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Born May 30 , 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lucas began writing professionally at the age of 15, when his first reviews were accepted by the influential fantasy film review '' Cinefantastique ''. He served as one of the magazine's midwestern bureaus for the next ten years. In 1985 , Lucas edited and co-authored a series of twelve paperback video guides for ''Video Times'' magazine, where he started a monthly column entitled ''Video Watchdog'', investigating the changes made to various films (usually horror, cult and fantastic) when they appeared on video. With the dissolution of ''Video Times'' in 1986, the column resurfaced in the pages of the '' Fangoria '' spin-off ''Gorezone'', where it regularly appeared from 1988 to 1992 . In 1990 , Lucas and his wife Donna launched ''Video Watchdog'' as a separate magazine with a focus on extremely detailed articles that made it a key source of serious film criticism. His early Watchdog columns were collected with other relevant material in ''The Video Watchdog Book'' (1992, ISBN 0963375601). Today, Lucas supplements his editorial duties with ''NoZone'', a DVD column for the British monthly ''''. His critical biography '' Mario Bava : All the Colors of the Dark'' is scheduled tentatively for publication in the Fall of 2006 after 30 years of preparation and delays so numerous and extensive that Lucas began a special [http://bavabook.blogspot.com Bava Book Update blog just to document progress and setbacks. Lucas has also published two novels to date. ''Throat Sprockets'' (1994, ISBN 0385312903), the fulfillment of an uncompleted graphic novel serialized in '' that moves the Count's fly-and-spider-eating pawn to center stage. SOURCES ยน a 2006 post in Tim Lucas' Bava Book Update blog EXTERNAL LINKS |
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