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09/02/10-You heard it here first: Champion Joe is tweeting! Catch his Twitter feed at #joelansdale!

09/02/10-And speaking of catching, catch this deal: you can get a hardcover copy of the Hap & Leonard classic Captains Outrageous signed by Champion Joe for only $15 (plus s&h). Send Kasey a message if you want in on that deal!

09/02/10-Clyde Edson was street-mean and full of savvy and he knew what he wanted and got it any way he wanted. Brian Blackwood was a good boy, never got in any trouble, but he's got no father at home to be an example. When the two of them meet, it's going to be a strange night in Galveston, Texas. It's "Boys Will Be Boys," and it's the totally free Mojo story of the week. Enjoy!

08/26/10-If you like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Otis Adelbert Kline--or, for that matter, Michael Moorcock--you'll dig this: Champion Joe has written a novella that's an homage to the first two legends, and it will be published in a Planet Stories Double Feature with one of Moorcock's long-out-of-print first stories this October! Get the full scoop here!

08/26/10-Couple weeks ago, we told you about Devil Red, the new Hap & Leonard novel coming out in March. (Scroll down to 08/12/10 if you missed that.) Well, before then, in January 2011, Subterranean Press will release Hyenas, a Hap & Leonard novella. Click here for more information!

08/26/10-Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale talks genre fiction and the future of publishing with Desmond Reddick on "Dread Media." Take a listen by clicking here!

08/19/10-Booklist calls it "one of the wildest alternate-worlds, rip-in-space-time, sf-pastiche romps this side of '50s B movies." Publishers Weekly calls it "irrepressible, irreverent, and unpredictable." We just call it Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal.

08/19/10-Publishers Weekly says Champion Joe's "The Folding Man" is "riveting." So if you want to be riveted, check out Haunted Legends, the collection that includes that fine short story!

08/19/10-That book I just mentioned? Haunted Legends? Well, it's edited by Ellen Datlow. And she just completed another collection: Supernatural Noir. That book will contain a story by the Mojo one titled "Dead Sister." Look for it in 2011 from Dark Horse, and look here for the table of contents.

08/19/10-And Champion Joe went and edited a collection hisownself. It's called Crucified Dreams, and it includes stories by Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, and Mojo Joe. Click here!

08/12/10-You had to wait eight years between the sixth and seventh Hap & Leonard novels. So how long will it be till we see the eighth novel? Why, not long at all! Devil Red is due out March 15, 2011, from Knopf! Here's the publisher's description:

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they’ve ever encountered—Devil Red.

When their friend Marvin asks Hap and Leonard to look into a cold-case double murder, they’re more than happy to play private investigators: they like trouble, and they especially like getting paid to find it. It turns out that both of the victims were set to inherit serious money, and one of them ran with a vampire cult. The more closely Hap and Leonard look over the crime-scene photos, the more they see, including the image of a red devil’s head painted on a tree. A little research turns up a slew of murders with that same fiendish signature. And if that’s not enough, Leonard has taken to wearing a deerstalker cap . . . Will this be the case that finally sends Hap over the edge?

Full up with Lansdale’s trademark—whip-smart dialogue, relentless pacing, and unorthodox-to-say-the-least characters—Devil Red is one rambunctious thrill ride by one hell of a writer.

For a first look at the cover of Devil Red, click here!

08/12/10-Champion Joe's Edgar Award-winning, New York Times Notable Book of the Year, The Bottoms, will be released in paperback by Vintage this December. Check it out!

08/05/10-Mr. Digressius checked in with another glowing review for Champion Joe, this time for his Jonah Hex animated feature that appears on the Batman: Under the Red Hood deluxe Blu-ray DVD release. Click here to read the review. Click here to purchase the DVD. And click here if anyone's ever said to you, "The kitten's trying to tell the big cat where to get his milk."

08/05/10-Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is usually the guy telling the stories. But from November 26 through December 4, he'll be the guy judging the stories. He's been asked to participate in the Jury of the International Feature Film Competition of the 28th Torino Film Festival in Italy. Check it out!

07/22/10-If you're hankering for a couple new short stories by Champion Joe, you're in luck! Last month, William Morrow published Stories: All-New Tales, a collection compiled by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio; it includes "The Stars Are Falling," by Champion Joe. Go back a little further, to March, and you'll find Warriors, which includes Joe's "Solderin'." [Thanks, Craig!]

07/22/10-Less than a week from now, on July 27, Vintage will release the latest Hap & Leonard, Vanilla Ride, in trade paperback! If you missed it in hardcover, here's your chance to catch up.

07/15/10-Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are hitting the water for a new adventure, courtesy of Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale! But this time around, they'll have to contend with bizarre fantasy and supernatural elements out of both H. P. Lovecraft and Uncle Remus. It's all part of IDW's forthcoming series Classics Mutilated, and it's debuting at the San Diego Comic-Con: International in two weeks. Click here for more information, and for a look at the cover!

07/08/10-"It's early yet, but mighty East Texas hunters should get out their guns and oil them up, buy shells, proper clothing and a game bag, and pack a lunch. Squirrel season is upon us." Click here to read Champion Joe's "Blood Sport," as published June 18, 2010, by the Texas Observer.

07/01/10-"There are gangs of overweight scooter riders, sometimes in corrective shoes that never touch the ground, whipping about with bags of open cookies in their laps, devouring as they shop, consuming enough calories to fuel an Olympic rowing team. Fact is, there's something ominous about how the scooter riders congregate near the hot dog and ice cream aisles like motorcycle gangs, missing only the insignia on the leather jackets that read something like: WALMART ANGELS or BAD MOTOR SCOOTERS. They're the kind of folks who look at you when you walk by as if, on a moment's notice, they might snatch a can of potted meat and throw it at you because you're ambulatory." Click here to read all of Champion Joe's article "Walmart, I Can't Quit You," as published February 12, 2010, by the Texas Observer.

06/24/10-Ever have a nightmare? Ever have Joe R. Lansdale's nightmare? How about Jeffrey Ford's, Ramsey Campbell's, or Caitlin Kiernan's? Well, now you can! Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas have put together Haunted Legends, a collection of urban legends as interpreted by twenty masters of horror writing. You can buy the book here, and you can see the cover here.

06/17/10-Well, you missed the online radio conversation between the Funky Werepig and Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale. But thanks to the magic of the Interweb, you can listen to the replay anytime you like by clicking here!

05/20/10-Spinetingler magazine says Joe R. Lansdale is like "Kurt Vonnegut . . . but with cannibals and monsters who puke up popcorn-shaped eyeballs." Read the rest of the fun stuff they have to say, and their interview with Champion Joe, by clicking here!

05/13/10-You been coming here for--what?--about 12 years now? Well, if you haven't read where the history of the Orbit Drive-In, now's your chance. Click here to read Fangoria's review of The Complete Drive-In, a collection of Champion Joe's fine trilogy! Then click here to read the review from The Onion's AV Club!

05/06/10-"East Texas is a different kind of place. It's a mixture of cultures, and a lot of independent thinkers--though these days, with all this Tea Party crap going on, there seems to be a kind of anti-intellectual thing that scares me. But then again, on an individual basis, I love the people of Texas, especially East Texas. I like the stew of black, white, Hispanic, American Indian and, most recently, Asian and Middle Eastern and others. The region is unlike the rest of Texas, in that it's a cross between Western and Southern culture, with the latter being more predominant." Click here to read the rest of John Porter's interview with Champion Joe, as published by Fangoria!

04/29/10-"[W]hat I'm trying to recreate for people coming to [By Bizarre Hands] brand new is the way I felt when I first read this collection, and that feeling was a powerful sense of newness like seeing the Northern Lights for the first time. And I've been thankful, dedicated, and loyal to Joe since. To put it simply, he's made a believer out of me." Click here to read everything Mr. Digressius has to say about the initial release of By Bizarre Hands and the forthcoming release of the new celebratory and expanded edition of that classic short-story collection!

04/29/10-You know what Mojo storytelling reads like. But how about Mojo poetry? To find out, grab a copy of Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine, the second book from the folks who publish The Horror Zine online. No publication date has been announced yet, but check out their site anyway-they do good work!

04/22/10-Feeling punchy? Watch Champion Joe work his Shen Chuan magic!

04/22/10-SheNeverSlept.com interviewed Champion Joe, and you get to read the whole thing! Click here to check it out!

04/15/10-Last month, RevolutionSF asked you to submit an original fun, weird, 67-word short story for their contest to win a copy of The Best of Joe R. Lansdale. You did! And you are weird! Check out the winners here, here, here, here, and here!

