Born Lincoln, England. Three years at Oldham Art College led to employment at World Distributors in Manchester working on numerous TV related book titles. Freelance for various publishers including Marvel, DC and Whitman-Golden Books U.S.A. and animated projects for BBC and ITV. I emigrated to the U.S.A. in 2002.
Published work: Green's Guide to Collecting TV, Music and Comic Book Annuals (2000) A History of Television’s The Virginian 1962-1971 (2006 Hardback; 2009 Softcover edition) Pete Duel : A Biography (2007; 2009 Large Print edition; 2015 Second Edition) Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns (2009; 2016 Second Edition) Jennifer Jones: The Life and Career (2011) Roy Huggins: Creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files (Born Lincoln, England. Three years at Oldham Art College led to employment at World Distributors in Manchester working on numerous TV related book titles. Freelance for various publishers including Marvel, DC and Whitman-Golden Books U.S.A. and animated projects for BBC and ITV. I emigrated to the U.S.A. in 2002.
Published work: Green's Guide to Collecting TV, Music and Comic Book Annuals (2000) A History of Television’s The Virginian 1962-1971 (2006 Hardback; 2009 Softcover edition) Pete Duel : A Biography (2007; 2009 Large Print edition; 2015 Second Edition) Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns (2009; 2016 Second Edition) Jennifer Jones: The Life and Career (2011) Roy Huggins: Creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files (2014) Jeffrey Hunter: The Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances (2014) Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories (2016) Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives (2019) ...more
The second edition of my “Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns” has been published by McFarland & Co. It includes hundreds of new entries and an Introduction by noted Weird Western scholar Cynthia J. Miller (Undead in the West I & II).
“From automatons to zombies, many elements of fantasy and science fiction have been cross-pollinated with the Western movie genre. In its second edition, this encyclopedia