GOD DAMN IT!! FUCK!!

Give me his addy karno I want to say good by. He was a friend for a long time and a good person.

SECOND ED PO Box 2844 Windermere, FL 34786-2844 USA second-ed[at]earthlink.net

Thank you.

Fuck!!! Ed Zolna is good people. He doesn't deserve that kind of ending. Great, will have to soon draw up another memorial strip.

Shit. Ed is one of the best. This is hitting hard as I've done quite a bit of business with him from, hell, the beginning of mailbox books. too many, too many good people it takes. damnit

That's an end of an era right there. I never got to know him, but so many people I do know did business through him.

*Ahem*

FUCK CANCER

I got the email too, since I've done a lot of business with him. The loss of his store will leave a huge hole, since no one else is dealing with vintage and new self published furry stuff from everyone.

I wouldn't say no one

I only see you at AC. Do you have an online store, and do you buy new publications from the creators and/or collections?

I do have an online store windshearswares.com and I have been carrying vintage items, I am starting to carry new items.

So very true. It will be a huge loss to the fandom.

GOD DAMN IN HELL!!! FUCK YOU 8 WAYS FROM FRIDAY, CANCER!!

Oh wow, no more ED!? It'll be the end of an era and a good place to get anthro stuff!

I got this email too. Was a big shock.

Well that sucks rocks, please give him our best wishes.

I just had placed an order for the last 3 issues of Everchanging Palace from him. The least I can do for him. Figure it will help with his medical expenses.

Cancer has been hitting my family a lot lately as well. My family keeps fighting it off and it keeps coming back for another round

Fuck

Shit.

I hope it's not necessary, but just in case, help him create a comprehensive and up-to-date will to safeguard his work, legacy, and estate.

We've lost so many this year. If it's going to happen, I hope he's comfortable up to the end.

GODDAMMIT!

https://second-ed.myshopify.com/pages/contact-us if you wanna drop him a line.

Damn. I bought so much stuff from him back in the day, and he always sent a personalized message with my order. The dude is a total class act.

Fuck cancer.

The disease is overdue for a sleepover with the fishes.

2024 has been fighting dirty...
i am just so tired of the past decade in general, but 2024 has really been a kick to the joy department.

=^.,.^=

Agreed.

My god! Cancer and prison are just taking everybody from you one by one!

cancer has taken away half of my uncles, my grandfather, and my father....so I know how you feel.

Well this is awful news!

I am sorry to hear that.

Horrible news, but I appreciate your helping get the word out.

I'm still convinced there is a cure, or at least an effective preventative to cancer that could save millions of lives worldwide... but the people who run the various health agencies who are raking in billions of dollars 'treating' the disease refuse to implement it because it would reduce their incomes.

In my mind, it's the same concept as how big oil companies worked so hard to convince people to use it and buy it and how harmless it was, when they knew for a fact it was all lies. If there was no profit in it, a lot more people would get cured than die for it.

I'm sorry you keep having to go through this, my friend. I hope he rests in peace.

Since cancer also kills the rich and powerful (Steve Jobs, for example), people that should have access to this secret cancer cure the rest of us peons don't have, that argues against it. The Grim Reaper takes us all, king and peasant, secret cabal member or not.

No... no.

It's not about how rich someone is. It's about how much money those with the cure can get from people who have it. Someone being rich just means they can fork over more money before they die.

I'm not suggesting it's being held back so only the most rich can afford it; I'm saying its a line of income that those who possess the cure won't cut off no matter what, unless cancer becomes such a problem that they can't afford to continue like they are.

There isn't, for two reasons.

First, there is no single thing that's "cancer", there are a whole lot of different types of cancers with some general similarities, and a whole lot of differences.

Second, there are a lot of countries without for-profit healthcare, and if such a cure existed, they would implement it because it would be enormously cheaper on the level of the whole economy. (Not to mention human suffering, of course.)

I know it sounds insane, but I can't stop thinking it's true. I've gone through a lot of medical issues myself, and as they ran me through the financial wringer, all I kept hearing was, 'Well, it's better than dying, isn't it?!' as if being crushed under that weight was some kind of *good* thing.

My mother died of cancer as well. She had breast cancer, they treated her, she got a mastectomy, and they told her after a while she was clear. ...then it came back, everywhere at once. In the end she died of blood clots throughout her body, that no one could explain, while in the hospital. I've been suspicious ever since that someone dosed her with something by mistake (or on purpose) that caused it. My family felt the same, to the point of wanting to get an autopsy done, but decided to just let things be.

It's a conspiracy theory, I know. But I just can't fully trust these people anymore, for a variety of reasons, and knowing that so much can be influenced by money, it makes me think it IS being influenced in that way. As for the idea that not all places run for profit, maybe they aren't privy to the information either.

Oh, fuck cancer.

Damn

Terrible

Oh Goddess... >sigh< Classy to the end indeed. He's always been a good man and friendly to me..
Nobody deserves that.. Why are so many.. This royally sucks. Too many good folks and in such horrid way...

Darn, I only bought two mags from him. A loss to the community (well, those of us who read).

Another reason why I hate this century.

Dammit to hell.....just week I found out that a co-worker (who's been sick) is rumoured to have cancer. Nothing's been confirmed but...dammit anyway.

I'm so sorry to hear that. And all the 348 studies I've read about cancer cause my momma is a cancer survivor. She had pancreatic cancer and is in remission now. The pharmaceutical companies can go su#k a lemon they hold back cures for so many cancers and sickness's. I really wish that there was another way to get around big pharma...

The problem is most of what they can cure is too costly in their eyes and will only make it if they are rich enough.....

So much like I thought they cater to the rich. Or people who have money...😑😑😤 That pi#@es me off so much. My momma is still paying off her bill to her doctor and the insurance she has that's why she still works. Both of my moms even split up for about 8 months and got back together and helped her heal. I had to leave my college studying law and business law. She is doing so great now but she's still weak because of the treatments.

What's going to be worse is certain people is going to try and make it so people on social security won't be able to afford care and so the sick, elderly and vets can die off...... The same thing like this happened in the late 1930s and early 40s in a little place called Germany blaming it on certain people but today they're blaming it on a different group...... Humans are too stupid to realize we keep repeating history........

Oh I see it and I bet a lot do see that we humans repeat the past a lot but they tend to ignore it or just say it's a coincidence... But i think you are right for sure.

This last few years we have been losing too many great people.... Even though it's the cycle of life it still hurts from the loss.....😥

Was this the gentleman who would sell old Furry magazines at Fur Cons?

He mainly sells by mail, but I'm sure he sold at cons, too.

Ah, okay. Because I know I bought several older magazines from someone at a few of the larger conventions, but I cannot recall who it was.

Man. That really bites. Ed was the first person I ever commissioned, way back in the early Mailbox days. Great work, great person, gonna miss him. Owww...

Just to ask, has anyone else ever republished Vicky Wyman's premium works?

I think that guy was the last publisher.