04/01/10-Looking for a nice coming-of-age story? Check out this list of 32 coming-of-age stories, as voted on by members of GoodReads. Three books by Champion Joe, and a whole bunch of books Joe hisownself likes.

04/01/10-WritingRaw asked Champion Joe seven questions. His answers are here!

03/25/10-It's spring-cleaning time, and Kleaning Lady Kasey wants your help . . . reducing the stacks and stacks of signed books by Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale that are cluttering her office! Send her an email to see what's available!

03/25/10-How do you like your noir? If you like it geezer, we've got what you're looking for. Busted Flush Press is releasing Damn Near Dead 2, an anthology of geezer noir that includes a story by our own Champion Joe. Check it out!

03/18/10-You want Zombie Western? Champion Joe--who created the genre--has got Zombie Western for you! This October, Subterranean Press will publish Deadman's Road, a collection that includes the entirety of Dead in the West plus four short stories--one of which has never been collected, and one that has never been printed--featuring monster-hunter Reverend Jedidiah Mercer. Click here for more information! [Thanks, Rick!]

03/11/10- Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is "Indisputably one of horror's most revered craftsmen." And that's not just our opinion; it's also the opinion of Booklist! Don't believe us? Click here to read it for your ownself!

03/11/10-Champion Joe and John L. Lansdale have teamed up with artist Kevin Colden for a comic-book adaptation of Robert Bloch's "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper." Look for it this summer from IDW!

03/11/10-Norman (Dark Harvest) Partridge has added a new feature to his Web site: a series of interviews with authors, editors, and other creative folks about how they got their start in publishing. First up? Champion Joe! Click here to read the whole blessed thing!

03/11/10-"Take a big, fat oak barrel, pack in Ray Bradbury and Charles Bukowski, slice and dice a few big, young scorpions with all six juicy segments of their tails, add some boiled spinach and watery buckwheat, pickle all with half Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey and half Southern Comfort, piss, and spit some chewing tobacco into the mix, then seal it up good. Let the barrel sit for a few years, forgotten, in a beat-up Pontiac pickup truck parked in the last row of the last aisle in the last drive-in down a long, dusty road. When you finally open it up you'll find an author like Joe R. Lansdale. Just stand back a bit when you do 'cause he might be cussin' up an awful lot and swinging low." To read the rest of the review of The Best of Joe R. Lansdale from Zombos' Closet of Horror, click here!

03/04/10-By Bizarre Hands was Joe R. Lansdale's first short story collection and is held by many to be the most important horror collection published in the Eighties-some have argued that it's the best collection published since Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival in 1947.  It's with that in mind that Morning Star is releasing By Bizarre Hands Rides Again, a signed, hardcover edition of that famed book with all the original material plus four additional short stories. It's limited to 300 copies, so you'd best preorder your copy if you want to be sure to get one. Click here for more information!

03/04/10-"If you believe everything you read in Joe Lansdale's work, Texas is a magical place running amok with mercenary biker gangs, killer ducks, madmen, madwomen, avenging Egyptian spirits, friendly armadillos, serial killers, possessed scarecrows, steam-powered giant robots . . . the list unravels like a lizard's tongue, and is just as rough and prickly." Click here to read Ross Thompson's unabridged interview Champion Joe!

03/04/10-By Bizarre Hands isn't the only Champion Joe treasure to re-emerge. In May, Underland Press will release the collected Drive-In trilogy! Click here to listen to The Agony Column talk with Joe on this and all things Mojo!

02/25/10-Champion Joe has an original short story in the collection The Bleeding Edge, which ships today. Click here to read all about it!

02/25/10-In The New Republic a couple weeks ago, Washington Post columnist, Brookings Institution senior fellow, and Georgetown University professor EJ Dionne, Jr. reviewed Bubba Ho-Tep. Click here to the read it!

02/25/10-If you've ever thought about picking up Champion Joe's classic Dead in the West, maybe Bill Ward's review will push you over the edge. He calls it "one part Pale Rider, one part Night of the Living Dead, and one hundred percent Lansdale." Read the whole review here!

02/18/10-Tachyon Press has released a collection of short stories by Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale this week! It's called The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, and you can order your copy here. But that's not all! You can read an interview with Champion Joe here!

02/18/10-"If there is one time when I am really tempted to use profanity in a review, it's when I'm talking about the work of Joe R. Lansdale." That's how Bill Ward begins his review of Champion Joe's Vanilla Ride. Click here to read the whole thing, and see which cuss words Bill uses!

02/11/10-Texas Magazine says the short stories in Champion Joe's collection Sanctified and Chicken-Fried "display his capacity for creating three-dimensional characters, showcasing secreted sexual habits, and personifying the racist underbelly of East Texas without apology--always with well-timed suspense; often, with a sobering dose of the sordid." And if you don't believe us, click here to read it for yourself.

02/04/10-Champion Joe was interviewed by Necrotic Tissue in their ninth issue. You can get that magazine here! (And be sure to check out Jason Ridler's "Monsters" in that same issue!)

01/28/10-Looking for a great book for teens? The American Library Association says Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is your go-to guy! They've named his graphic-novel adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Pigeons from Hell one of the 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. Click here for the whole list!

01/21/10-"I can't think about Edgar Allan Poe without thinking about my life, because he was there in dark spirit, in my room and in my head. He was out there in the shadows of the East Texas pines, roaming along the creeks and the Sabine River, a friendly specter with gothic tales to tell. It was a perfect place for him. East Texas. It's the part of Texas that is behind the pine curtain, down here in the damp dark. It's Poe country, hands down." That's how Champion Joe starts his review of the Edgar Allan Poe exhibition at Austin's Harry Ransom Center. Click here to read the entire piece, as published November 27, 2009, by The Texas Observer.  

01/21/10-Painter Davide Coroneo produced a series called "The Forty-nine Portraits." The collection, which was displayed in Tuscany's Impruneta, features images of various pop-culture icons, including Andy Warhol, Buddy Holly,  Harpo Marx, and . . . Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale. You can see Coroneo's Web site by clicking here, and you can see Coroneo's portrait of Champion Joe by clicking here!

01/14/10-Publishers Weekly gave a starred review to The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, declaring, "Always entertaining, champion storyteller Lansdale shares his best weird yarns in this terrific collection. . . . This is a great introduction to the raunchy, cheerfully unclassifiable East Texan bon vivant." Read the review by clicking here, then preorder your copy of this paperback book (shipping February 15) by clicking here!

01/14/10-Publishers Weekly isn't the only one showing Joe some love for this new collection. Fatally Yours raves, "The Best of Joe R. Lansdale is a must-have book for the lover of the weird, the champion of the bizarre and the fan of the outrageous. If you are looking for a unique experience that will leave you equal parts stunned and nostalgic, frightened and amused, look no further than the 'high priest of Texan weirdness' himself, Joe Lansdale." Click here to read the whole review!

01/07/10-"As Mark Twain employed the detective trope to study 19th century U.S. racial mores in Puddn'head Wilson, the Hap and Leonard books explore questions of race, sexuality and religion in modern red-state America. Hap is a white heterosexual good old boy. Leonard is a black homosexual Vietnam vet. The former is introspective and diplomatic. The latter busts heads and sorts details later. The two are best friends, but conflict is in store for the outrageous duo just around the next pine tree." Click here to read the rest of Stayton Bonner's review of Vanilla Ride, as published December 11, 2009, by The Texas Observer.

12/31/09-"This is the old Joe Lansdale I used to know, the one who put out Bestsellers Guaranteed and Stories by Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy. This is Joe having come a long way in his writing and, for whatever reason, going back to the old days. . . . [T]his is KISS recording the back-to-our-roots Rock And Roll Over after the crazily successful, symphonic hard-rock heights of Destroyer. This is Joe Lansdale having proven himself to the bigwigs in the mainstream by winning an Edgar Award as well as literary circles by winning the Grinzane Cavour, now proving to his fans that he hasn't lost anything about himself in the interim." To read the rest of Mr. Digressius' review of Champion Joe's short-story collection Unchained and Unhinged, click here!

12/17/09-Champion Joe on Andrew Vachss' latest novel: "Haiku is my favorite of all Andrew's books. Lean and literary, smooth as swallowing a poison snowflake. A Haiku of a novel from one of the most original writers alive." So go check it out for yourself!

11/19/09-Get this: Kid Rock, Nicole Kidman, Willie Nelson, Reba McEntire, and Kris Kristofferson all got to meet Killer Kasey Lansdale at the Country Music Awards and the BMI Awards! Check out pictures of the lucky stiffs by clicking here.

10/29/09-What's the current state of horror? Find out from those in the know! Click here for the horror-panel blog!

