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A Few Of Gene's Favorite Things From: Fortune Magazine Posted: February 28, 2008 KISS is still around - and GENE SIMMONS will tell you it's bigger than ever. That's because Simmons, who co-owns the trademark with bandmate PAUL STANLEY, estimates that he has licensed more than 3,000 KISS products that run the gamut from rock & roll (coffins, condoms) to suburban-dad tame (Hasbro Toothtunes toothbrushes, coffeehouses). He's also turned his penchant for promotion, which fueled the band's fire-breathing success in the 1970s, into a second act: marketing. Clients include the Indy Racing League, for which Simmons crafted the slogan "I am Indy." Then there's the Gene brand: His A&E reality show, "GENE SIMMONS: Family Jewels," is currently taping its third season. All those commitments keep Simmons on the road for almost half the year, and that's when the band isn't touring. We caught up with the rocker in New York City to talk travel. Days on the road About 180. We may tour next year, and that'll take ten months. But I go to all the IndyCar races and travel anywhere that includes the TV show. Favorite way to fly Overseas airlines. They treat you like a king. Singapore Airlines is just terrific. Full service At LAX, two blocks away from the airport, there's this secret thing. I drive up to a place, a guy gets in, I drive to United or American or wherever, and he takes the car. No parking, no torture. When I land, I make the phone call. Car drives up, I get in and drive off. It's called Airport Valet. It's my favorite thing. Highs or lows I like a clean bed and a clean bathroom. The rest of the accouterments I don't really care about. I've stayed at Motel 6, and they do a good job for the price. I used to like the Plaza Hotel in New York, and they seemed to like me because every time I went they gave me a suite and a butler. But I could go to Holiday Inn, and there'd be a party, and you'd have the time of your life. I'm what it's about. Sweet spot I still like the Carnegie Deli in New York, showing up at 2 A.M. and doing sinful things like having a hot pastrami sandwich, lean, extra mustard, pickle. Of course, you have nightmares from hell, but that's the price. Best tool I don't carry my computer, ever. Every hotel has them. And I refuse to get a CrackBerry. I talk on the phone. People want access to me, and it makes the deals go down faster. I have a two- or three-year-old Razr. Terrific reception. Celebrity perks Chicks. And access. Celebrity gets the door open. You can't create business, but celebrity gives you access to people because they're curious about you. GENE SIMMONS and  CNN'S ANDERSON COOPER See the video. February 26th -    It's a busy week.    We are finishing shooting the remaining 9 episodes of our Season III GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS -- debuting on MARCH 11th at 10 pm Eastern, 9 pm Mountain....    Then flying to New York to do RACHEL RAY (whose show, incidentally I watch when I'm up that early)_ and then seg to do CNN SHOWBIZ TONIGHTs...and meeting with Retail re our GENE SIMMONS MONEYBAG/DUSSAULT Streetwear Clothing Line.    Then fly back early the next day in time to do a voiceover on the very cool FAIRLY ODD PARENTS (cartoon on Nickelodeon) and then hurry back to shoot from 4 pm till midnight some more GSFJ stuff.    Oh yeah, and sleep. February 25th -    Hello everyone.    Almost all the garbage seems to have diminished or disappeared re a video from my past.    Once again, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your overwhelming show of support for Shannon, Soph and Nick.    You should know for the record, the garbage was recorded without my knowledge and is a page from my past. It happened and there's nothing I can do to repair that. The black and white footage may have been decades old. The entity behind the garbage has repeatedly tried  to make money off of this and we have always refused. This is not the first time  the entity has tried to blackmail and extort us. We have always refused and we will continue to refuse. I'm told the legal team has been tracking down the parties involved and they will be dealt with appropriately.    Most importantly, the love I have for Shannon, Soph and Nick I hope is evident in our relationship. Yes. We have a tv show, but the people in the show are real and the love you see between us  is real. February 25th - GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS Season III Premiers March 11!!!    Only 9 shows remaining to be filmed of our show.  