A week or so ago, I posted a blog ("Early Kaiju Fandom Strikes!", June 19, 2025) about Bradford Grant Boyle's work showcasing daikaiju-themed
fanzines from the 1970s, aptly titled Early Kaiju Fandom. The latest edition—Volume Four—is now in the house! The cover
art is a drawing I did sometime between 1981 and 1983 (I think) of Gaila,
the green, carnivorous gargantua from Toho's 1966 monsterpiece, War of the Gargantuas.
This edition includes reproductions of every page of every issue of the fanzines Oriental Cinema, Nipponese Fantasy Films, Giant Japanese Monsters, Giantdom, Japanese Monsters, and Japan's Giant Monsters. Talk about a labor of love!
You can order this one, as well as the previous three volumes, from Amazon.com here.
Also in today's mail delivery: a bottle of Frog's Point Honey's REAPER, made by friend, fellow author, and bee-wrangler Patrick Freivald. I've tried numerous varieties of the hot honey, and the reaper version is probably my favorite. It's hot, but not too hot. I'm told it's really good for drizzling onto the rim of a tumbler for an Old Fashioned, and since I love Old Fashioneds, that's gonna be my inaugural effort for this stuff!
Check out Frog's Point Honey here.