10/08/09-Best get your act together, if you're going to make it to Fencon IV! It's less than a year away, on September 17-19, 2010. Champion Joe is the Toastmaster at this Dallas convention. Click here for details!

10/01/09-Did you miss Champion Joe at KillerCon? Meghan Knierim didn't. And you can see her pictures by clicking here!

09/10/09-The Washington Times proclaims, "Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride is the best crime novel I've read in years." Don't believe us? Read the review for yourself. Then read the book!

08/20/09-The Los Angeles Times says, "A rich blend of elements that will make readers thirsty for the earlier novels, Vanilla Ride is anything but ordinary crime writing by one of the best in the business." Click here to read the full review!

08/13/09-If you liked The Boar, Champion Joe has something special on the horizon for you: a young adult novel titled All the Earth Thrown to the Sky. It's about the Great Depression in the Dust Bowl, takes place in Oklahoma and Texas. You've got about two years before it'll come out, so if you know any little kids now, you might start getting them ready for it!

08/06/09-When Champion Joe gets together with Rick Klaw, they can go on for hours. And that's what they did, for the Klaw's article the San Antonio Current. But only a fraction of what they talked about made it into the article. For the full boat, click here!

08/06/09-"With four or five the stories being quite excellent and great fun to be had all the way through, Son of Retro Pulp Tales [edited by Champion Joe and his son, Skull-Splitter Keith Lansdale] is way ahead of the curve and a mighty satisfying read. . . . In every one of these stories you sense the pure glee the writers had in shaping these cheap thrills from their own fond memories. This has the sense of wonder, adventure, and just plain fun that should never go out of style." Click here to read the complete review, from io9!

07/30/09-Champion Joe was on Blog Talk Radio, on the show "The Funky Werepig." Yeah, "The Funky Werepig." If I gotta say anything else to sell you on clicking over, there's really something wrong with you.

07/30/09-Want to see the Mojo one's interview with the legendary Ron Bennington? The stills from the staged reading of "Bob The Dinosaur Goes To Disneyland"? Preview the lobby cards and posters for the upcoming event, A Night of Joe R. Lansdale? Then head on over to the brand new BellMojo.com!

07/30/09-Ever wonder how you can be a Champion Mojo storyteller? Or at least a contender? Now there's a book to help you with that. Champion Joe hisownself and a whole bunch of other writers have put together Writers Workshop of Horror, an anthology of essays by the greats in the field, all giving advice on how to write for the field. Click here to learn more, and to get your own copy!

07/23/09-Ever wonder how Champion Joe would answer the question, "What flavor Jell-O would you most like to see hot chicks wrestle in?" Or what kind of guys would ask that kind of question of Champion Joe?  Click here for the answer.

07/09/09-What? Haven't purchased Vanilla Ride yet? Well, have a free taste here!

07/02/09-"Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain." That's what Joe O'Connell writes in his review of Vanilla Ride and Sanctified and Chicken-Fried, published June 26 in the Austin Chronicle. And that's all well and good. But you'll want to click here to read the article to find out what Champion Joe's dad did to the neighbor who hit young Joe's dog with a steel pipe, how his mom inspired the story "Bubba Ho-Tep," and why it makes sense that Batman, Shakespeare and The Iliad could all come together for a single story!

07/02/09-If you think Joe can write, wait until you hear him speak! Champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale was interviewed by Jeff Rutherford for the eighth episode of "The Reading and Writing Podcast." Listen to it by clicking here!

07/02/09-Onyx Reviews calls Vanilla Ride "a perfect balance between violence and comedy, one that is difficult to pull off." Click here to read the entire review, or click here to buy your own copy and make up your own mind!

06/18/09-Joe writes, "Bette Farmer, Philip Jose Farmer's wife, has died. She was a bright and beautiful lady, and was as important to Phil's career as any editor, agent or publisher. She was the rock on which he stood. And what a fine lady. She will be missed."

06/11/09-Ever wonder what Champion Joe sounds like when he speaks Italian? Check out this TV interview from Italy!

06/11/09-The Mojo one has been surfing the web on his virtual tour! Want to see where he's stopped, and read what he's written on fans' pages? Go to joelansdale.blogspot.com for a list of pages visited!

06/11/09- Fans and you-ought-to-be-fans of the Hap and Leonard series will be pleased that Vintage is reprinting the first three in the series. And, hey, that's not us talking--that's ReviewingTheEvidence.com. Check it out!

06/11/09-And they're not the only ones crowing about the Vintage re-releases! On the release of Two-Bear Mambo and Bad Chili, Bookgasm writes, "[F]rom the amazing mind of Lansdale, who loves to pass along a damn-good story and never fails to entertain. If you haven't met Hap and Leonard yet, please get to it."

06/11/09-If you're more partial to moving pictures than written words, you'll want to check out this article in Fangoria about the film adaptation of Champion Joe's short story "Mister Weed-Eater"!

06/11/09-Horror Bound Magazine reviewed the short-story collection Sanctified and Chicken-Fried, resulting in our favorite pull-quote of the last 78 days: "Joe R. Lansdale is a true master of his craft. He could write a first person account of a deaf-dumb-blind kid stirring a pile of wet dog sh*t with a popsicle stick and make it as feverish a page turner as any I've ever read." Read the whole blessed review here!

06/04/09-Speaking of blogs, Champion Joe's got his own now! Click here to read the latest from Joe hisownself--and to see Killer Kasey's swell new outfits!

06/04/09-And while you're bouncing around the Web, check out Horror Bound Magazine's interview with Champion Joe!

05/21/09-The second issue of Zombie Tales, a comic from Boom!, is out now, and it features a story written by champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale and illustrated by the legendary Eduardo Barreto. Get yours now!

05/21/09-The fifth issue of Morpheus Tales is the "Undead Special" issue. We're going to pick that one up because it features short fiction by champion Joe. But even if it didn't, we'd pick it up, 'cause we think being undead is pretty special, too. Look for it in July!

05/07/09-Hey, everyone! Killer Kasey Lansdale has a message for you! Click here to retrieve it.

04/30/09-All you folks that have been aching for another film adaptation of champion Joe's Mojo magic will want to check out the story in Fangoria about the forthcoming Mister Weed-Eater! [Thanks, Damian!]

04/23/09-The friendly folks at Bookgasm say that Leather Maiden is "unlike any thriller you've ever read." Read that and all the other nice things they said by clicking here! For that matter, read what they had to say about Sanctified and Chicken-Fried, and the Hap & Leonard trade paperbacks!

04/09/09-Ever wonder where champion Joe got the idea for "Bubba Ho-Tep"? Well, stop wondering and start reading! Ross Thompson asked the question and got the answer, and it's published in the latest issue of AU. Click here to read it for yourself!

04/02/09-"He may be violent, gruesome and shocking, but [Joe] Lansdale is also one of the greatest yarn spinners of his generation: fearless, earthy, original, manic and dreadfully funny." That's what Jane Sumner of the Dallas Morning News wrote about our very own champion Joe. Click here to read the rest of what she wrote about him, and about his new short-story collection, Sanctified and Chicken-Fried!

04/02/09-This just in from a couple of folks from the Mud Creek Asylum: "Hey, Mojo-fanatics, it's Patrick J. Kennedy from BellMojo Productions. If you are a member of Facebook and want to check out the new exclusive interview with Joe R. Lansdale, click here! If you're not a member, it's free to join up and then you can also follow updates about the film adaptation of Joe's "Mister Weed-Eater," being developed by Damian Maffei, star of Closed for the Season, and Brian Fitzpatrick, co-creator of the Hobo-Horror short Throwaway!

03/26/09-Champion Joe remembers his hero Philip Jose Farmer. Click here to read his piece.

03/26/09-Ever wonder what champion Joe's childhood looked like? Stop wondering and click here!

03/19/09-Back in January, Vintage re-released the first two Hap & Leonard novels, Savage Season and Mucho Mojo. Click here to see the bitchin' cover they have for the re-release of The Two-Bear Mambo! And here for the re-release of Bad Chili! Both coming in May!

03/19/09-If all that doesn't make you a little unchained and unhinged, then how about this gem that's shipping from Subterranean Press?

03/12/09-Amazon says champion Joe's latest collection, Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale, went on sale March 1. Well, it didn't. It ships next week. But preorders are such that the hardcover is almost gone already. So . . . if you were expecting a hardcover, order now. And enjoy!

03/12/09- The Boar was recently published in Germany! Deutschlandradio says that it is written like wonderful minimalist poetry, that Joe is a big deal and folks should check him out. But they say it in German. If that doesn't put you off, click here. Or if you just like pictures of cute baby boars, click here. And send your Mojo waves of thanks to our German pal, Olaf! [Thanks, Olaf!]

