From [g--l--n] at [falcon.bgsu.edu] Mon Oct 31 10:36:05 1994 Received: from [129.1.31.31] (M31-31.bgsu.edu [129.1.31.31]) by falcon.bgsu.edu (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA04342 for <[j--r--y] at [teetot.acusd.edu]>; Mon, 31 Oct 1994 13:35:37 -0500 Message-Id: <[199410311835 NAA 04342] at [falcon.bgsu.edu]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 14:36:35 +0600 To: jerry From: [g--l--n] at [falcon.bgsu.edu] (Metroplex) Subject: ftp 507 Status: OR ==== FIT TO PRINT by cathrine yronwode for the week of October 17, 1994 ADMINISTRIVIA: As you may or may not be aware, the print version of FtP contains "fan-headers". Art, cartoons, etc. created by just bout anyone who reads the column that is run at the top of the column and a credit at the bottom. I'd like to do the same thing here, with ascii-art. The only rules are that the "art" must contain the words "Fit to Print" and "catherine yronwode", although not necessarily in that order! It doesn't have to be anything too grand, but if you're into ascii-art, go for it! Maybe I can even convince cat to run it in the print version! Anyway, send it to me at: [g--l--n] at [bgnet.bgsu.edu] Thanks! THIS IS FIT TO PRINT NUMBER 507: Tossed salad. RESEARCH HELP WANTED: Robert Beerbohm, whose recent letters to CBG about the early days of fandom sparked a lot of memories, has asked me to publicize his quest for photocopies of old fanzines. He is putting together a memoir of his life in comics fandom and of the early days of the direct sales market, but a flood in 1986 wiped out his personal memorabilia. If you have any zines dating from 1970 or earlier, contact Bob at Post Office Box 507, Fremont, NE 68025. TWO NEW BOOKS: The University Press of Mississippi has announced the publication of two new comics-related books. Both will be available in paper ad cloth editions, and if your local store doesn't carry them, you should order directly from University Press of Mississippi, 3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS 39211-6492. Already out (in September) is Li'l Abner: A Study in America Satire by Arthur Asa Berger, a newly revised edition of a widely-cited work-one of the first to take comics entirely seriously-which first appeared in 1969, while Al Capp's notorious strip was still running. The author is a professor in the department of broadcast communication arts at San Francisco State University. Scheduled for release in November is Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill by Shelley Armitage, a professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. O'Neill is best known for her cuter-than-cute Kewpies, but the brochure for this book advertises that it will delve into O'Neill's life as a commercial illustraor and will also cover her role as a suffragette and social critic during the early part of the 20th century. Armitage's earlier book on Held's cartoons and the artist's place in contemporary society (John Held, Jr.: Illustrator of the Jazz Age.) was very well researched and nicely illustrated, and i expect that her latest will be up to the same high standard. SPEAKING OF ROSE O'NEILL: Trina Robbins, Rose O'Neill fan supreme, phoned me the other day to rave about something she had bought at a garage sale in San Francisco-a plaster portrait head sculpted by O'Neill which depicts "a Russian girl who drowned herself in the Seine after her lover abandoned her." LOOKING FOR MOPSY: Maybe one of you can help a fellow fan...Diana Kaiser, Post Office Box 8387, San Diego, California 92102 says, "For thirty years, I've been looking for Mopsy comics and old news-paper strips featuring Mopsy by Gladys Parker. As a child in the 1940s and '50s, I sat for hours in front of the radio, cutting out Mopsy paper dolls and design-ing clothes for her. Comic book dealers don't seem to carry this comic, but I will pay Overstreet prices for Mopsy #1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 18, and 19 with the paper dolls intact. If you own these comics but do not want to sell them, or if you have a collection of the newspaper strip, please contact me anyway, because I will pay for good colour xeroxes of the paper doll pages." ALT.REALITY: A few weeks ago i asked fans to name their favourite weird internet newsgroups. Since then, i have located (and have subscribed to) both (as in Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Castile Soap All-One-God Essene Scrolls Duilute! Dilute! Okay!) and ("Where all the women are smart, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average"). Both groups are quite strange. Rich Johnston <[r j johnston] at [ncl.ac.uk]> writes to alert us to the existence of which, he says, "inspired a group about a female solo artist, alt.icelandic.waif.bjork.bjork.bjork." He adds, "I would also try alt.fan.pratchett. Despite the title and despite the fact that Terry Pratchett posts there, the group has little to do with Pratchett's books. as people prefer to talk about food, English-American culture differences, Victorian pubic wigs, etc."(Yes, he said, "Victorian pubic wigs.") ==== Fit to Print appears in print each week in Comics Buyers Guide and is available via e-mail. Tell your friends! To subscribe to Fit to Print via e-mail send a request with the words "Subscribe FtP" in the subject header and your address in the body of the message to [g--l--n] at [bgnet.bgsu.edu.] You will be added to the list and receive the next available issue. Responses are welcome and should be directed to the address above. Fit to Print is Copyright 1994 Cathrine Yronwode. All rights reserved. ==== Fit to Print appears in print each week in Comics Buyers Guide and is available via e-mail. Tell your friends! To subscribe to Fit to Print via e-mail send a request with the words "Subscribe FtP" in the subject header and your address in the body of the message to [g--l--n] at [bgnet.bgsu.edu.] You will be added to the list and receive the next available issue. Responses are welcome and should be directed to the address above. Fit to Print is Copyright 1994 Cathrine Yronwode. All rights reserved.