mathematician publisher topologist
Born in Franklin, Louisiana, Norwood attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was one of four writer-editors of the early underground comic God Comics, along with Bill Osten, Durk Pearson and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Kuhfeld. In 1979, Norwood received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
He published many letters in silver age District of Columbia and Marvel Comics and, with the permission of District of Columbia editor Julius Schwartz, wrote and published a fanzine story about the District of Columbia superhero Doctor Midnight. As a mathematician, Norwood has contributed to a number of publications in algebraic topology. He has also written articles, stories and verse.
He is the film/television reviewer for San Francisco Site, a webzine, and he provided commentary for the Filmation Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and Defenders of the Earth DVDs.
His science fiction stories have appeared in Twilight Zone Magazine, Black Gate, Analog Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Foreign, he has edited comic strip reprints, including Prince Valiant: An American Epic and Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific.
He is currently editor of the long-running independent comic book Comics Revue. Foreign Fantagraphics Books, he edits the series of complete Captain Easy Sunday comic strips.
Books edited for
Left of Africa, by Hal Clement
Archipelago, by R. A. Lafferty
Prince Valiant, an American Epic, by Hal Foster
A Steve Canyon Companion, by Carl Horak
The Magic Talisman, a Rick Brant Science Adventure, by John Blaine
A Prince Valiant Companion, by Hal Foster, Carl Horak, Todd Goldberg.
Production design by Don Markstein
Alley Oop, Book #4, by V. T. Hamlin
Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific
Buz Sawyer: Sultry"s Tiger
Flash Gordon: Star over Atlantis
Roy Crane"s Captain Easy.
He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1980-1981 and is currently a professor of mathematics at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.
