Clifford Meth Explained

Birth Place:Rockaway, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality:American
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Notable Works:Aardwolf Publishing

Clifford Meth is an American writer, editor, and publisher best known for his dark fiction, as well as his publishing imprint Aardwolf Publishing. He has said that his work is often "self consciously Jewish."[1]

Early life

Meth grew up in Rockaway, New Jersey, and attended Morris Hills High School.[2] [3] [4] He attended Rutgers University and Fairleigh Dickinson University in the United States, and Wroxton College in the United Kingdom.[5]

Meth was associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch religious movement in the 1980s, but moved away from the movement following the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1994.[6]

Career

In publishing

In the early 1980s, Meth worked as a staff editor for Electronic Design[7] [8] while freelancing for the Los Angeles Times Entertainment Newswire, Fangoria, Starlog, Billboard and other periodicals.[9]

One of Meth's first published fictional works[10] was "I, Gezheh", which dealt with abuse. Author Robert Bloch provided an afterword for the story, which was illustrated by Dave Cockrum.[11]

With the aid of Cockrum and fantasy artist Gray Morrow, Meth co-founded Aardwolf Publishing, along with business partner Jim Reeber in 1994. The company has published a series of comic books, art portfolios, and collections of illustrated fiction.[12]

In 2004, Meth joined IDT Entertainment's Creative Development team.[13] and worked on Showtime's Masters of Horror[14] series and ABC's Masters of Science Fiction.[14] In 2004, he was story editor for Gene Roddenberry's Starpoint Academy, an animated feature screenplay IDT hired Peter David to script.[15] Meth left IDT Entertainment in 2006 when the division was sold to Liberty Media.[16] In 2007 he oversaw the acquisition of IDW Publishing by IDT Corporation and joined IDW as executive vice president, editorial/strategies. The following year, producer Richard Saperstein optioned film rights to Meth's IDW horror comic-book series, Snaked, with Meth as screenwriter and an executive producer.[17]

In 2008, Meth launched IDW Publishing's "New Classics of the Fantastic Series", which published out-of-print Hugo and Nebula Award-winning books, beginning with Robert Silverberg's Nightwings.[18]

Charitable work

In 2008, Meth established the Dave & Paty Cockrum Scholarship at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art.[19] In 2010, Meth founded the Kars4Kids Literacy Program,[20] which has made significant contributions to such universities as Seton Hall University.[21]

On numerous occasions Meth has spearheaded campaigns to raise money and awareness for financially challenged comics’ creators, including Gene Colan,[22] William Messner-Loebs[23] and Dave Simons.[24]

Bibliography

Publications

Aardwolf Publishing

As editor

Audio

In 2008, the album Caged by Septimus Orion included a recording of Meth's short story "Queers", accompanied by music and sound effects.

Awards and recognition

Notes and References

  1. Introduction, God's 15 Minutes . Aardwolf Publishing (2003).
  2. Staff. "Alumni Profile: Clifford Lawrence Meth", FDU Magazine, Fall / Winter 1998, backed up by the Internet Archive as of October 19, 1999. Accessed January 10, 2018. "Born and raised in Rockaway, N.J., Meth began writing poetry at age 12 and hasn't stopped."
  3. Meth, Clifford. God's 15 Minutes, p. 81. Aardwolf, 2004. . Accessed January 10, 2018. "To know Clifford Meth personally, or better yet, to be his friend or brother (two concepts he takes very seriously) eclipses anything you may imagine about him from reading his short tales. Don't let the angry-young-poet becomes I-coulda'-been-a-contender demeanor fool you — Cliff still packs some non-trivial rage.... He remembers Rockaway. When I first met him back in the early eighties, Cliff was fresh out of Rockaway, NJ. Rockaway is Cliff's home town."
  4. Meth, Clifford. ComicBook Babylon, p. 284. Aardwolf Publishing, 2013. . Accessed January 10, 2018. "Brad Delp (died March 9, 2007 at the age of 55), lead singer of Boston, sang the songs that formed the soundtrack of my early freshman year at Morris Hills High School."
  5. Fairleigh Dickinson Magazine, Spring, 1980
  6. Roth, Laurence. "Innovation and orthodox comic books: the case of Mahrwood Press." MELUS 37, no. 2 (2012): 131-156.
  7. Meth, Clifford, Snaked (Introduction,), IDW Publishing, 2008.,
  8. Folio Magazine, October 1, 1991. article title? page #?
  9. Lorah, Michael C. "Clifford Meth on 'One Small Voice'", Newsarama, December 13, 2007
  10. Web site: Clifford Lawrence Meth . 2011-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100618164355/http://www.aardwolfpublishing.com/Authors/meth.htm . 2010-06-18 .
  11. Web site: Crib Death & Other Bedtime Stories . 2011-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100501201147/http://www.aardwolfpublishing.com/Comics-and-books/crib.htm . 2010-05-01 .
  12. Web site: Aardwolf Publishing. aardwolfpublishing.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903050851/http://aardwolfpublishing.com/ap/. 2011-09-03.
  13. Meth, Clifford. "Stan Lee: Grand Master - Part Three", Comics Bulletin, 2004, n.d.
  14. Meth Addict, Update Delirious . Comics Bulletin (2004)
  15. [Peter David|David, Peter]
  16. http://www.idt.net/about/press/story.aspx?id=15601 "Liberty Media to Acquire IDT Entertainment"
  17. Graser, Marc. "Saperstein takes on 'Snaked'", Variety, March 9, 2008)
  18. DeNardo, John. "IDW Announces New Science Fiction Line", SF Signal, August 29, 2008
  19. Web site: Everyone's Wrong and I'm Right: And now…The Dave & Paty Cockrum Scholarship. CLIFFORD METH. thecliffordmethod.blogspot.com.
  20. Web site: Will Stan Lee Sing the Kars4Kids Jingle?. ComicMix.
  21. Web site: Kars4Kids Literacy Program Donates Talmud to Seton Hall. South Orange, New Jersey Patch.
  22. Web site: Gene Colan benefit update | The Beat . 2010-10-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100803060236/http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/05/15/gene-colan-benefit-update/ . 2010-08-03 .
  23. Web site: Clifford Meth and Neal Adams Tag-Team for Messner-Loebs. Jason Brice. comicsbulletin.com.
  24. Web site: 20th Century Danny Boy: Looking Back With Dave Simons. Daniel Best. ohdannyboy.blogspot.com.
  25. Web site: Inkwell Awards.

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