Guest post by Matthew Ilseman DC comics, though best known for its superheroes, released a lot of high quality non-superhero work in the 70s. These genres included War, Horror, and of particular interest to those here, the Western. This was part of an effort to release more books to crowd titles from its rival publisher, Marvel, which was … [Read more...] about The Hangman Never Loses

Our friend and ace scholar of the Apache Wars has a new book contract for a tome on the Apache Scouts. She’s looking for commentary from the campfire: I have also signed a new book contract that I am working on now about Apache Scouts, who were warriors for sure and knew how to survive with or without any kind of fancy rifles or even knives and … [Read more...] about Apache Scouts

Guest post by Matthew Ilseman   * All in all, this ain’t Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. So goes the first story in The ‘Nam; 1966-1969 Omnibus. Back in the 1980s, Marvel Comics decided to print a war comic about the Vietnam War. Chief editor Jim Shooter gave the job of development to fellow editor Larry Hama, a Vietnam veteran … [Read more...] about The ’Nam: 1966-1969

Turned in one of the most intense and most successful Frontier Partisans Biathlons in the storied annals of that endeavor this morning. Both high volume and high tempo, which I don’t do too often anymore. Conditions were perfect, and the shooting was about as good as I am capable of doing — which is gratifying. I went out deliberately to go hard … [Read more...] about East Of Eden, North To Montana

The Metolius River near my home in Sisters, Oregon, rises from a small spring. It is fed by other springs and tributary creeks and with a couple of miles becomes a glorious, rushing river. H. Rider Haggard embodies the headwaters of men’s adventure fiction. From his pen flowed a mighty river of genre fiction of many shades and colors, an his … [Read more...] about The Wellspring Of Men’s Adventure Fiction

Frontier Partisans reader and patron Bob Deis is doing noble work in keeping alive the spirit of the glorious pulpy goodness of Men’s Adventure magazines and paperback novels — and preserving the legacy of the outstanding artists who brought virile men and sexy women in dire danger to life in the 20th Century. MENSPULPMAGS.ORG — The Men’s Adventure … [Read more...] about Pulpy Goodness — Wild, Wild Westerns

Well, I didn’t make it to the theater for Young Washington. I had some time constraints — including a cool Frontier Partisans-related thing that I can’t talk about yet, which had a tight turnaround. That was a priority, along with work demands and obligations on one of Sisters’ biggest event weekends. Truth is though, if I had really wanted to get … [Read more...] about Thoughts On An Unseen ‘Young Washington’

“We would rather die in these ditches than surrender ourselves to a post-literate society.” — William Barrett Travis, The Alamo, 1836 * OK, so that’s not exactly what Travis said, but he would have if he wrote for Texas Monthly. That’s my legend, and I’m sticking to it. As the editor in chief of a small community weekly newspaper, I get … [Read more...] about Read Or Die!

If you enjoy the Continuity & Persistence of frontier tales set in a contemporary setting, this summer has a lot of cinematic juice for you. Lady Marilyn is going to be riveted to the screen for Heart of the Beast. No, not because of Brad Pitt. The dog, people. It’s always about the dog. I can hear her now... “If anything happens to … [Read more...] about Frontier Partisan Cinema — Rez Police, A Man And His Dog & Lioness