A&E had ordered 20 Episodes. Then increased it to 24 Episodes. And then increased the order to 34 Episodes. Hopefully, all can be done before KISS leaves for the ALIVE 35 WORLD TOUR.    In case you haven't scrolled down this page, STOCKHOLM STADIUM sold out in 20 minutes. No one and I mean no one beats the KISS ARMY.  Want to attend? Click HERE for dates on KISSONLINE.COM.    Between the Aussie/New Zealand dates and Euro Tour, I'll be in Japan filming a Japanese Movie. More details coming soon.    Young NICK is being flooded with TV and Movie offers. And, he has just come off his first college semester with Straight A's. Period. That's my son.    And, HINDER is interested in having Nick's Rock Band open for them on their forthcoming tour.    Our NGTV.COM venture is kicking butt.  If you've been living under a rock and haven't heard about the monster of the internet, Click HERE to see what all the noise is about. You're "No Good."    INDYCAR.COM.  Yes, IndyCar. The coolest and fastest of all motor sports.  You've seen DANICA PATRICK on ELLEN DEGENERES' SHOW. You've seen HELIO CASTRONEVES win the DANCING WITH THE STARS competition and on OPRAH. Now, do yourself a favor and get the thrill of a lifetime -- come down to the races. Go to INDYCAR.COM for the race schedule.    In your spare time, check out my cartoon show, MY DAD THE ROCK STAR (NickToons). Seen in over 34 countries. And now, in its 5th year.    Looks like we've sold TWO NEW TV PROJECTS. As soon as we're free to post details, we will.    Be on the lookout for DOMINATRIX Hard Cover Book from SIMMONS COMICS GROUP/IDW PUB.  It will feature the beautiful covers of our series, as well as interviews and stories re the birth of our reluctant heroine. I created Dom. And in doing research, found out no one had ever trademarked the name. I did. She's my creation in more ways than one.    AVI ARRAD, the former head of MARVEL -- and the one responsible for producing  X-MEN, FANTASTIC FOUR, HULK, BLADE, and the upcoming IRON MAN movies....came over to talk about a new project we intend on doing together.  You may be interested to know that for a tine, I was given the option to try to set up GHOST RIDER.  And try as I might, I just couldn't get traction. Eventually, Rider was made and grossed close to 300 million bucks worldwide. If at first you don't succeed. ....    MARK BURNETT and I are talking.  Look him up. A powerful and attractive man.    New toys, new ventures and new deals coming.    And how was your day? GENE SIMMONS ON ABC'S NIGHTLINE CLICK HERE to view a clip of Gene's interview on ABC's Nightline. By STEVEN BAKER and JULIA HOPPOCK Feb. 22, 2008 Unlike many rock legends, Gene Simmons did not grow up in a home where music filled the halls. "It was a quiet household," Simmons said. "I come from a broken home. My father left us when I was 6 or 7 years old, and my mother worked from sun up until sundown, so there was never any music at home." Instead, he discovered rock 'n' roll music "naturally" by listening to the radio. Simmons said the early rock he listened to "crawled into my blood." Born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel, in 1949, Simmons was the only child of his mother, Florence Klein, a holocaust survivor. Simmons and his mother immigrated to the United States when he was 8 years old. They settled in Queens, N.Y., and Chaim adopted a more American-sounding name: Eugene. Simmons attended Richmond College in New York and graduated with a degree in education. After college he had a number of positions: He was a sixth-grade teacher in New York's Spanish Harlem, an assistant to the editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine, and a deli cashier. In 1973, Simmons settled on his real passion. Along with his friends Peter, Paul and Ace, he formed the band Kiss. The idea behind the band was that they would "take no prisoners." While Simmons admits that "we didn't quite know what that meant," the group took on a bold bravado onstage that made it famous. "At the beginning, this was a four-headed beast called 'Kiss' that had the balls to get up onstage and grab the world by the scruff of its neck and proclaim. 'You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world,'" Simmons said. "The rally cry, the manifesto, is 'Rock and Roll All Night and Party Every Day' … it's a feel-good manifesto of a party." Simmons' onstage character is known as "the Demon," which came from the documentary "Man of a Thousand Faces," about Lon Chaney, a silent film legend. Simmons resides in Beverly Hills, Calif., with his partner of 24 years, Shannon Tweed, and their two children. These days, the Simmons family is featured in its own A&E reality show, "Gene Simmons: Family Jewels," now in its third season. CLICK HERE to view a clip of Gene's interview on ABC's Nightline. February 21st -    Once again, thank you (and I can't say it enough) for your overwhelming support for The Family and myself. Your emails have been gracious and I am humbled.    