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Fandemonium, issue 2, Summer 1948
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A SOUTHEASTERN SAP'S REVIEW COMMENTS ON THE SPRING FAPA MAILING Since I'm not too fond of fan comics, the first part of BLUE BEM COMICS did not arouse my interest, although the flower pot incident and the Finlayesque bubble drawing of the PURPLE SAP were amusing. The last page provided a lot of enjoyment, but the last two tri-quatrained reflectionisms (Is there really such a thing or did you coin the phrase?) were not as good as the upper three. Of course the nymph item tickled me most. BRILLIG's cover is one of those pieces of art that only the creator could understand but probably doesn't, but anyway I got a lot of fun out of trying to figure what it was all about. If someone comes up with an accurate analysis of it, I'll wish I had learned more about art. Why do you say "An SAPzine"? "Utter Madness" was just that, but it was entertaining and I got a lot of good laughs out of its silliness. This guy really has a high type of mind when it comes to a low class of thoughts. How does one go about obtaining the Yon Ki Fan work? The thing's nuttiness appeals to me too, so let's see more of it. Who, but a completist like Walter would pay 2¢ for DUD? Tsk, tsk, mercenary Coswal! It's a good thing you put title and number on both ends for the written number hit one of the holes, and I would have had no way of knowing which one of dozens of issues of DUD this one was. Looks as if you used the back of check stubs for paper. In case you need any more, I have plenty; in fact, stubs are about all that I have left these days. Another conglomeration of a cover topped by the bold title, EGOBOO, informs me that I'm not through with Schaumburger yet. This deal about "Alpaugh is Ghod and I am his prophet" is getting rather tiresome by now. Probably it still retains its original sparkle to the SFans who ae in the know, but to an outsider it is irritatingly puzzling. What's the catch to the printing press offer? On the poetry page, only the Andalusian Crutbird piece attracted my attention, and that did because of its comical anti-climax.The limericks were a rather undistinguished lot, but I'm still wondering what sort of hoax your prize will turn out to be. The Squirrel Lovers advertisement was just about the silliest bunch of nonsense I have ever read, but I got more laughs from it than anything else in the mailing. When I got to the part about tearing the top off the nearest squirrel, I was really done in. I couldn't say what type of sense of humor Schaumburger has, but he definitely has one! ESSENTIAL's cover shows some delicate work; it must have taken wVp some time to finish it if I remember correctly the tedium of line-drawing. The page of combined editorials was worth reading for its air of informality, but Derleth spells it "aficionado". The rest of the mag was not particularly outstanding although the fiction on page (Nuts, there are no page numbers) opposite Midnight Rapture had possibilities if it had been lengthened a bit and had not attempted to be so serious. A little humor inserted would have helped it. With THE HANDS & OTHERS, we come to a milestone in fan publishing: the job of assembling and binding is almost professional, though some of the mimeoing is a little irregular. The cover is excellent, and the whole thing is a marvelous piece of work. I should think that you would have gone on and made enough for FAPA too, even if it did mean a lot more work. As might be expected, the contents were not quite worthy of the format. The best was "The Hands", naturally; I'll bet Laney would be amused at his piece now, though his ardor for HPL had cooled even then. Did you sell Lester Gooch "Mister" as a basis for his Chippendale Chair episodes? 7
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A SOUTHEASTERN SAP'S REVIEW COMMENTS ON THE SPRING FAPA MAILING Since I'm not too fond of fan comics, the first part of BLUE BEM COMICS did not arouse my interest, although the flower pot incident and the Finlayesque bubble drawing of the PURPLE SAP were amusing. The last page provided a lot of enjoyment, but the last two tri-quatrained reflectionisms (Is there really such a thing or did you coin the phrase?) were not as good as the upper three. Of course the nymph item tickled me most. BRILLIG's cover is one of those pieces of art that only the creator could understand but probably doesn't, but anyway I got a lot of fun out of trying to figure what it was all about. If someone comes up with an accurate analysis of it, I'll wish I had learned more about art. Why do you say "An SAPzine"? "Utter Madness" was just that, but it was entertaining and I got a lot of good laughs out of its silliness. This guy really has a high type of mind when it comes to a low class of thoughts. How does one go about obtaining the Yon Ki Fan work? The thing's nuttiness appeals to me too, so let's see more of it. Who, but a completist like Walter would pay 2¢ for DUD? Tsk, tsk, mercenary Coswal! It's a good thing you put title and number on both ends for the written number hit one of the holes, and I would have had no way of knowing which one of dozens of issues of DUD this one was. Looks as if you used the back of check stubs for paper. In case you need any more, I have plenty; in fact, stubs are about all that I have left these days. Another conglomeration of a cover topped by the bold title, EGOBOO, informs me that I'm not through with Schaumburger yet. This deal about "Alpaugh is Ghod and I am his prophet" is getting rather tiresome by now. Probably it still retains its original sparkle to the SFans who ae in the know, but to an outsider it is irritatingly puzzling. What's the catch to the printing press offer? On the poetry page, only the Andalusian Crutbird piece attracted my attention, and that did because of its comical anti-climax.The limericks were a rather undistinguished lot, but I'm still wondering what sort of hoax your prize will turn out to be. The Squirrel Lovers advertisement was just about the silliest bunch of nonsense I have ever read, but I got more laughs from it than anything else in the mailing. When I got to the part about tearing the top off the nearest squirrel, I was really done in. I couldn't say what type of sense of humor Schaumburger has, but he definitely has one! ESSENTIAL's cover shows some delicate work; it must have taken wVp some time to finish it if I remember correctly the tedium of line-drawing. The page of combined editorials was worth reading for its air of informality, but Derleth spells it "aficionado". The rest of the mag was not particularly outstanding although the fiction on page (Nuts, there are no page numbers) opposite Midnight Rapture had possibilities if it had been lengthened a bit and had not attempted to be so serious. A little humor inserted would have helped it. With THE HANDS & OTHERS, we come to a milestone in fan publishing: the job of assembling and binding is almost professional, though some of the mimeoing is a little irregular. The cover is excellent, and the whole thing is a marvelous piece of work. I should think that you would have gone on and made enough for FAPA too, even if it did mean a lot more work. As might be expected, the contents were not quite worthy of the format. The best was "The Hands", naturally; I'll bet Laney would be amused at his piece now, though his ardor for HPL had cooled even then. Did you sell Lester Gooch "Mister" as a basis for his Chippendale Chair episodes? 7
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