George E. Turner

Films to RememberIn this first volume of Michael H. Price's influential Forgotten Horrors series, enhanced and updated for 2019, Price and co-author George E. Turner chronicle the development of horror and weird mystery cinema from 1931 through 1942. Price and Turner crack open the rusting film cans of nearly 400 movies produced by Poverty Row (and other impoverished) studios--films that flickered briefly and then settled into the cinematic silt of old Hollywood; films that occasionally featured future stars like Boris Karloff or Ginger Rogers, but more often were headlined by names long lost to history. In short, authoritative essays, the authors present and analyze each film in its entirety: plots, actors, directors, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and trivia, and the political and cultural contexts in which these films were made. Step back in time to an era when weird, compelling, outrageous, and sometimes even offensive visions routinely made it to the silver screen. Illustrated with over 500 photos, and featuring introductory remarks by Mel Brooks and Josh Alan Friedman, author-entertainers who share a profound understanding of the inseparable nature of horror and humor.

George E. Turner, co-founder of the "Forgotten Horrors" film-history series, comes to the fore with a 280-page array of his art -- from the pioneering dinosaur comic strip "The Ancient Southwest" to a variety of comic-book stories and commercial/historical illustrations. Featuring additional Turner-related work from Peter William Von Sholly, Lamberto Alvarez, and Adrian B. Martinez.

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From dinosaurs to Conquistadores, The Ancient Southwest, a dynamically illustrated collection of natural history and early-day recorded history, takes its cue from the tradition of storytelling in pictures. The narrative medium is the comic strip, applied here "to increase popular interest in geology," as one of its original contributors described the project. An enormously popular feature in the West Texas newspaper where it originated more than fifty years ago, The Ancient Southwest has been painstakingly restored and annotated by the cartoonist and cultural historian Michael H. Price as a follow-through to a lengthy collaboration with the primary artist, the late George E. Turner. The strips, originally designed for serialized weekly publication, have gone unseen since 1951-1952. Inspired by the permanent collections of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, the cartoons cover a vast span of prehistory, from the earliest invertebrate and reptilian life to the Age of Mammals and the Paleo-Indians. The volume also contains a full restoration of Turner's The Palo Duro Story, recounting one of the earliest Spanish explorations of North America from the viewpoint of Cabeza de Vaca. An appendix reproduces a selection of Turner's college-newspaper cartoons of the post-World War II years, foreshadowing the style he would bring to bear upon The Ancient Southwest and The Palo Duro Story.