Deej Sylvis, Author at Kittysneezes

Review: Stryper: Live in Indonesia at the Java Rockin’ Land

On April 25, 2013 by Deej Sylvis

Ah, Stryper. If you’ve heard of them at all, chances are you’re of my generation and barely recall ‘that Christian metal band’ that had a couple of videos on MTV and showed up on the Billboard charts every so often. They were…

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Men Without Hats: Still Safe

On June 12, 2012 by Deej Sylvis

It’s almost a stereotype, isn’t it? Band has some hits and releases a streak of fairly well-received albums; band disappears for a while and comes back with an experimental new direction that, let’s be frank, doesn’t go so well; band recovers and…

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Review: Smile

On March 5, 2012 by Deej Sylvis

There’s a quote I particularly like from Neil Gaiman about writing children’s literature: “Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn’t something you do for money. It’s something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in…

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Point/Point: The Comic Code Authority

On January 26, 2011 by Deej Sylvis

Image via Wikipedia The Comic Book Industry, and I, Grow Up by D.J. Sylvis For comic book fans, last week signalled the end of an era as the last few publishers abandoned the Comics Code Authority. It was actually an era…

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Review: The Suicide Cult

On January 12, 2011 by Deej Sylvis

In the later 1970s, dozens upon dozens of ‘true-crime’ books flooded the shelves, riding a new wave of popularity and searching for their own fifteen minutes of fame. Kilduff and Javers, reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle, compiled their stories exposing charismatic…

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Review: Trek Stars Go West

On January 5, 2011 by Deej Sylvis

It’s not difficult to find the reasoning behind a compilation like Trek Stars Go West – it’s a well-known fact that when Gene Roddenberry first came up with the concept behind the original Trek series, he described it as a western set…

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Review: “Johnny Boo and the Mean Little Boy” and “Dragon Puncher”, James Kochalka

On November 12, 2010 by Deej Sylvis

Johnny Boo and the Mean Little Boy, James Kochalka Dragon Puncher, James Kochalka There’s really no doubt that one of the things that has always been admirable about Kochalka‘s work is the joyously childlike spirit inherent in it — whether that…

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Your Friend, Bigfoot

On August 11, 2007 by Deej Sylvis

A Report by D.J. Sylvis, Age 36 Originally published in my now-defunct zine, ‘Monkeyman’.

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