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Nov. 3rd, 2010 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
One of the greatest fanzine covers I've ever seen, although I'll grant you I haven't seen that many compared to some. This is Richard Bergeron's cover for Warhoon 26. I'm not sure what year it's from, but perhaps somebody can tell me. Sometime in the '60s, I'm thinking. Three unevenly-spaced staples, you'll notice.
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Date: 2010-11-04 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-04 04:24 am (UTC)1969, probably.
I was on his mailing list in the early-mid 80s. I was still living at home and my parents thought the Warhoons made their coffee table look very classy.
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Date: 2010-11-04 05:00 am (UTC)I was never allowed to help collate any of the Derelict zines; they were really, really, anal about doing it perfectly, and I was a neo. My first collation that was actually social was about '01 or '02 at a Minicon, collating Rune.
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Date: 2010-11-04 10:27 am (UTC)1969 is about right (#27, which I do have, was about then) but I'm not sure Bergeron was silkscreening that early.
And the words "stoned collation party" and "Richard Bergeron" do not go together well; remember that Bergeron was a notorious fannish hermit, making Harry Warner look like a mad party animal...
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Date: 2010-11-04 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 03:07 pm (UTC)Publication date from the colophon: February 1969.
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Date: 2010-11-04 03:11 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I've seen any of Alpajpuri's covers. Was that Paul Novitski's nom de plume?
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Date: 2010-11-04 03:30 pm (UTC)The other interesting fact about that Warhoon cover is that it was a last-minute substitution for the 2-page collage cover Bergeron intended to run. The lowest price for engraving and printing that cover ran to $75 and he simply couldn't justify the cost. So he rewrote the first 17 lines of his editorial, recounting the gruesome tale and offering the collage cover art for free to anyone who wanted to pony up the $75 to run it themselves. I wonder if anyone took him up on the offer.
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Date: 2010-11-05 03:09 pm (UTC)My guess by the way is lithograph. He wrote in an earlier issue about sending another piece of art to the printer which makes sense given he was still fully employed at the time and probably didn't have the spare time silkscreen several hundred would require.
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Date: 2010-11-05 03:42 pm (UTC)I thought I had read that he used litho a fair amount in that era, but my memory is not to be trusted.