TCJ reprints its Ted White interview

 

The Comics Journal #59: The Ted White Interview

Gary Groth | May 29, 2026

https://www.tcj.com/the-comics-journal-59-the-ted-white-interview/

RIP Ted White, writer about comics (updated)

White lived in Falls Church, and also wrote for the Falls Church News-Press. He was mostly active in science fiction, but wrote for Heavy Metal as well as the first Captain America prose novel. 

Honoring Ted White

Mike Chomko

May 24, 2026

https://pulpfest.com/2026/05/24/honoring-ted-white/

 

The article also notes the comic book artists White hired as an SF editor, "They were joined by some of science fiction’s most exciting artists: Dan Adkins, Vaughn Bode, Doug Chaffee,  Jeff Jones, Mike Kaluta, John Pederson, Jr., Joe Staton, and most significantly Mike Hinge." 

Here's his Grand Comics Database page.

Here's his Wikipedia page.

After I posted this, I received the following email that Joel gave me permission to quote here:

 

 Not only did Ted White write for Heavy Metal, he was the editor for several years, and brought American creators into its pages.

Ted was a very early comics fan at a time when science fiction fandom shunned comics.

He was one of the top EC comics fans, along with the recently departed Larry Stark, long-departed Bhob Stewart, and still-with-us Fred von Bernewitz (who grew up in Silver Spring and graduated from Montgomery Blair HS).
 
--Joel Pollack
Founder of BIG PLANET COMICS
Retired