Jeff Mariotte

I just found out that August is National Dog Month. I told Clio, and she’s excited!

Thanks!

Then drop into my blog for some more details! jeffmariotte.com/2025/08/07/a...

This is one of my favorites of the various interviews I've done throughout my career. Give it a read, please!

Brainworm Bobby wants us all dead.

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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001) ⭐ 6.8 | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi 1h 30m | PG

This is not non-horror, but have you seen this one? It sounds insanely entertaining (and there's a sequel). It's on my Halloween watchlist. www.imdb.com/title/tt0307...

"The thoroughness of Shannon Eric Denton's research is matched by the brilliance with which artist Chris Gugliotti brings to life the cryptids…” —Jeff Mariotte (Desperados) @jeffmariotte.bsky.social @cgugliotti.bsky.social @shannondenton.bsky.social

Thanks, Jeff! It definitely is.

Yesterday at SDCC @edgarriceburroughs.bsky.social announced my next book release, and a reissue of the book that it's a sequel to. My due date is Oct. 1--not sure when it'll actually be released. Exciting and humbling.

That just moved to the top of my watch list!

Erasing history is a favorite pastime of authoritarian regimes.

Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization

The Dangerous Plan to Turn Military Lawyers Into Immigration Judges The U.S. military is not a civilian law enforcement agency.

This is one of those things which is not partisan politics. Messing with the distinction between military justice and civilian law enforcement is messing with the foundational structure of our constitutional order.

Will Swift be in your Authority movie?

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

A political appointee, not a prosecutor, wants to overrule the sentence of the cop who killed Breonna Taylor. Is the administration going to make it legal for white folks to kill non-white people? Seems to be the message they’re sending. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department

Because the last thing Donald Trump wants is an educated populace. He does so well with the uneducated, the stupid, and the willfully ignorant. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...

As is my lute. If I had one, I mean.

It’s haunted by the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, doomed to be the birthplace of great art alongside great horrors.

“life,” even.

I was in Paris for four of them ad a young boy, and one in my teens. The French know how to celebrate.

I have enough meddling kids in my lufe, but I’ll take the van.

I’ve decided I wouldn’t want a Great Dane unless it came with a little saddle and a monkey with a cowboy hat.

Every day before I go on patrol.

Or actually, not very often. Once every few years.

That one time DC asked me to write #Superman. Love that guy.

Here Comes ‘Iron Man’—But For Preschoolers? In the Marvel Comics, superhero Iron Man hasn’t always been all that heroic. Tony Stark was an industrialist who mostly developed products for the military. During the Vietnam War, he went overseas…

A new piece went up on Thought Catalog this morning, about the alcoholic war profiteer coming to Disney Jr.

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Also a massive collection of signed first edition books, from folks like James Lee Burke, Pat Conroy, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Clive Barker, etc. Original art from comics I wrote, & some I didn’t. Signed art from Frank Frazetta, Don Maitz, Thomas Canty, & others.

I have a tambourine signed and authenticated by Brian Wilson as having been used in the Pet Sounds recording sessions. Also his autobiography, inscribed to me, & a Pet Sounds CD insert he signed. A drumstick tossed to me by Charlie Watts after a show on the Stones’ Europe 73 tour.

A New Comic Is Closing The Gap Between The First Two ‘Avatar’ Films The first Avatar movie, 2009’s Avatar, was set in the year 2154. The second, Avatar: The Way of Water, was released in 2022 but set in 2170. A thirteen-year real-life timespan, but in the fictional…

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No Actual Post Today Or, What's On the Horizon?

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I just signed this. If you’re a published writer, a bookseller, librarian, illustrator, or professionally involved with publishing in any way, you can sign it, too.