Onward.    Today is a new day. February 20th - Hi everyone, You may have heard or seen garbage that has sprung up from my past. Rest assured the proper legal team is looking at all ramifications and options. And us?  Shannon, Nick and Soph are happy and healthy. All is well. And thank you all for the kind words of support. February 17th - MOVIE TRAILER GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS Season III Debuts MARCH 11th!!!    If you find yourself in a movie theater, waiting to see that special movie you've been dying to see -- you'll first  have to sit through the following.    The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Or, something like that. February 16th - JAPANESE MOVIE    Have just agreed to do a Japanese Movie (cannot release title or what it's about just yet). Will stop off in Japan after our KISS NEW ZEALAND Stadium Show and afterwards, get ready for the KISS EUROPEAN TOUR.    Log on to KISSONLINE.COM for dates and more info. RADIO ADVERT for Season III -- GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS --  Coming in March!!! February 15th -    CNN's ANDERSON COOPER is going to be announced by yours truly in a series of bits his fine people asked me to do. The spots should be running now.    And, ABC's NIGHTLINE was over to film me talking about the 5 pivotal songs of my life. One of em, is WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR.    I'll be in NYC on the Feb 28th filming RACHEL RAY's show on CBS. New letters posted... SEX MONEY KISS - on Simmons Books/Phoenix Books Just my review of your audio book which I purchased and couldn't put down this weekend ....I posted this review on a few websites !! Picked up the audio copy of Gene Simmons book this weekend - SEX MONEY KISS. If I could give this Audio Book 5 Starsas one of the most influential books I've ever read ... AND BEST AUDIO BOOK ever (narrated by Simmons himself) .... there would be no contest in my mind. I thought I would be vaguely interested in Simmon's story as one of the founders of KISS, I certainly wasn't the biggest Kiss Fan myself ... but after a few minutes of listening ... Simmons is compelling ... a remarkable sense of honesty ... well ... I couldn't pry my new damn IPOD from my head this weekend ... Simmons is engaging ... charming ... humorous ....thought-provoking .... and damn ...If you want to learn about marketing .. He lays out some powerful core concepts of how to make it in business .. whether music ... or otherwise .. (that might not be to your liking .. mind you) ..... then by all means ... LISTEN TO THIS COURSE ....!!! This is no arm chairjockey spouting out useless ideology .. .SIMMONS has done it ... Created his own worldwide phenomena ... orchestrated it .... fine-honed it ...superbly ... and his bank account is testimony to his legagacy .... Gene Simmons hasparlayed ... Sticking his tongue out ... spitting up blood for the masses on stage .. his love of Sex, Money, Comic Books and Rock and Roll into an ever growing empire that continues to this day to roll in the bucks like an unstoppable juggernaut... over 30 years later .... Simmons is certainly a force to be reckoned with ....and most assuredly ... to be taken seriously. And the truth is ..... According to Simmons ... It was more his personal perserverence .... a powerful belief in himself instilled by his mother ...... than raw talent .... The comparison between him and his long standing business partner Paul Stanley, their work ethics .. and ... Peter Criss and Ace Frenley ...is an excellent analogy portraying in this tiny microcosm of the Kiss world ... the amazing contrast between losers and winners and Simmons drive to succeed .... I would recommend everyone on here ....run ...not walk .... listen to this audiobook (one of the few audiobooks I'd recommend .. I guarantee you will not be able to put it down ...because Simmons voice is compelling ... mysterious .. even hysterically funny at times) ... if Simmon's story does only one thing ... and disrupts your current thinking, opens you up to some new opportunities in your life and knocks a sense of possibility into your brain as to what is possible ... well .. it's a stupendous feat achieved by a very small handful of authors .... ....... and don't be freaken surprised