George Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean’s Eleven. More legendary works followed, including Logan’s Run and classic scripts for shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek. In the meantime, he forged friendships with some of the era’s most visionary science fiction writers, including Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson, and Rod Serling. 
 
Later in life, Johnson befriended comics journalist and artist Henry Chamberlain, and the two had long chats about his amazing life and career. Now Chamberlain pays tribute to his late friend in the graphic novel George’s Run, which brings Johnson’s creative milieu to life in vividly illustrated color panels. The result feels less like reading a conventional biography and more like sitting in on an intimate conversation between friends as they recollect key moments in pop culture history, as well as the colorful band of writers known as the “Rat Pack of Science Fiction.” 

HENRY CHAMBERLAIN is a writer and artist whose work includes comics, illustration, and graphic recording. He maintains the pop culture website Comics Grinder, though which he first met George. 

— Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion

— Julian C. Chambliss, Professor of English, Michigan State University

— David Weiner, director of In Search of Darkness and editor in chief of Famous Monsters of Filmland

— Bart Beaty, author of Twelve-Cent Archie and Comics Versus Art