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At the end of DNQ 34, my longest and most elaborate fanzne ever, I drew this editorial comic strip. I use it to explain delays and talk about future plans. As it happens, I didn't publish a zine called RSN with Victoria (who was co-editor with all issues of DNQ but this last), but I did go on to publish another couple of issues of Red Shift, than two issues of another zine called New Toy. But then new horizons called and I started producing art folios for cons and mail order instead of more fanzines. The editorial strip ends on an atrocious pun on the name of a 1950's fan editor who was mainly known for one last giant issue after which he promptly disappeared. Hopefully it was not to be my fate... and wasn't.
The second to last panel includes a number of pastiches of other artists' styles, and there is one more in the panel above, for a total of ten. Who can ID them all?
Incidently, the odd flute like gizmo that has just squirted ink in "my" eye is an ink gun. It controls the flow of ink onto the drum and silk screen of a mimeograph machine. For best results they should be periodically removed and cleaned.
The second to last panel includes a number of pastiches of other artists' styles, and there is one more in the panel above, for a total of ten. Who can ID them all?
Incidently, the odd flute like gizmo that has just squirted ink in "my" eye is an ink gun. It controls the flow of ink onto the drum and silk screen of a mimeograph machine. For best results they should be periodically removed and cleaned.
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Well, the easy ones are Reed Waller, Bodé (I'm going to presume Mark, since IIRC he was the more 'zinishly active, but don't hold me to that), and Phil Foglio; the gentleman with the moustache is agonizingly familiar but I can't place a name to it. Is that a Jerry Collins figure on the far right of the panel? And I want to associate the solid-black horseish thing in the background with Schirm, but I'm not 100% sure. Alas, it's been approximately forever since I've seen some of those old 'zines, so I don't think I can get any more than that. Oh, and your personal style here reminds me more than a little of Bill Dinardo's, but that's a separate matter entirely (and I suspect that this predates his stuff by the better part of a decade at least...)
Mostly right. but it's Vaughan not Mark. Vaughan was in fact briefly active in fanzines, but Mark wasn't at the time I drew this. The black figure isn't Schirm's. I can't really expect anyone who wasn't a hardened SF zine type in the 70's and 80's ;to identify the rest.
Who is Bill Dinardo?
Who is Bill Dinardo?
D'oh! The style did look more like Vaughn's, I have to admit, but I didn't realize he zined. And I was, alas, not really active; I had the chance occasionally to read other folks' zine collections a little later, but that was about the extent of it.
Bill Dinardo was an artist in the early-to-mid-80s; as far as I know, he only did a very small handful of stuff, mostly a comic book called Friends that he self-published for about 3 issues, and a set of shorts strips under the broad title Kat Kids. They mostly showed up as backups in Phil Yeh's books, though I think they may have been in a couple of the early Usagi Yojimbo issues. There's a (very) random sample at http://www.learningpage.com/free_pa...../katkids05.pdf -- now that I've actually got one in front of me the stylistic differences aren't nearly so close. I think I was cuing off of the thinly inked figures as my primary mental similarity, but your style is substantially more smooth and less angular than his.
Bill Dinardo was an artist in the early-to-mid-80s; as far as I know, he only did a very small handful of stuff, mostly a comic book called Friends that he self-published for about 3 issues, and a set of shorts strips under the broad title Kat Kids. They mostly showed up as backups in Phil Yeh's books, though I think they may have been in a couple of the early Usagi Yojimbo issues. There's a (very) random sample at http://www.learningpage.com/free_pa...../katkids05.pdf -- now that I've actually got one in front of me the stylistic differences aren't nearly so close. I think I was cuing off of the thinly inked figures as my primary mental similarity, but your style is substantially more smooth and less angular than his.
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