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Fandemonium, issue 2, Summer 1948
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HAROLD W. CHENEY JR. is the type of magazine I like to get my hands on; one with plenty of points for controversy which I am only too happy to bring up. To being with though, the cover was really a good job; you can tell HMC knows something about art. The picture is plain and dignified, yet it does a good job of impressing the viewer with its atmosphere of fantastic intrigue. Then too, the green-colored dragon added much to the effect. On the next page starts the discussions; Cheney, with undeniably just cause attacks the various publishers for generally cruddy output as to appearance, etc. I agree with him in part in that I think that everyone should do as good a job as is possible on their mags in the time they have, but as for making a huge issue out of the matter, I see no reason for it. I always try to keep my work as neat as I can, but my time is limited and I cannot always guarantee results. Furthermore, I refuse to worry over it. Fandom is a strictly a spare-time hobby with me; it is merely something to pass the time when I am not working or have no outside activities to amuse me. I very rarely shove aside any mundane activities to work on fanzines, unless I have a deadline to meet. Therefore with this limited time to do fanning, it is not practical for me to go to great pains to put out a perfect mag; I will keep on trying, though. It's not that I do not like fandom and the people that make it up; it's just that the things that pertain to a livelihood and the people that make up everyday existence must always come first. I'm sure it's the same way with most of you others. So I see no reason for such gargantuan labors as Cheney suggests. However, I would like to second his plan for a little more neatness in some of the publications. If I may get pointed, H.C. I'd like to say that while you are decrying the short-comings of others, you should look to your own laurels a bit. Frankly your typing and/or spelling are terrible; you have about as many typographical errors per paragraph as any fan I have ever seen, with the exception of one. Then too, the rapid change of typeface is not especially commendable, particularly since your pica typer seems to be defective. I dislike caviling, but I felt compelled to point out some of your outstanding flaws in order to salve my own conscience, so much for that. I heartily concur with your views on the size of membership and also on artwork in SAPS. Movies have little interest for me these days, so about the films mentioned I don't know. I would say that Lawrence can tie Finlay for the first place, but as for topping him, I don't think so. Happy Second Anniversary! Your reviews of the magazines in the second mailing were too brief. I must again raise my eyebrows when you in commenting on "FANDEMNIUM" (sic), state that you don't think fandom is important enough to cause my "rising all that lather over a person quitting". This sounds a little strange coming from an individual who a few paragraphs earlier was exhorting each and every fan to exert his utmost to produce faultless masterpieces for the power and glory of SAPS, regardless of cost to his personal existence. But that's another story; more of it elsewhere. The TORCON ad on the back page was the best and most original I have seen anywhere, too bad it reached such a limited audience. What happened to the person who started out from the lower right hand corner? What a commentary on one SAFS mag! It looks as if part of the background for the editorial page of HICKOX was made with the aid of an object occasionally carrying that trade name. Wrong! The Martian Empire contribution didn't get funny until about the next to last paragraph, and then suddenly I found something witty or comical in every sentence, topped off by John Carter and his Little Liver Pills. If the next chapter takes up where this left off, I'm eagerly awaiting it. Can it be that Caley has sunk as low as some of the scribblings on the art page indicate? I think not. Schaumburger again scores with his fictional 100th StfCon, but I really hope that there aren't as many takeoffs on this year's shindig as there were inspired by the Philcon. I found the casual manner with which Karlar disposed of the puny earthlings highly amusing. 8
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HAROLD W. CHENEY JR. is the type of magazine I like to get my hands on; one with plenty of points for controversy which I am only too happy to bring up. To being with though, the cover was really a good job; you can tell HMC knows something about art. The picture is plain and dignified, yet it does a good job of impressing the viewer with its atmosphere of fantastic intrigue. Then too, the green-colored dragon added much to the effect. On the next page starts the discussions; Cheney, with undeniably just cause attacks the various publishers for generally cruddy output as to appearance, etc. I agree with him in part in that I think that everyone should do as good a job as is possible on their mags in the time they have, but as for making a huge issue out of the matter, I see no reason for it. I always try to keep my work as neat as I can, but my time is limited and I cannot always guarantee results. Furthermore, I refuse to worry over it. Fandom is a strictly a spare-time hobby with me; it is merely something to pass the time when I am not working or have no outside activities to amuse me. I very rarely shove aside any mundane activities to work on fanzines, unless I have a deadline to meet. Therefore with this limited time to do fanning, it is not practical for me to go to great pains to put out a perfect mag; I will keep on trying, though. It's not that I do not like fandom and the people that make it up; it's just that the things that pertain to a livelihood and the people that make up everyday existence must always come first. I'm sure it's the same way with most of you others. So I see no reason for such gargantuan labors as Cheney suggests. However, I would like to second his plan for a little more neatness in some of the publications. If I may get pointed, H.C. I'd like to say that while you are decrying the short-comings of others, you should look to your own laurels a bit. Frankly your typing and/or spelling are terrible; you have about as many typographical errors per paragraph as any fan I have ever seen, with the exception of one. Then too, the rapid change of typeface is not especially commendable, particularly since your pica typer seems to be defective. I dislike caviling, but I felt compelled to point out some of your outstanding flaws in order to salve my own conscience, so much for that. I heartily concur with your views on the size of membership and also on artwork in SAPS. Movies have little interest for me these days, so about the films mentioned I don't know. I would say that Lawrence can tie Finlay for the first place, but as for topping him, I don't think so. Happy Second Anniversary! Your reviews of the magazines in the second mailing were too brief. I must again raise my eyebrows when you in commenting on "FANDEMNIUM" (sic), state that you don't think fandom is important enough to cause my "rising all that lather over a person quitting". This sounds a little strange coming from an individual who a few paragraphs earlier was exhorting each and every fan to exert his utmost to produce faultless masterpieces for the power and glory of SAPS, regardless of cost to his personal existence. But that's another story; more of it elsewhere. The TORCON ad on the back page was the best and most original I have seen anywhere, too bad it reached such a limited audience. What happened to the person who started out from the lower right hand corner? What a commentary on one SAFS mag! It looks as if part of the background for the editorial page of HICKOX was made with the aid of an object occasionally carrying that trade name. Wrong! The Martian Empire contribution didn't get funny until about the next to last paragraph, and then suddenly I found something witty or comical in every sentence, topped off by John Carter and his Little Liver Pills. If the next chapter takes up where this left off, I'm eagerly awaiting it. Can it be that Caley has sunk as low as some of the scribblings on the art page indicate? I think not. Schaumburger again scores with his fictional 100th StfCon, but I really hope that there aren't as many takeoffs on this year's shindig as there were inspired by the Philcon. I found the casual manner with which Karlar disposed of the puny earthlings highly amusing. 8
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