REVIEW: Strange Luck, The Tale of Bill Black

Drew Mack produces a documentary following the unusual occurrences that led Bill Black to a 50+ year career as an independent filmmaker and the publisher of the longest-running independent comic company.

For Comic fans the film charts AC Comics from its beginnings as a Fanzine, Paragon Illustrated, to the creation of Americomics and FemForce, along with the move into comic shops.

For independent film fans, we see the beginning of Bill’s career and his gorilla productions in abandoned builds. We even see his homemade miniature and sets from the early days of his productions.

It’s a tale of a never end series of unlikely occurrences that have allowed Bill Black to follow his childhood passions, a love of horror movies and comic books, into a career that allowed him to chart his own destiny and be the master of his own creativity. If you like indie comics or indie films this is a must see.

Highly Recommended!

STRANGE LUCK: THE TALE OF BILL BLACK
Bill Black Creator of AC Comics the longest-running independent comic publisher around tells his story. From how he got into art and filmmaking to his time in the Army during Vietnam.
Director Drew Mack
Producers Drew Mack and James Fink
Starring Bill Black and Cliff Weikal
1 h 28 min
2023
Rated 16+
Rental $1.99
Purchase $4.99
On Prime Video

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Rik Offenberger

Rik Offenberger has worked in the comic field as a retailer, distributor, reporter, public relations coordinator, writer and publisher since 1990. He owns and operates the e-mail bases Super Hero News service, and his published works in print can be seen in The Comics Buyers Guide, Comic Retailer, Borderline Magazine, and Comics International. On the internet he has worked as a writer and/or editor for Silver Bullet Comicbooks, Comic Book Resources, Newsarama and First Comics News. He was the Public Relations Coordinator at Archie Comics for a decade. He is currently the Editor-In-Chief at G-Man Comics. For TwoMorrows Publications, Rik co-wrote The MLJ Companion with Paul Castiglia and Jon B. Cooke, charting the history of Archie’s superheroes, and for Gemstone Publishing wrote chapters of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to Lost Universes.

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