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Rick Norwood (born August 4, 1942) is an American publisher, mathematician, comics historian and short story author.

Biography
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 Al Kuhfeld. He published many letters in silver age DC and Marvel Comics and, with the permission of DC editor Julius Schwartz, wrote and published a fanzine story about the DC superhero Doctor Midnight.

In 1979, Norwood received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1980–81 and is currently a professor of mathematics at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.

As a mathematician, Norwood has contributed to a number of publications in algebraic topology. He has written a book on logical thinking titled How to Think. His article In Abstract Terrain, published in The Sciences, is quoted in Ivars Peterson's book, The Mathematical Tourist.

He has also written articles, stories and verse. He is the film/TV reviewer for SF 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. He has edited the Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer books for Fantagraphics. For Titan Books he has written introductions for reprints of the comic strips Modesty Blaise, Flash Gordon, and Mandrake the Magician.

He wrote long-running columns for Comics Buyer's Guide and The Menomonee Falls Gazette.

He was a fan guest at the San Diego Comicon in 2011, and guest of honor at Concave in 2018, where he won a Rebel Award.

Manuscript Press
Manuscript Press is a small press publisher started by Rick Norwood in 1976 and currently located in Mountain Home, Tennessee. It specializes in previously unpublished novels by science fiction authors such as Hal Clement and R. A. Lafferty, as well as reprints of comic strips as books. Comic strip reprints include Prince Valiant: An American Epic and Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific. The longest running independent comic book in America, Comics Revue, is published by Manuscript and edited by Norwood.

Various daily and weekly newspaper comics such as Little Orphan Annie, Gasoline Alley, Flash Gordon, Modesty Blaise, Alley Oop, The Phantom, Buz Sawyer, and Tarzan are re-printed as compendiums.

Archipelago, part of the Lost Manuscript series by R. A. Lafferty, is the previously-unreleased first book of "The Devil is Dead" trilogy. Prince Valiant: An American Epic is the only reprint of Hal Foster's comic strip to print the strip at the same size as it originally appeared in newspapers in the 1930s.

Comics Revue
Manuscript Press also publishes a magazine of comic strips, Comics Revue, the longest running small press comic book in America, with more than 350 issues to its credit. Between 1995 and 2000 Manuscript Press published 25 issues of Modesty Blaise Quarterly. In 2003, it published two books reprinting Modesty Blaise comic strips, Live Bait and Lady in the Dark, but did not print any further volumes after Titan Books began publishing its own line of Modesty Blaise reprints.

As editor

 * Manuscript Press
 * Left of Africa, by Hal Clement
 * Archipelago, by R. A. Lafferty
 * Prince Valiant, an American Epic – 1937, by Hal Foster
 * Prince Valiant, an American Epic – 1938, by Hal Foster
 * Prince Valiant, an American Epic – 1939, 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 by Roy Crane
 * Buz Sawyer: Sultry's Tiger by Roy Crane
 * Flash Gordon: Star over Atlantis by Dan Barry
 * How to Think by Rick Norwood
 * Tullus – Adventures of a Christian Boy in Roman Times by Danny Frolich


 * Other publishers
 * Captain Easy—Soldier of Fortune, Volume 1, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2010, ISBN 978-1606991619
 * Captain Easy—Soldier of Fortune, Volume 2, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2011, ISBN 978-1606993910
 * Captain Easy—Soldier of Fortune, Volume 3, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2012, ISBN 978-1606995297
 * Captain Easy—Soldier of Fortune, Volume 4, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2014, ISBN 978-1606996775
 * Roy Crane's Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures, The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2015, ISBN 978-1606998090
 * Buz Sawyer—The War in the Pacific, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2011, ISBN 978-1606993620
 * Buz Sawyer—Sultry's Tiger, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2012, ISBN 978-1606994993
 * Buz Sawyer—Typhoons and Honeymoons, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2014, ISBN 978-1606997031
 * Buz Sawyer—Zazarof's Revenge, Roy Crane, Fantagraphics, 2016, ISBN 978-1606999752

Short fiction

 * "IO", Analog, Mar 1 1962
 * "The Third Wish", Clarion II, 1972
 * "The Other One", The Twilight Zone Magazine, May 1982
 * "Three Timely Tales – The Abraham Lincoln Murder Case, Freedom, Mouse-Kitty, The Twilight Zone Magazine, Dec 1982
 * "Freedom", 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories, 1884
 * "Portal", Black Gate, Fall 2003
 * "Aliens", Analog, Dec 2008
 * "Brothers of the River", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug 2010
 * "Long Time", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2011
 * "Love", Analog, July/Aug 2013
 * "One Way", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2017
 * "Let a Thousand Poppies Bloom", Galaxy's Edge Magazine, 2019

Stories published online

 * "Empty Earth", AE The Canadian Science Fiction Review
 * "White House", Over My Dead Body
 * "Heaven and Earth", Over My Dead Body
 * Roger Ebert story ending, www.rogerebert.com

Selected nonfiction

 * "Every Two generator Knot is Prime", Proceedings of the AMS, V. 86, N. 1, pp. 143–7, 1982.
 * "Monsters and Manifolds", The Wilson Quarterly, pp. 98–111, Spring, 1982.
 * "In Abstract Terrain", The Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 12–18, 1982.
 * "Distances in an Array", Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 383–5, April 1988. Co authored with Dr. William Dotson
 * "Money is Irrational", Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 101–102, April 1988.
 * "Curves on Surfaces", Topology and its Applications #33, pp. 1–6, 1989.
 * "The Worm Problem of Leo Moser", co authored with Dr. George Poole and Dr. Michael Laidacker, Discrete & Computational Geometry, Vol 7, pp. 153–162, 1992
 * "How to Make Pi Equal to Three", The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 99, No. 2, p. 111, February 1992.
 * "The Evolution of the Will", Philosophy in Science, Vol. 6, p. 143–151, 1995.
 * "Why 2+2 Equals 2x2", Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 1, p. 60, February 1998.
 * "Turning Double Torus Links Inside Out”, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, Vol. 8, No. 6 (1999) 789–798.
 * "The Test of Time", Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 93, No. 3, p. 252–253, March 2000
 * "An Improved Upper Bound to Leo Moser's Worm Problem", co-authored with Dr. George Poole, Discrete & Computational Geometry, Vol. 29 (2003) 409–417
 * "The Maximum Number of 2x2 Odd Submatrices in (0–1) Matrices", co-authored with Dr. George Poole and Michael Marks. Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra and Applications, 10:223-231 (2003).
 * "The Gostak and the Doshes", Math Horizons, April 2004.
 * "On Alpha-Overlap Graphs", co-authored with Dr. Anant Godbole and Dr. Debbie Knisley. Congressus Numeratium, 204 (2010), pp. 161–171.
 * "Curiosities: Beware the Cat", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2010
 * "Planar Alpha-Overlap Graphs", co-authored with Dr. Anant Godbole and Dr. Debbie Knisley, Congressus Numeratium, 210 (2011), pp. 57–59.
 * "The Math Major's Sex Life is Strenuous", Parody Magazine, Apr 2013
 * "Polish Mathematics in the First Half of the 20th Century", co-authored with Dr. Robert Beeler. Mathematical Scientist, 39 (2014), pp. 1–10.