Here is a link to a great celebrity convention you should attend if you are in or near Chicago!

http://www.nonsportcardexpo.com/

Some great guests will be there signing , and the people in charge running this show have a fantastic charity they are supporting as well! Have fun!

I was never able to meet actress Patricia Neal, but I did mail off some of my photos to her just a couple months ago for her to autograph for me. She did indeed sign some great pics I sent to her from The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Fountainhead!

I will post those hand signed photos she sent back to me in my SASE, here soon. She was a wonderful actress.

Here is a link to her Obit.…

For all you fans out there that LOVE Vampires, and also the series True Blood.....all I can say is this.....in an upcoming column from me for the magazine....you will delight in this genre article indeed!

Tell your fellow horror and vampire fans, and by all means, tell them to grab a subscription of this awesome magazine dealing with autographs in and around so many other genres!

And, please do not read the article with garlic around your neck.......it does…

I attended via press pass the very awesome Shore leave conention here in Baltimore, my home town during last weekend , July 9-11 2010. This is a fan run convention and run very well indeed!

I was also able to interview Edward James Olmos, Kevin Sorbo, Torri Higginson, Catherine Hicks, and Dominic Keating! They also singed quite a few autographs for me and I will post those photos here soon!!!

This convention boasts so much goings-on throughout the weekend and…

Now actor, Dennis Hopper has passed on! I never met him, but I do own his autograph I traded a dealer with for one that I owned. First Gary Coleman now Dennis.....who will round it out to make celeb death number three????

Here is a link..... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100529/ap_on_en_mo/us_obit_dennis_hopper

Gary Coleman passed today. I interviewed him at the Chiller Con in 2008. He signed a few items for me after our interview. Here is a link... http://www.movieline.com/2010/05/breaking-gary-coleman-dead-at-age-42.php

It is sad to know that Fantasy and genre artist Frank Frazetta has passed away at age 82.

He was a famous artist and icon in our culture, especially those of Sci-Fi Fantasy and Horror!

Here is an OBIT.....

http://scifiwire.com/2010/05/frank-frazetta-iconic-conan-artist-dead-at-82.php

I own a signed magazine he autographed with his artwork on the…

I was quite lucky at the Chiller convention in NJ. this past weekend on April 18th 2010.

I interviewed, Rita Moreno, Robert Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Kristin Bauer a vampire from True Blood, Martine Beswicke, and Caroline Munro.

Also, got a few autographs in exchange for mentioning a few guests on here and doing some photo ops with Kristana Loken the girl…

Robert Culp passed away the other day at the age of 79.

I interviewed Robert in 2008 at the Chiller convention in New Jersey. He was nice to me but showed some signs of confusion in his answers to my questions. I have quite a few signed items he autographed for me there!

Here is one of his OBITS.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100325/film_nm/us_culp

The actor from comedy horror film The Lost Boys, and other films, Cory Haim, has passed on , as the report says, from an overdose of drugs.

I never got to meet this young man, but he did attend a few genre conventions on the West Coast.

He will will be missed, what a shame.

Here is one of many links for his OBIT.…

Famous Space Artist , Bob McCall has passed away at the age of 90.

I never met this artist, but I do have many works he did, included 2 of them signed!

Here is a link to his OBIT.

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-022810a.html