03/05/09-The (Texas) Eagle says champion Joe's Hap & Leonard novels are "fast-paced and often humorous." Of course, they also say they're "told in the voice of Hap Collins and have a lot of sex, violence and profanity, so consider that a warning." We assume they're warning folks about Hap, not the sex, violence and profanity. Folks like sex, violence and profanity, don't they? Anyways, click here if you want to read more.

03/05/09-Over in Boston, the fellas at The Edge said, "Joe R. Lansdale knows how to tell a damn fine story." Click here to read all about those damn fine stories.

03/05/09-Publishers Weekly got a listen to Phil (not a porn name) Gigante's audio adaptation of Savage Season, and wrote that his performance is "mesmerizing: he infuses this book with attitude and style, imbuing each character with a rich distinct voice that resonates well with each personality. His narration is crisp and smooth, with a good distribution of tension according to the given scene." Click here to listen to samples. Or here, to read the review.

02/26/09-Did you know champion Joe teaches creative writing at Stephen F. Austin State University? Or that he'll be teaching in Italy this summer? Neither did I--until I read The Velvet Interview. Click here to read it yourownself!

01/29/09-You somehow miss those first two Hap & Leonard novels, Savage Season and Mucho Mojo? Then you'll want to send a big letter of thanks to the fine folks at Vintage/Black Lizard, who have re-released those '90s classics! Click here for more information!

01/29/09-Modern Tonic says, "[Champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale] has long challenged traditional genres by mashing up mystery, comedy, thriller and Western themes. Bloody and unrelenting, Lansdale's work is not for the squeamish. Nor is it for readers interested in a too-good-to-be true gay role model. Leonard's raunchy gallows humor, not to mention his platonic devotion to buddy Hap, make Savage Season and Mucho Mojo crackling good reads." Don't believe us? Go see for yourself, by clicking here!

01/22/09-The Orbit's very own songbird, Kasey Lansdale, has entered a contest to be the opening act for Little Big Town. We're not asking for anyone to vote for her who hasn't heard her music at kaseylansdale.com, BUT, if you have heard it and you like it, then you can vote for her to be an opening act for Little Big Town by clicking here.

01/22/09-The crazy folk at BellMojo have another fun event planned, this one in support of Protect, America's first political lobby for child protection. This music festival--the BellMojo Broken Hearts Bash--will take place Friday, February 13, 2009, in Bellmore, New York. Line-up includes The Vinyl Stash, Dangered Ace (featuring Paul Ranieri) and Burlesque performances by Legs Malone, the girl with the 34½-inch inseam, so you got to figure this February one will be the perfect precursor to Valentine's Day. Visit myspace.com/bybizarrehands for more info!

01/22/09-Did we mention that Kasey Lansdale has entered a contest to be the opening act for Little Big Town, and that you can vote for her by clicking here?

01/15/09- When Ellen came to the moonlit mountain curve, her thoughts, which had been adrift with her problems, grounded, and she was suddenly aware that she was driving much too fast. She was heading straight for an

01/15/09-The Fantasy Book Critic says that Champion Joe's comic-book adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Pigeons From Hell is full of "scathing wit and wild, otherworldly creations." You can get the collected series now. (Thanks for that update, Jared!) Click here to read the full description, find a link to a preview, and find a link to order the book. (That Fantasy Book Critic makes everything easy, huh?)

01/08/09-Sure, Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale will be out soon--in March, in fact. But in case you can't wait that long, Champion Joe will read to you a story included in the collection, one that's never before been published. Click here to watch him read a bit of "Dirt Devils"!

01/08/09-If you like Bubba Ho-Tep, and you like Doom, and you like Legos . . . then, oh boy, do you have some strange tastes. But, oh boy, do we have a treat for you! Click here for Bubba Lego Tep, starring Lego Elvis! [Thanks, T!]

01/01/09-Welcome to the new year! And what better way to welcome a new year than with a new CD from Champion Joe's killer crooner of a daughter, Kasey Lansdale? Click here to preview her CD, "No More Rain"!

01/01/09-And if it's listening you want to do, don't stop there! Brilliance Audio is releasing audiobook-adaptations of the Hap & Leonard classics Savage Season, Mucho Mojo (both January 13),  Two-Bear Mambo, and Bad Chili (both May 5). And then, on June 30, to coincide with the hardcover release of the new Hap & Leonard chapter, they'll release the audiobook of Vanilla Ride! 2009 is the Year of Hap & Leonard! Click here to listen to samples of those audiobooks, all read by Phil Gigante (not a porn name, it turns out)!

12/25/08-Last week we mentioned to you that the latest issue of Irish pop-culture magazine AU had a two-page feature on Champion Joe. This week, the author of that piece sends you a present: Click here to READ the article. [Thanks, Ross!]

12/18/08-Champion Joe's brother, Andrew Vachss, has been writing novels about career-criminal Burke since 1985. The 18th and final novel in that series, Another Life, goes on sale December 30, and Joe advises everyone to check back in for the end of that series. Vachss will also be doing a three-hour webcast on January 14, where he'll answer any and all questions live on camera.  Click here for more information!

12/11/08-Hap & Leonard fans, hold onto your hats! Mud Creek's favorite sons are coming back, in a big way! First, Vintage will re-release the early novels in trade paperback in January 2009. Then, an all-new Hap & Leonard, Vanilla Ride, will come out in hardcover from Knopf, in summer 2009. And then, Knopf will release another original Hap & Leonard hardcover will come out in 2010! The boys are back in town!

12/04/08-The Geek Curmudgeon says Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale is "one of the first 'must have' 2009 publications." Click here to read his review!

11/20/08-Champion Joe says, "March of 2009 is the tentative release date for Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale, one of the most important short story collections I've done, and the first printing is only 1500 in clothbound. It will go fast. It's from the University of Texas Press and I want to alert readers of this site first, to give them a chance to get a jump on the order for the collection. It contains a wide variety of stories by me, never arranged in this manner; novel excerpts; and a brand new story of the 1930s. And if that isn't enough, it has a nifty introduction by Dr. Bill Crider. And what a cool cover." Click here to see that cover, and the covers of the Vintage editions of the Hap & Leonard books!

11/13/08-If you've been wondering what 2009 will bring, wonder no more! Click here for a first look at the covers of Champion Joe's first three releases in the new year: the trade-paperback releases of the Hap & Leonard classics Savage Season and Mucho Mojo, and Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale, from University of Texas Press! (Who knew Joe was portable? Can you take him on a plane? Will he clear security?)

11/06/08-Finally! If you've been waiting for us to update Champion Joe's bibliography, the wait is over! Click here to read the updated list of Joe's books.

10/30/08-Happy birthday, Joe Lansdale! It was hisownbirthday two days ago, on the 28th. Raise a glass of Dr. Pepper in his honor!

10/30/08-A "Rest in Peace" shout-out to Rudy Ray Moore, the comedian and filmmaker best known for the Dolemite movies. Mr. Moore passed away October 19. Say hi to Petey Wheatstraw, Rudy!

09/18/08- The Chicago Sun-Times had this to say about Leather Maiden: "There are scenes that stand your hair on end while you fall out of your chair laughing. . . . Be thankful [Lansdale] crafts such wild tall tales. . . . [His] latest spans cunning, humor so salty it burns, and a fevered, cleansing imagination, moving Leather Maiden from a story about journalism to an ornery fable about the ties that bind--and rend--a small town." Get your copy here!

09/11/08-The Washington Post calls Leather Maiden "Joe R. Lansdale's latest superb redneck-noir job. Lansdale is both as humane and as tasteless as anybody writing crime fiction today. Reading him is like riding the best tilt-a-whirl you've ever been on while still keeping your lunch down." Get your copy here!

09/11/08-The Marin Independent Journal says, "Lansdale writes about the poor, emotionally traumatized, violent and stoically heroic better than almost anyone. His characters can be off-the-charts weird, yet lovable in a strange S&M way." They didn't just say all that for no reason--they said it 'cause they like Leather Maiden. And you will, too, when you get your copy here!

09/04/08-Joe Lansdale weighs in on the presidential elections! "E dire che la destra aveva invocato pioggia su Obama," he tells Italian newspaper La Repubblica. So . . .  now you know!

09/04/08-The Dallas Morning News writes this about Leather Maiden: "Mysteries usually begin with a drop of blood and end up with a barrel full. But Mr. Lansdale tells this one Texas-style. It's a tall tale so boldly preposterous that we're too enthralled to notice the duplicity. It's a puzzle, a game, a carnival act of murder and mayhem. Cason and Booger sleuth it all out like perverted Hardy Boys. And when it's over there's death aplenty, but where's the blood? Don't ask. There's no blood in the Emerald City." Get your copy here!

