 {{ 
Thanks once again to everyone who sent us a letter or e-mail of comment! We're
gratified by the response; receiving your comments really does motivate us to
keep publishing. Please be assured, too, that all comments received on the articles
in Mimosa (whether or not they see print in the Letters Column) will find
their way back to our contributors, which provides additional motivation to them,
too. The most popular article in
Mimosa 23, if readers comments are the judge, was Mike Resnick's second
installment of his "Worldcon Memories." We were somewhat surprised, though, that a
close second was our opening comments. We'll begin there and also with some
comments on Julia Morgan-Scott's amusing cover for M23, "The Pirates of
Pendance." }}- - - - - - - - - -
Brad W. Foster Irving, Texas Another absolutely amazing wraparound
scratchboard cover from Julia, but then, you probably already knew that.
{{Yes, we did! }} I liked the theme
continuation of having both a Worldcon connection and a musical number combined.
And with famous fannish guest stars this time! My only question would be, who is
the fair-haired maiden throwing herself to the sharks in response to the bagpipe
playing of Richard? (I've heard 'good' bagpipe, I've heard 'bad' bagpipe, and when
it's bad, it's just awful!){{
Several people asked who the damsel in distress was. The answer (according to
Julia): no one in particular. She told us we both were the only 'real' people in
that scene. }}I thought Joe Mayhew's comments on
accepting his 'Best Fan Artist' Hugo were perfect. I was split between hoping
either he or Ian Gunn would win, and the way he brought Ian into it was pure class.
Made me even prouder to even be a small part of that group of folks that night.- - - - - - - - - -
Gary Deindorfer Trenton, New Jersey Mimosa's covers continue to
be amazingly brilliant. This one, on Mimosa 23, is a fine take on what was
apparently the theme of Bucconeer -- fans as pirates on the body politic of society
at large. Which is probably true in a way, though I'm not able to put it into words
just how it would be true. Well, it's a lovely, amusing cover from Julia
Morgan-Scott.- - - - - - - - - -
Sam Long Springfield, Illinois On your Opening Comments
{{"On the Road to Bucconeer" }}, I had long
thought that the USS Constellation, undergoing restoration in Baltimore, was
a frigate of approximately the same vintage as "Old Ironsides," the USS
Constitution, now in Boston harbor. So I checked out
www.constellation.org and
found that the ship was indeed of 1850s vintage and was originally a sloop-of-war,
but in a restoration about 40 years ago was configured to resemble its 1797 namesake,
which was a frigate. "So I am right, and you are right, and all is right as right
can be!" (if I'm quoting correctly from Mikado).Anyway, I'm still getting used to
the Internet and still marvel at it. A little while ago, curious, I put in a search
query on 'propeller beanie' and came up with no fewer than 370 hits. Several were
for places that sell them and a large number were for lists of 'emoticons' -- those
figures made from ascii characters, as 8-(|:-), a happy fan with a propeller
beanie on his head. One hit was for Mimosa 17, specifically Ben Zuhl's
article on knee fandom {{"The Canadian, the Myth, and
the Chambanacon Bar" }}, which begins with a reference to beanies. I put in
a search on my own name and came up with several references to Mimosa there,
too. You're ubiquitous.- - - - - - - - - -
Rodney Leighton Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada Another super wraparound cover by
Julia Morgan-Scott. I think I liked the one on Mimosa 21 better but that
may be due to being more a fan of Western stuff than pirates. Amazing the detail
she puts in these. I hope she gets paid for doing this sort of thing; her work is
certainly of extremely good quality.Mike Resnick's hilarious recollection of various worldcons {{"Worldcon Memories (Part 2)"
}} was easily the written highlight of this issue. Excellent writing;
excellent illustrations by Charlie Williams, and kudos for Peggy Ranson all in one
article. What more could anyone wish for?
