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I did this for the cover of a one-shot fanzine I published.
The story behind it begins a few weeks ago, when a fellow artist from SF fandom in the 1970s, had a stroke. I'd known Stu Shiffman for years and had a thought that a one-shot in his honour might cheer him up. Happily, so did a number of other people, who generously contributed art and wrote short pieces about Stu for the zine. Stu's recovery has been slow, but steady, so even though producing the zine has taken much longer than I anticipated, it comes out in a timely fashion -- not too soon for the patient to be able to appreciate it.
Stu has been a mystery reader for almost as long as he was a science fiction fan. In the cover, I've mixed both worlds. "The Slan of Baker Street" refers to both 221b Baker Street, the home of the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes, and to "Slan," the classic speculative novel by A.E. Van Vogt. A "slan" is a sort of superior human being, and for about a decade fans kidded by calling themselves slans -- then the joke grew tired, naturally.
The kipple floating at the top of the page is all related to mimeographing fanzines -- apart from the duplicator itself, there is correction fluid, ink, paper, a stylus guide, reams of absorbent paper and a stapler.
The title, "Slan of Baker Street" will go in translucent letters at the top of the page. To see the final result, go to: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8794238/
The story behind it begins a few weeks ago, when a fellow artist from SF fandom in the 1970s, had a stroke. I'd known Stu Shiffman for years and had a thought that a one-shot in his honour might cheer him up. Happily, so did a number of other people, who generously contributed art and wrote short pieces about Stu for the zine. Stu's recovery has been slow, but steady, so even though producing the zine has taken much longer than I anticipated, it comes out in a timely fashion -- not too soon for the patient to be able to appreciate it.
Stu has been a mystery reader for almost as long as he was a science fiction fan. In the cover, I've mixed both worlds. "The Slan of Baker Street" refers to both 221b Baker Street, the home of the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes, and to "Slan," the classic speculative novel by A.E. Van Vogt. A "slan" is a sort of superior human being, and for about a decade fans kidded by calling themselves slans -- then the joke grew tired, naturally.
The kipple floating at the top of the page is all related to mimeographing fanzines -- apart from the duplicator itself, there is correction fluid, ink, paper, a stylus guide, reams of absorbent paper and a stapler.
The title, "Slan of Baker Street" will go in translucent letters at the top of the page. To see the final result, go to: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8794238/
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 989 x 1280px
File Size 208.9 kB
Analine dyes (the purple in Ditto reproduction) are notorious for going a long way and never fading. I have fanzines that were printed by Ditto in the 1940s that are still legible. As a rule, if Ditto is left out in the sun and air, it will fade after a few years...
At the moment I'm not sure Stu can read anything. Reports are cautiously optimisitc, but reading between the lines I gather that he's still pretty out of it. I'd love to print things... xerox would be fine. But all the wrong people have all the money and prefer to spend it on F-35 fighter planes or subsidizing agribusiness to grow biofuels, etc.
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