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Erebus, issue 4, 1943
Page 15
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THE DEVIL YOU SAY RAY KARDEN 409 Twelth St. Cloquet, Minn. The cover, I would say is the best I have seen on a fanzine yet -- lithoed mimeod or whatnot. The composition, it simplicity, the aura of reality -- within itself, of course -- still amazes me. More of this. It is also probably the neatest fanzine I've seen yet. However, if you want it really neater, mimeo it on white completely. At least in my issue, the other colored pages were hard to read. I won't comment on the material, only to say it was readable by notoutstanding. The black tape on the outside -- which added much to your neatness -- surprised me, until I couldn't resist pulling away a corner and finding -- sewing! Jack Speer 3633 Jenifer Washington 15, DC See comments on October Erebus. Incidentally, I noticed some people around the Michiconference using pronunciation E-ree-bus. My dictionary gives is Er-e-bus, with the First E short and the second obscure. ((We're partial to the latter pronunciation ourselves -- LeM)) In using the lettering guide on the contents page, I notice you've made the 0's with a notch in them like the lance-rest in a shield. Other guys have done this, but it doesn't look right. I suspect the 0 isn't intended to come shut in that particular style of lettering; surely the manufacturer didn't intend for you to follow exactly the form of the hole they cut ((Notice the 0's in this issue as well as the D's -- if any)) The Viton cover, as previously noted, was super. Dryad bacover pretty good too. Lino blocks in the title headings don't seem to have been handled well in some cases. The block illustrations for Fans at the Front look very good but disappoint me in not being fantastic. And isn't the double us of the Devil You Say title heading rather irregular? ((That's one of the things we forgot to explain in the last issue. The letter column title was selected and used before the story reached us. The same title was used on both and it was our intention to play up the coincidence. Same headings? -- we're lazy. (Original story title was "To Paint The Devil".) And if we may rather poorly paraphrase and old saying, all fantasy and non-fantasy makes dull stories -- and illustrations. Let's see now -- was there anything fantastic in that installment to illustrate, tho?)) The Devil You Say, the story, was not particularly effective. The blurb contributed to giving away any surprise in it. Shaw's column nat overly interesting, either. And by the way, I dislike the putting of an illustration in the middle of an uncolumned page, as is done with Fido, so that you have to jump across an open space several times to read divided lines. Yerke's page was pretty good. Raym's story suffers from the usual ills of fan fiction which names, said ills multiplying in case of a serial, in which several of the principal characters practically drop out of fandom while the story is still running.
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THE DEVIL YOU SAY RAY KARDEN 409 Twelth St. Cloquet, Minn. The cover, I would say is the best I have seen on a fanzine yet -- lithoed mimeod or whatnot. The composition, it simplicity, the aura of reality -- within itself, of course -- still amazes me. More of this. It is also probably the neatest fanzine I've seen yet. However, if you want it really neater, mimeo it on white completely. At least in my issue, the other colored pages were hard to read. I won't comment on the material, only to say it was readable by notoutstanding. The black tape on the outside -- which added much to your neatness -- surprised me, until I couldn't resist pulling away a corner and finding -- sewing! Jack Speer 3633 Jenifer Washington 15, DC See comments on October Erebus. Incidentally, I noticed some people around the Michiconference using pronunciation E-ree-bus. My dictionary gives is Er-e-bus, with the First E short and the second obscure. ((We're partial to the latter pronunciation ourselves -- LeM)) In using the lettering guide on the contents page, I notice you've made the 0's with a notch in them like the lance-rest in a shield. Other guys have done this, but it doesn't look right. I suspect the 0 isn't intended to come shut in that particular style of lettering; surely the manufacturer didn't intend for you to follow exactly the form of the hole they cut ((Notice the 0's in this issue as well as the D's -- if any)) The Viton cover, as previously noted, was super. Dryad bacover pretty good too. Lino blocks in the title headings don't seem to have been handled well in some cases. The block illustrations for Fans at the Front look very good but disappoint me in not being fantastic. And isn't the double us of the Devil You Say title heading rather irregular? ((That's one of the things we forgot to explain in the last issue. The letter column title was selected and used before the story reached us. The same title was used on both and it was our intention to play up the coincidence. Same headings? -- we're lazy. (Original story title was "To Paint The Devil".) And if we may rather poorly paraphrase and old saying, all fantasy and non-fantasy makes dull stories -- and illustrations. Let's see now -- was there anything fantastic in that installment to illustrate, tho?)) The Devil You Say, the story, was not particularly effective. The blurb contributed to giving away any surprise in it. Shaw's column nat overly interesting, either. And by the way, I dislike the putting of an illustration in the middle of an uncolumned page, as is done with Fido, so that you have to jump across an open space several times to read divided lines. Yerke's page was pretty good. Raym's story suffers from the usual ills of fan fiction which names, said ills multiplying in case of a serial, in which several of the principal characters practically drop out of fandom while the story is still running.
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