Marty Cantor North Hollywood, California In her Opening Comments, Nicki
wonders about the possibilities of James White's Sector General stories
inspiring a television series. As a devoted fan of that series, I would be
interested in watching at least one episode if it ever appeared. I am not sanguine,
though, about the ability of special effects making the aliens believable. White's
aliens are integral to the stories and he has used words to not only make them 'real'
but his descriptions of them paint them vividly in the readers' minds. Such a
series cannot even begin to work unless at lease someone with clout in the
production of the series is well-read with the work -- and loves it.{{
That's true. There are currently several series that are written and/or produced by
people who clearly know and love the genre -- Futurama and some of the
'non-canon' episodes of The X-Files come immediately to mind. The technology
is now mature enough to make 'believable' aliens, as we've seen in the new Star
Wars movie, but CGI digital effects are probably not affordable outside
big-budget movies. Maybe that's where we could expect to find Sector General
someday. }}Then we come to the topic mentioned
by Rich, Mimosa winning the Best Fanzine Hugo five times. As you may
remember, I was one of those who worked on getting the Best Semi-Prozine category
inserted as a Hugo Award many years ago. At the time this came about I had no
problem with Locus winning an award, even winning an award every year (if the
voters so desired); my problem was that Locus was no longer a fanzine (in the
amateur sense of the original definition) and its continual winning the Best Fanzine
Hugo year after year was keeping 'real' fanzines from getting their due. As long as
it is the perception amongst the voters that a given fanzine is the 'best', I have
no problem if it wins the award many times. In fact, were a perpetual Best Fanzine
Hugo Award winner to withdraw from contention, such an action would taint the award
because, in many minds, the award would then be going to the second best zine as the
best zine was not in contention. Far better is it that the political abomination
known as Term Limits not be imported into the Hugo Awards. I do not want anybody
telling me that I cannot nominate or vote for the fanzine of my choice (provided
that it qualifies).{{
We provided our position on the topic in last issue's Opening Comments -- we neither
encourage nor discourage anyone to vote for Mimosa; we don't campaign for
honors, but we don't turn them down, either. We'd rather the focus be on all the
memories that are being preserved in Mimosa, not the number of rocketships
received.}}Mike Resnick wrote about attending
his many Worldcons from a viewpoint which was unique. Not that many Guests of
Honour of various stripes have not written about their GoHships before, but this is
the first time that I can remember a person who has written about attending
Worldcons and giving his impressions of them in the progression of starting as a
'lowly' fan, graduating to positions of honour at the con, and not only showing his
fannish roots during the whole litany of various Worldcons, but also making what
might seem to be a disjointed agglomeration of anecdotes into a seamless whole. On
top of that, it was a fascinating article.Howard DeVore's "Mystery Guest"
article {{"Who Was That Mystery Guest?" }} is
just the thing which makes so much of fan history so fascinating to me. Howard's
article recounted not just the fact that there was a 'Mystery Guest' at the 1955
Clevention, but also something about how it actually came to pass -- in effect, not
just flesh of the history itself, but the bones which helped explain the happenings.
Articles like this make an important contribution to our hobby.In the Letters Column, Lloyd Penney
mentions something that I find very important. After writing about e-zines, he says,
"Still, a paperzine is physical, textual, and sent to you because someone wanted
you to have it." (Emphasis mine.) This is one reason why the fanzine media is
different from all other mediums -- we fanzine editors sent out our zines to
you, our readers, by name, because we want you to have our zine. Somewhere
down the line our zines may be seen by others not chosen by us (family and friends
at your home or being 'remaindered' [as it were] at cons and such). Still, faneds
get to choose our audience, by name, and that is not the case for other mediums.- - - - - - - - - -
Ben Yalow Bronx, New York A few minor notes about the Resnick
article. The 1977 Worldcon, Suncon, actually lost its Orlando hotel a few months
after it won the bid at Aussiecon I. Just a few months after the vote, the
decision was made to move the convention to Miami Beach, since the original Orlando
hotel had gone into bankruptcy and we didn't want to be in a bankrupt hotel. Of
course, we didn't expect to have the Fountainbleu financial problems.Concerning the Suncon Program Book,
the copyright that was missing was the one on the entire book, not one on a specific
article. So the copyright notice appears in different places on the page, depending
on who stamped it.- - - - - - - - - -
Ed Meskys, Center Harbor, New Hampshire Mike Resnick's easy-going
reminiscence of his worldcon experiences was pleasant and gave a taste of the
various cons without going into great detail. Also, it was a good extension of your
own editorial reminiscences.While I had been at Newyorkcon in
1956, I was not deep enough into fandom to really understand what was going on. I
had the impression of a number of specialized organizations meeting. I do know the
Burroughs Bibliophiles did hold a Dumdum, and think the Conan fen held a meeting.
