Rick Norwood

Rick Norwood (born August 4, 1942) is from Franklin, Louisiana. He flunked out of M.I.T., where he was one of four writers and editors of the early underground comic God Comics, along with Bill Osten, Durk Pearson, and Al Kuhfeld. He published many letters in silver age DC and Marvel Comics and, with the permission of DC editor Julius Schwartz, wrote and published a fanzine story about the DC superhero Doctor Midnight.

He eventually got his Ph.D. in mathematics, in 1979, from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1980 - 1981 and is currently a professor of mathematics at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.

He is the founder and editor of the small press publishing house Manuscript Press, which was started in 1979 to publish a previously unpublished Hal Clement novel, Left of Africa. For Manuscript Press, he has edited a number of comic strip reprints, including Prince Valiant -- an American Epic and Buz Sawyer -- The War in the Pacific. He is currently editor of the long-running independent comic book Comics Revue.

As a mathematician, he has a number of publications in algebraic topology. He has also written articles, stories, and verse. He is the film and television reviewer for sfsite, a webzine, and he provided commentary for the Filmation Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant, and Defenders of the Earth DVDs.