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Read the latest review of SATAN GONE WILD! at the top rated horror site FeoAmante with over 60,000 hits a month.

Here are our artists thus far included in R.S. Rhine's SATAN's 3 RING CIRCUS OF HELL: TIM VIGIL, JOHN CASSADAY, TONE RODRIGUEZ, HILARY BARTA, FRANK DIETZ, WILLIAM STOUT, STEVEN MANNION, DARREN FRYENDALL, SHANNON WHEELER, JIM SMITH, FRANK FORTE, GAK, ERIC PIGORS, GRIS GRIMLY, TOMMY CASTILLO, NENAD GUCUNJA, KEVIN COLDEN, MARK COVELL, JOHN HOWARD, DAVID HARTMAN, NORMAN CABRERA, JOE BUCCO, JOHN PINKERTON, PAUL NIEMIEC, MIKE SOSNOWSKI, STEVE COBB, JACOB HAIR, ANDY BRADY, ALEX PARDEE, DAVID PALEO, FRANKIE B. WASHINGTON, LOU KLEIN, JOHN WATKINS CHOW, RICH LONGMORE, ALEKSANDAR SOTIROVSKI and more to come!

Prolific author and screenwriter HARLAN ELLISON leans on ROBERT STEVEN RHINE at reading of The Mysterious Traveler radio show at Sperdvac.

R.S. Rhine returned from lawless New Olreans and successful Halloween signings at More Fun Comics and The New Orleans Book Fair. Also, coming along for the graveyard trip was Rhine's corpse pal Kevin Klemm of The Ed Gein collection.

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Halloween in New Orleans

Rhine & Klemm at Layfette Cemetery in the Garden District New Orleans

R.S Rhine at Blood Bath & Beyond for Necrocomic-Con in Woodland HIlls. Here he's featured with the band The Order oF The Fly.

Horror Meister Forrest J. Ackerman at NecroComicCon holds his copy of SATAN GONE WILD and later deliverd this quote:

"SATAN GONE WILD IS A HELLUVA A COMIC! GROANUPS WILL VOTE IT A MAJOR MIRTHQUAKE ON THE RICHTER SCALE. I WOULD SAY MORE BUT I DIED LAFFING." - DR. ACULA (Forrest J Ackerman)

New additions to R.S. Rhine's upcoming graphic novel, SATAN'S THREE RING CIRCUS OF HELL, include: TIM VIGIL ("Faust" creator), TONE RODRIGUEZ ("Violent Messiahs," "Snake Plissken"), HILARY BARTA ("Hellboy Jr.," "Treehouse of Horror," "Splash Brannigan"), JIM SMITH (Co-creator "Ren & Stimpy"), SHANNON WHEELER ("Too Much Coffee Man"), JOHN HOWARD ("Buttman"), GAK ("Dead Cat Bouncing"), DARREN FRYDENDALL (Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf), KEVIN COLDEN (House Of Twelve), NENAD GUCUNJA ("Satan Gone Wild"), PAUL NIEMEC ("Train of Thought"), covers by FRANK FORTE ("Cry For Dawn") and others to soon be announced.
On Saturday, October 30th, from 12-3 Rhine will be in the "big easy" New Orleans for Halloween signing SATAN GONE WILD at MORE FUN COMICS 8200 Oak Street (near the French Quarter) (504) 865-1800

Rhine's now appearing (as a Roman Catholic priest) in the English language premiere of The American Renegade Theater production of Edwardo De Filippo's "Non Ti Pago" ("I Won't Pay You") through November 14th. 5530 Cahuenga Blvd North Hollywood (818)763-1834

RAY BRADBURY's 'brain has gone wild' as he points out the decline of American civilization and R.S. Rhine's book.

Our third year at Comic-Con Int'l San Diego 2004 was another HUGE success!! We had thousands of visitors, hundreds of sales and even a few famous visitors to our booth, such as Marvel legend, and "Spider-Man" creator, STAN LEE (left), director JOHN LANDIS, actor LANCE HENRIKSON and director PO-CHIH LEONG, amongst others.