if Simmon, the eternal salesman, marketeer ....gets you to spend some of your hard earned buckaroos purchasing some of his previously released ...Kiss stuff .... I had no respect for this guy before ....Didn't think twice about him ... But now ... hey .. this guys a winner in my book .....5 Thumbs up! One of the most influential books I've listened to. John Petrocelli Letters... New Lady in Waiting! Cortney D. Zipper #4 From: IDW/Simmons Comic Group Written by: Tom Waltz Art By: Casey Maloney, Marc Rueda Reviewed by Tim Janson The product of KISS bassist, Gene Simmons, Zipper is the tale of alien Xeng Ral, who has fled from his world where individuality is a crime. Escaping to Earth and to the city of Detroit (my hometown), Xeng Ral is befriended by a small time hood, Ronnie, as well as Detroit Police Detective Linda Maki. Xeng’s race, the Etherians, have tracked him to Earth and set four hunters on his trail. They are intent on bringing Xeng back so their collective can be made whole again. With the aid of his friends, Xeng managed to elude the hunters in the third issue. Xeng and the hunters all where cybernetic Exo battle-suits which can cloak their true appearances. The fourth issue opens as the Tang Fe, the Etherian leader, gets an update from his security forces on the status of Xeng Ral. He is none too happy to hear that not only has the fugitive eluded the hunters, but is getting assistance from Earthlings. In order to repair their collective, and send a message to any other member of their race who might seek the same kind of freedom, Tang Fe now orders his hunters to destroy Xeng Ral. As Xeng, Ronnie, and Maki take a breather in a Ypsilanti (that’s a city in Michigan about a half hour outside of Detroit where Eastern Michigan University is located) bar, we finally learn a little bit about the Etherians and Xeng’s function before escaping. He had been an elite planetary guardsman whose sole purpose was to train and defend. We also get to learn a good deal about Detective Maki and her background. While the first three issues of the series featured quite a bit of action, Tom Waltz slows the bus down a bit to develop his main characters and forward the plot. What I though was going to be a somewhat light story has become progressively darker and more violent. The hunters are through playing games and they intend to kill Xeng and will let no one, human or otherwise stand in their way. This book continues to surprise me. It’s well written with fresh and witty dialog. The characters talk and act like real people, not caricatures. Casey Maloney and Marc Rueda’s art continues to impress. I love the stoic, never changing expression on Xeng’s face when he is cloaked as a human. Also had to love the old, chubby waitress in the bar wearing a “Winger” t-____. That’s gold! GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS Season III Returns!!! Gene Simmons Family Jewels Returning To A&E For A Third Season Writing by Joe on Saturday, 9 February, 2008 at 8:07 am Gene Simmons Family Jewels is returning to A&E for a third season. The reality series stars KISS rock star Gene Simmons and his unconventional family. Season three of Gene Simmons Family Jewels will kick off with back-to-back episodes and will run for twenty-four episodes. In the first episode, Gene Simmons will take a lie detector test to determine if he has been faithful to Shannon Tweed. Shannon has been Gene's companion for twenty-four years and is the mother of his two children, Nick and Sophie. Shannon will administer the questions for the lie detector test. The test will reveal to fans if the 4,800 women Gene claims to have been with all happened before his and Shannon's relationship began in 1983.  Other episodes during the third season will focus on a Gene Simmons Roast featuring friends and comedians, the first ever KISS concert where the band performs as a trio, behind the scenes of Gene on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice, Gene and Shannon's official honeymoon in Hawaii, and Nick and Sophie in Mexico. Gene Simmons Family Jewels premieres on Tuesday, March 11th at 10 PM ET/PT on A&E. GENE SIMMONS & CHER on EXTRA IT'S A KODAK WORLD!!! New letters posted... Hi, Gene! The other day I was drivingto the store to buy some stuff for myself and what do I see. To my amazement I had to stop in front of the Kodak store to see what the commotion was about. There was a huge poster on the display with your picture and your long tongue sticking out and on top it says It's a Kodak World. Oh, boy what a gorgeous site that was. I just wish I had my camera with me. Anyway, you are loved by everyone here and of course by me. Best wishes to you, Kisses and hugs, Inna from MA Letters... New letters posted... Good to see you on Ugly Betty....perfect story line to play yourself. I loved seeing you in Third Watch, however you have other obvious talents than playing a bad guy. I think you would be fabulous in a show like CSI. You have that serious detective way, along with being charming, and sexy. Either way, you can still come home with me................................ Letters... Confessions of a KISS Fan By Jim Kingman I suppose there’s a time in every individual’s life when he or she has to come out of the closet about something, and for me that particular moment is here and now: I am one nutty KISS fan. I wasn’t born a KISS fan, and I haven’t been a KISS fan for years. I think the last KISS album (not CD) I bought was Alive II in 1978. When the band recorded a disco song in 1979 called “I Was Made For Loving You,” I immediately defected from the KISS nation. But from 1976 to 1978 I was a pretty big KISS fan. I bought Alive! , Destroyer in early 1976, Love Gun in 1977, then Alive II. I remember when all four members (Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss) released solo albums in late ’78, and I think I purchased those, too. I don’t know. I was a wayward, geeky teenager in those days, and I smoked a lot of pot then. Some things I remember with clarity, other memories have gone up in smoke. I did buy the KISS comic published by Marvel Comics in 1977. I was a big DC fan, but I had to have that magazine-sized comic, the one where the band, according to a statement on the cover, added some of their own blood into the ink. I believe the story was written by Steve Gerber, but I don’t remember who the artists were. I sold it and all my KISS albums long ago. Every now and then during the last thirty years, I would find myself humming “Detroit Rock City” or “Shout It Out Loud”--two definitive KISS songs off their Destroyer album--but then something by Cheap Trick or ABBA or The Smiths or U2 would chime in, and I’d forget about KISS again. But not lately. And I have Donald Trump to thank for it. I really enjoy watching The Apprentice (another confession? Hmm . . .). It’s decent reality TV fluff, but lately it hasn’t been doing so good in the ratings. So NBC and Trump decided to try something different, and came up with Celebrity Apprentice. One of the chosen celebrities is KISS’s very own Gene Simmons and, for three episodes, he was awesome. Simmons stole the show. Then he got fired, and the show hasn’t been the same since. But watching Gene, with that controlled-thunder voice and stoic rock presence, brought it all back, all those KISS memories, the sober ones and the loaded ones. I found myself not just humming a few old KISS tunes, I found myself rifling through my CD collection and coming across Destroyer and one of their supposedly gazillion different Greatest Hits packages, one of which I had purchased a while back, forgotten about, and never played. I’ve been listening to nothing but KISS songs for the past couple of weeks. And what’s even better is that I read a lot of ‘70s DC comic books to KISS tunes. The band’s songs became the soundtrack for Super-Team Family, Secret Society of Super-Villains, Martin Pasko’s stories in Superman, Star Hunters, and a whole lot more. When I play these songs I can visualize The Atom searching for his missing lady-love, Jean Loring; the return of Captain Comet; Superman battling Solomon Grundy; and Donovan Flint in his wild sci-fi adventures. I could pluck out those comics and read them to enhance the memories, but just off the KISS songs alone the memories are pretty darn clear. I like that. I like that I can fall back on what I enjoyed feeling about comics as a teen. I’ve grown up, I’ve become more thoughtful about comics, more analytical, more scholarly, a little smarter, and I’ve just plain suppressed a lot (but not all) of that good old-fashioned gung ho feeling about comics--feelings I carried like a proud badge as a teen. Suddenly, a dozen KISS songs are getting me back in the groove again and I want to start reading new comics, Y: The Last Man, Green Lantern, Scalped, Captain America, while listening to old KISS tunes. Do you want to know what’s even more far out? I just discovered the other day that I can carry my unleashed KISS obsession to an extreme degree, because Gene Simmons has his own comics imprint at IDW Publishing. In fact, over at progressiveruin.com I was reading Mike Sterling’s comments about Gene Simmons Zipper. Gene Simmons ZIPPER?! That’s not