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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: Small Press Expo Badges

Continuing the history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.  With this weekend being the 2023 edition of the Small Press Expo—an alternative-comics convention held in Bethesda, Maryland, that started out in 1994 with a few handfuls … Continue reading

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SWC at 30: Convention Memories: Dallas Fantasy Fair 1995

My first and only trip to Texas occurred in 1995. In August. Thank God for air-conditioning. The Dallas Fantasy Fair had debuted in 1982, launched by promotional company Bulldog Productions, and over the years it became known as one of those … Continue reading

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SWC at 30: Convention Memories: Small Press Expo 1995

In 1994, I’d missed the launch of the Small Press Expo—a convention dedicated to promoting alternative press and small-press comics creators—due to a scheduling conflict, but was determined to make the trip to its location in Bethesda, Maryland, this time. … Continue reading

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