| Frank Lovece | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 68–69)[1][2] Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | American |
| Area | Writer |
Notable works | Atomic Age |
| Spouse | Maitland McDonagh[3] |
Frank Lovece (/lɒˈvɛtʃə/)[4] is an American journalist, author, and acomic book writer primarily forMarvel Comics, where he and artistMike Okamoto created the miniseriesAtomic Age. His longest affiliation has been with theNew York metropolitan area newspaperNewsday, where he has worked as a feature writer and film critic.
He was a nationally syndicated columnist forUnited Media/Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) for more than nine years, writing weekly interview features with filmmakers and performers. He is the author of several books and has also written for numerous publications includingBillboard,Entertainment Weekly, theLos Angeles Times, theNew York Post,Penthouse,Sound & Vision, andThe Village Voice. One of his inflight-magazine features, a profile of telecommunications entrepreneurRené Anselmo, was entered into theU.S. Congressional Record.[5]
Lovece was born inBuenos Aires,Argentina. He is the son of Italian immigrants. He moved to the U.S as a toddler and was raised inKeyser andMorgantown, West Virginia.[1] There his family ran Italian restaurants.[2] He attended St. Francis High School andWest Virginia University in Morgantown, where he was the arts/entertainment editor of thecollege newspaper, theDaily Athenaeum. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.[1]
In the early 1980s, Lovece was on staff atVideo Review magazine, and by mid-decade had begun freelancing for that publication and others including video- and media-focused outlets such asAmerican Film andVideo, as well as mass-market periodicals including theLos Angeles Times, theNew York Post,Penthouse,The Village Voice, and several airline inflight magazines.[4] He was a music critic forAudio andFaces, and a video-technology columnist and home-video feature writer for the trade magazineBillboard.[1] His features have covered subjects ranging from pop culture and technology to film and television. One of his inflight-magazine articles, on telecommunications mogul René Anselmo, was entered into theU.S. Congressional Record in 1995.[5]
He was a nationally syndicated columnist for United Media/Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) for more than nine years in the 1980s and 1990s, writing weekly interview features with filmmakers and performers.[6] For that syndicate he additionally wrote shorter-run columns on home video and on cable-TV programming.[7]
ForEntertainment Weekly, Lovece wrote, in addition to film and TV features and featurettes, a comic-book column. His stories for the magazine included interviews with filmmakers and others, and analyses of pop culture and comics.[8][6] In 1991, he produced the first home video (footage of his own child) to obtain anMPAA rating for anEntertainment Weekly article. ForNewsday, from the 1990s to 2020s, he has worked as a feature writer and film critic, producing entertainment features and reviews that also were syndicated to other outlets.[8][9]
He additionally was a film critic forFilm Journal International, the New York Post,The Record of northern New Jersey andTV Guide Online, and was a syndicated film critic through theAssociated Press and theCatholic News Service.[10][11][12][13]
Together with the editors of Consumer Guide, Lovece wroteTV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television, published in 1984.[14] This was followed byHailing 'Taxi': The Official Book of the Show (1988) and similar books on topic including the TV seriesThe Brady Bunch andThe X-Files.[15] By 1990, Lovece had become a writer and film critic forNewsday.[16][17] He also wrote an unofficial book guide forGodzilla, but afterGodzilla franchise ownerToho filed a lawsuit, a district court judge in 1998 issued a preliminary injunction blocking the book from release in the United States due to alleged trademark violation.[18] The book was published in Europe.[19]
Lovece and artist Mike Okamoto created the four-issue miniseriesAtomic Age (Nov. 1990 – Feb. 1991) for Marvel Comics’ creator-owned Epic Comics imprint. Lovece also wrote stories for Marvel’sNightstalkers,Hokum & Hex,Ghost Rider Annual, andThe Incredible Hulk Annual.[20][21] His story “For My Son,” co-created with artist Bill Koeb, appeared inClive Barker’s Hellraiser Summer Special and was later collected inClive Barker’s Hellraiser: Collected Best. He also has written for Dark Horse Comics and Harris Comics.[22][23]
He editedStan Lee’s God Woke, written byStan Lee andFabian Nicieza, which won the 2017Independent Publisher Book Award for Outstanding Books of the Year – Independent Voice Award. During this period, he served as editor-in-chief of the independent comics publishers Shatner Singularity and Apex Comics Group.[24]
He has written articles forHabitat,Entertainment Weekly,Newsday,Yahoo!/MSN.
Beyond print journalism, Lovece has written for online and broadcast media. He served as a web editor for Gist TV/Yahoo!,Sound & Vision and theSci Fi Channel.[25]
In 2005, Lovece and photographer Matthew Jordan Smith collaborated on the bookLost and Found, a photojournalistic record of families of abducted children and the work ofThe National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. He has also appeared on media and pop-culture panels at conventions and at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.[26]
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