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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

We remembered, with affection, one of the great characters of Los Angeles-- "characters" used with total love and respect -- last fall when Forrest J Ackerman passed away. Eccentric, friendly, and a ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, 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,” died ...

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 ...