Connor Freff Cochran

Connor Freff Cochran ("Freff") is an American author and illustrator of comic books and science fiction / fantasy literature,[1][2][3][4] journalist,[2][5] musician and songwriter,[2][5][6] actor,[5][7] screenwriter[7] producer,[5] product interface and robotics demo designer,[5][2] BBC Television technology reporter,[2][5][7] and founder of Conlan Press, a publisher originally formed to assist creators in overcoming personal and career problems.[8][5] In addition to computer industry journalism,[2] Freff wrote Creative Options, an award-winning 14-year series on creativity, for the musician magazine Keyboard, and these essays have been reprinted in college English curriculum materials, the journal of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, and in books.[9][10][6] Writing for Keyboard and Electronic Musician, Cochran also interviewed electronic music luminaries such as Bob Moog and Wendy Carlos.[11][12] Freff appears on the commentary track of the Shout! Factory DVD and Blu-ray editions of Rankin/Bass Productions' 1982 animated adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn.[13] In 1974, Freff graduated from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.[2][8][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Connor Freff Cochran - 'Freff' - Comic Book DB". Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Micro Live. Episode 2. 1984. BBC. [...] the Chicago Robotics Convention [...] One of the most popular exhibits was on the Westinghouse Corporation stand, where a number of industrial robots performed a stage show with an actor. [...] Much of the design for the show was created [...] by [...] Freff. He's an artist, musician, and journalist, who's trained as a clown, drawn comic books, and written everything from science fiction to articles for serious computer magazines. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  3. ↑ "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections: Stories, Listed by Author". www.philsp.com. 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  4. ↑ "Freff". LibraryThing. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Connor Freff Cochran Bio". TheGreenManReview.com. 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2017-06-30. Connor Freff Cochran is the only human being on the planet who has been a comic book writer and illustrator, a BBC-television computer science reporter, and a graduate of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Clown College (class of '74). His resume is long and extremely silly, the result of having been self-employed since January 1974 as a writer, artist, composer, musician, actor, producer, magazine columnist, public speaker, product interface designer, TV journalist, and business consultant. These days he works mainly in film and television and as publisher of Conlan Press.
  6. 1 2 Cochran, Connor Freff (2000). Thyssen, Sylvia; Hanna, Jon, eds. "Left Hand, Wide Eye" (PDF). Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. X (3): 12–14. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  7. 1 2 3 "Connor Freff Cochran - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  8. 1 2 "About Conlan Press Publishing". Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  9. ↑ "Conlan Press Publishing | Creative Options Series". Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  10. ↑ Cochran, Connor Freff (2001-07-15). "The Keyboard Staff - MusicPlayer Forums". Music Player Network. Retrieved 2017-06-29. If you are going to write about creativity, it would be inappropriate to either repeat yourself or shy from testing boundaries. Another big factor was the support of Keyboard. The magazine printed, without blinking, several essays that I was *very* uncertain of at the time of writing. This gave me the freedom to experiment widely. (In fact, in 14 years they only spiked two pieces [...]
  11. ↑ Holmes, Thom (2015-10-08). Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture. Routledge. p. 534. ISBN 9781317410232. Retrieved 2017-06-29. Mark Vail, Vintage Synthesizers (San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman, 2000), 41. Reprint of an interview with Bob Moog by Connor Freff Cochran called “The Rise and Fall of Moog Music,” which originally appeared in Keyboard magazine.
  12. ↑ Cochran, Connor Freff (2007). "Tuning in to Wendy Carlos". WendyCarlos.com. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  13. ↑ Vaux, Rob (March 12, 2011). "The Last Unicorn Blu-ray Review". Collider. Retrieved January 17, 2018.


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