IDW Resurrecting Famous Monsters of Filmland
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
One of the saddest horror moments of 2009 was the passing of Forest Ackerman. Uncle Forry was a horror icon and his gift to the genre as a whole was Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine–a periodical that was essentially the bible of horror for a very long time.
Ackerman may no longer be with us, but the folks at IDW publishing are making sure his legacy lives on as they’ve announced plans to resurrect FMoF in 2010. Since I love the classics and firmly believe that you can never have too many magazines covering horror, this is great news.
Editor Michael Heisler had this to say about the project (thanks to Dread Central for sharing).
“FM was far and away my favorite magazine when I was a kid, and there has been nothing quite like it since. Our goal is to update that magic for a modern audience, with coverage of current horror in all its forms, while continuing to pay tribute to the classic films that started it all. Personally, I’m thrilled to be taking this step down the road that Forry Ackerman and ‘Chilly Billy’ Cardille put me on so many years ago.“
The new Famous Monsters will run on a quarterly publishing schedule starting next summer. Check out magazine’s new website here.
