked into overdrive, with Thanksgiving Day here in the United States arriving yesterday. Now Black Friday—the biggest shopping day of the year—is upon us, when stores discount prices to generate sales, and Cyber Monday is … Continue reading

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Happy Love Your Red Hair Day 2023!

Today is National Love Your Red Hair Day! According to the National Day Calendar, this annual event 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 … Continue reading

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SWC at 30: Lorelei Celebrates Halloween with a Free Digital Comic

Happy Halloween! All Hallows’ Eve 2023 has arrived, and we’re joining in on the fun with a special Halloween treat: a new free digital comic made available today, as part of our 30th Anniversary celebration this year! Lorelei #1: The 30th … Continue reading

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SWC at 30: The End Is Just the Beginning

Concluding the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.  For all the promotion Pandora Zwieback got at New York Comic Con 2010, it was The Bob Larkin Sketchbook that became StarWarp Concepts’ first book release, in … Continue reading

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SWC at 30: The ‘Warp Rises Anew

Continuing the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.  Last time, I was telling you about the creation of our resident Goth girl, Pandora Zwieback, and how she was going to lead a revived ’Warp out … Continue reading

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SWC at 30: Enter: The Goth Adventuress

Continuing the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.  In late 2009, I decided to take the plunge again and get back to publishing. But what project would be worth restarting the SWC engine? As … Continue reading

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It’s National Comic Book Day 2023!

Today is National Comic Book Day, an unofficial “holiday” that’s celebrated every year on this date…although no one seems to know why that is, or who exactly started the tradition. Nevertheless, if you’re thinking that the friendly fiends at StarWarp Concepts musthave some … Continue reading

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SWC at 30: The Wilderness Years

Continuing the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.  Last time, in Convention Memories, I recounted how Lorelei made another brief appearance in comic shops and at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con, in the form … Continue reading

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Happy Batman Day 2023!

Held the 3rd Saturday in September since 2015, Batman Day is an annual celebration of one of DC Comics’ most iconic superheroes, the Darknight Detective who made his debut in Detective Comics #29 in 1939.  Created by Bob Kane with the help … Continue reading

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SWC at 30: Convention Memories: San Diego Comic-Con 2005

Continuing the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.  Back in the August 30th post, I talked about Lorelei’s second brief return to comic shops in 2002, after the original series’ cancellation in 1995, and … Continue reading

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