a comic you think on, or become critical of, or try to find some hidden meaning in; no way, that’s just a comic you read--and read with feeling. All the while blasting “Strutter” at the highest volume you can crank it without disturbing your wife or scaring your neighbors. I can’t wait to buy Zipper. All I have to do is wrap up this column, send it off to CB, finish up my work day, then stride merrily to Comics Factory (a local comics ship in Pasadena). Just before the next episode of Celebrity Apprentice (forget Lost), I’m going to read, in honor of KISS, Gene Simmons Zipper. Which sounds downright sick. But it’s a happy, harmless kind of sick. I should probably duck back into the closet . . . before a Queen tune starts to rock my thoughts. © 2004-, Jim Kingman www.comicsbulletin.com/effect/ February 6th - GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS - SEASON III IS COMING IN MARCH!!!    If you're going to the movies in MARCH, you will see our promo video for Season III in most movie houses. If you're driving down the highways of America, you will see our billboards. If you're leaving the country, you will see us AROUND THE WORLD.    Star TV has just announced Season II debuts in SOUTHEAST ASIA on March 5th. Be on the lookout for our show in: THE PHILIPPINES, MALAYSIA, THAILAND, (HONG KONG) CHINA, SINGAPORE and other countries in the region. And if you're in EUROPE, you can see us in FRANCE, GERMANY and the SCANDINAVIAN countries. And if you're in AFRICA, you can see us in SOUTH AFRICA and other countries...not to mention MEXICO, ARGENTINA (and other SOUTH AMERICAN countries - subtitled in Spanish)... CANADA, AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND.    In other words, wherever you happen to be in the world, you can tune in!!! Gene Simmons Zipper #3 Review by Dave Baxter, posted February 03, 2008 If I had to choose one word to describe Zipper —a new retro sci-fi 80’s adventure starring an inter-dimensional alien in leather and chains and, yes, zippers—that word would be “engaging”. This is a book that can’t help but draw you in, into its world of classic Terminator come-with-me-if-you-want-to-live action and decidedly intelligent characterizations. Zipper is a stranger in a strange land, a being known as “Denizen Xeng Ral”, whose dimension-hopping safety suit just happens to look like something out of an underground S&M club. He’s a runaway from a perfect, “Uni-Mind” type collective, a group that simply cannot stand one of their own (one of themselves ) to do what they flat out won’t. So Zipper flees to Earth, to stake out his independence, and encounters a small-time drug dealer (Ronnie J) alongside the lady cop (Officer Miki) that’s always close behind. Zipper’s very presence endangers his human cohorts, however, and so Denizen Ral moves to evade those his “own selves” have dispatched to bring him back, while also discovering life and thought outside of his one-mind home culture. The first two issues of Zipper were huge surprises: they were brilliantly conceived, skillfully paced, the dialogue completely believable whether lines from an alien being, a disgruntled street kid, or a smart mouthed cop. Mixing in weighty themes such as community vs. independence, morality vs. necessity, with dashes of critique on media culture, fiction tropes, and more, alongside grisly blood-soaked action and intense high-concept sci-fi conceits, Tom Waltz makes it clear from the get-go that he’s brought his “A” game to Zipper . But issue #3 is where the magic really sparks, the cards fall into place, your choice of metaphor here: four hunters sent from Xeng Ral’s dimension at last attack, and everyone is caught up in high-flying battle, and it is one goddamn humdinger of a throwdown. I knew Waltz could pen clean dialogue, and overall, I knew that he could set-up detailed activity within a broader range of action to flesh out the characters (see Children of the Grave GN for prime example). But here he outdoes himself, moving from blow to breathtaking blow in flawless step, from moment to moment with believable flow, with flawless continuity of action and consequence, and, as always, his characters and their motivations in full command throughout. Even Waltz’s dangerously poor-choice subplot of a prestigious militant religious wing (inspired by Scientology, no doubt) moving to make war against the coming of the first true alien—possibly a poor pick on Waltz’s part due to the subject matter’s overuse and general unemotional and therefore unsympathetic sector—kicks into high gear here, and proves, shockingly, to be as captivating as the