Small Press Cover Ark

[weirdmonger]

ONLY THREE MORE POSTS OF COVERS FROM ME AFTER THIS ONE.
I hope you enjoyed these Voices From The Edge.

Voices From The Edge #12 (1993)
Editor/Publisher: Angie Underwood
Cover: Cathy Buburuz & Robert Baldwin
Work by Lin Stein, Michael Thomas Dillon, Blair Wilson, R Monk Habjan, Jeffery Lewis, Deidra Cox, Lenora K Rogers, John Grey, Marge Simon, Russ Miller, R David Fulcher, Gerard Daniel Houarner, Steven L Shrewsbury and many others.

Three #1 (1996)
Editor, Cover: ?

[weirdmonger]

Violent Spectres #3 (1995)
Editor: Adam Bradley (also of Black Tears)
Cover: Dallas Goffin
Work by Ramsey Campbell, Nicholas Royle, Garry Kilworth, Alan S Frackleton and others.

The Third Half #6 (1988)
I have a fondness for this mag.
Editor: Kevin Troop
Work by Michael Noonan, Max Noiprox, Colin Nixon, Gary Legg, Edmund Harwood and others.

[weirdmonger]

Terror Tales #1 (1997)
Editor: John B Ford
Cover: Colin Langeveld
Work by John Travis, Robert Gill, Paul Bradshaw (of The Dream Zone), Derek M Fox, Gerald Gaubert and others.

Whispers From The Shattered Forum #4 (2000)
Undaunted Press
Editor: Cullen Bunn
Cover: ?
Work by Jon Hodges, Joe Pulver, Chad Hensley, Ann K Schwader and others.

[weirdmonger]

Vicious Circle #1 (1993)
Editors: Sean Doolittle, Michael D Okerlund
Cover: Roger Gerberding
Work by Kathleen Jurgens (of Thin Ice), Mark McLaughlin, Charles M Saplak, John Grey, Jacie Ragan, Wayne Edwards, Herb Kauderer, Chad Hensley and others.

Threads #1 (1994)
Editor: Geoff Lynas
Cover: Kerry Earl (Hey!)
Work by David Logan, Frank I Swannack, Steve Sneyd, Andrew C Ferguson, William Meikle, Derek M Fox and others.

I am one of those others.
END

[dem]

Well done, Des! This has to be the most comprehensive fanzine cover gallery i've seen on the web to date. Will try and pick up on this again when i've had a few days to recover from the final onslaught.

And I still think the Implosion cover is the best. A masterpiece.

[weirdmonger]

admin said:

Well done, Des! This has to be the most comprehensive fanzine cover gallery i've seen on the web to date.

Thanks, Demonik. I've only really scratched the surface of my collection (ie. there are many more contributor mags plus all my non-contributor mags)!

The range of publications is not really covered by the term 'fanzine' I feel. The range, indeed, is very wide, as you can sense from just looking at the covers.

Among those many contributor Small Press publications of mine (that I have not included on this thread for the reasons previously given) are also some that I felt were not Small Press at all:

Three editions of 'Best New Horror' edited by Stephen Jones.
Five editions of 'Year's Best Horror Stories' edited by Karl Edward Wagner.
'Shadows Over Innsmouth' (Fedogan & Bremer leading to mass market publication with other publishers).
'Horror Of The Next Millenium' (Darkside Press leading to mass market paperback).
'Signals: London Magazine' (Constable Books).
'Cthulhu's Heirs' (Chaosium Books).
'Song of Cthulhu' (Chaosium Books).
'Touch Wood' (Little, Brown).
'The Ex Files' (Quartet).
'The Ultimate Zombie' (Dell).
'Horror: Another 100 Best Books' (Carroll & Graf).
Stand Magazine.
'The Tiger Garden' (Serpent's Tail)


I really enjoyed starting this thread. Thanks for giving it house room. I hope it brings new members who look themselves up on google and end up on this thread!
I hope others will continue the splurge of 'orrorfaces with their own covers. For example, I was never in GRUE...

