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Jul.09.2009
Hi, my name is Steve Ekstrom--I write comic books. Currently, my webcomic, THE ARES IMPERATIVE is competing for a publication contract on ZUDA. ZUDA is DC Comics' webcomics imprint. If we receive enough votes by the end of the month we will be able to publish the remaining 52 pages of our 60...
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Apr.01.2009
Long time no Red Room Blog!
Been busy...but check out my newest review over at Shotgun Reviews.
Calling All Stars is must-listen music!
Steve
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Aug.24.2008
Howdy-doo Red Room Readers!
Just wanted to share in my love for John Carpenter's Halloween by posting my advanced review to Halloween: 30 Years of Terror from Devil's Due Publishing. I've gotten to know Halloween writer Stefan Hutchinson very well over the past 8 months--and he's really making...
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Jul.16.2008
I have to admit--it's pretty amazing when you get to hold a physical copy of something you created when it hits shelves. I'm in San Diego--and the store, Comickazee, where I was picking up something for my weekly Wednesday "fix" had a couple copies of the book.
I bought one...for my Dad...
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Jul.04.2008
Recently, I did a book review covering Victor Gischler's Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse from Touchstone. Currently, he's one of three writers who are going to be taking the reigns of Marvel's Punisher MAX title after Garth Ennis leaves the title. This guy is the real deal, folks. Check out some...
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Jun.24.2008
This is a really cool piece I did in college--it's a "third party" experiment. Basically I took a "second party" experiment and took it a step farther...what's the experiment about, Steve?!? FFS...
Essentially, someone wrote a poem in first person...another person reads it and...
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Jun.24.2008
I love exploring my darker side--this piece could have the alternate title "Why Steve should never eat pizza late at night and fall asleep after looking at naughty XXX websites."
Just kidding...no, no...not really. (sigh)
Read on, reader!
nyctalopia intrusive, evil hour,an auger...
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Jun.24.2008
I wrote this for some girl a long time ago--and I gave it to her and I don't think she ever really appreciated it.
It's still a really good poem though--and I even cock-block one of my friends in it with because he was too cheap to buy this girl roses...live and learn, right?
Fun stuff... ...
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Jun.24.2008
This was the poem that I wrote for my Grandmother, Foy Bragg, before she passed away from lung cancer in 2006. Basically, this poem became her eulogy at her funeral--easily one of my best pieces.
I miss her a lot.
If you smoke--fucking quit already--there are people who love you and don't want to...
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Jun.24.2008
Wow, dug this one out of a box--what a difference "NOT DRINKING SO MUCH" makes.
Oh, like you don't find sad clowns interesting--shut up.
Enjoy!
A Sad Clown Named Arpeggio
His day was like the rest of them,a slewing of raindrops drizzlingstaccato through his brokenopen driver's side...
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Apr.24.2008
Yeah, this is my last piece of poetry I promise to subject you to (FOR NOW...) and this one is a doozy.
It's reflection about the first hard-on I remembered getting when I was five years old...and how it terrified me.
'Nuff said, right?
Thanks for taking the time.
The Pop-Up Book
Oh my...
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Apr.22.2008
I know--these things are awful, aren't they? With Tags like "self-loathing" "alcoholism" and "drug use"--what can you do, right? Well, this was a lot worse in older versions--I really pared it down quite a bit and tried to use more scientific jargon to get the...
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Apr.18.2008
Here we are--part 4 of my 6 piece poetry submission to "The New Yorker" magazine. I'm not a big fan of abstract and unorthodox usage of the page when it comes to writing poems--but this was one of those pieces where I had this incredibly vivid dream...that was completely all over the...
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Apr.16.2008
Oh oh oh--we've reached the "hump" of my 6 piece submission to "The New Yorker" last November. I hope you enjoy this piece; I consider this to be an "ambitious" piece from my body of work.
I swear, I'm not a pervert--I'm just consumed by intimacy and science and how...
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Apr.15.2008
Here we go! Installment two of a six part series of my recent submission to The New Yorker.
Little backstory: I was in my friend's bathroom--taking care of business--and I noticed his his stack of TNY magazines on the top of his toilet (see? you thought i was going '#2'...freak, but I digress...
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About Steven
I'm a 35 year old writer from south Georgia. I work in the comic book industry as a freelance writer and journalist. My work can be seen regularly on Newsarama--the best Eisner, Harvey and Eagle award winning source for comic book entertainment news in the...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Great Gatsby, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The...
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