09/04/08-The folks at Details write, "Black humor and bad taste abound in Lansdale's Edgar-winning body of work, and the cult author's newest literary thriller--about Casey Stanton, a hard-drinking, Pulitzer-winning journalist (and Gulf War vet) who returns to his rural Texas hometown after losing his job in spectacular fashion--is no exception. As he investigates a cold-case murder for the local paper and stalks his ex, Stanton emerges as an appealingly ripe hayseed Sam Spade." Get your copy here!

08/28/08-The Los Angeles Times writes, "Leather Maiden makes you want to sit on a porch listening to [Lansdale] spin a yarn that you know doesn't contain a true sentence. . . . At the beginning of David Lynch's film 'Blue Velvet,' you may remember that the camera presents a typical American neighborhood and then moves closer, right through the sod and down into the ground as a metaphor for the nasty secrets hiding behind the veil of societal correctness. Lansdale's novel is a trip into that same hidden shame. You may not enjoy the exposure, but you'll definitely enjoy the ride." Get your copy here! [Thanks, Judi!]

08/28/08-Joe's not the only Lansdale on the road these days! Kasey Lansdale is taking part in the Great Texas Ranch House Tour, which kicks off September 5 - 7 at the West Texas Horse Expo at the Midland, Texas Horseshoe Arena! 

08/21/08-HorrorReader.com writes, "Joe R. Lansdale excels at crafting dark, suspenseful and humorous fiction, and Leather Maiden makes for yet another excellent addition to his already impressive body of work." Get your copy here!

08/21/08-The Austin Chronicle writes, "The ever-prolific Joe R. Lansdale . . . certainly knows from fucked-in-the-head. . . . Entertaining and distressing in equal measure, and for all kinds of reasons, Leather Maiden is a bruising jolt from an immoral moralist." Get your copy here!

08/14/08-The Agony Column has this to say about Joe's latest, Leather Maiden: "[D]on't even bother to pick this one up and try to read it in the store, because about ten hours later, somebody is going to come along and tell you to stop reading and just buy the damn book, already. Lansdale is firing on all six, slick cylinders."

08/07/08-Congratulations to Mud Creek's favorite daughter, Kasey Lansdale! This past Saturday, she was married to Adam Coats. We wish them all the best! (But, next time, maybe you could hold the reception here at The Orbit. . . ? Plenty of wide-open space!)

08/07/08-The (Nashville) City Paper loves Leather Maiden! Reviewer Ron Wynn writes, "Joe Lansdale has won both domestic and international awards for his past mystery novels, but he's never written one quite like his new volume Leather Maiden. . . . Some of the conversations here are hilarious, even if the language is anything but politically correct. [Main character Cason] Statler is working in Texas small towns and country communities, where folks don't mince words, and often aren't shy about expressing disdain and wallowing in stereotypes. These ingredients only add more punch and sparkle to a tremendous work that deftly blends farce and dry wit with adventure and crime solving." But don't take his word for it--get your own copy now!

07/31/08-The folks at Library Journal recommend Leather Maiden, saying, "With its mysterious disappearances, abandoned houses, midnight trysts, and hidden culverts, Lansdale's latest is a contemporary Hardy Boys story on crank, read to best advantage late at night under the covers, with the aid of a flashlight." Read the entire review here!

07/31/08-The folks at Texas Monthly also recommend Leather Maiden! They write, "[T]he combination of back-porch storytelling and breakneck suspense . . . makes Leather Maiden a must-read for thriller fans." Read the entire review here!

07/10/08-Champion Joe says, "Lewis Shiner's latest, Black & White, is killer. Strong characters, suspenseful situations, and tremendous insight. A novel that doesn't flinch from social issues, and is so gracefully written it makes you want to weep. Should not be missed. Lewis Shiner is the real deal, and this is his finest work." Click here to learn more!

06/05/08-If you're looking for a little humor in your horror, check out the anthology Blood Lite, which includes the story "Mr. Bear" from champion Joe!

06/05/08-George Pelecanos calls it "gripping, ferocious, and very funny"! Scott Phillips says it "walks a delicate line between grotesquerie and moral outrage all the while managing to be funnier than anything I've read all year"! Ken Bruen pronounces it "the novel of the year"! And Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera proclaims, "D' Alema e i libri pulp di Lansdale: vendette orribili ma giuste"! It's The Leather Maiden, champion Joe's latest, and it will be released August 5, 2008! (And, no, we can't read Italian. But that last one sure looks fancy, doesn't it?)

05/22/08-And if you were wondering what Kasey's been up to . . . she was a big hit at the blues festival in Italy where she shared the event with James Blood Ulmer, Ponte Bon of Texas, Grayson Capps, and a lot of super Italian blues musicians. In July, she plays in Norway at a country festival with legendary female vocalist Lynn Anderson.

05/01/08-"I relate to [Robert E.] Howard as a small town boy who wanted to do something the people around him didn't understand. Like him, I did it. Unlike him, I never had the urge to shoot myself." Read all of Chris Arrant's interview with Joe R. Lansdale, as published April 29, 2008, by clicking here! (Thanks, Jeff!)

05/01/08-Some folks have asked what, exactly, Joe's forthcoming book, Leather Maiden, is all about. Big Bill Crider answers that question here!

04/24/08-Stop what you're doing and head to the comics store! Champion Joe has written a four-part comics adaptation of Robert E. Howard's classic "Pigeons from Hell," and the first part is in stores now. Click here for more information! (Thanks, Tarhan!)

04/24/08-And while we're on the subject of comics . . . a package arrived here in Mud Creek posted from Italy. Inside: an amazing Italian graphic novel adapting Champion Joe's short story "Way Down There." If you want to go searching for it, it's titled Laggiu Nel Profondo; is adapted by Luca Crovi and Andrea Mutti; and is published by Edizioni BD. And when you're at the comic conventions this summer, tell every publisher you meet that you want them to print it over here, in English! Take a gander . . . .

04/03/08-In case you missed it, Marvel Comics is making it up to you! Champion Joe wrote a couple of stories about the Thing time traveling back to the Old West, and they'll be back in print in Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Volume 8, shipping May 21.

03/27/08-Cason Statler is drinking too much, stalking his ex-girlfriend, and wallowing in envy of his older brother. All he has going for him is his new job as columnist for a small-town paper. He thinks he can ride that last bit into something bigger by investigating a cold-case murder . . . until he rides it straight into a serial killer. Strap yourself in for Champion Joe's latest wild ride! The Leather Maiden will be released in hardcover from Knopf in August!

12/27/07-They love Joe in Italy! So . . . who's "they"? Well here's two "they," with Joe hisownself! Bongiorno!

 

08/16/07-Nominationsfor the 2007 World Fantasy Awards are in, and it's going to be a tough race in the Anthology category, where Champion Joe is up against ... Champion Joe! Two anthologies on which Joe worked are both up for the award: Cross Plains Universe(which he co-edited with Scott Cupp), and RetroPulpTales (which he edited by hislonesome). Congrats, Joe!

 

07/12/07-The Grist Mill's audio adaptation of champion Joe's "God of the Razor" has been honored with an Ogle Award, an annual award given to an outstanding horror/fantasy audio theater production. Producer Scott Hickey, of STH Productions, received the award at the CONvergence Convention in Minneapolis on Friday, July 6^th.  Wanna take a listen? Click here! [Thanks, Scott!]

 

06/21/07-"When the Vietnam war came, Joe R. Lansdale told them he wouldn't fight. They sent him to get his head checked; the doctor determined he was nuts and they said they'd rather recruit dogs than draft him." Click here to read Dave Maass' entire interview with champion Joe, as published May9, 2007, by the San Antonio Current.

 

06/21/07-Our pal Hunter Goatley hasn't checked in for a while, but champion Joe checked into Hunter's page, and wanted you to know that Hunter's loaded onto his site an audio interview of F. Paul Wilson conducted by champion Joe way back in 1990. He also wants to remind everyone that he still has audio files of Joe reading "By Bizarre Hands" and Joe being interviewed at the 1990 FantasyCon. [Thanks, Hunter!]

  

05/03/07-Author Chet Williamson hit the Austin Music Festival with his camera. The results? Click here! [Thanks, Judi! Thanks, Chet!]

 

04/05/07-Champion Joe was honored with the Grand Master Award at the annual World Horror Convention last weekend, where he also picked up a Bram Stoker award for editing Retro Pulp Tales. Wanna see what it looked like? Click here! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

03/22/07-KaseyLansdale is taking the country music world by storm! Check out this TV news feature on Champion Joe's daughter, including an interview with Joe hisownself! [Thanks, Richard!]

