OFFICIAL SITE OF AUTHOR MICHAEL RICKARD

When Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s personal demons kept him from continuing his feud against “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, the WWF wrote him out with...

Copyright 2018 Michael W. Rickard II 2018 was a big year for pop culture anniversaries, but one that almost slipped away from me was the...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II You’ll believe a mag can fly in BACK ISSUE #109 (84 FULL-COLOR pages, $8.95), as we celebrate the...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

Copyright 2018 by Michael Rickard II The Christmas season was a grim time for many in 1942. With World War Two raging and many nations...

Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka had been (kayfabe) seriously injured in his quest for revenge against “Rowdy” Roddy Piper during their August 25,...

Mera, the queen of Atlantis, mysteriously disappears, and Aquaman begins searching high and low to find her. In addition, Atlantis is in...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

When a wrestler gets a coconut broke over his head and humiliated on national TV, you can be certain that there’s going to be a feud....

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

With the holidays around the corner, wrestling fans are always looking for a good wrestling-related read. Check out my review of the 2014...

Recently I collaborated with my dad on a book about our three-legged cat, Chester. Now, the story of how Chester came into our lives can...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

It’s been said that you should write what you know, and wrestling fan/historian/author Dick Bourne has shown this with his various books...

Copyright 2018 Michael W. Rickard Things looked bleak for comic books throughout the 1970s because of plummeting sell-through rates....

Although the Victorian Age saw tremendous changes in England including the expansion of the Industrial Revolution and a new voting class,...

When a wrestler is portrayed as unbeatable, a wise promoter will want to be careful in how they are booked when they do lose. If done...

Thank you to everyone who entered the Flunky: Pawns and Kings giveaway at Goodreads. 100 winners were chosen and I look forward to...

The good folks over at Canadian Bulldog's World (whose site I write for) were kind enough to interview me about my upcoming book, Flunky:...

Copyright 2018 by Michael Rickard Charles Dicken, a figure synonymous with Victorian England and recognized as one of the first authors...