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Thing, whole no. 1, Spring 1946
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15 CENTS = 4 FOR 50 CENTS WESSONMALE knows my ajay habits all too well. "Don't step on everyone's toes all at once," he advised when I first entered Fantasy. "--One at a time!" Not for me. "Commercialism!" I screamed at the sub and ad practices. And then Les Croutch had the temerity- and geographical distance necessary for his safety- to stick up for Amateur Ethics. "Amateur" in the French sense. A true amateur puts money as well as time into his creative hobby. And amateur journalism being an expensive hobby, by and large, with no tangible return, it often digs deep. (In our case, we've over-splurged the Wesson budget many times, but it will always be that I'll prefer a new type face to a new dress.) I point out that the biggest and best Fantasy mag pubbed, W. Paul Cook's GHOST, has this stipulation: "The GHOST is an amateur publication issued for love of the hobby known as Amateur Journalism. It cannot be nought from the publisher; and it is his wish that it never, at any time, under any circumstances, be sold." So much for the principle, I stand firm. In practice, I find that the best fanzines can be had on Swap, the ajay way. (Which is just as well, for the more I subscribe, the less I can publish, and I chooe to publish with my light o' life.) Furthermore, "you mean I gotta be bothered recording fiteen centses every evening when I got better things to do" I squawked to Crane, who foot TUT's bills but has also been reared in French sense. Damnuisance. However, not until I started TUT's mailing list, did I realize the praticality of this Fan custom. Actually, extremely few of the Fan recipients are active publishers, or active contributors to the literature or art departments. For all I know, most of them won't even stop to read this TUT unless they run out of Lurid Fantasy before the next issue hits the stands. So we have agreed, tentatively, on one thing, at any rate - our mailing policy: Sent free to FAPA members and For Exchange to either amateur publishers who remember BOTH Editor Wesson and Editor Crane on mailing day. (Contributors will probably be credited with the issue in which their work appears.) For anyone else, Laney says 15 cents is fair - 4 for 50 cents to save me bookkeeping. ...HELEN, Head Bookkeeper- aso almost anything else. --- out of his own mouth (or typewriter) than Rick Sneary. Let's not elect him director until he gets out of the third grade. ...CRANE I like a paper to have a definite editorial policy. Like Acolyte, which introduced me to the Weird; Chanticleer, which took my hand and led me into this hobby, with its reviews sugar-coated with Walt's whimsicalities; LeZombie, which proves that not all Fandom takes itself so law-suit seriously. Jim-E's BLACK FLAMES has such a definite policy- strictly feminine. Starting with that, and a strong blue pencil (and a dictionary to check spelling - "progeney" "seudonym" -tsk tsk) I think BF will keep Daugherty on his toes to be one jump ahead - masculine ego, you know. (Nothing like sharing your hubby's hobby -- I know!) THEN THERE ARE the papers which blossom overnight. They reflect little editing and no typographical labor, and have the nerve to flaunt subscription rates when the publishers are only learning. Ghod knows, this TUT has its flaws, but I can enter it as a sample of what can be expected from a novice-mimeographer working on an inexpensive Speed-O-Print and a home-made mimeoscope (desk lamp in a box with pictures from glass and Writing Pad!) and only two letter guides: a Cardinell stencil of squares and a draftsman's stencil of circles. AND CLEAN TYPE. Surely you boys can do as well as a girl - can't you? ... HELEN
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15 CENTS = 4 FOR 50 CENTS WESSONMALE knows my ajay habits all too well. "Don't step on everyone's toes all at once," he advised when I first entered Fantasy. "--One at a time!" Not for me. "Commercialism!" I screamed at the sub and ad practices. And then Les Croutch had the temerity- and geographical distance necessary for his safety- to stick up for Amateur Ethics. "Amateur" in the French sense. A true amateur puts money as well as time into his creative hobby. And amateur journalism being an expensive hobby, by and large, with no tangible return, it often digs deep. (In our case, we've over-splurged the Wesson budget many times, but it will always be that I'll prefer a new type face to a new dress.) I point out that the biggest and best Fantasy mag pubbed, W. Paul Cook's GHOST, has this stipulation: "The GHOST is an amateur publication issued for love of the hobby known as Amateur Journalism. It cannot be nought from the publisher; and it is his wish that it never, at any time, under any circumstances, be sold." So much for the principle, I stand firm. In practice, I find that the best fanzines can be had on Swap, the ajay way. (Which is just as well, for the more I subscribe, the less I can publish, and I chooe to publish with my light o' life.) Furthermore, "you mean I gotta be bothered recording fiteen centses every evening when I got better things to do" I squawked to Crane, who foot TUT's bills but has also been reared in French sense. Damnuisance. However, not until I started TUT's mailing list, did I realize the praticality of this Fan custom. Actually, extremely few of the Fan recipients are active publishers, or active contributors to the literature or art departments. For all I know, most of them won't even stop to read this TUT unless they run out of Lurid Fantasy before the next issue hits the stands. So we have agreed, tentatively, on one thing, at any rate - our mailing policy: Sent free to FAPA members and For Exchange to either amateur publishers who remember BOTH Editor Wesson and Editor Crane on mailing day. (Contributors will probably be credited with the issue in which their work appears.) For anyone else, Laney says 15 cents is fair - 4 for 50 cents to save me bookkeeping. ...HELEN, Head Bookkeeper- aso almost anything else. --- out of his own mouth (or typewriter) than Rick Sneary. Let's not elect him director until he gets out of the third grade. ...CRANE I like a paper to have a definite editorial policy. Like Acolyte, which introduced me to the Weird; Chanticleer, which took my hand and led me into this hobby, with its reviews sugar-coated with Walt's whimsicalities; LeZombie, which proves that not all Fandom takes itself so law-suit seriously. Jim-E's BLACK FLAMES has such a definite policy- strictly feminine. Starting with that, and a strong blue pencil (and a dictionary to check spelling - "progeney" "seudonym" -tsk tsk) I think BF will keep Daugherty on his toes to be one jump ahead - masculine ego, you know. (Nothing like sharing your hubby's hobby -- I know!) THEN THERE ARE the papers which blossom overnight. They reflect little editing and no typographical labor, and have the nerve to flaunt subscription rates when the publishers are only learning. Ghod knows, this TUT has its flaws, but I can enter it as a sample of what can be expected from a novice-mimeographer working on an inexpensive Speed-O-Print and a home-made mimeoscope (desk lamp in a box with pictures from glass and Writing Pad!) and only two letter guides: a Cardinell stencil of squares and a draftsman's stencil of circles. AND CLEAN TYPE. Surely you boys can do as well as a girl - can't you? ... HELEN
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