 

03/01/07-Twenty years ago, Champion Joe wrote a story called "The God of the Razor." That story has become a classic in the horror genre. Subterranean Press will celebrate that classic story with a special release in their Signature Series, scheduled for this October. Want to know more? Click here! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

02/22/07-Lansdale's latest, Lost Echoes (Vintage paperback original), is in stores now! Why should you get it? Because Publishers Weekly says so! Here's their starred review: In this superior East Texas crime thriller from Stoker-winner Lansdale (Sunset and Sawdust), Harry Wilkes discovers after a severe childhood ear infection that he has a peculiar "hindsight." Harry can not only see dead people but see and hear violent events as they occurred in the recent or distant past. "It's like I hear and see ghosts in sounds," he tells his father. By the time he's a college student, Harry's psychic abilities have driven him to booze. After meeting alcoholic Tad Peters, a retired martial arts expert, Harry becomes Tad's surrogate son and student. The two forge a pact to sober up together. Their resolve is tested when Harry agrees to help Kayla Jones, an old childhood crush now a cop, solve her father's murder, which her boss, the local police chief, has dismissed as a suicide. Lansdale's down-home prose erupts with explosive twists and razor sharp insights into how "echoes from the original sounds" can never be silenced until action is taken to defeat the fear that created them.

 

02/22/07-Booklist says so, too! Here's their review: The prolific Lansdale returns, after sojourns in pulp, sf, and horror, to work his peculiar mojo on the supernatural crime thriller. Harry Wilkes has inherited his family's curse of experiencing "dark sounds," full-sensory recordings of traumatic events that can be unleashed by, for example, the banging of a toilet lid upon which a guy once blew his brains out. Booze helps hold the "ghosts in the noise" at bay, but his life as a drunken recluse isn't going well. He gets things under control with the help of an eccentric sensei named Tad, but when a boyhood girlfriend named Kayla comes home to find her father's killer, Harold grits his teeth and journeys into the dark once more. Lansdale's prose finds the perfect pitch between the laid-back cadences of front-porch storytelling and the thriller's demand for growing urgency. He is a bit unreconstructed when it comes to gender relations-or at least the vocabulary to describe them-but he's got both the charisma and the balls to pull it off. Funny and scary, with a barn-burner ending.

 

02/22/07-If Joe R. Lansdale could be any monster he wanted, he'd be the Wolf Man. If he could be any historical figure, he'd be Wild Bill Hickock. Want to know more? Read his interview with Sci Fi Weekly!

 

02/08/07-Kasey Lansdale will come to you! Coming off an Italian tour, opening for Ray Price at the famous Paramount Theater in Austin, playing throughout East Texas, the popularity of Kasey Lansdale and The Daletones is growing. They are anxious to spread out beyond their current programs and play new venues, and would love to hear from anyone wishing to hire Kasey and the band, or her trio. Examples of her music and information about this band can be found on www.kaseylansdale.com!

  

12/14/06-"Hisgenre-bending, often hard-edged work never flinches in its depiction of the people he knows so well, 'real Texans' found in his beloved East Texas." Click here to read Melissa Mia Hall's entire articleabout champion Joe, as published December 11, 2006, by Publishers Weekly![Thanks, Rick!]

 

11/09/06-Champion Joe's daughter, Kasey Lansdale, just returned from a tour of Italy, where she played to packed houses and received a rave review in Liberta, a national newspaper. Meanwhile, back home, she opened for country legend Ray Price in Austin's historic Paramount Theatre. If you haven't yet heard her, golisten now!

 

11/02/06-Wantan extra dose this week? RevolutionSF has proclaimed Champion Joe's "Night They Missed the Horror Show" one of the "13 Scariest" for 2006.That means you can read it for free by clicking here!

 

10/26/06-Congratulationsto champion Joe, who just returned from Italy, where he was awarded the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature! (The last seven recipients were all Nobel prize award winners, so, y'know, just keep reading and see what happens!)

 

08/24/06-Award-winningmystery writer and Lansdale buddy Bill Crider filmed two short clips of Joe R.Lansdale, hisownself, at this year's Armadillocon. Clickhere to see a brief interview with champion Joe, and clickhere to see him reading from The King and Other Stories! [Thanks, Rick!]

 

05/18/06-Didyou miss Don Coscarelli's adaptation of champion Joe's "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"? Here's your second chance! Showtime's "Masters of Horror" is now available on DVD. Click here to get your copy! [Thanks, Tarhan!]

 

05/18/06-ChampionJoe talked to the folks at Westfield Comics, and they wanted us all to know what he had to say. Click here to read the interview!

 

03/09/06-DavidSilva and Paul Olson have an early April Fool's joke for you: A spoof that ranin The Horror Show on April 1, 1987, complete with a sidebar by champion Joe! Check it out by clicking here! (And Joe adds, "What's scary about Iocus is I actually started to write all the stories at one point, and have used the pennames Richard Dale and Keith Jordan, but, alas, never for any of the stories I listed.") [Thanks, Andrew! Thanks, Judi!]

 

02/16/06-Pickup the latest issue of The Book of Dark Wisdom for an interview with champion Joe. [Thanks, Judi!]

 

01/12/06-Joemay be the champion Mojo storyteller, but another Lansdale is the champion Mojo songbird! Click here to have a listen to Kasey Lansdale, daughter of the Mojo one!

 

01/12/06-Booklistcalls Flaming London, Joe's latest, "one of the wildest alternate-worlds, rip-in-space-time, sf-pastiche romps this side of fifties B-movies." Socheck it out already!

 

12/22/05-JerryWilliamson died Thursday, December 7. He had been in a coma with complications from a brain tumor. There are two people in the entire world who have earned Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Horror Writers of America. One is Stephen King; the other is Jerry. Jerry was an inspiration to many writers, some of whom kept with the trade solely as a result of Jerry's words of encouragement. He'll be sorely missed.

 

12/22/05-Thefirst issue of Cryptic Magazine will include an eight-page comics story written by champion Joe and illustrated by Mark Kidwell. Look for the magazine in January 2006, and in the meantime, check out the cover here!

 

12/08/05-Howold was champion Joe when he started writing? How old was he when he sold his first piece? The answers to these questions and more are provided to you by JakeMagazine! So click here and get the answers!

 

12/08/05-Joefans will want to check out an anthology called Lords of the Razor, which will include stories inspired by champion Joe's "Lord of the Razor" story, including writing by Stephen Gallagher and Tim Lebbon. It also includes Joe's original story, plus a new one! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

11/10/05-I'dlove to tell you all about Flaming London, but Publishers Weekly seems more qualified, so.... StarredReview. Against the backdrop of a Martian invasion à la The War of the Worlds, Lansdale's rip snorting sequel to Zeppelins West (2001) chronicles the fantastic adventures of two elderly authors, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and Jules Verne. Other members of the madcap cast include a young H.G. Wells, Sitting Bull, a Martian ape, a steam-powered robot and an intelligent seal (and future dime novelist), whose diary and journal entries form the bulk of the narrative. All must deal with the havoc caused by Wells's dang time traveler, the hero of The Time Machine, who has opened multiplying cracks in the time continuum. Seasoned with earthy, down-home humor, Lansdale's homage to Twain, Verne and Wells is sci-fi fun at its boisterous, silly best. Timothy Truman's delightful cover art and interior illustrations perfectly complement the text. (Dec.)

 

11/03/05-ThomasScott McKenzie talked to champion Joe about writing, publishing, and that crazy Shen Chuan! If you want to know specifics, click here to read the whole thing, as published on Slushpile.neton November 2, 2005!

 

10/13/05-Joeconfesses, "I haven't fought zombies." If you're wondering what else Joe hasn't fought, check out this swell interview with Norman Prentiss, as published by Off the Shelf in September 2005. [Thanks, Judi!]

  

09/01/05-With thousands dead, and tens of thousands left without a home, food, electricity, potable water, or a means of earning a living, Hurricane Katrina is being called the worst natural disaster to ever hit the US. If you're looking for a way to help, before you pledge any money to anyone, do some quick research to see if your money is really going where you want it to go. Two places we're sending money are SecondHarvest and MercyCorps .

  

08/11/05-Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award! What? You never saw it? Well, you're too late now! Next time don't wait!

 

08/04/05-ChampionJoe talked with Fangoria about "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road."You can eavesdrop by clicking here! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

07/14/05-Ifyou head over to RanchRecords, and click on Rawkus, you'll find Champion Mojo songbird Kasey Lansdale! You can hear her sing "Back of My Smile"(though its labeled "No More Rain"), absolutely free! Check it out!

