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En Garde, whole no. 14, July 1945
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page 21. [decorative border] WOE, WOE, WOE DEPARTMENT [decorative border] [underlined] ONE: [/underlined] The paper this issue is printed on is lousy. And that is not the worst of it---it will probably continue to be lousy for some time to come. About a year ago I managed to find four cases of 20-lb white bond (40 reams). That is the grade paper that has appeared in En Garde up until now. But such paper seems unobtainable now. In fact, it seems I was lucky to get 10 reams of this present paper, which, although 20-lb, is of much poorer quality. Won't it be wonderful when the government and Armed Forces get over their current passions for "fifteen copies of everything?" [underlined] TWO: [/underlined] There are five different types of art work in this issue. The cover represents two---the printed heading and airbrushed picture. The mimeoed art takes care of the other three with hand or stylus cut work, photoscope pictures, and die-cut work. (Remind me to tell you all about die-cut stencils sometime---verra fascinatin', and all that.) Last issue we were forced to drop several pages that were to contain a lot of photoscoped pictures because we had been sent some defective photoscope stencils. Our local dealer then wrote to the company about rectifying the trouble. The company replied that they were the best that could be furnished for the duration because they'd run out of the original grade of base-sheet and could get no more. They said to accept no more ordered and to return my money. I told the dealer to write back, in that case, and get me some of the best they had and I'd try to use them some way. It took several letters back and forth before the company finally agreed. But what they sent me was not the poorer quality I'd first rejected, but some of the old quality they'd found lying around someplace----only they were [underlined] old [/underlined] stencils, and had lost their sensitivity, so they didn't work at all. Looks like no more photoscoped art aside from what I have on hand, at least for the duration. En Garde art work will henceforth have to be stylus-cut or die-cut. Also, regarding those pages dropped last time, a couple we ran off and rejected before, we used anyway. The rest that needed new art work not already on hand, we cut with stylus. [decorative border] CREDIT DEPARTMENT [decorative border] COVER: Printed heading by Jack Wiedenbeck; airbrush picture by the editor. INTERIOR ART on pages 17, 18, 19, and 20 by Jack Wiedenbeck; the rest by the editor (except pics on page 4). SLIPSHEETING and deslipsheeting by the kind assistance of Milton Ashley, ye son. VOTE FOR AL ASHLEY FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER IN THE COMING ELECTION!!!
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page 21. [decorative border] WOE, WOE, WOE DEPARTMENT [decorative border] [underlined] ONE: [/underlined] The paper this issue is printed on is lousy. And that is not the worst of it---it will probably continue to be lousy for some time to come. About a year ago I managed to find four cases of 20-lb white bond (40 reams). That is the grade paper that has appeared in En Garde up until now. But such paper seems unobtainable now. In fact, it seems I was lucky to get 10 reams of this present paper, which, although 20-lb, is of much poorer quality. Won't it be wonderful when the government and Armed Forces get over their current passions for "fifteen copies of everything?" [underlined] TWO: [/underlined] There are five different types of art work in this issue. The cover represents two---the printed heading and airbrushed picture. The mimeoed art takes care of the other three with hand or stylus cut work, photoscope pictures, and die-cut work. (Remind me to tell you all about die-cut stencils sometime---verra fascinatin', and all that.) Last issue we were forced to drop several pages that were to contain a lot of photoscoped pictures because we had been sent some defective photoscope stencils. Our local dealer then wrote to the company about rectifying the trouble. The company replied that they were the best that could be furnished for the duration because they'd run out of the original grade of base-sheet and could get no more. They said to accept no more ordered and to return my money. I told the dealer to write back, in that case, and get me some of the best they had and I'd try to use them some way. It took several letters back and forth before the company finally agreed. But what they sent me was not the poorer quality I'd first rejected, but some of the old quality they'd found lying around someplace----only they were [underlined] old [/underlined] stencils, and had lost their sensitivity, so they didn't work at all. Looks like no more photoscoped art aside from what I have on hand, at least for the duration. En Garde art work will henceforth have to be stylus-cut or die-cut. Also, regarding those pages dropped last time, a couple we ran off and rejected before, we used anyway. The rest that needed new art work not already on hand, we cut with stylus. [decorative border] CREDIT DEPARTMENT [decorative border] COVER: Printed heading by Jack Wiedenbeck; airbrush picture by the editor. INTERIOR ART on pages 17, 18, 19, and 20 by Jack Wiedenbeck; the rest by the editor (except pics on page 4). SLIPSHEETING and deslipsheeting by the kind assistance of Milton Ashley, ye son. VOTE FOR AL ASHLEY FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER IN THE COMING ELECTION!!!
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