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Cartoonist Jim Smith, Spumco co-founder and co-creator of the animated "Ren and Stimpy" shared our Asylum Press booth where he premiered his new animated series "Chestacles" and sold sketch books. Gorgeous model and booth girl MELISSA CARNETT drew tons of eyeballs to our booth on Friday and Sunday, also CASSIE & MAILE (The Lingerie Bowl Twins) graciously joined us on Saturday.

Kevin Klemm, of The Ed Gein Collection, once again dug up for us an too realistic corpse. This year he provided the desiccated 'Mona' who wore a SATAN GONE WILD tank-top, Mardi Gras beads (and little else) as she and hung out at the booth to the disturbed eyeballs of passerbys. For more corpses visit: www.edgeincollection.com R.S. Rhine with double Academy Award wining creature creators Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. - who were in San Diego promoting their upcoming "Aliens V.S. Predator." Woodruff actually is the alien, having suited up to play the creature in three of the "Aliens" features.

Satan thanks the hundreds of attendees who bought copies of "Satan Gone Wild, "Chicken Soup For Satan," Girls and Corpses t-shirts and assorted comic books. We especially appreciate those lovelies ladies who flashed us for a string of beads! Now that's Mardi-Gras spirit!
R.S. RHINE will be signing his new comic book release... "SATAN GONE WILD!" SATURDAY JULY 17th from 2-4 p.m. at DARK DELICACIES BOOKSTORE, 4213 W. Burbank Blvd.Burbank, CA 91505 818-556-6660 www.darkdel.com

SATAN GONE WILD #1 (48 pages/2.95) features five 'humorrific' new tales written by the 'Grin Reaper' himself, ROBERT STEVEN RHINE, and featuring amazing artwork by some of the top names in the business: HILARY BARTA (Hellboy Junior, Marvel Legends: Wolverine, Spider-Man, Superman: The Dark Side, Splash Brannigan); cover by FRANK FORTE (Hex of the Wicked Witch, Vampire Verses); KEVIN COLDEN (House of Twelve Comics, Manual Comics' "Mauled" series and BIGnews, "Wally Pfeiffer"), NENAD GUCUNJA ("Vortex of Hell") and ALEKSANDAR SOTIROVSKI (Book illustrator: The Lord Of The Rings" I-III).

Girls & Corpses

Spumco's JIM SMITH (co-creator of "Ren & Stimpy" and "Ripping Friends") will be joining us at our Asylum Press booth for the entire COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL SAN DIEGO, doing sketches and premiering animated clips of his new cartoon "CHESTACLES"! More info.

Also, signing photos at our Comic-Con booth will be the luscious LINGERIE BOWL TWINS - CASSIE and MAILE MOORE, featured in our upcoming National magazine GIRLS and CORPSES.

July 21st - 25th - R.S. Rhine and Frank Forte will return for our third year to SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON. VISIT US AT BOOTH # 5332 IP PAVILLION -- look for Asylum Press/FrankenRhine productions. This year we will be featuring a New Orleans, Mardi-Gross theme for our latest release: SATAN GONE WILD. Click here for more details.

September 9th - FRIGHT NIGHT in North Hollywood will feature R.S. Rhine and Frank Forte. They will also screen R.S. Rhine's: "Vinnie and Angela's Beauty Salon & Funeral Parlor" and the animated "SICKCOM" (Which was purchased by Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.") "Fright Night is located at CIA (California Institute of Abnormalarts) 11334 Burbank Blvd, in North Hollywood California. Doors open at 8:30pm to 2am. Click here for flyer and more info

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Writer R.S. Rhine and illustrator Hilary Barta (Hellboy Jr., Treehouse of Horror, Splash Branningan) will collaborate on the graphic novel (release 2005).

PROPHECY ANTHOLOGY, featuring the story "Slow Boat To China" written by R.S. Rhine and illustrated by Shannon Wheeler ("Too Much Coffee Man") is now available for 29.95 in bookstores and the web here

Prophecy

Splash Brannigan

Marvel and DC artist HILARY BARTA (Spider-Man, Superman, X-Men, Plastic Man, Splash Brannigan and tons of others) has joined the "Satan Gone Wild" team to illustrate R.S. Rhine's original noir tale, "Private I." Click here for a recent interview with Hillary Barta

Get ready!... The final twisted issue in Rhine's trilogy is on the way! "SATAN GONE WILD #1" will feature 5 new R.S. Rhine stories, illustrated by some of the top names in the biz: STEVE MANNION (Batman: Gotham Nights, Detective Comics); FRANK FORTE ("Hex Of the Wicked Witch," "Vampire Verses"); and hot newcomer NENAD GUCUNJA ("Crack-Head Comics). The FrankenRhine/Asylum Press comic book will be distributed by Diamond in June 2004 and premiere at Comic-Con San Diego this July.