 

06/02/05-Success in California! In a feat of political leadership, Jim Battin has done what most observers thought was impossible. Shortly after 10:00 a.m. PST today, Battin got Senate Bill 33,which will close the incest-exception loopholes in California, passed on the floor of the California Senate, 31-1. Those following this battle know that S.B. 33 was gutted last week. But Battin had the bill amended back to its original verbiage before taking it to victory. Click here to join the celebration at Protect.org!

 

05/26/05-Doyou love Joe R. Lansdale? Do you love splatter movies? Do you speak Italian? Then this is the place for you!

 

05/26/05-Horror Writers Association will be releasing a revised edition of Writing Horror. The new edition will contain the old favorite articles by some of the most respected names in horror-including Mojo Joe-as well as some new material that will deal with challenges "in today's marketing environment." No word on a projected release date. [Thanks, Judi!]

 

05/19/05-ChampionJoe has long been great friends with fellow novelist Andrew Vachss. On the eve of the release of Andrew's new novel, Two Trains Running, champion Joe conducted an audio interview to discuss what he calls Andrew Vachss' best novel ever. Listen to the pair discussing that novel by clickinghere!

 

05/19/05-Iftalking ain't enough for ya....champion Joe and Timothy Truman are joined by fiddler Colin Williamson for "The Ballad of a Feller Named Oscar Wilde," a song about the true[swear on a stack of first-printing Magic Wagons]story of Oscar Wilde's trip through the Lone Star state. Click here to hear the jam!

 

04/28/05-Soyou've heard about The Boar, but can't find a copy of this champion Joe short novel that was published in 1998 as a limited edition? Same with that old zombie Western classic, Dead in the West? Night Shade Books is here to save the day! They've just published trade hardcovers of both. Click here to learn more!

 

04/28/05-This guy must have started reading Freezer Burn-but, clearly, he didn't make it to the end. Check out 'Everybody thought he was nuts,' from the 4/27/05 edition of the Chicago Sun-Times.

 

04/21/05-And if that's not enough Bubba news for you, click here to see the Bubba Ho-Tep action figuresfrom NECA![Thanks, Rick!]

 

04/21/05-Lotsafolks like Joe for his stories, but just as many like him for the way he kicks butt. Ol' butt kickin' Joe has written an introduction to the book of another butt kicker, Mike Casto, in which Mr. Casto teaches you how you can kick butt. To find a copy of that martial arts book, called A Pondering of Principles, clickhere!

 

04/21/05-"Eachstory is about eight pages in length. When you finish one, you can't help but reach for another one." That's what CNN had to say about champion Joe's short-story collection, Bumper Crop. It's available now in trade paperback, so go on andget it!

 

04/07/05-Beenhankerin' for more big-screen Mojo since you caught Don Coscarelli's adaptation of champion Joe's "Bubba Ho-Tep"? Well, you can just keep waitin'. But in the meantime, you'll want to keep your eye on the little screen. Showtime is launching a new series called Masters of Horror, and one of the first six episodes is Coscarelli's adaptation of champion Joe's "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road." Click here for more information! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

02/04/05-OssieDavis died today at 87. Champion Joe writes, "I met him briefly on the set of Bubba Ho-Tep, talked to him a little, enough to discern he was the class act I suspected all along. What a wonderful and incredibly talented man. Damn. A guy that could do anything and everything, and did. And did it well."

 

11/18/04-Whileyou're making up your holiday wish list, think about this: You can get a champion Joe book directly from the champion hisownself! And he'll sign it, too! For a list of what can be yours, click here![Thanks, Dale!]

 

11/18/04-BigJim Sweeney's Mojo e-mailing list is five years old, and we're celebrating with a special offer! You can subscribe now for free (for a limited time only)! Just think: you'll be the first on your block to learn all the latest about Joe R. Lansdale. For more details, click here!

 

11/18/04-The Mojo list ain't enough for you? Need another fix? Here's the place to click!

 

10/14/04-Champion Joe has been honored by the folks at the Mid-South Booksellers Association, who have named A Fine Dark Line the best novel of the region. We always said them Mid-South folks have far better taste than them folks in the Right South or the Left South. Thanks, Mid-South!

 

08/05/04-"Thosethat see Texas as idyllic or as the pit are both wrong. It's both of these simultaneously." Read all of Joe Mammy's interview with champion Joe by clicking here.

 

06/17/04-Hungry for some Hap and Leonard? Get a taste of the next book-not due out until sometime into the next decade-called Blue to the Bone! [Thanks, Dale!]

 

06/10/04-Winningthe Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Screenplay is [insert drum roll here] Don Coscarelli, for his adaptation of champion Joe's novella Bubba Ho-Tep! If you want to read that screenplay, grab a copy of the signed, limited-edition Bubba Ho-Tep book ! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

06/03/04-Protect, America's first political lobby for child protection, has had a victory in Tennessee! They've eliminated the incest-exception law in that state. Read all about it here!

 

06/03/04-TheBubba Ho-Tep DVD is out, and it's hot! It climbed as high as#2on Amazon's bestseller list. Go get yours today! [Thanks, Rick!]

 

05/13/04-"Eachstory is about eight pages in length. When you finish one, you can't help but reach for another one." That's what CNN had to say about champion Joe's latest short-story collection, Bumper Crop. Readwhat else they had to say here! [Thanks, Kim!]

 

04/08/04-Wherewas champion Joe born? What did his father do? Who was his inspiration? These questions and more are all answered in the totally comprehensive article on the Mojo one in the Houston Chronicle! Check it out! [Thanks, Kim!]

 

04/08/04-PublishersWeekly likes champion Joe's latest novel, Sunset and Sawdust, which they call "wild and wooly....The book opens with a cyclone, ends with a plague of grasshoppers and in between there's insanity, extreme violence, sex, grotesques aplenty and an excellent dog. What's not to like?" So go get it, already! [Thanks, Kim!]

 

04/08/04-Andin case you didn't know, Sunset and Sawdust is also available as an audiobook, read by champion Joe hisownself. You'll find it here! [Thanks, Kim!]

 

01/08/04-ChampionJoe says, "James Grady writes with authenticity and heart. I can't wait to read what he writes next." If you want to find out what James Grady willwrite next, click here-and tell him Champion Joe sentya!

  

09/11/03-BubbaHo-Tep won a People's Choice Silver Award! Read all about it here. [Thanks, Judi!]

 

08/07/03-Whenchampion Joe is looking to read an excellent Western, he'll grab one of Jory Sherman's books-and he suggests you should do that, too. Find out more about Jory by clicking here.

 

06/12/03-AFine Dark Lineby Joe R. Lansdale, narrated by Dick Hill, has received an Audiofile Earphones Award. This is the mark of a truly outstanding audio program. Congratulations to all who were involved in this recording-most notably Dick Hill, Laura Grafton, and Mikael Naramore! [Thanks, Rick!]

 

06/05/03-Evenin Hungary they're hungry for a slice of Mojo! Checkout this Hungarian website, which includes two books by champion Joe! [Thanks,Judi!]

 

04/10/03-Justbecause you live in France doesn't mean you have to be a world away fromMudcreek, TX. Champion Joe is available en Francais, at Entre-deux-Noirs!

 

03/06/03-Youprobably haven't yet seen Bubba Ho-Tep, Don Coscarelli's film adaptation of championJoe's short story. But those who have are raving about it-including the judgesat the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, who honored Coscarelli with BestScreenplay, and star Bruce Campbell with Best Actor.

 

02/20/03-Youthought we called champion Joe a champion simply 'cause of his straight teethand thick coat? Heck no! He's a champion martial artist. But don't take ourword for it-go visit the TexasMartial Arts Hall of Fame and see for yourself! [Thanks, Danny!]

 

02/13/03-Thehits keep rolling in! A Fine Dark Line-champion Joe's latest-hit #10 on the LosAngeles Times bestseller list, and #5 on the Denver Post bestseller list. Rock on, Joe!

 

02/13/03-MojoJoe, for those who don't know, lives down in Nacogdoches, Texas-the town that was showered by the shuttle Columbia last week. Here's what occurred, in champion Joe's own words.[Thanks, Kim!]

 

01/09/03-ChampionJoe isn't just an outstanding writer-he's also a stand up human being. And if you want to stand beside him, the place to do it is Protect.org. Our very own Mojo man is anadvisor to the organization-and he advises everyone to get involved!

 

01/02/03-Stepback in time to hear an audio interview with Champion Joe from September 15, 1990.Recorded at Fantasycon XV in the UK,this41-minute interview is downloadable in RealAudio and MP3 formats. [Thanks, Hunter!]

