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[randy_byers]

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.

Comments

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

Scratchboard? but then... how repro'd?

[c-crockett.livejournal.com]

He did a lot of silkscreen. This might have been a direct technique on the silkscreen resist, or a photo-process. I would bet money the staples were spaced to work with the image--they're centred in the red areas--not a failed try at even spacing.

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.

[c-crockett.livejournal.com]

So much for my theory, Colin got his copy, and it's quite poorly stapled. The positioning is less optimal than in your copy, although similar, and they didn't all go all the way through to the back-cover. Maybe it wasn't intentional.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Alpajpuri had some winners, but, yes, I do believe that Warhoon 26 has the best cover in my own fanzine collection.

Publication date from the colophon: February 1969.

[kim-huett.livejournal.com]

I fear my friend that you have a dud copy. The stapling on my copy of Warhoon #26 is neatly spaced, as it is on every other issue I have in my collection. Ah well, try and look past this deficiency and appreciate what is without a doubt the single most attractive cover to ever front an issue of Warhoon.

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.