R.S. Rhine has sold a story to Outsider Ink, named one of the top 5 fiction markets in America for new writers by Writers Digest. Rhine's fiction will appear in the March 2004 issue.

Writer Steve Niles signs his "Dark Days" alongside R.S. Rhine's "Chicken Soup For Satan," at Dark Delicacies Bookstore. Niles and IDW currently have "30 Days of Night" set up at Sony with Sam Raimi producing along with Dark Horse Entertainment. Also, Dimension Films has acquired the rights to Niles comic book "Wake The Dead." Niles dubbed Rhine, "Sickest brain in the world... almost."

Rhine's story "THE SEER" is currently up on the WEB DEL SOL website - which Writer's Digest ranks in the top 10 in their Fiction Top 50. Click here to read it.

"Satan's Powder Room" received a favorable review from the master of horror sites FeoAmante.com ("the most visited horror site on the web"). Review

Rhine's animated SICKCOM is now screening nationally as part of Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation. for theaters and times, click here.

Rhine's animated SICKCOM on Spike TV made The Hollywood Reporter. Click here to check out the story.

R.S. Rhine and Frank Forte were guests on "Corruption and Mayhem," which hails as the most brutal show on television. C&M is a weekly half hour show, hosted by Dan Morales, which has been airing on cable for four years (Ch. 15. Fridays at 11.00 pm). C&M travels all around the country filming and interviewing metal acts - from the South by Southwest festival to the Milwaukee MetalFest. more info

SHOUT! FACTORY SET TO RELEASE ALL-NEW DVD COMPILATION OF SPIKE & MIKE¹S SICK &TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION SEPTEMBER 2ND, featuring R.S. Rhine's SICKCOM! More Info.

On Sunday, August 24, 2003 from 10 am - 5 pm. R.S. Rhine will be signing "Chicken Soup For Satan," SICKCOM DVD's, t-shirts and other stuff, with FrankenRhine cohort Frank Forte, at the LOS ANGELES COMIC BOOK AND SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION. THE CONVENTION IS LOCATED AT THE SHRINE AUDITORIUM EXPO CENTER, 700 WEST 32ND ST. IN LOS ANGELES. (The Shrine Auditorium is just North of the USC Campus and is near the cross streets of Jefferson & Figueroa). Admission is 6.00. More Info

On Satuday September 20th, 2003 from 2-4 p.m. at DARK DELICACIES BOOKSTORE, R.S. Rhine, Frank Forte and illustrator Jacob Hair will be signing "Chicken Soup For Satan." Also signing on that day will be Chad Michael Ward (Black Rust), Lisa Morton (The Encyclopedia of Halloween), Tony Mauro (The Dark Art of Tony Mauro) and illustrator Gak (Dead Cat Bouncing). Dark Delicacies Bookstore is located at: 4213 W. Burbank Boulevard in Burbank, California (818) 556-6660. More Info

Character actor, ex-gang member and former prison boxing champion, DANNY TREJO, who has appeared in sixty films including: "Heat," "XXX," "Spy Kids (1-3)," "Blood In - Blood Out," "Con Air," "Six Days, Seven Nights," and "From Dusk Till Dawn," hangs with wannabe homie Roberto, while holding his copy of Rhine's "The Adventures Of Raoul, Low-Life Ex-Cop."

