Still signing TYRANT® signature sheets! One... more... packet... to... go, then off these go to the printer. Progress!
Stephen R Bissette
@stephenrbissette.bsky.social
Father, son, husband, artist, author, researcher, cinema & comics historian, and former instructor (retired),
NEW WORK: They're coming! Via my expansive, exhaustive article on the making of/release of THE GREEN SLIME (1969)—Bill Finger fans, take note!
Still signing the signature pages for the forthcoming pair of hardcover TYRANT® collected editions. I'm halfway through the thousands I'm signing. Also: Looking forward to seeing Jim Rugg's black-light S.R. BISSETTE'S TYRANT® posters!
NEW WORK: Excited to see founder/editor/publisher Dick Klemensen post yesterday that this last issue of LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS (with my article & art on THE GAMMA PEOPLE) has been published, available soon! So honored; when I was in high school, I ordered LSoH #1 & have been a reader ever since.
The only 2026 summer movie I'm really looking forward to.
NEW WORK: Novelist, teacher, longtime friend Jim DeFilippi invited me in for a conversation as part of his excellent, long-running "Blue Smoke and Black Ink" podcast. Got a half-hour to spare this weekend? Give a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB28...
The seismic genius of Steve Bissette
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My take on Jonah Hex. ___ ©2017, 2026 Stephen R. Bissette
NEW/OLD WORK: my first full non-fiction book, written in 1989–1990; abridged for publication in DEEP RED HORROR HANDBOOK (1990); published as bound photocopy limited editions, 2003 and 2013; NEW limited hardcover and/or paperback edition, coming soon! TBA later this fall, if not sooner.
AMERIKA 2026: The whole world knows what we have become. If only more Americans knew.
🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 7d agoFrance calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
AMERIKA 2026: The entire world knows it, folks. Donald Trump & Stephen Miller's concentration camps are, indeed, concentration camps. Period.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 7d ago"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
NEW WORK: Along with my article on THE GAMMA PEOPLE in the final issue of LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS, there's a couple of "Gamma-Gamma-Hey!" illustrations by yours truly, too!
NEW WORK: It's at the printer! Coming soon: the final issue of Dick Klemensen's LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS, which (among many other incredible articles by other fantastic authors) includes my 'making of' analysis of THE GAMMA PEOPLE, a long-time favorite (well, for me, anyway)...
We didn't really see the USSR sf feature films here in the U.S. as anything remotely resembling the original films themselves.
THIS should be THE headline on EVERY newspaper, EVERY online news source, EVERYWHERE in the United States, from now until election season hits. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Trump administration to end Medicare Part D subsidy program in 2027
The prescription drug benefit is used by millions of seniors.
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Hardest 'R' I've seen in a theater in quite some time, and that's really saying something in 2026. Nasty, mean-spirited, vicious, brutal, caustic slice of studio genre fare.
King Trump denies grant monies to states that didn't vote for him. Nature gives Cyclosporiasis to the states that did.
Still awaiting decision as to who our new corporate masters of all things SWAMP THING will be.
Forbes@forbes.com · 2w agoA group of state attorneys general have challenged the merger in a lawsuit, alleging it would drastically reduce competition and harm consumers.
Just an update, for those who voted for these asshats-in-power who "mismanaged" the COVID pandemic, and now seem intent upon launching far more pandemics than we can endure or survive.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w agoThe cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
We didn't move to Canada in order to stay closer geographically to our now-adult 'kids' and the 5 grandchildren (we're no longer permitted to visit, since the death of our son Michael). No regrets, but damn. We should have, eh? Any asshole who think "we" are better than Canada is...an asshole.
Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦@deonandan.bsky.social · 2w agoCanadian life expectancy is 3.3 years longer, and our crime rate is a third of yours.
Back cover for the forthcoming CRYPTID CINEMA™ filmography volume Tim Paxton, Jolyon Yates, and I have been laboring on for over 2 years now. Tim delivered chapter PDFs this past month, still a few to go before we put it all to bed!
Front cover for yet another in-the-works POD book project. Drawing (b&w) by me, colors by Mark Masztal, and it's gonna be a first volume in a planned series.
Back cover for a planned POD project. Still on the fence about this volume, this project, but I'd best put it out into the world regardless of my own reservations...
"Catastrophic" proportions now the headline terminology describing the ongoing spread of explosive diarrhea. That just about sums up everything, doesn't it? Who voted in this pack of curs after they so horribly dealt with the COVID pandemic?? Our nation is provably insane. INSANE.
Our patience is about run out with the whole mangy, malicious, mongrel pack of you motherfuckers, Karo-liar.
Having grown up with COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (the source novel & sequel, and the excellent film), this isn't a surprise: it was INEVITABLE.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w agoOpenAI hacking fiasco exposes a “deeply insufficient” system to protect the public.
"What's in the box??" [Brad Pitt, SE7EN] TYRANT® update! THIS is what's in the box— —signature plates, thousands of 'em for me to sign this week for the ORIGINAL ART EDITION and THE COMPLETE EDITION. We're still hard at work on getting these printed, folks!
TYRANT® update! Fed X delivered these massive packages today from our printer. A hefty trio! These are the signature plates—arrived today—I've now days of labor ahead, signing oversized plates (for the ORIGINAL ART EDITION) and 'normal' sized book plates (for THE COMPLETE EDITION).