The Implosion cover is really one for the others, the true others.

des

[Craig Herbertson]

Thanks wmonger. One to savour.

This thread has a dynastic feel to it.

[Calenture]

Dave Rowe

I doubt if many would thank me for posting this one, Macrocosm 3 from Summer 1972. The writing is very self-conscious at times, with people finding their literary feet; the drawings mostly good.

Editorial (In Search of Inspiration) by Rob Holdstock
Consummation by Chris Morgan and Rob Holdstock
Sea, bird (verse) by Rob Holdstock
The Sax Symbol of Clovis Lypton by Bryn Fortey and F G Smallmount
Interview with Andrew Stephenson (who's art illustrated Vector before he was taken on by Fantasy and SF Magazine in the States)
The Big Role (a Jerry Cornelius story) by Chris Morgan
The Bethlehem File (a play) by John Brosnan
The Symbol by Jack Marsh
Narrative After Neruda (verse) by Eric James
Escape and Sanitary Rule (two poems) by Contessa Conesa
The Village by Robert Curran (possibly the most memorable piece here)
Desolate Street and Wisdom (two poems) by Franklyn G Johnson

Art staff: Terry Jeeves, Alastair Noyle, Lisa Conesa, Andrew Stephenson, Dave Rowe, James Pagitt, Eric James.

Rob could never have realised what an impression he'd made on me. Come to that, I didn't realise it either. A person with a loud and clear voice and strong opinions.

The Dream Zone 2, April 1999

All artwork by Helen Field

Bridge Over Troubled Blood by Rhys Hughes
Astral by Paul Kane
Dreamyheads by Sean Russell Friend
The Turning Point by Paul Pinn
The Secret of Eternal Life by Steve Lockley
Sweet and Sour Dreams by John B Ford
Out of Water by P C Attaway
Prettyface by Roger Jackson
Enemy Ours by Paul Finch
Bodybag by Kenneth H Wood
Slow Snow by Sari Pauloma
Living Beyond the Flesh by David Price
The Dream of Life by David Cowdall
The Two Philosophers by Michael Pendragon



Possibly this one's been posted already. If so, here it is again. I think I saw this advertised in Interzone and suspected it was part of a "small press" which I'd heard rumours of.

I still had little idea of the changes that were hitting the world of publishing. Curiously, I can see a few names here that I've really only learned recently, suggesting fandom is smaller than it seems.

[weirdmonger]

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Fascinationg stuff, Rog. Especially that old one. I tend to forget all this was going on before I was interested in the Small Press field from the mid-eighties. I could have been interested before then. I was certainly old enough!

calenture said:

[Possibly this one's been posted already. If so, here it is again. I think I saw this advertised in Interzone and suspected it was part of a "small press" which I'd heard rumours of.

I still had little idea of the changes that were hitting the world of publishing. Curiously, I can see a few names here that I've really only learned recently, suggesting fandom is smaller than it seems.

The issue of The Dream Zone I posted was no. 1 - so yours fits in neatly.

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I think it seems that some of the same names have cropped up on this thread for two reasons:

(1) I tended to choose the regular names for my lists. There were many names that were not recorded above. Perhaps that was a bad decision. When I do a one-off thread for some of the mags above, I shall of course give all authors and details. This thread is an initial splurge for me or others to 'pick up' on, I hope. Actually, at the beginning, I intended it as a 'splurge'-for-its-own-sake. An 'experience' like a rollercoaster.
Re names, as I implied in my post ending 'END', there were always the Others to contend with!

(2) Many authors got published time and time again in our Smalls because they were the best ones or the ones who tried hardest!
But some were even better writers but gave up too soon.

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A Dynasty -- from Craig's 'dynastic' observation above -- of Voices from the Edge.
Not, I hope, a Shattered Forum. More a Vicious Circle of Threads (in the nicest possible sense).
Baser Pulps giving a Baseline. The only Arkive of things small enough to get under the skin.
des

Above edited several times until being finally crystallised at 11.30 am (GMT)
Batten down the hatches, Rog.