The LASFen who were all raving about Tolkien held the formative meeting of their
'Fellowship of the Ring'. I am not sure whether there were any other special
fandoms.But speaking of worldcons, Howard
DeVore's piece on the 'Mystery Guest' at the 1955 Clevention is the kind of
important history which is being lost as old fen die or fade away. I am so glad
that Howard put it into print.- - - - - - - - - -
John Trimble, Monrovia, California Mike Resnick didn't fill in the
details about how Harlan Ellison came to take the microphone away from Isaac Asimov
in order to give Ike his Best All-Time Series Hugo. Immediately before that Harlan
had won a Hugo for his short story, "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman." In
the story, the clockwork, lockstep future society is thrown into chaos (and
therefore rescued from its conformity) when the Harlequin character throws
jellybeans into the works, causing people to cease their mindless actions in order
to grab up their treats. There's more to it than that, of course, but fans, being
the irreverent sorts we are, started asking Harlan how anyone in such a society
would have any idea of what the blazes a jellybean was, let alone figuring out that
they were a candy treat.Segue back to the 1966 TriCon, where
the taunting of Harlan about the jellybeans continued. At the Hugo Awards banquet,
Ike was doing his usual superb job of toastmastering, with many puns flying. Just
before the Best All-Time Series Hugo, Asimov had announced the Short Story Hugo for
Harlan's story, which Ike titled "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Jellybeans!" That
got a hearty laugh from the attendees, but Harlan stomped up to the microphone, told
Ike he was way off-base and to sit down; he, Harlan, would take care of the rest of
the awards. We were close enough to the head table to see Asimov's hurt and puzzled
expression; he couldn't understand how Harlan could have taken his poking fun as an
insult. He looked at the con committee members but they just shrugged and indicated
that they were powerless in the face of Harlan the Terrible, so Ike sat down,
looking crushed. And so when Harlan immediately announced that Asimov's
Foundation series had won for Best All-Time Series, Ike whispered that he
didn't think it was funny for Harlan to be so cruel. Harlan had to tell him he
wasn't kidding, and that Isaac had really won!It was all a put-up job, of course,
and one of those wonderful moments in fannish history that I'll always treasure.Anyway, I'm very sorry to hear of
Walt Willis' stroke. I'll always remember Walt & Madeleine visiting in L.A. after
Chicon III in 1962. We were house-sitting for a cousin that year, and had a
swimming pool. The house was on a street named Parapet, so fans called it the
Parapet Plunge. One Saturday, during their West Coast sojourn, the Willises were
brought over to our place for a pool party. We'd just returned from the Worldcon
ourselves, and hadn't turned he pool heater on until that morning. Most of the L.A.
Fans who tested the water decided to wait until it'd had a chance to warm up before
trusting their tender bodies to the pool, but Madeleine changed into a cute yellow
bikini-type suit and plunged in. When we asked how she could stand it, Walt merely
observed that she swam in the Irish Sea in May!Walt didn't drink much (if anything)
in the way of alcohol, and apparently wasn't much for soft drinks, either, so he was
holding a glass of milk, when Ron Ellik grabbed a plate of cookies to hand over to
Walt and managed to dump them all over him. Walt smiled and remarked that this was
wonderful hospitality; milk and cookies! Later on, Ron was waxing rhapsodic
over California wines, and while passing a glass of white over to Walt, managed to
slosh some over the edge onto Willis' arm, prompting Walt to observe that he'd been
"chablis treated." What a delightful man!- - - - - - - - - -
Steve Jeffery, Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom I enjoyed this issue's focus on
conventions and convention stories, past and present -- from your experiences of
Baltimore (and yes, I can believe I like Buffy -- it's cute, sassy, silly and
sends itself up with glee while actually managing to have some fun plots -- rather
like The X-Files when it started, before it wandered off track into a
Mulder/Scully soap opera), Mike Resnick's Worldcon run-downs, and especially Ron
Bennett's "Kingsley Capers." I think the alarming vision of a hotel manager in a
hairnet and quilted dressing gown (which calls up all sorts of memories of 1970s UK
TV sitcoms like Man About the House and George and Mildred ), and so
wonderfully caught by Joe Mayhew, will stick with me for some while.Wonderful cover, by the way. Your
wraparound covers are becoming very distinctive.{{
Thanks! We enjoy being surprised by what our cover artists create for
us. }}- - - - - - - - - -
Mike Resnick, Cincinnati, Ohio There were some comments about my
first "Worldcon Memories" column in your last lettercol. I wouldn't think the gist
of future comments will vary all that much, so I'd like to cut `em off at the pass
by answering them right now.Kevin Standlee regrets that I
"didn't cover the entire story." Sorry, but I'm not in the business of covering the
entire story. These are my Worldcon memories (clearly labeled as such).
