i kind of miss those days were id hang with your and Bryce at various cons and game stores
as much as i hated the 1990's i think the fandom of the 1990s was very different and i miss alot of those aspects

it was a lot friendlier. Planet 10 Comics, just hanging at shows drawing, the room parties were small, and no fursuits, other than Lance Ikagawa. Then it was all about art and stories.

oh man i had forgotten about planet 10 I actually met you there first before cons i remember i was shopping for minis that was one cool shop and it was a block away from my best friends house.
the thinki miss alot was the sketchbooks until that became more commercial and less friendly

Oh yes. originally the sketchbooks were trades between artists, and it was a 1 for one trade. Then the fans would show up with blank sketchbooks, wanting "Free art". and that didn't last too long so the artists had to charge to keep from getting buried by consumers wanting free stuff.

doesn't mean i would not draw for friends and fans i just liked it more when it was non commercial

Fine now, guys, but wait until the Elders find out...

My brother and I used to maintain a few pages with pictures of our dogs in the early 1990s. I recall that if you could get 96 dpi out of that old coal-fired scanner, you were doing pretty good. A 4X6 photo might render 576 by 384, fine when the average VGA monitor was 640X480.

that's about right, but I had access to Printer service bureaus in the late 80's and early 90's because then I was a Mac user and went to Junior college at De Anzam, which was blocks from the Apple Campus at the time, jsut off Steven's Creek Blvd. As such I got quite good at doing very nice publications for the gaming 'zines for the time and could print to 300- 600 DPI, but the displays were 72. My Zone's at the time were crisp things of beauty. Then the internet killed the 'zine age, and here we are.

I still love these things