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This is a cover for a small sf fanzine, Mantrap 9. The zine was published by John Kusske in 1966 in Minnesota. It was a 'genzine' (a general-interest zine), with short essays (sometimes about sf books), editorials, and letters from readers (sf fans). This is one of the earliest zine illustrations that I did. It turned out to be a furry anthropomorph bird, "hunting and pecking" on a portable manual typewriter - which could be considered either science fictional or fantasy. When I was active in sf fandom, I enjoyed inserting anthropomorphs into science fiction or fantasy images. At the time, John was a college student, living on his own in a small town in Minnesota, going to a small state college. His writing and publishing energy was well respected by the semi-organized Minneapolis/Saint Paul science fiction fans. He's retired now, and continues to live in one of the far exurbs of the Twin Cities. I still occasionally exchange messages with him on Facebook.
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Thank you. That's one of the reasons I was so happy with this (as sketchy as the technique is). I was thinking, with the tongue sticking out, that it was a goofy cartoon take, but then in going forward, I started to feel the body-language and sympathize with the action. That made me happy enough with the inking to add all the plastic texture patterns. In the mid-60s, rough & sketchy was the fashionable way of doing cartoons. Calling my cartoons fashionable made it harder to work on clean-line inking technique.
In 1966, I turned 9. Our parents loaded all four kids into a '63 Chevy wagon pulling a rented '65 Navajo 'Golden Buffalo' pop-up tent trailer and hauled us to West Virginia and DC. My Epic Journey.
I loved these little 'zines. Dad had a small handful in the pile of Sci-Fi stuff he gave me when I was 14. That was a turning point in my life; I knew I wanted to do something with computers (because I'd never get into space).
I'm told this sort of thing went online twenty years ago, but I can't find anything with the depth and class of a '50s - '70s fanzine. And some of them were bad.
I loved these little 'zines. Dad had a small handful in the pile of Sci-Fi stuff he gave me when I was 14. That was a turning point in my life; I knew I wanted to do something with computers (because I'd never get into space).
I'm told this sort of thing went online twenty years ago, but I can't find anything with the depth and class of a '50s - '70s fanzine. And some of them were bad.
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