Forrest Ackerman, AKA 4E, AKA The Ackermonster, AKA Dr. Acula, is gone. We all mourned his loss in December of 2008, and many of us still feel a sting that we live in a world without our favorite ...

I had just sent off a Christmas card along with the latest Fan Club Newsletter. I came home, sat down at my desk and dialled up my emails. First thing I read was that Forrest Ackerman, the enthusiast ...

Finally, we take a breath, clear the cobwebs of mourning and peek out from beneath the shadows to find out how the late Forrest J Ackerman continues to do us good. At genre conventions from coast to ...

It was a Blood-Red-letter day for fandom as pros and fans alike gathered to bid a reluctant “Forry-well” to the late great genre-icon Forrest J Ackerman! Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre served ...

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In the classic-horror world that Forry Ackerman left behind for us, some consider the Triple Crown of fan events to be: Monster Bash, Comic-Con and WonderFest. The Bash is an easy, intimate gathering ...

Fanboy love is an industry now. Film studios and comix publishers court their young, mostly male base and count on it to help turn cult items into mass phenomena. Once, though, fantasy magazines and ...

I suppose one is supposed to be in a reflective frame of mind at the end of a year, but I think this year the reflection process has been ramped up by virtue of the death of film historian and ...

Forrest J. Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term “sci-fi,” died ...

Forrest J Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," has died. He ...

Forrest J. Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," has died.

Forrest J Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," has died. He ...