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Frank Lovece
Lovece in 2014
Born	1958 (age 66–67) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show Lost and Found Atomic Age Hokum & Hex Nightstalkers
Spouse(s)	Maitland McDonagh

Frank Lovece (/lɑːˈvɛ.ɔɪɑː/) is an American journalist and author, and a comic book writer primarily for Marvel Comics, where he and artist Mike Okamoto created the miniseries Atomic Age. His longest affiliation has been with the New York metropolitan area newspaper Newsday, where he has served as a feature writer and film critic.

Early life

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants, Frank Lovece moved to the U.S. as a toddler and was raised in Keyser and Morgantown, West Virginia. There his family ran Italian restaurants. He attended St. Francis High School and West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he was the arts/entertainment editor of the college newspaper, the Daily Athenaeum. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.

Career

Early work

Lovece became a writer and film critic for Newsday. Lovece wrote an unofficial book guide for Godzilla, but after Godzilla franchise owner Toho filed a lawsuit, a district court judge in 1998 blocked the book from release in the United States due to copyright violations.

By the 1990s, Lovece was a weekly syndicated columnist for United Media / NEA, and a writer for periodicals including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Penthouse, and Billboard.

In the 1990s, he wrote for Entertainment Weekly. He produced the first home video to obtain an MPAA rating, while writing for a 1991 Entertainment Weekly article instructing the public on how to have their home movies rated by the MPAA.

Comic books

Lovece and artist Mike Okamoto created the four-issue miniseries Atomic Age (Nov. 1990 – Feb. 1991) for Marvel Comics' creator-owned Epic Comics imprint. One of the issues in this series was featured in a 1995 exhibition, The Atomic Age Opens, by the Browne Popular Culture Library of the Bowling Green State University.

His three-part child-abuse drama "Egg" ran in Dark Horse Comics' Dark Horse Presents #110–112.

He oversaw the graphic novel Stan Lee's 'God Woke', written by Stan Lee and Fabian Nicieza., which won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.

Later career

Lovece has created websites for magazines and television shows and written articles for Habitat, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Yahoo!/MSN, and other publications.

In 2005, Lovece and photographer Matthew Jordan Smith collaborated on the book Lost and Found, a photojournalistic record of families of abducted children and the work of The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

In addition to his Newsday column, features and film reviews, Lovece has been a movie critic for Film Journal International, the TV Guide website, and the northern New Jersey newspaper The Record.

Bibliography

• Lovece, Frank. TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television (1984) New York: Beekman House / Publications International. ISBN 0-517-46367-9
• Lovece, Frank, with Jules Franco. Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show (1988) New York: Prentice Hall Press ISBN 0-13-372103-5, ISBN 978-0-13-372103-4
  • Reissued and updated: Taxi: The Official Fan's Guide (1996) New York: Citadel Press ISBN 0-8065-1801-4, ISBN 978-0-8065-1801-5
• Edelstein, Andrew J., and Frank Lovece. The Brady Bunch Book (1990) New York: Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-39137-9
• Lovece, Frank (1992). The Television Yearbook. New York: Perigee Books / Putnam Publishing. ISBN 0-399-51702-2, ISBN 978-0-399-51702-0
• Lovece, Frank. The X-Files Declassified (1996) New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-1745-X, ISBN 978-0-8065-1745-2
  • U.K. edition: The X-Files Declassified : The Truth!: The Unauthorized Guide to the Complete Series (1996) London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-68232-9, ISBN 978-0-340-68232-6
• Lovece, Frank. Godzilla: The Complete Guide to Moviedom's Mightiest Monster. Originally scheduled 1998 by William Morrow / Quill. ISBN 0-688-15603-7; ISBN 978-0-688-15603-9. Subjected to prior restraint in U.S.; released overseas.
• Smith, Michael Jordan (photographer), and Frank Lovece. Lost and Found (2006) New York: Filipacchi Publishing. ISBN 1-59975-611-0, ISBN 978-1-59975-611-0

References

1. ^ Abrams, Nancy (September 10, 1989). "Frank Lovece Makes a Living Writing About TV". The Dominion Post. Morgantown, West Virginia. Archived from the original on July 5, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
2. ^ Seitz, Matt Zoller (October 4, 1996). "Declassified Information, By the Book". The Star-Ledger. Newark, New Jersey. Archived from the original on July 5, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
3. Meyer, Ken (March 15, 2010). "Ink Stains 14: Nimbus 3". Ink Stains. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
4. Thompson, Maggie (November 2, 1990). "Epic Comics Goes Back to the '50s with 'Atomic Age'". Comics Buyer's Guide. No. 885. ...Lovece (pronounced 'lah VETcha')...
5. ^ "FrankLovece.com". (Official site). Archived from the original on September 18, 2010. Additional Wayback Machine archive, August 16, 2011.
6. Jacobs, Alexandra; Flamm, Matthew (April 24, 1998). "The inside scoop on the book world". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
7. ^ Lovece, Frank (August 9, 1991). "Get your own film rating". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
8. Lovece, Frank (November 22, 1996). "Video Reviews: Superhero Films". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
9. The Washington Post, August 9, 1991: Style section, p. D6
10. "The Atomic Age Opens: Selections from the Browne Library". Browne Popular Culture Library News. May 31, 1995. Archived from the original on May 23, 2011.
11. Schreck, Bob. Dark Horse Presents No. 110 (June 1996), p. 9
12. "2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards". Independent Publisher Book Awards. Retrieved March 3, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
13. Frank Lovece at Habitat
14. Lovece, Frank (2006). "Behind the Scenes of Lost and Found". TakeGreatPictures.com. Archived from the original on November 24, 2010. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
15. "Lost and Found". National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. 2006. Archived from the original on November 24, 2010.
16. ^ Frank Lovece at Rotten Tomatoes
17. Frank Lovece at Film Journal International. Archived from the original on August 1, 2015.
18. Lovece, Frank (June 1, 1990). "'Recall': In Space, No One Can Hear You Grunt". (Total Recall film review) The Record.
19. Lovece, Frank (December 22, 1990). "'Rainman' Takes a Snooze". (Awakenings film review) The Record.

External links

• "Lovece, Frank". The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
• Meyer, Ken Jr. (March 15, 2010). "Nimbus 3 (Sept. 1977)". Ink Stains (column) 14, ComicAttack.net. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010.
• Lovece, Frank, ed. (September 1977). "Nimbus" (PDF) (3). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 27, 2012. {{cite journal}}: |first= has generic name (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• American comics writers
• American humorists
• American male journalists
• American male writers
• Living people
• People from Buenos Aires
• People from Keyser, West Virginia
• People from Morgantown, West Virginia
• Argentine emigrants to the United States
• American people of Italian descent
• Marvel Comics people
• 1958 births