R.S. Rhine has sold a story to the successful trade paperback "Dead Cat Bouncing." The humorous horror anthology about, well, a dead cat, is edited by Gerard Houarner and illustrator GAK and has featured such notable and prodigious writers as: Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, John Skipp, Tom Piccirilli, Charlee Jacob, Yvonne Navarro, David Niall Wilson, Brain Keene and Mick Farren. R.S. Rhine's story, "Bouncing Dead Baby," will be in the next incarnation of the book, slated for release in late 2003. "Dead Cat Bouncing" is published by Bedlam Press/Necro Publications

Thank you!!! to all those who visited our San Diego Comic-Con 2003 booth and bought hundreds of our newly released "Chicken Soup For Satan" comic book, T-shirts, skull bowls and took pictures with our booth girl, Satana. Comic-Con Int'l 2003 was another huge success for FrankenRhine Productions and Asylum Press. In particular, the screening of our pilot SICKCOM, as the lead off film at Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, which drew so many fans (over a thousand) that the theater had to be moved! We also wish to thank Kevin Klemm of The Ed Gein Collection who provided us with fresh corpses for our booth including Nosferatu and Smiling Jack (left). Next up, the Shrine Auditorium Comic Book and Sci-Fi convention on Sunday August 24th. Hope to see you there!

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Horror author and comic book writer Robert Steven Rhine ("Selected Readings From Satan's Powder Room," "My Brain Escapes Me") and partner artist Frank Forte ("Vampire Verses" ) have sold their animated pilot SICKCOM to Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.

SICKCOM, an animated comedy about a serial killer's home life, was written and directed by R.S. Rhine and animated in flash by Frank Forte at their FrankenRhine Studios. The animated pilot episode, "Meet The Beaters," which skewers the traditional TV situation comedy, will tour with Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in July at theaters across the country and on DVD. The infamous Spike & Mike are partially 'responsible' for helping to launch such successful series as: "South Park" and "Beavis and Butthead."

COMIC-CON 2003

Robert Rhine and Frank Forte will be exhibitors at Comic-Con San Diego 2003, July 16th - 20th. They will be located at the same booth they were last year - number 5348 (near entrance 'C'). They will be featuring the release of their second comic book in R.S. Rhine's 'humorrorific' Satan anthology, "Chicken Soup From Satan"#1 (featuring work by Steven Mannion (DC's Big Book series, Gotham Nights). The comic book, published by Forte's Asylum Press, will be served up in comic book stores this July. The first issue in the 'Satan' series,

"Selected Readings From Satan's Powder Room," featuring artwork by John Cassaday ("Planetary," "Captain America"), has sold out.

On May 18th from 2-5 p.m. at Dark Delicacies Bookstore (4213 W. Burbank Boulevard. Burbank, CA) R.S. Rhine will be on hand to sign Framed: A Gallery of Dark Delicacies, a charity book he'll be signing alongside horror/sci-fi artists and writers: Clive Barker, Jhonen Vasquez, Ben Templesmith, Bernie Wrightson, Gris Grimly, William F. Nolan, Richard Matheson, Jack Ketchum, Gary Brandner, F. Paul Wilson, John Skipp, Steve Niles, Mick Garris and others. For more info: www.darkdel.com

R.S. Rhine's stories "Snapped" is now appearing in the spring issue of The Late Late Show.

Forrest J. Ackerman, "Mr. Science Fiction," and literary agent (to Ray Bradbury and others,) actor (50 films), screenwriter, magazine editor Monster of Filmland Magazine and others, stands with writer R.S. Rhine (holding Rhine's comic book issue #1) in front of the original robot prop from Forrey's favorite film "Metropolis." World Famous Forrest J. Ackerman cradles his issue of "Selected Readings From Satan's Powder Room" as he stands beside good friend and actor James Karen ("Return Of The Living Dead," "Poltergiest," "Wall Street," and seventy other films) at the home of "Forrey," who coined the term "sci-fi" in 1956.
Famed science fiction writer RAY BRADBURY elevates R.S. Rhine's comic book

R.S. Rhine will do a signing/reading at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle WA on Saturday March 8th, 2003 at 4:00 p.m. (206) 624-6600

Rhine will also be signing at 23rd Avenue Books in Portland on Tuesday March 11th 2003 at 7:30 p.m. at 1015 NW 23rd Ave. (503) 224-5097. Books23@teleport.com

R.S. Rhine will be on hand to judge The Fringe Playwriting Festival in Seattle WA March 6-9th 2003.

Prophecy Magazine has purchased another story from R.S. Rhine, this one titled, "The Bouillabaisse Trick" to be illustrated by Steven Mannion.