They are based on my experiences and my impressions, and I would
expect them to differ, in whole or in part, from those of every other attendee of
every Worldcon I discuss; if they didn't, if everyone had identical experiences,
there'd be no need to ever write them up.Also, I object to being misquoted.
I said CFG blocked the rooms and rented the suite at ConFrancisco's Marriott. Tom
Becker's letter makes it seem like it was entirely and exclusively my idea:
"...the clever stunt Resnick pulled with the Marriott..." Nope. Read the article.
It was CFG's clever stunt. Resnick is just one of its many members. In
point of fact, it was Scott and Jane Dennis who blocked the rooms and rented the
suite. I've done enough dumb things in my life that I don't appreciate being blamed
for something that was neither mine nor dumb.So that's it, for that and all
future columns. One, remember that they are subjective; and two, read what I
wrote, not what you think or wish I'd written.
Your and Nicki's notes on the
worldcon are appreiated. The event still hasn't received as much fanzine space as
most recent worldcons, unless a vast liberal conspiracy has prevented me from
receiving some long conreports in other fanzines. Mike Resnick's continuation of
this memories of earlier worldcons continued to be very enjoyable. I don't doubt
that he has put into print for the first time some anecdotes about those events.Cato Lindberg {{in "When Fandom Came to Norway" }} is very helpful in
filling in gaps that had previously existed in English language fandom about
Norway's fans and their activities. For some reason they haven't been chronicled
with nearly as much thorughness as the Swedish fandom's past.Bob Madle's essay on John Baltadonis
{{"My Pal Johnnie" }} fills a gaping blank
in existing fanzine material about this important early fan. Curiously, I can't
remember corresponding with John and I'm not even sure I traded fanzines with him,
even though my first couple of years in fanzine fandom coincided with his final
period of publishing activity. Most of this information is new to me. It's a
shame that no worldcon ever thought about making him the fan guest of honor during
his long life. However, we still need similar descriptive articles about dozens of
other important fans of the 1930s and 1940s who are almost never mentioned today
while other fans who were no better are constantly bobbing up in nostalgia pieces.
Don Wilson, Andy Anderson, Bill Watson, Larry Shaw, Dick Wilson, and Bill Evans,
for instance, are just a few of the dozens of neglected fans of this period.- - - - - - - - - -
Dale Speirs, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jeanne Mealy's comparison of fandom
to the State Fair {{"Fans and Fairs" }} is
like the one I make comparing fandom to the Calgary Stampede, the world's largest
rodeo. More than 1.1 million people, mostly accountants, oil company executives,
and shopgirls, dress up each summer and pretend they are cowfolk. The Stampede is
held each July, but in the middle of July, Calgary SF fans have their annual gencon,
ConVersion. Usually ConVersion is held the weekend after Stampede is over, since
every hotel in the city is booked solid for Stampede, but a few years ago, due to a
quirk in the calendar, ConVersion was on the final weekend of the Stampede. I quite
enjoyed people-watching from the hotel lobby as Klingons and cowboys stared at each
other in the hallways. To make things even livelier, the hotel also had NATO troops
from Britain and Germany (in town for maneuvers at CFB Calgary), and they were
open-mouthed in amazement at both the Klingons and the cowboys.Also, the Baltadonis article was of
interest to me for its account of printing fanzines via hectography. I will be
using it as a citation for my history on copying methods, portions of which are
occasionally run in the fanzine Opuntia. Hectography has an amazing hidden
history. I have determined that it originated from thin sheets of animal gelatine
used as tracing paper in the early 1800s. Sometimes in the 1860s, some unsung
inventor in Germany or Austria discovered the method of pouring slabs of gelatine
for fresh plates each time. It was immediately taken up by revolutionaries, since
the secret police could arrest you for possession of a printing press but the
average policeman would think nothing of a cake pan, powdered Jell-O, and food
colouring. Hectography is best spelt with a 'c'; the 'k' spelling was a trademark
of the Heyer Corporation.- - - - - - - - - -
Martin Morse Wooster, Silver Spring, Maryland Like Jeanne Mealy, I have a passion
for county fairs. I've even managed to combine my love for fairs with the Worldcon.
