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Post by dem bones on Jan 11, 2008 12:01:17 GMT
I think there's a whole style of 'zine design that's died a horrible death since the advent of webzines. The sheer cheapness of the reprographics methods forced some inventive approaches that often gave brilliant results. I must admit, I miss them. It's probably just me but if there's one thing I can't get used to is reading fiction from a screen. No problem with the articles and interviews, but I tend to drift when a story goes on for three or more screen lengths whereas that rarely happens with books or mags. I think I need a printer .... Des, Bats & Red Velvet. I think I've got them all up to #9. Bats ... started life as The House Of Dracula and changed it's name with issue 5. In one of those amusing-if-it's-happening-to-somebody-else soap operas that were something of a speciality of the goth zines, the founder, 'President' and original editor, Jeff Hemlock, was pretty much booted out of his own mag following certain 'offensive' remarks in his serial moan Hey Goth! Reflections on the decaying Goth scene!. By issue #8 (which you also have a story in, Des: Jack Spratt Could Eat No Fat), Jo and co were hanging the poor bastard out to dry (see 'APOLOGIES' p. 29; "Luckily, Hemlock is no longer with B&RV ..."). It all sounds very Skeleton Crew. Personally, I found the cartoons desperately dull and unfunny but I did kind of wonder just how delicate a little flower you'd have to be to take umbrage at Chris P Cock, Hemlock, arch wind-ups Rosetta Stone's Blackmail 'zine, etc., etc., especially if - as so many B&RV readers evidently did - you swooned over the rather wonderful, gleefully offensive Christian Death (the day's Marilyn Manson).
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Post by dem bones on Jan 12, 2008 11:30:45 GMT
Necropolis #7 (Feb. 1992) An early classic, this was the first Necropolis to add short fiction to the mix of artwork, poetry and astute commentary. In his excellent vampire bibliography The Monster With A Thousand Faces, Brian Frost wrote of Ken Cowley's Dracula Reflects ( Dark Horizons #18, 1978) "the most controversial vampire story written by a British author in the 'seventies" and none of us could understand why it had never been republished. It is here! The artwork is by editor Chad Savage, William Blake and Chrissie Demant. Ken Cowley - Dracula Reflects: I was there in Auschwitz and Gulag, in Korea and Vietnam where the napalm bloomed, in Uganda where another of my disciples, half mad with syphilis, laughed to see the rows of heads shaved bare, looking for all the world like ripe, black fruit centred firmly above their broad wooden collars, naked and defenceless under the sledgehammers. And I am there today in Belfast, waiting for the moronic bombs to feed me the blood of the innocent.
Your tribute grows ever more bountiful, and I grow stronger with it.As the title suggests, the present incarnation of Dracula meditates on his history, his disciples, his globetrotting, his recent exploits. As a bonus, he also lets us in on a few secrets; the true circumstances behind the Count's 'death' and that of one who was crucified between two thieves on Mount Calvary. Excellent.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 12, 2008 13:52:29 GMT
'Simply put, one of the finest 'zine covers I've seen in my life' Dem
Yes, that's my kind of cover too. screensaver? ....mmmh
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 28, 2008 19:26:17 GMT
FOR THE 'VAMPY CREW' THREAD Fresh Blood #1 (1993) Club Vampyre Presents... Editors: Riyn Gray & Liza Campbell Cover: ?! Contains work by: Edward Lodi, Gary Lynn Morton, PJ Roberts, Jacie Ragan, John Grey, Andre Scheluchin, Rainee Hirsch and others Dead of Night #9 (1994) Cover: signature indicates Allen Koszowski? Publisher/Editor: Lin Stein Contains work by: John Maclay, Charles D Eckert, David Niall Wilson, JN Williamson and others. Small Press Cover Ark: Here
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Post by dem bones on Feb 1, 2008 16:48:23 GMT
Margaret L. Carter - Crimson Skies (1987) Richard A. Carter Transylvania Guys (verse) Memo To Professor Weyland (verse)
Crimson SkiesOne-off from the editor of The Vampire's Crypt showcasing her short bloodsucker story Crimson SkiesMichelle Belanger (ed.) - Shadowdance #1 (June 1992) Michelle Belanger Occult author and psychic vampire Michelle Belanger has come a long way since the first issue of Shadowdance. This followed the early Necropolis blueprint with much poetry, art, a forum and some original fiction (in this issue, the editor's Lady Of The Night). The pressing question of the day was "Do Vampires Really Exist?" and the Shadowdancers were as keen as anyone to get bit. Poetry from Elaine Wildfire, Andrew Berg, Tasha, Jeff York and a column from 'The Mage'.