"The Wind Between My Ears," R.S. Rhine's original one act (and homage to dada), will be presented at Theater East in Studio City in March 2003.

R.S. Rhine's stories "Snapped" and "Free For All - All For Free" will appear in the January 2003 issue of The Late Late Show. www.thelatelateshow.org

R.S. Rhine has sold his story "Slow Boat To China" to Prophecy Magazine, dedicated exclusively to comic content from independent and alternative artists. Prophecy #1 will have a circulation of one million. The true story will be illustrated by Shannon Wheeler, publisher and creator of the nationally distributed and syndicated "Too Much Coffee Man."

Our Asylum Press booth at last weekends IPEX (Independant Publishing Experience) convention (at UCLA's Ackerman Grand Ballroom) drew gasps and FrankenRhine Productions sold a lot more "Selected Reading's From Satan's Powder Room" and other Asylum Press comic books! Sponsored by Slave Labor Graphics, the independent comic book event rocked.

After the great success (and nearly sellout) of Rhine's first comic book trilogy "Selected Reading's From Satan's Powder Room," a second comic book has been written and is now being illustrated.

"Chicken Soup For Satan" (#1) will feature three top artists: Steven Mannion ("Batman - Dark Knight," "Strange Pirate Tales"), Rich Longmore ("Iron Guns," also illustrated a tale in Satan #1), awesome newcomer Jacob Hair and, of course, the ever twisted Frank Forte ("Vampire Verses") doing the covers, etc. Asylum Press is anticipating a March 2003 street date. We'll keep you posted!

SHOCKLINES - your one-stop shop for horror - will now be carrying R.S. Rhine's comic books and t-shirts. Click here for details

Rhine's latest short story "The Seer" can now be perused at the prestigious online literary locus: Web Del Sol Review.

Robert Steven Rhine signs at Dark Delicacies Bookstore with "Blade 2" director Guillermo Del Toro and actor Ron Pearlman.

FANGORIA 2002 in Pasadena was another HUGE SUCCESS for FRAKENRHINE PRODUCTIONS and "SELECTED READINGS FROM SATAN'S POWDER ROOM." More comics, t-shirts, stickers and books were sold. Visitors to the booth who bought and perused copies of "Satan," included: Famed director JOHN LANDIS, legendary horror director GEORGE A. ROMERO (Night/Day/Return of the Living Dead"), mistress of the dark ELVIRA (Cassandra Petersen), "Evil dead" actor BRUCE CAMPBELL, Leatherface from "Chainsaw Massacre" GUNNAR HANSEN and many other twisted individuals.

Bruce Campbell Robert and John Landis

photos by Al Ortega

COMIC-CON 2002 UPDATE/NEWS

MILE HIGH COMICS... NEWSARAMA posts news headline about R.S. Rhine's "Selected Readings From Satan's Powder Room" and John Cassaday "lost horror story." Read the news story.

Here's the latest Robert Steven Rhine interview:
The Entertainment Zone Online Magazine

Drink heavily before reading.

RobertRhine.com website premiered on March 17th, 2002. Designed by webmaster John Boegehold of Gonewest.com

R.S. Rhine is now being represented by agent Marti Blumenthal, senior partner at Writers & Artists.

The animated series "SICKCOM," written and produced by R.S. Rhine is now premiering on FantasticTV.com.

Rhine's short film (He wrote and produced) "Vinnie and Angela's Beauty Salon & Funeral Parlor" has been acquired by Univeral's Hypnotic website.

R.S. Rhine recently signed "The Altruistic Alphabet" at Dark Delicacies Bookstore which he participated alongside such prominent authors and artists as Clive Barker, George Clayton Johnson, William F. Nolan, F. Paul Wilson, Gahan Wilson and Bernie Wrightson.

A reading of Rhine's fiction was recently performed at The New Short Fiction Series at the Lankershim Arts Center (L.A's only live literary magazine) by actors Bill Lee Brown, Rob Elk, Benito Martinez and Rafael Noble.

R.S. Rhine was most recently published in Masque Noir - Issue Six (Australia). Also, Rhine had the featured cover piece "Click-Click" in Delirium Magazine #4 and his dark story "Snapped" was published on Delirium Magazines online webzine. Check them out at Delirumbooks.com.