Steve Green
@stevegreen.bsky.social
UK-based freelance journalist. Please contact me via [email protected] regarding magazine commissions, on-stage interviews, etc. Strong focus on vintage media, particularly movies, tv and comics.
Hard to believe now, but US publishers rejected Ian Fleming's titles for several of his James Bond novels. Casino Royale had already been adapted for television, under its original title, as a 1954 episode of Climax!, with Barry Nelson as an American Bond. #Artwork by Raymond Johnson, Lou Marchetti.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hard to believe now, but US publishers rejected Ian Fleming's titles for several of his James Bond novels. Casino Royale had already been adapted for television, under its original title, as a 1954 episode of Climax!, with Barry Nelson as an American Bond. #Artwork by Raymond Johnson, Lou Marchetti.
Current reading includes memoirs by Tom Selleck and Nigel Hawthorne, plus a profile of model Marli Renfro (best known as Janet Leigh's nude body double in Psycho). The latter two are tied into existing magazine commissions, whilst the first is part of a putative pitch.
#freelance #journalism #movies
#freelance #journalism #movies
December 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Current reading includes memoirs by Tom Selleck and Nigel Hawthorne, plus a profile of model Marli Renfro (best known as Janet Leigh's nude body double in Psycho). The latter two are tied into existing magazine commissions, whilst the first is part of a putative pitch.
#freelance #journalism #movies
#freelance #journalism #movies
Following up my recent posts of legendary #artist Frank Frazetta's covers for the Creepy, here's another example of his #artwork, plus the photograph of model Diane Webber he used as reference. She played mermaids on several occasions, including a 1967 episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The organisers of London Comic Con's winter 2025 instalment clearly hope David Tennant's fans have more money than common sense. #DoctorWho
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The organisers of London Comic Con's winter 2025 instalment clearly hope David Tennant's fans have more money than common sense. #DoctorWho
'The Tavern at the End of Time' was a #comic strip I wrote for the British Science Fiction Association's newsletter Matrix, with artwork by my friend Kevin Clarke. This is clipped from an online copy of Matrix #39, published December 1981.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
'The Tavern at the End of Time' was a #comic strip I wrote for the British Science Fiction Association's newsletter Matrix, with artwork by my friend Kevin Clarke. This is clipped from an online copy of Matrix #39, published December 1981.
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I was intrigued to spot this news item in the Fall 1980 issue of #movie magazine Cinefantastique, which indicates there were drastic revisions to Lawrence Kasdan's screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), removing the original prologue and possibly inserting the film's supernatural elements.
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I was intrigued to spot this news item in the Fall 1980 issue of #movie magazine Cinefantastique, which indicates there were drastic revisions to Lawrence Kasdan's screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), removing the original prologue and possibly inserting the film's supernatural elements.
Oh dear. Looks like I've only got a few more months until the decline sets in. (Of course, some would argue it already has...)
Source: BBC News website
Source: BBC News website
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Oh dear. Looks like I've only got a few more months until the decline sets in. (Of course, some would argue it already has...)
Source: BBC News website
Source: BBC News website
Has British Vogue's Radhika Seth even seen James Whale's 1931 and 1935 Frankenstein movies? Boris Karloff already "achieved the impossible" in both.
#horror #movies @vogue.co.uk.web.brid.gy
#horror #movies @vogue.co.uk.web.brid.gy
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Has British Vogue's Radhika Seth even seen James Whale's 1931 and 1935 Frankenstein movies? Boris Karloff already "achieved the impossible" in both.
#horror #movies @vogue.co.uk.web.brid.gy
#horror #movies @vogue.co.uk.web.brid.gy
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Sadly, thanks to the rising cost of stamps, unreliable delivery services and alleged superiority of e-mails (despite most folks seeming to ignore them), postcards look set to join the dodo and rotary dial telephones. Here's a nostalgia flash from 1942, cards given out to GIs to send home. #comics
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Sadly, thanks to the rising cost of stamps, unreliable delivery services and alleged superiority of e-mails (despite most folks seeming to ignore them), postcards look set to join the dodo and rotary dial telephones. Here's a nostalgia flash from 1942, cards given out to GIs to send home. #comics
UK film and tv fans have just seven days left to pick the latest issue of Yours Retro, which includes my feature on the final days of classic crime series Columbo, starring Peter Falk.
#freelance #magazine #journalism
#freelance #magazine #journalism
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
UK film and tv fans have just seven days left to pick the latest issue of Yours Retro, which includes my feature on the final days of classic crime series Columbo, starring Peter Falk.
#freelance #magazine #journalism
#freelance #magazine #journalism
"She's not Jason. She's not Freddy. She's Sam."
So she's Henry Lee Lucas, IDW?
@idwpublishing.com #comics
So she's Henry Lee Lucas, IDW?
@idwpublishing.com #comics
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"She's not Jason. She's not Freddy. She's Sam."
So she's Henry Lee Lucas, IDW?
@idwpublishing.com #comics
So she's Henry Lee Lucas, IDW?
@idwpublishing.com #comics
Action was a weekly British #comic which pioneered the edgy mix of satire, fantasy and violence later seen in 2000AD. Arguably ahead of its time, Action grew controversial and publishers IPC reportedly pulped the full run of issue 37 (below right), putting it on a month's hiatus for heavy retooling.
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Action was a weekly British #comic which pioneered the edgy mix of satire, fantasy and violence later seen in 2000AD. Arguably ahead of its time, Action grew controversial and publishers IPC reportedly pulped the full run of issue 37 (below right), putting it on a month's hiatus for heavy retooling.
Don Newton's original cover #artwork for Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction, Marvel Comics' excellent but short-lived b&w #comics anthology. Bob Shaw's 'slow glass' was used as a framing device, and a letter from him in a later issue led to a friendship which lasted nearly 30 years.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Does a dodgy-looking wig, spectacles and green facepaint really count as a "fantastical physical transformation", IMDb? With all respect to #Wicked make-up designer Frances Hannon, it's hardly up there with the work of Jack Pierce, Dick Smith, Stan Winston, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, etc.
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Does a dodgy-looking wig, spectacles and green facepaint really count as a "fantastical physical transformation", IMDb? With all respect to #Wicked make-up designer Frances Hannon, it's hardly up there with the work of Jack Pierce, Dick Smith, Stan Winston, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, etc.
'Quota quickies' were short #movies (usually under an hour), produced to fulfill UK legislation requiring a percentage of domestic product on British #cinema screens. I've just started watching a set of 1960s Edgar Wallace thrillers from the Merton Park #film studio, distributed by Anglo-Amalgated.
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I realise there's pressure from certain quarters for us all to switch to eating bugs, but looks like one of my local take-away joints wants to extend our cuisine even further. #food
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I realise there's pressure from certain quarters for us all to switch to eating bugs, but looks like one of my local take-away joints wants to extend our cuisine even further. #food
