Frank Lovece
Frank Lovece () 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 worked 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. Together with the editors of Consumer Guide, Lovece wrote "TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television", published in 1984. This was followed by "Taxi: The Official Fan's Guide" and similar guides. By 1990, Lovece had become a writer and film critic for "Newsday". In the 1990s, he wrote for "Entertainment Weekly". He produced the first home video (footage of his own child) in 1991 to obtain an MPAA rating for an "Entertainment  Weekly" article on how to have home movies rated. He also 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. 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. Lovece oversaw the graphic novel "Stan Lee's God Woke", which was written by Stan Lee and Fabian Nicieza. It 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. Lovece has been a movie critic for "Film Journal International", the "TV Guide" website, and the northern New Jersey newspaper "The Record".