Monster Alley: 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

LIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS + PRODUCTIONS for GARY WRAY

A good place to start is with a fairly complete list of my works as an artist, musician, writer and filmmaker. I've added a photo after each entry for identification of the book or product.

1. FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #22 - 1963 Warren Magazine - Letters To The Editor Dept. - Published my review of movie THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE.

2. DWRAYGER DUNGEON #1 - 1964 Self published Monster Magazine with D. Draeger - 9 pages illustrations, 6 of movie monsters, story writing and movie reviews.

3. FRESNO COMIC ART FESTIVAL - 1979 Program - Centerfold Illustration (Dragon) and mention. I was also interviewed for local television.

4. FANDOM DIRECTORY #1 - 1980 Softcover - 2 pages (Giant Robot and Dragon illustrations).

5. LOLLAPALOOSA #5 - 1980 Digest by Mitch O'Connell - 2 pages (Giant Robot and BIC monster splash 'Film Fiends').

***'Film Fiends' was also scheduled to be printed in FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, but, was lost and never published, cashed the check.

6. COMICARD CONNECTION 1980-1, Monthly publication of Alpha Omega Comics in Fresno, CA - Contributed to 6 issues with various illustrations, mentions in 2 issues about being published in Charlton Bullseye #3 and MOD Comix #1.

7. FANDOM DIRECTORY #2 - 1981 Softcover - 1 page illustration (Interplanetary Mailman).

8. CHARLTON BULLSEYE #3 - 1981 Charlton Comics - 5 page story 'Cavern Of The Brain-Eaters.'

9. MOD #1 - 1981 Kitchen Sink Comix by Terry Beatty - 2 page story 'Giant Robots on Parade' - story by Terry Beatty.

THE CREEP / 2001 Movie

Our first movie, a b/w retro psycho thriller featuring over 60 actors, and with Forrest J. Ackerman as host in his 96th film appearance.

SILVER ANGEL vs THE DEATH ZOMBIES / 2004 Movie

We spiced up things a bit here with Mex-style motifs.

This was the poster I designed and printed by Budweiser for the premiere. Allen Tackett is a former world champion kick boxer.

VIRUS MAN / 2004 Movie

VIRUS MAN is a movie about a guy who likes to play around with viruses, so, some kids sabotage one of his experiment with disasterous consequences.

VOODOO CLUB / 2005 Movie

We ran out of money and other resources when we were half done shooting VOODOO CLUB. Its about 3 roommates who offend the local Voodoo Club leader, Wondo.

In 2002 we shot a short movie called SNAKE BAIT, about a guy who answers a strange ad, only to get duped into becoming part of a mutant hillbilly family!

'ALMOST' MONSTER MOVIE POSTERS

In 1996, two of my scripts, ATOMIC FRANKENSTEIN and THINGS FROM MARS were almost produced in Hollywood as a double 'retro' feature, but, decided against in the final analysis.

This is the poster for ATOMIC FRANKENSTEIN.

This poster is for a more recent script.

OFFBEAT - LA Cable Access Show 1992-3

I produced a cable access show called OFFBEAT with pals Darrell Draeger, Brian Riedel and Wes Hanson. Eventually, we added Christy Taylor to the line-up. Guests included Tom Ferranti and Andy Rey.

We were the 'Offbeatniks' and flew around in space in 'The Pod,' our spaceship, which was a converted coffee maker model. Christy became Galaxy, the 'Offbeat Girl.'

We taped 10 episodes in Chatsworth, CA where we showed music videos Darrell collected from around the world, then, we would have adventures in between those segments and we used all green screen effects. We did 10 episodes, the first and last were disasters, and so, it was time to move on.

Christy went on to do a few good things including 'The Making of ...And, God Spoke' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' and was working in 2007. She also appeared on the TV series 'Weird Science' and 'Saved By The Bell, The New Class' and has produced for Walt Disney!

At the time, there was a program on cable TV called 'Access America' that starred Fred Willard and showed clips they collected from cable access shows around the country. We submitted some of our stuff and they loved it, and said they wanted to use us regularly!! We thought that was very cool until they informed us that they got cancelled!..

These are stills from shows #7-9.