Clifford Meth is an American writer, editor, and publisher best known for his dark fiction, as well as his publishing imprint Aardwolf Publishing. He has said that his work is often "self-consciously Jewish."[1]
Meth was associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch religious movement in the 1980s, but moved away from the movement following the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1994.[6]
One of Meth's first published fictional works[10] was "I, Gezheh", which dealt with abuse. Author Robert Bloch provided an afterword for the story, which was illustrated by Dave Cockrum.[11]
With the aid of Cockrum and fantasy artist Gray Morrow, Meth co-founded Aardwolf Publishing, along with business partner Jim Reeber in 1994. The company has published a series of comic books, art portfolios, and collections of illustrated fiction.[12]
In 2004, Meth joined IDT Entertainment's Creative Development team.[13] and worked on Showtime's Masters of Horror[14] series and ABC'sMasters of Science Fiction.[14] In 2004, he was story editor for Gene Roddenberry's Starpoint Academy, an animated feature screenplay IDT hired Peter David to script.[15] Meth left IDT Entertainment in 2006 when the division was sold to Liberty Media.[16] In 2007 he oversaw the acquisition of IDW Publishing by IDT Corporation and joined IDW as executive vice president, editorial/strategies.[citation needed] The following year, producer Richard Saperstein optioned film rights to Meth's IDW horror comic-book series, Snaked, with Meth as screenwriter and an executive producer.[17]
In 2008, Meth established the Dave & Paty Cockrum Scholarship at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art.[19] In 2010, Meth founded the Kars4Kids Literacy Program,[20] which has made significant contributions to such universities as Seton Hall University.[21]
In 2008, the album Caged by Septimus Orion included a recording of Meth's short story "Queers", accompanied by music and sound effects.[citation needed]
Awards and recognitionedit
August 2014 Inkwell Awards Special Ambassador (August 2014 – present)[25]
Notesedit
^Introduction, God's 15 Minutes Archived 2008-04-22 at the Wayback Machine. Aardwolf Publishing (2003).
^Staff. "Alumni Profile: Clifford Lawrence Meth", FDU Magazine, Fall / Winter 1998, backed up by the Internet Archive as of October 19, 1999. Accessed January 10, 2018. "Born and raised in Rockaway, N.J., Meth began writing poetry at age 12 and hasn't stopped."
^Meth, Clifford. God's 15 Minutes, p. 81. Aardwolf, 2004. ISBN 9781888669084. Accessed January 10, 2018. "To know Clifford Meth personally, or better yet, to be his friend or brother (two concepts he takes very seriously) eclipses anything you may imagine about him from reading his short tales. Don't let the angry-young-poet becomes I-coulda'-been-a-contender demeanor fool you — Cliff still packs some non-trivial rage.... He remembers Rockaway. When I first met him back in the early eighties, Cliff was fresh out of Rockaway, NJ. Rockaway is Cliff's home town."
^Meth, Clifford. ComicBook Babylon, p. 284. Aardwolf Publishing, 2013. ISBN 9781888669206. Accessed January 10, 2018. "Brad Delp (died March 9, 2007 at the age of 55), lead singer of Boston, sang the songs that formed the soundtrack of my early freshman year at Morris Hills High School."