[Calenture]

weirdmonger said:

I think it seems that some of the same names have cropped up on this thread for two reasons:

(1) I tended to choose the regular names for my lists. There were many names that were not recorded above. Perhaps that was a bad decision. When I do a one-off thread for some of the mags above, I shall of course give all authors and details. This thread is an initial splurge for me or others to 'pick up' on, I hope. Actually, at the beginning, I intended it as a 'splurge'-for-its-own-sake. An 'experience' like a rollercoaster.
Re names, as I implied in my post ending 'END', there were always the Others to contend with!

... Not, I hope, a Shattered Forum. More a Vicious Circle of Threads (in the nicest possible sense).
Baser Pulps giving a Baseline. The only Arkive of things small enough to get under the skin.
des

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As this thread has crept remorselessly on (like a tsunami?), I've begun to wonder if it's possibly the most necessary thread to emerge from the Vault. The 70s for all the fun and excess - or because of it - pretty well ended any hope of publication as it used to be understood. A massively destructive time, weirdly destroying through its excessive creativity.

But people need to express themselves, and with the death of the pro markets, this huge underground movement - which was always there anyway.

The control freak in me wants to see these magazines properly databased and linked, knowing that no-one will ever be able to find things on this thread - but I know that the control freak in Des wanted just exactly that near-chaotic "like a rollercoaster" experience, which is so much like his own creative output.

[Calenture]

The Alien Critic (quarterly) # 10 and 11 from August and November 1974

I was expecting to find more about the frighteningly intelligent Richard E Geiss on the net. So far all I found was his Alien Critic review appended to this page for Samuel Delany's The Tides of Lust.

Most pro magazine editors would give an arm and a leg for the kind of copy Geiss received. Vividly recollect Geiss's bemoaning the fact that women didn't respond to lonely hearts ads from men in wheelchairs. I suppose I've got four or five of these, and they were way too intelligent for me to really appreciate, so that now I look back on them ruefully, wondering if it was A Good Thing That I Didn't Write A LOC.

People who did write LOCs included Robert Bloch, Ted Tubb, Alan Dean Foster, David Gerrold, John Bangsund, Avram Davidson, Harlan Ellison, George Hay...

[Calenture]

Kilgore Trout (I'm quoting from a Wikipedia page here, as I'd forgotten, it's been so long - god it's awful sometimes being over 50 ) is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. Originally conceived as a fictionalization of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction), Trout's consistent presence in Vonnegut's works has led critics to view him as the author's own "alter ego". Trout is also the titular "author" of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, written (pseudonymously) by Philip José Farmer.

Get FOKT was a fanzine put out by the late and very great Bob Shaw and the Strathclyde Space and SF Society, who met at the lounge of Wintersgill's Bar in Great Western Road, Glasgow, the 'zine edited by Shaw, who was specifically asked not to thank Sandy Brown for all the hard work he'd put in, so there!

Issue 1 included fiction by Bob Shaw, The Last Giant. Artwork by George Emery, Ed Buckley, Jim Mullen, Bob Shaw, D. McG., Jim Barker (his very professional cartoons decorated many an SF 'zine), Stan Firth, Judy Watson.

The first issue came out in October 1977; fourth issue undated. Bob Shaw was then Membership Secretary of the BSFA.

[phantomrider]

The trouble with coming to a forum late on is it takes so long to get through threads like this - but it was well worth it. It has inspired me to, quite literally, dust off my collection and will be doing a spot of scanning and a lot of re-reading!

Incidently - I'm 99% certain that the cover artist on Cerebretron 6 was Garen Ewing.

[phantomrider]

Testing, Testing.......

Close To The Edge - Cover Dallas Clive Goffin
Fantasy Macabre 4 - Cover Emmanuel

[weirdmonger]

phantomrider said:

Incidently - I'm 99% certain that the cover artist on Cerebretron 6 was Garen Ewing.

Thanks, Phantomrider.
And good luck with your 'petit madeleines' of the Small Press!