Author: Greg Hatcher

Prior to his untimely passing in October of 2021, Greg Hatcher was a longtime columnist and author and the primary founder of Atomic Junk Shop; all of the other founding contributors were invited by him. His Author's bio at the time of his death follows. Greg has been writing for one outlet or another since 1992. He was a contributing editor at WITH magazine for over a decade and during that time was a three-time winner of the Higher Goals Award for children's writing; once for fiction and twice for non-fiction. Following that, he did a weekly column for Comic Book Resources as one of the rotating features on the Comics Should Be Good! blog for eleven years, before moving on to this current gig at Atomic Junk Shop. He also teaches writing in the Young Authors classes offered as part of the YMCA's Afterschool Arts Program in west Seattle, for students in the 6th through the 12th grade. A fan of pulp fiction ever since he discovered the Doc Savage paperback reprints from Bantam Books in the 1970s, he has contributed a number of action-adventure stories to various 'new pulp' anthologies in recent years. Likewise a lifelong mystery fan, he has also written Nero Wolfe pastiches for the Wolfe Pack Gazette and several Sherlock Holmes adventures for the Airship 27 CONSULTING DETECTIVE series. He lives in Burien, Washington, with his wife Julie, their cat Magdalene, and ten thousand books and comics.

Comics, Edo Bosnar, Greg Hatcher, Obituaries, Travis Pelkie

Atomic Roundtable: Ditko Memories

By Greg Hatcher July 11, 2018 July 11, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"5

A few of us here at the Junk Shop talk about our favorite Steve Ditko moments in comics.

Comics Culture, Greg Hatcher

Social Justice Warriors, part 2: Looking at ComicsGate and Feeling the H.E.A.T.

By Greg Hatcher June 30, 2018 June 30, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"18

A former member of H.E.A.T. weighs in on ComicsGate, and expresses a few regrets along the way.

Greg Hatcher, The Schoolteacher Diaries

In Seattle? Looking For Something To Do This Weekend?

By Greg Hatcher June 22, 2018 June 22, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"2

Come see my amazing Young Authors at Ace Comic-Con.

Greg Hatcher

Social Justice Warriors

By Greg Hatcher June 16, 2018 October 6, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"14

I’m actually totally fine with social justice when it comes to fandom. We could use some more of it.

Comics, Greg Hatcher, Kickstarter Is Your Friend!

Cool Stuff You Should Know About

By Greg Hatcher June 4, 2018 June 4, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"0

We get a LOT of press releases and requests to review stuff. Most of them we just can’t get to… but here are a couple of cool projects we really do think you ought to be aware of.

Greg Hatcher, The Schoolteacher Diaries

Turning Pro

By Greg Hatcher May 28, 2018 May 28, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"3

When I was first starting to write, back in my teens, I dreamed of turning pro. Now a couple of my students have done it and I could not be prouder.

Greg Hatcher

Grail Quests

By Greg Hatcher May 19, 2018 May 19, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"20

A question that came up several times after last week’s tale of stepping away from OCD collector mania was, “Yes, but clearly you still COLLECT things, right?”

Well… yes and no.