rest of it, due to Waltz’s fine-tuned ability to craft even such unlikable and unapproachable characters as nevertheless authentic, and therefore, frankly, terrifying. Waltz is accompanied by Children of the Grave cohort Casey Maloney, who pulls penciling duties alongside inker Marc Rueda and colorist Dusty Yee. The trio allow the book an effortless feel, as though, even if only at issue #3, it's long ago hit “its stride", sweetly barreling forward with long-ago gained momentum. Maloney’s somewhat liquid lines don’t, when the action is absent, seem like they’ll do justice to the violence when it inevitably comes (and Zipper is a story where you know violence is forever a-comin’!). But his battle sequence this ish shut the mouths of every would-be critic to think thus: there’s a double-page splash here that I will have as a poster! Maloney is tremendous with the subtleties, and now he’s gone and shown he's got the chops to display jaw-dropping action sequences. If he never manages a book as good as this issue again, allow me to say: bra-freakin’-vo, Mr. Maloney. Well done. Good show. Good show. Three issues down, the story moving into unputdownable territory; Zipper is starting to worm its way into my psyche as one of those “cult” favorites. One of those Jim Shooter or Steven Grant books that will forever be remembered as the very best, by those who bother to notice it at all. Can’t recommend this book enough. It is indeed one of the best on the shelves currently. Most of you are likely waiting for the trade on this one, and if you are, please remember to pick the trade up! I get the feeling that this one will read even better collected as a single package like that, which gives my heart palpitations just thinking about it (an even better Zipper?!? Be still my beating…or, well, no, don’t be still, but…you get the idea…). http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/details.php?id=1714 New letters posted... You made my day and didn't even know it...................... I was picking up a few things at Staples, and I over heard this conversation between a couple. They were looking at copiers, and the man said, "Look honey, It's a Kodak World," as he wagged his tongue. And she replied, "If you're going to do that you need a pair of cool cowboy boots, and sunglasses." They went through the check-out with a HP copier, and I laughed the entire day in my "Gene Simmons World." Letters... February 4th - WHILE THIS MAY HAVE BEEN TRUE ONCE, IT NO LONGER IS. KISS IS GOING ON A WORLD TOUR, AND I CANNOT MAKE IT. Gene Simmons, Paul Hawken Among Marketing Mavericks Who Will Address IEG's 25th Annual Sponsorship Conference It is no longer in doubt that sponsorship makes sense. In the 25 years since it emerged as a discrete marketing medium -- and since IEG began producing the industry's annual gathering -- sponsorship has proven to be effective at achieving a host of objectives. But to keep producing positive results amid rapid-fire social, technological and market changes requires a new perspective. It is no longer enough to align with the right partners and integrate and activate intelligently. Going forward, those sponsorships that will have impact will only be those that resonate deeply with their targets on an emotional level. In other words, sponsorships must stop just making sense; they must be sensory as well. That is why the theme for the 25th annual conference on sports, entertainment, event, experience, affinity and cause marketing is Making Sensory. The event will take place from March 16 to 19, 2008 in Chicago. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS From two of the world's smartest sponsors to two entrepreneurs using business to change the world to one rock 'n roll pioneer whose marketing prowess exceeds his legendary exploits, the conference's keynote speakers will inspire, motivate and enthrall: Gene Simmons, musician, marketer and empire builder, who created and maintains the KISS global brand juggernaut, will discuss how marketers can take advantage of the convergence of media, entertainment and consumer power to develop relationships and brands that endure. New letters posted... Dear Gene, Please find attached an interesting picture. It's me giving a lecture entitled "KISS: A case study on how to build trust". More than 200 students attended the "show" at the University of Pontevedra, Spain. Thanks for being an inspiration since 1979. By the way, about 40 attendees ordererd "Sex, money, KISS" after the conference !! Best Jordi Ballera A Kiss fan since 1979 Letters...

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