 

01/02/03-JoeR. Lansdale isn't just a great writer-he's a great storyteller. Find out for yourself by downloading champion Joe's reading of "ByBizarre Hands," courtesy of Admiral Hunter Goatley!

 

11/28/02-Andspeaking of Thanks and writing ... champion Joe is thankful for the writing of Neal Barrett. He says you should go check out the free story posted at NealBarrett.com. Enjoy!

 

10/17/02-Jesuis un grande canard! Even the French love champion Joe! Check it out! [Thanks, Gratiane!]

 

09/12/02-ToastmasterJoe laid it down solid for attendees of Armadillocon 24--though there appears to be something in his cheek, and we're sure hoping it's his tongue. Read the transcript of his toast here. [Thanks, Rick! You suck!]

 

08/08/02-Lookingto have more sleepless nights? Get the God of the Razor model kit to decorate your bedroom! Check it out here.

 

08/01/02-JudiRohrig went to Conestoga, and all she got was a day of shooting with champion Joe. She uploaded these here pictures, so you wouldn't have to make the trip yourself. [Thanks, Judi!]

 

07/11/02-LongtimeJoe readers will recognize the name Neal Barrett-he's one of the Mojo man's collaborators! Bad Boy Barrett has a new one out, Piggs. Read what The AustinChronicle has to say about Piggs, about Neal and Joe, and about unibrows by clicking here. [Thanks again, Judi!]

 

07/04/02-ChampionJoe and his daughter, killer Kasey Lansdale, rub elbows with Bruce Campbell. Click here!

 

06/27/02-Dale'sHap & Leonard page is no longer just a Hap & Leonard page. Now it's aHap & Leonard & Smokey & Jim Higgins & Jubil Raines & BillyBob Nolan ... well, you get the idea. Check out the new feature here!

 

06/20/02-DonCoscarelli, Bruce Campbell and champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale sit around a table talking about Bubba Ho-Tep ... and dicks. Check it out! [Thanks, Gordon!]

 

06/20/02-Ourman Dale has done it again! This time, he's put together a map so all you Hapand Leonard fans can see just where our dynamic duo has whomped heads! Click here to view the map.

 

06/13/02-"Purefun,""flat-out wonderful," "liberated, hilarious and impressive"-that's how the critics are describing Don Coscarelli's film adaptation of Bubba Ho-Tep. Read the reviews at Ain't it Cool News, Creature Corner, and Dark Horizons! [Thanks, James and Gordon!]

 

06/06/02-Speakingof hosting Joe ... take a look at these pictures from champion Joe's appearance at the Borders in Ft. Worth. And say a big Thank You to Steve Sabatka for providing same! [Thanks, Steve!]

 

05/30/02-ChampionJoe was guest speaker at the Burroughs "Dum-Dum" and honored with the Golden Lion Award by the BurroughsBibliophiles for his contributions to Edgar Rice Burroughs and his creations.(This, of course, in regard to Joe finishing ERB's final Tarzan novel.) Joe says, "My favorite of all my awards."

 

05/16/02-You'llget an extra scoop of champion Joe this week by visiting RevolutionSF! They're running an illustrated version of Joe R. Lansdale's classic tale of redemption and loss, "Godzilla's Twelve Step Program!" [Thanks, Rick!]

 

02/14/02-ChampionJoe's got a buddy by the name of Robert R. McCammon. Champion Joe andBig-hearted Robert interviewed each other a while back. You can read thoseinterviews on Big-hearted Robert's new website. So what are you waiting for?[Thanks, Hunter!]

 

02/07/02-Joeain't the only champion Lansdale, y'know-there's also champion Mojo photographer Karen Lansdale! Take a peek at her magic here. [Thanks, Judi!]

 

01/31/02-ChampionJoe's Mojo runs all the way to Italy! If you speak Italian, check it out! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

11/29/01-Youcome to The Orbit more than twice, you're sure to catch Judi here-she's a reg'lar! She ran into champion Joe down Texas way, and wrote this here story about it, with pictures and all. Enjoy! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

11/01/01-Is there a hard-to-find Joe Lansdale book that's been eluding you? Well, now you can have it, signed by champion Joe hisownself! Click here for full details! [Thanks, Dale!]

 

10/18/01-Champion Joe's "Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland" comes to life in a comics adaptation! Read it online here! [Thanks, Rick!]

 

08/30/01-Whether you're a Hap &Leonard fan or one of the uninitiated, you're going to love this! Champion Joe co-wrote a Hap & Leonard short story with Andrew Vachss back in 1999. Previously available only in a limited edition, you can now read "Veil's Visit" here. Then be sure to pick up the new Hap & Leonard novel, Captains Outrageous, and Andrew Vachss' new novel, Pain Management. [Thanks, Kim!]

 

08/16/01-Someof champion Joe's Mojo magic is available in "Talking Book" and Braille editions. Check it out by visiting the website for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and searching "Joe Lansdale." [Thanks, Kim!]

 

08/02/01-Ablast from the past! Take a look at champion Joe back when he was young champion Joe, in this picture taken at Aggiecon in 1980! The folks with him are his good friends Bill and Judy Crider.

 

08/02/01-Die-hardcollectors will love the latest feature added to Dale's Hap & Leonard page: Go here, click on the covers, and up pops a page with a bunch of the variations on the covers![Thanks, Dale!]

 

05/17/01-Ifyou want to hear what champion Joe has to say for himself, click here. And thank dynamite Dale for allhis hard work! [Thanks, dynamite Dale!]

 

05/17/01-Oneof the things champion Joe will tell you is that Ardath Mayhar writes damn fine books. You can find out more about Ardath at her official web site, and about her latest book-adouble novel in trade paperback, featuring The Snowlost and Exile on Vlahil-through StoneDragon Press.

 

05/07/01-Congratulationsto our very own champion Mojo storyteller, Joe R. Lansdale! The Bottoms was awarded the Edgar for Best Novel of 2000. Rock on, Joe!

 

01/18/01-Whenyou're done getting your fill of this week's Mojo feature, be sure to head overto NickSharman.co.uk for a midnight snack. It's the home page for one of Joe R. Lansdale's favorite writers, Mark Timlin.

 

01/04/00-Thisweek we have a special Mojo game for you, called Around the World with Rick Klaw! See if you can guess what these Web sites-uncovered by The Klaw himself-are saying about champion Joe! Click here forweb site #1, and herefor web site #2.

 

01/04/00-Wanta look-see at a hunka burning Joe? Click here, here, and here! [Thanks, Judi! Thanks, Kim!]

 

12/14/00-The New York Times has chosen champion Joe's latest, The Bottoms, as one of their notable books of the year, calling it a "mesmerizing period mystery ... that draws on the idiom of regional folk legend to filter the horror of race violence and serial murder in a small East Texas town during the Depression." If you haven't already picked it up, go get it now!

 

10/05/00-Whathappens if you throw little Joe Lansdale's puppy in the creek? Find out in this interview with Mike Shea of The Austin Chronicle. [Thanks, Rick!]

 

09/28/00-DynamiteDale's Hap and Leonard page is complete! Check it out, and let Dale know what you think!

 

09/14/00-Youever discover something so great, you couldn't put words to it? Well, damned if Rick Klaw hasn't found the words. Check out "Being Dragged by a Runaway Mule."

 

08/10/00-Thefine folks at About.com had a nice long chat with champion Joe recently. Eavesdrop on their ramblings here! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

06/29/00-"People always talk about a lot of my books being on the cutting edge and all this stuff. I always think of myself as an old-fashioned storyteller that's writing for now." Read the entirety of Judi Rohrig's interview with champion Joe!

 

05/04/00-Everwonder what kind of in-home security system you'd need if you were a champion Mojo storyteller? Click here for the answer!

 

04/13/00-ChampionJoe is beloved the world over! Want to see the cover treatments of his German editions? Click here and here! [Thanks, Judi!]

 

09/09/99-Here'sa rare piece o' Joe for ya: Back in 1996, Texas Magazine celebrated Writers Month by commissioning a batch of Texas authors to contribute to a collaborative story. Champion Joe's piece of the pie is here. [Thanks, Judi!]

 

03/18/99-Checkout this excellent Scandanavian Lansdale page. You won't be able to read most of it, but you'll definitely want to seethe totally amazing cover treatment on Savage Season!

 

09/10/98-Here's a fun one for ya! The folks at Mysterious Press hired Mojo man Joe R. Lansdale to interview those blazing stars of the literary world, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine! Read the interview!

 

07/01/98-Welcometo the grand opening of The Orbit, the official drive-in theatre of champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale!