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The last test for tonight, is this one. I drew it originally for a fanzine called "Trapdoors," but the editor didn't seem to care for it. (Like most SF fans he has limited interest in semi-erotica and prefers big-foot humour or hip Thurberesque cartoons.)
The three panels are hyperdoorways to different worlds. The one in the X-axis is an opening into space, in the vicinit of Saturn. The door in the X-axis is a passage to a forest in the Rockies or Grant Tetons. the upright doorway, in the Z-axis, opens into the basement apartment I lived in when I did the art. You can see one of my old Polk Audio speakers (a pretty good brand in the mid-80s), my vinyl record collection (there were no CDs yet), and a few of my models. The end of my old skateboard is also visible, behind a foot stool I usually sat on in front of the TV while drawing. Beyond the gold coloured curtains is the other part of the L-shaped basement apartment. At various times it was my sleeping area or a sitting room or a mimeo workshop.
The kneeling figure is another of my XTs -- an Uluriamimsi. I still haven't finallized their design, alas.
The three panels are hyperdoorways to different worlds. The one in the X-axis is an opening into space, in the vicinit of Saturn. The door in the X-axis is a passage to a forest in the Rockies or Grant Tetons. the upright doorway, in the Z-axis, opens into the basement apartment I lived in when I did the art. You can see one of my old Polk Audio speakers (a pretty good brand in the mid-80s), my vinyl record collection (there were no CDs yet), and a few of my models. The end of my old skateboard is also visible, behind a foot stool I usually sat on in front of the TV while drawing. Beyond the gold coloured curtains is the other part of the L-shaped basement apartment. At various times it was my sleeping area or a sitting room or a mimeo workshop.
The kneeling figure is another of my XTs -- an Uluriamimsi. I still haven't finallized their design, alas.
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I'm rather sure I found someone to publish it somewhere else. Though the b/w inked original, of course. In 1985 almost nobody published zines with colour covers. When I did the first colour cover for Rowrbrazzle, it was a topic of some controversy. The cost of colour xerography was high enough that some members didn't think it a justifiable expense. Now, colour covers on zines are fairly common. And since many zines aren't printed at all, just downloaded as pdf files from some site, even inside colour is common.
I know the cover you mean. I don't even have the album, let alone the cover. But I haven't been looking for either, I have to admit. From choice, my collection of The Beatles starts a little later than that album.
I'd happily swap most of my old vinyl records for CDs. It isn't that the vinyl copies are special to me, with a few exceptions. But why pay twice for the same music.
I'd happily swap most of my old vinyl records for CDs. It isn't that the vinyl copies are special to me, with a few exceptions. But why pay twice for the same music.
He may be right. It's trendy again to collect vinyl, and records are being pressed in that media again.
I suppose it depends. For one thing, it's necessary to have a good stereo system to draw the goodness out of vinyl. If all you have is a Lloyds, then you get "warm and full" crap. I have a pretty decent system, thankfully -- though my amp is worn out and needs replacement.
Then there's CD quality. I gather there's a practical limit to how much information can be pressed to a CD, given the sampling rate of the player. A lot of modern pressings chose to encode volume and supress detail, so that people can play music while jogging or riding in a subway car. But I don't believe all CDs are produced that way, and some are very high quality.
I suppose it depends. For one thing, it's necessary to have a good stereo system to draw the goodness out of vinyl. If all you have is a Lloyds, then you get "warm and full" crap. I have a pretty decent system, thankfully -- though my amp is worn out and needs replacement.
Then there's CD quality. I gather there's a practical limit to how much information can be pressed to a CD, given the sampling rate of the player. A lot of modern pressings chose to encode volume and supress detail, so that people can play music while jogging or riding in a subway car. But I don't believe all CDs are produced that way, and some are very high quality.
James Thurber was a popular mainstream slick magazine cartoonist of the '50s. His cartoons were simple outlines and not very adept, but pleasingly unpretentious anyway. He wasn't famous as a draftsman, though, but for the sort of mildly ironic or surreal humour. He wrote a number of short stories as well -- usually about hen-pecked husbands. In the most famous, a milquetoast husband sees a univorn in the backyard. Of course, his burly, domineering wife won't belief him. But the unicorn keeps reapearing in the garden, and the husbands continues to maintain he sees it. Finally, his wife decides to have him taken away to the funny-farm. The men come for him with a straight-jacket, but now the husband changes his story. What unicorn is that, my dear? She becomes so flustered that she ends up insisting there *was* a unicorn, so the men take her away instead. As the truck drives off, the unicorn peers out from around the corner of the house, and the husband -- who knew it was there all along -- smiles to himself.
Wiki his name for more.
Wiki his name for more.
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