Rick Norwood
Rick Norwood (born August 4, 1942) is an American publisher, mathematician, comics historian and short story author.
Born in Franklin, Louisiana, Norwood attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was one of four writer-editors of the early underground comic God Comics, along with Bill Osten, Durk Pearson and Al Kuhfeld. He published many letters in silver age DC and Marvel Comics and, with the permission of DC editor Julius Schwartz, wrote and published a fanzine story about the DC superhero Doctor Midnight.
In 1979, Norwood received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1980–81 and is currently a professor of mathematics at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.[1]
As a mathematician, Norwood has contributed to a number of publications in algebraic topology. He has written a book on logical thinking titled How to Think.[2] His article In Abstract Terrain, published in The Sciences, is quoted in Ivars Peterson's book, The Mathematical Tourist[3]
He has also written articles, stories and verse. He is the film/TV reviewer for SF Site, a webzine, and he provided commentary for the Filmation Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and Defenders of the Earth DVDs. His science fiction stories have appeared in Twilight Zone Magazine, Black Gate, Analog Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has edited the Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer books for Fantagraphics. For Titan Books he has written introductions for reprints of the comic strips Modesty Blaise, Flash Gordon, and Mandrake the Magician.
He wrote long-running columns for Comics Buyer's Guide and The Menomonee Falls Gazette.
He was a fan guest at the San Diego Comicon in 2011, and Guest of Honor at Concave in 2018, where he won a Rebel Award.[4]
Manuscript Press[edit]
Norwood is the founder and editor of the small press publishing house Manuscript Press, launched in 1979 to make available a previously unpublished Hal Clement novel, Left of Africa. For Manuscript Press, he has edited comic strip reprints, including Prince Valiant: An American Epic[5] and Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific. He is currently editor of the longest running independent comic book in America, Comics Revue.[6][7][8]
Books edited for Manuscript Press[edit]
- Left of Africa, by Hal Clement
- Archipelago, by R. A. Lafferty
- Prince Valiant, an American Epic – 1937, by Hal Foster[9]
- Prince Valiant, an American Epic – 1938, by Hal Foster
- Prince Valiant, an American Epic – 1939, by Hal Foster
- A Steve Canyon Companion, by Carl Horak
- The Magic Talisman, a Rick Brant Science Adventure, by John Blaine[10]
- A Prince Valiant Companion, by Hal Foster, Carl Horak, Todd Goldberg; production design by Don Markstein
- Alley Oop, Book #4, by V. T. Hamlin[11][12]
- Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific by Roy Crane
- Buz Sawyer: Sultry's Tiger by Roy Crane
- Flash Gordon: Star over Atlantis by Dan Barry
- How to Think by Rick Norwood
- Tullus – Adventures of a Christian Boy in Roman Times by Danny Frolich
Books edited for other publishers[edit]
- Captain Easy—Soldier of Fortune, Volume 1, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2010, ISBN 978-1606991619 Search this book on
. - Captain Easy—Soldier of Fortune, Volume 2, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2011, ISBN 978-1606993910 Search this book on .
- Captain Easy—Soldier of Fortune, Volume 3, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2012, ISBN 978-1606995297 Search this book on .
- Captain Easy—Soldier of Fortune, Volume 4, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2014, ISBN 978-1606996775 Search this book on .
- Roy Crane's Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures, The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2015, ISBN 978-1606998090 Search this book on .
- Buz Sawyer—The War in the Pacific, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2011, ISBN 978-1606993620 Search this book on .
- Buz Sawyer—Sultry's Tiger, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2012, ISBN 978-1606994993 Search this book on .
- Buz Sawyer—Typhoons and Honeymoons, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2014, ISBN 978-1606997031 Search this book on .
- Buz Sawyer—Zazarof's Revenge, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2016, ISBN 978-1606999752 Search this book on .
Bibliography[edit]
Short fiction[edit]
- "IO", Analog, Mar 1 1962
- "The Third Wish", Clarion II, 1972
- "The Other One", The Twilight Zone Magazine, May 1982
- "Three Timely Tales – The Abraham Lincoln Murder Case, Freedom, Mouse-Kitty, The Twilight Zone Magazine, Dec 1982
- "Freedom", 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories, 1884
- "Portal", Black Gate, Fall 2003
- "Aliens", Analog, Dec 2008
- "Brothers of the River", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug 2010
- "Long Time", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2011
- "Love", Analog, July/Aug 2013
- "One Way", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2017
- "Let a Thousand Poppies Bloom", Galaxy’s Edge, 2019
Stories published on line[edit]
- "Empty Earth", AE The Canadian Science Fiction Review
- "White House", Over My Dead Body
- "Heaven and Earth", Over My Dead Body
- Roger Ebert story ending, www.rogerebert.com
Selected nonfiction[edit]
- "Every Two generator Knot is Prime", Proceedings of the AMS, V. 86, N. 1, pp. 143–7, 1982.