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 1, 2008 17:05:24 GMT
Two of my SHADOWDANCEs: Cover artists in order; Issue 8 (1993): Michelle Belanger Issue 15 (1994): Syd Edwards
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Post by dem bones on Feb 3, 2008 14:20:07 GMT
Bites & Pieces: The Count Dracula Fan Club Newsletter So far, so celebratory. The fact that everything in the vampire garden was always so rosy through the 'nineties was almost entirely due to the laudable efforts of .... Nobody but nobody has done more for vampire fandom than Dr. Jeanne Keyes Youngson who founded the first, the only and the original Count Dracula Fan Club in 1965 .... I already bigged up Jeanne's Count Dracula And The Unicorn elsewhere, so no point leaving a job half done. According to one of the legion CDFC volunteers, "the good doctor" is "the Poet Laureate of Dracu-land - long may she reign!", sentiments I can only wholeheartedly endorse. Every wonderful issue of their quality, competitively priced Bites & Pieces would contain the usual news snippets, letters, small ads and at least one tear-jerking 'Tribute To The Prez' with an annual prize of a tube of soothing tongue-ointment for the most sycophantic. Commendably, being the longest established - and best! - vampire-interest group, the CDFC selflessly took it upon themselves to boss everyone else around and tell them what they could write about and which books they were allowed to promote. As Dr. Youngson modestly let slip to the Vampire Information Exchange Newsletter in their Tribute To Jeanne Youngson Special (December, 1991): "Incidentally, we were recently told by the head of another organisation that they think of the Count Dracula Fan Club as being the vortex of all vampire activity, and in a way, I think it may be true. We are, incidentally, always happy to recommend other societies, and do so on a regular basis in our club magazines. If someone is not on the list, you can be sure there's a darn good reason".And there was. Malcontents who refused to devote entire issues of their loser fang-zines to 'great gal' tributes deservedly found themselves banned, blacklisted and smeared by the 'vols' as, unfortunately, "little pipsqueaks like you and your mob are a by-product and minor annoyance of any successful organization. But let's face it. You ain't no match for this winning team, and I do mean the whole INTERNATIONAL COUNT DRACULA FAN CLUB! (und vee know who your friends are.)" An example to us all. LONG LIVE THE PREZ, AND MAY SHE CONTINUE TO ENHANCE AND ENCHANT THE DRACULA SCENE AS SHE HAS FOR, LO, THESE MANY, MANY YEARS! (Signed) Her loyal subjects at Vampire Empire Headquarters.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 4, 2008 10:57:14 GMT
Gary Lucas (ed.) - Strangled Vol 3, # 37 (Stranglers Information Exchange, 1992) Steve One for Coral! Slick, classy and packed with Stranglers news 'n chat as you'd expect with plenty of input from the band. Included here on the strength of John Ellis's interview with Bob Rickard of Fortean Times and Stubsinblack's A Vampyre: A Morbid Fascination, a round up of the UK's Vampire Societies and publications (the Bride gets a nice mench!). Stubsinblack, a policeman, was a regular contributor to the Vampire 'zines and made the headlines a few years back when he scooped the lottery jackpot (the band presented him with the cheque), the jammy bleeder! Elsewhere, Jet Black, ice-cream man turned drummer, (himself a suspected undead) explains why we should Scrap The Charts!
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coral
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Post by coral on Feb 4, 2008 13:15:13 GMT
Good God! Erm, than you mr Demonik, I never new this existed. But you could have pasted a pair of trousers on to the cover for me, I've gone all shy
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 7, 2008 20:53:09 GMT
FOR THE VAMPY CREW Crimson #12 (1994) Thee Vampire Guild in Dorset Editor: Phill White All about real vampires! I think the only fiction is by me. Cover: ? Crimson Red #6 (1991) Editor: John Florendo Also work by Dan Good (who edited the wonderful 'Gathering Darkness' and 'The Nightside' which will be featured on the Ark thread) Cover: ?
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 18, 2008 12:18:03 GMT
The Bloody Quill #4 (1998) International Vampire and Gothic HorrorEditors; J & E.L. Rogerson Cover: J Rogerson (and Rossetti)
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Post by troo on Feb 20, 2008 14:08:04 GMT
Time to Die... Time to Die... Something's Happening And It's Happening Right Now Ain't Got Time To Wait I Said Something Better Change... Not really working for me
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 22, 2008 19:40:04 GMT
It's just dawned on me that this cover below should have gone here on the 'Vampy Crew' thread. And at least this should keep her in a different section of the Ark from the Freudian Variant geezer! Into Darkness Eternal 1995 Stygian Vortex PublicationsPublisher: Glenda Woodrum Editor: t'shai k. Cover: 'Fangs & Hooks' by Charles Fallis Contains work by Marge Simon, Jim Garrison, John Grey, Gerard Daniel Houarner, William P Robertson, Buzz Lovko, Michelle Belanger, Nancy Bennett and others
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 22, 2008 20:57:34 GMT
Three more 'Crimson' covers for the 'Vampy Crew'. This is the mag for 'Thee Vampire Guild' in Dorset and seems to be for or about real vampires ... except my stories are fiction. The first and third covers are by Chad Savage. Not sure who did the second cover. First two: 1995 The third: 1997 Editor: Phill White
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Post by dem bones on Feb 23, 2008 9:10:56 GMT
The second one? looks like a phil white lightbox effort to me.
I've the first sixteen issues of Crimson but can't say I was a fan. The editor had the worst case of 'overnight expert syndrome' I've encountered to this day, and I've never had much time for people who talk about their mediocre 'zines (or forums) in terms of "the best!", "the ultimate!", "now ever better!", etc., etc. But he was astute, i'll give him that. The Amsterdam-based International Vampire was among the finest magazines of the day but it was a freebie, produced in small numbers and distributed to all corners of the globe. Not so many people in the UK received Intervamp, but Mr. Crimson was one of them, and, let's just say he sure made the most of it ....
Of course Intervamp (along with VAT and Necropolis) was blacklisted by the CDFC, but Mr. Crimson was careful to placate their glory-seeking 'Prez' to keep those all-important US authors onside.
so ... Crimson. nah, not a great favourite of mine.
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