Famous Monsters of Filmland

How fitting International Dog Day lands on Werewolf Wednesday! Let's see some of your werewolf fan art. Art by Greg Staples

Yesterday, I lost a dear friend and Hollywood lost one of its most dedicated advocates, Kevin Burns. In all my years in this business and past businesses I have yet to meet someone so passionate and selfless about the things he was involved in. Kevin Burns understood the impossible difficulty and the unrelenting time commitment of being an independent business owner in an era of massive corporate competition. Yet he became one of the most prolific TV producers of our time. Fo...r those of you wondering, Kevin produced and championed Alien Nation, Lost in Space, Ancient Aliens, A&E Biographies, Girls Next Door, Oak Island and perhaps launched and fostered some of the most successful shows on A&E. And this was just a small sample of what he left behind. He took little known hopefuls and made them producers and stars without asking of them to compromise who they were, now a rare thing in any business. He always shared what he had, most of all, time, which he had so little of. Kevin, like most of us Monster Kids, grew up on Famous Monsters and was a very close friend of Forry’s. In his busiest of days he would stop everything he was doing just to talk about those better and simpler times. We would all become 13 year olds again, when an Aurora model kit and a paint brush was what kept our imagination. He was one of FM’s greatest supporters and of all my endeavors as a publisher. I will miss him very much. @Kevin Burns (1955-2020)

How fitting International Dog Day lands on Werewolf Wednesday! Let's see some of your werewolf fan art. Art by Greg Staples

The extended cut of the FM Podcast Comic-Con at home addition is up! Listen or watch just don't forget to vote for your winner of the battle on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with #FMBodycount. Link in the Comments. Special thanks to The Launchpad Podcast for joining us.

Make sure to the in to the FM Podcast at #ComicConAtHome in 10 minutes. Don't forget to use Make sure to use #FMSDCC2020 and live tweet with us.

Has everyone been enjoying #ComicConAtHome? We hope you're ready for an epic monster throwdown with us and our friends over at The Launchpad Podcast. Tune in at 6pm as we join the ComicCon at Home fun with a game we call BODY COUNT!

Tune in on July 24th for special Famous Monsters Podcast as we join Comic-Con International for SDCC@Home on YouTube. We'll be joined by our friends Matt & Aaron from The Launchpad Podcast to play a game we call Body Count. We'll be pitting the most iconical horror monsters and villains against each other to see who can take out the most prey in the most memorable movie locations. You can count on many laughs, many deaths, but only one winner.

Our friends over at Sideshow Collectibles are putting on their own convention event this month. Check it out and stay tuned to hear what we have in store for Comic-Con@Home 2020.

This seems perfect for a bunch of monster kids raised on creature feature horror hosts. https://facebook.com/events/s/horror-host-live-dead-panel/3300202240000671/?ti=as

Happy 100th to the great Ray Harryhausen. If you could venture into one Harryhausen film which would it be?

What are you watching this Cthursday? Something maddening I hope.

25 years ago today Stan Winston threw his hat in the ring and showed he could keep up with Rick Baker in making some terrifying gorilla SFX. What did you think of the gorillas from CONGO?

Happy birthday to Robert Englund! The man who gave Freddy Krueger the kind of charisma you could only dream of.

Okay it's time to play Name That Monster! Bonus points for naming the actor.

WEREWOLF WEDNESDAY!!! "Were" you able to guess who in this Clue styled werewolf classic?