- "Monsters and Manifolds", The Wilson Quarterly, pp. 98–111, Spring, 1982.
- "In Abstract Terrain", The Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 12–18, 1982.
- "Distances in an Array", Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 383–5, April 1988. Co authored with Dr. William Dotson
- "Money is Irrational", Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 101–102, April 1988.
- "Curves on Surfaces", Topology and its Applications #33, pp. 1–6, 1989.
- "The Worm Problem of Leo Moser", co authored with Dr. George Poole and Dr. Michael Laidacker, Discrete & Computational Geometry, Vol 7, pp. 153–162, 1992
- "How to Make Pi Equal to Three", The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 99, No. 2, p. 111, February 1992.
- "The Evolution of the Will", Philosophy in Science, Vol. 6, p. 143–151, 1995.
- "Why 2+2 Equals 2x2", Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 1, p. 60, February 1998.
- "Turning Double Torus Links Inside Out”, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, Vol. 8, No. 6 (1999) 789–798.
- "The Test of Time", Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 93, No. 3, p. 252–253, March 2000
- "An Improved Upper Bound to Leo Moser's Worm Problem", co-authored with Dr. George Poole, Discrete & Computational Geometry, Vol. 29 (2003) 409–417
- "The Maximum Number of 2x2 Odd Submatrices in (0–1) Matrices", co-authored with Dr. George Poole and Michael Marks. Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra and Applications, 10:223-231 (2003).
- "The Gostak and the Doshes", Math Horizons, April 2004.
- "On Alpha-Overlap Graphs", co-authored with Dr. Anant Godbole and Dr. Debbie Knisley. Congressus Numeratium, 204 (2010), pp. 161–171.
- "Curiosities: Beware the Cat", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2010
- "Planar Alpha-Overlap Graphs", co-authored with Dr. Anant Godbole and Dr. Debbie Knisley, Congressus Numeratium, 210 (2011), pp. 57–59.
- "The Math Major's Sex Life is Strenuous", Parody Magazine, Apr 2013
- "Polish Mathematics in the First Half of the 20th Century", co-authored with Dr. Robert Beeler. Mathematical Scientist, 39 (2014), pp. 1–10.
References[edit]
- ↑ Comics Interview #90, 1991, interview of Rick Norwood by Anthony Tollin. From the introduction by Anthony Tollin: "Rick Norwood has been involved in early science fiction fandom, was active at the dawn of comics fandom, and has gone on to realize some of his dreams from the early days – one of which is the publishing of "The Greatest Comic Book Of All Time" (also the biggest and most expensive)."
- ↑ Rick Norwood, How to Think, Manuscript Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0936414171 Search this book on .
- ↑ Ivars Peterson, The Mathematical Tourist, p. 220, W. H. Freeman, 1988, ISBN 0-8050-7159-8 Search this book on ..
- ↑ http://fancyclopedia.org/rick-norwood,
- ↑ Bill Schelly, A Life in Comic Fandom, p. 217, TwoMorrows Publishing, 2001, ISBN 978-1-893905-12-2 Search this book on .
- ↑ http://www.toonopedia.com/crevue.htm
- ↑ Comics Buyer's Guide, Tony Isabella, "Comics Revue reprints some of the best newspaper strips of all time."
- ↑ Comics Buyer's Guide, Maggie Thompson, "Norwood is careful to identify dates, storylines, and creators – which lets the novice place each in context".
- ↑ Strip Scene #23, Book Revue by Chirs Jenson, "Prince Valiant, an American Epic", "Of all the items sought after by comic strip collectors, the most rare and sought after must be the first year of "Prince Valiant". In my 13 years of collecting, I have been able to find only a handful of the original newspaper pages, and I consider myself lucky to have those. What more obvious project than for someone to reprint that first year in full color, full page size? Well, hallelujah! It's been done! And it's finally been done right!"
- ↑ Yellowback Library #410, August 2018, My Two Cents Worth – Helping Hal Goodwin on The Magic Talisman, Ernie Kelly, "More important was the publisher, Rick Norwood of Manuscript Press."
- ↑ Comics Buyer's Guide #1549, Brent Frankenhoff, "Alley Oop Vol. 4, This format is ideal for reprinting these highly detailed strips...Grade: A−"
- ↑ Comics Buyer's Guide #1549 "Alley Oop, Book 4, "Manuscript Press' Rick Norwood is an old hand by now at the art of how to present reprints of classic comic strip. He's done super-fancy huge volumes, ongoing reprint anthology periodicals, and book-length collections."
External links[edit]
- Works by or about Rick Norwood in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Rick_Norwood at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Faculty page at East Tennessee State University
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