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Frank Lovece is an American Journalist , Author , Comedy performer and Comic-book Writer .

For an '' Entertainment Weekly '' article on Direct-to-video Movies passing themselves off as theatrical releases, he produced the first — and, after the article's publication, only — home video to obtain an MPAA rating {Link without Title} .


COMIC BOOKS

Lovece and won the 1991 Eisner Award for Best Inker for his work on that and other series that awards-year, with Okamoto winning the Russ Manning Award for most promising newcomer.

Lovece's comic-book fiction includes such Children's Comics as the licensed series '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers '', '' VR Troopers '' and '' Masked Rider '', and Horror , with stories in the anthology series '' Clive Barker's Hellraiser ''. One of the latter was chosen for '' Clive Barker 's Hellraiser: Collected Best, Volume 1'' (ISBN 0971024928), though with the last page inadvertently missing.

Other comics work includes ''Hokum & Hex'' for Marvel's Razorline imprint, created by Barker, and the Marvel series '' Nightstalkers '', featuring Blade and Doctor Strange . He also wrote stories for '' The Incredible Hulk '' and '' Ghost Rider '' annuals, as well as inventory stories for '' Alpha Flight '' and Harris Comics ' '' Vampirella ''. His three-part child-abuse drama "Egg" ran in Dark Horse Comics ' ''Dark Horse Presents'' #110-112. Additionally, he wrote an educational comic book about the American Banking System for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.


BOOKS AND INTERNET

Lovece has published books on the TV Series '' Taxi '', '' The Brady Bunch '' and '' The X-Files ''; the Godzilla Movie series; and child-abductions and The National Center For Missing & Exploited Children . As a website editor, he created the sites for ''Sound & Vision'' and ''Popular Photography'' Magazines , and the Sci-Fi Channel sites for '' Battlestar Galactica '', '' Stargate SG-1 '', '' Stargate Atlantis '', ''The X-Files'', ''The Incredible Hulk'', '' Legend Of Earthsea '' and other television shows, movies and Miniseries .


HUMOR

From 2001-2003, he performed onstage as part of the New York City Improv Comedy troupe Wingnuts. His humor writing has appeared in '' Entertainment Weekly '', '' New York Newsday '', Yahoo! / MSN , and elsewhere


QUOTES

Bob Schreck, ''Dark Horse Presents'' #110: "Frank is probably the most under-exploited, most sensitive writer this field has to offer."



''Nuclear Texts & Contexts'' #6 (Spring 1991) {Link without Title} (link opens PDF): "''Atomic Age'' (Frank Lovece, writer, & Mike Okamoto , artist, Epic Comics ) is a four-part series dealing with alien invaders set during the Sputnik era. ... Although no Nuclear War is featured, there is plenty of wry Satire on Cold War paranoia, and on Racism ."


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