In 1993, for example, I spent several enjoyable hours at the San Francisco County
Fair, an event I thought was extremely fannish, since it seemed to be organized
along the lines of "What if a group of fans were given a lot of money and told to
put on a county fair?" The fair, for example, had animals -- but they were all made
out of wood!I had a more enjoyable time at
Nolacon than Mike Resnick did, and I also enjoyed myself at ConFrancisco, once I got
past registration. The reason is that both cities are weirder and more fannish than
fans are, and I spent most of my time exploring. In contrast, at Bucconeer, held in
a city I know well (Baltimore), I spent nearly all of my time, save for three hours
at the Walters Art Gallery, at the con or with fans. I'm not sure a "Hold Worldcons
in dull cities!" cry would sway those Cancun voters, but it's one key to an
enjoyable Worldcon for me.In your opening comments, concerning
the need for sensible science fiction on television, I may be one of the few fans
other than Nicki Lynch to see Mercy Point. (But then I saw three episodes of
The Burning Zone, quite possibly the worst sf tv series ever made.) What
struck me about Mercy Point was that the directors decided to put E.R.
in space; the only thing sfnal about it was that some of the characters were aliens.
It was a very mundane series. In contrast, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has the
horror and fantasy elements blended in with the plot. It's the 'teen' elements of
the show -- the awful principal, struggling with the chemistry exam -- that seem in
many ways extraneous to the underlying horror. Besides, how can fans not like a
show where one character says, "I'm 1120 years old and I can't buy a drink!" and
where a villain (the major) craves immortality and has a Day-Timer?{{
Another series you should check out is Charmed (also on the WB Network),
which also has horror and fantasy elements. It's not as dark as Buffy, and
also features some humor (as well as good writing). }}- - - - - - - - - -
Ahrvid Engholm, Stockholm, Sweden Cato Lindberg's story on his early
days was fascinating, and especially interesting for me since Norwegian fandom is
neighbour to Swedish. I must say it is quite impressive to travel around the world
at young age, working on a boat, to visit fellow fans in foreign countries and buy
pulps! There was a lot of contacts between Swedish and Norwegian fandom at the
time. Swedish fandom was much bigger, but I think the few Norwegian fans at the
time found it comforting to know that they weren't alone.- - - - - - - - - -
Patrick McGuire, Columbia, Maryland I read with interest your Opening
Comments about Bucconeer. Columbia is even closer to Baltimore than Gaithersburg,
but like you, and for similar reasons, I decided to take a hotel room at the
worldcon. Considering the hours I was keeping through the con, I think I acted
rightly. It really felt strange, however, to leave the hotel garage on Sunday
evening and be home half an hour later!Modern worldcons are such
multi-track, multi-group affairs that often 'my' convention has very little overlap
with those of other fen. For that reason, con reports may be more important now
than ever -- at least they provide some indication of what was going on elsewhere.
Some scheduling conflict made me miss attending the Buffy panel, which I
regretted, and I was glad to see Nicki's brief discussion of what went on there. I
recently read that the demographic appeal keeping the show on the air is to women
between 18 and 28. It does, however, also seem to have a following among older
fannish males. Perhaps this is because Buffy and companions are depictions as an
out-group in high school, but one doing some important and worthwhile things than
the in-group does. This is how a lot of us soon-to-be-fen thought of ourselves back
in our own high school years.{{
Buffy seems not only to appeal to femfannes, but even to non-fans. Several
people where Nicki works also like Buffy (and also The X-Files and
Highlander), but don't have any interest in media or other kinds of
fandom. }}I'm also glad to see Nicki mention
Mercy Point, because I was beginning to think that I was the only person in
non-media fandom who had even seen the thing. The episodes that made it onto the
air were never, in my opinion, what you might call good, but the show still looked
to me like it might have been artistically salvageable.It's astonishing how much time
literary fen spend discussing movies and TV shows. My theory is that now that the
magazines have lost their importance, TV and films are the only SF that any given
random sample of fen are likely to have consumed at roughly the same time, so that
they can serve as a common basis of discussion. It can take months for everyone to
have read even a 'must-read' book, especially if it first comes out in hardcover.Yes, as you say at the end of your
Opening Comments, Mimosa is performing a service to fan history, but then
again, memory is notoriously fallible. I have been caught out on fannish matters I
recalled from only twenty years back, while many of your contributors are trying to
hark back fifty years or more with few written records to help them. Howard DeVore
certainly gets points for trying to find confirmation for his 44 year old "Mystery
Guest" tale, but he himself admits that he came up with not a whole lot, even from
people who ought to have known. And I can imagine that in future decades, a
lot of ink is going to be spilled over David Kyle's 60 year old belated
account of events at the first worldcon.Of course, in your remarks, what you
actually say is that there are "so many stories that needed telling, for future
generations of fans to read and be entertained." That could lend itself to the
interpretation that you're interested in the creation and propagation of fannish
legends, without much caring if they're true or not, so long as they are
entertaining. I'd rather have late recollections than no recollections, but still
better are recollections with records or other confirmation behind them. One of the
more irritating things about Asimov's autobiography was how little research (besides
looking in his diary) he was willing to do to check his recollections or make them
more concrete. I hope your contributors will put up at least as much effort as
Howard DeVore did in trying to reinforce their own memories.{{
Many of them already do. Dave Kyle, for instance, takes great pains in checking
facts as much as possible with surviving records and fans. You can see that he
often quotes from these sources in his articles, sometimes to the point where we ask
him to put a little more of himself into them. At any rate, we think it's inevitable
that anyone who writes an historical article with a first person viewpoint will
impart a certain amount of personal subjectivity into it -- after all, it's a view
through his (or her) own eyes, and it's not really meant to be a scholarly work.
