GEORGE'S RUN: A WRITER'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE TWILIGHT ZONE

The life of sci-fi and screen writer George Clayton Johnson in a new graphic novel. George broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean’s Eleven. More legendary works followed, including Logan’s Run and classic scripts for shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek. In the meantime, he forged friendships with some of the era’s most visionary science fiction writers, including Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson, and Rod Serling. Later in life, Johnson befriended comics journalist and artist Henry Chamberlain, and the two had long chats about his amazing life and career. Now Chamberlain pays tribute to his late friend in the graphic novel George’s Run, which brings Johnson’s creative milieu to life. The result feels less like reading a conventional biography and more like sitting in on an intimate conversation between friends as they recollect key moments in pop culture history, as well as the colorful band of writers known as the "Rat Pack of Science Fiction." The art here is pretty simplistic, but it has its charm. And as it was drawn AND written by George's friend, it's clearly an inside, intimate story. The author maintains a pop culture website Comics Grinder, through which he first met George. "George Clayton Johnson was one of the most brilliant and important writers of the twentieth century, creating episodes of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, as well as coauthoring Logan's Run and Ocean's Eleven. George's Run spectacularly and charmingly invites you on the amazing journey of his life and legacy, from 1929 through the fifties and sixties to 2015 and beyond. It's a trip down Memory Lane via time machine and rocket ship--and it will definitely blow your mind." - Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion I met George for the first time at a World Science Fiction convention way, way back. We shared a joint with another friend while George offered us stories about his work and then we all headed off to a party at another hotel room. He was one of the wild ones of science fiction, I'd compare him to Philip K. Dick but much more mellowed out, with long hair and a beard, a real character. - Bud