Shel Dorf – Action Hero!
I recently scanned over two hundred of Shel’s negatives from the 1974 San Diego Comic-Con, which was held at the El Cortez Hotel with Bill Lund as Chairman. (I received the negatives from Shel’s friend…
Shel Dorf and Bette Davis
Alan Light has previously written about how he and Shel attended the 60th Academy Awards ceremony in 1988 together using tickets that originated with Bette Davis. However, Shel had at least one additional, earlier connection…
Shel Dorf Benefit Art Show to Run Concurrently With Comic-Con 2010
Wild Monkey Works, Skidone, and KidRobot present
The First Annual AFTERCON 2010
An artshow to benefit The Shel Dorf New Talent Encouragement Fund that will run concurrently with San Diego’s Comic-Con International 2010, July 22-24,…
Shel Dorf, Matt Lorentz, and Ray Bradbury Together in 2004
In March of 2004, Shel Dorf and artist Matt Lorentz attending a lecture by Ray Bradbury at the University of San Diego. Charlie Roberts, who took this picture, says it may be the last photograph…
Video: George Clayton Johnson and Friends Talk About Shel Dorf
We previously recounted how on Saturday, October 17th, 2009, a group of fans and professionals from the Los Angeles, Riverside County, and San Diego areas got together to visit Shel Dorf in the hospital. On…
Shel Interviews George Clayton Johnson in 1997
On July 19, 1997, after a long day spent at San Diego’s Comic-Con International, author George Clayton Johnson (Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Logan’s Run, Ocean’s 11, Kung Fu), who is a long-time and much-beloved Comic-Con…
Shel’s Painting of Frankenstein’s Monster
We recently discovered that Shel had done a painting of Frankenstein’s Monster in the late seventies or early eighties. Shel gave the painting to Ken Krueger who later passed it along to San Diego fan…
Phil Yeh Receives His Shel Dorf Fan Club Badge
On Sunday, March 14, 2010, comic artist, publisher, and mural master Phil Yeh was a guest at a Girl Scout Environmental event at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. At the event, Phil has happy…
Pictures of Shel Dorf and David Scroggy Together in 1993
Shel’s friend David Scroggy just sent in the above two photographs with the accompanying description: “I was looking for something else and came across these two photos. They are from 1993. I was acting as…
Shel Dorf Memorial Page at Museum of Modern Mythology and Pop Culture Website
David Lemmo, who was a friend and admirer of Shel’s, has put up a nice memorial page for Shel at his Museum of Modern Mythology and Pop Culture website. Click here to visit it.