From an historical viewpoint, and especially for controversial, high-visibility
events like the 1939 Worldcon, the more of these that are written, the better chance
to gain an understanding of what really happened, and why. As for making fan history
more interesting to read, the next letter has more to say about that. }}I enjoyed Cato Lindberg's article,
partly because it shows that Scandinavian fandom had a less frivolous side to it
that has seemed the case from other writers. Cato's essay also gave me an idea for
an article of my own, but given my miserable fanac record of late, I think I'll keep
quiet about the topic until such time as I actually write it.In the Letters Column, Ahrvid
Engholm remarks that he's met Forry Ackerman, who has met everyone else. Robert
Sirigano provides the illustration of Forry meeting Stan Freberg. About a year back
I discovered that Forry had met the guy who then occupied the desk next to mine at
work! (The person in question was not an SF fan but a movie buff, and Forry had
shown up at some film festival! I certainly know Forry by sight from seeing him on
panels and such, but I can't recall having spoken to him, so I'm not sure of he
counts as 'met' for me. He did send me a form letter once.)- - - - - - - - - -
Taral Wayne, Toronto, Ontario, Canada So much of fanwriting these days is
about the fannish past. Not fanhistory per se, but descriptions of old cons
one is fond of, a friend who has died, favourite books you read when you started
reading SF, and so on. It's very much like small talk -- you corner someone at a
party and begin talking, you get interested in the person and his opinions, you
trade likes and dislikes. I'm not sure the process is intrinically interesting,
though. Does it matter to me what Alva Rogers or Calvin Demmon or Les Crouch liked
reading when they were eighteen? The justification, of course, is whether the
writer can tell you these things in an entertaining way. All fannish writing is
story-telling, really. Even though 'fan fiction' is a derogatory term in some
quarters, even factual reminiscences of real events have to be presented the same
way as fiction. It has to have characters to identify with, an evolving structure,
vivid images and sensory details, literary devices such as irony and metaphore,
climax and completion. The further from fictional style, the less satisfying the
'real' article.- - - - - - - - - -
Fred Smith, Glasgow, Scotland Robert Madle's tribute to John
Baltadonis was engrossing. It's funny, but when I was active in fandom in the 1950s,
those guys, along with Ackerman, Moskowitz, DeVore, and Kyle, were already legendary.
We even had nostalgia for the 'old days' back then!- - - - - - - - - -
We Also Heard From: Harry Andruschak, William Bains, Pat Baltadonis, Steve Baltadonis, John Berry, Pamela Boal, Ned Brooks, Chester Cuthbert, Richard Dengrove, Melanie Fletcher, Nick Grassel, Karen Pender-Gunn, Teddy Harvia, Ben Jason, Terry Jeeves, Bob Kennedy, Irv Koch, Ken Lake, Fred Liddle, Cato Lindberg, Eric Lindsay, Shinji Maki, Jeanne Mealy, Joseph Major, Yuri Mironets, Murray Moore, Janice Murray, Elizabeth Osborne, Lloyd Penney, Robert Peterson, Derek Pickles, Peggy Ranson, Dave Rowe, Julia Morgan-Scott, Agnieszka Sylwanowicz, Steve Sneyd, Gene Stewart, Ian Stockdale, Mark Strickert, Alan J. Sullivan, Ted Tubb, R Laurraine Tutihasi, Lennart Uhlin, Debra Weddall, Henry Welch, Art Widner, and Dorota Zywno. Thanks to one and all! Title illustration by Sheryl Birkhead Other illustrations by Brad Foster and William Rotsler Chat cartoon by Teddy Harvia  |
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