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FAN-ATIC, Vol 1, No 2. March 1941. Page 8. COMPLIMENTS AND OTHERWISE. by YOU Continued. D.B. Thompson's letter continued. ........For the interior, I suggest that you use some hekto, in every issue. There was a lot of difficulty, no doubt, with hektoing, but you really get legible results (too few copies--ed.)) Whatever you do, take the extra pains and time necessary to make up a very careful and accurate dummy. .............. Your material is quite satisfactory, especially for a first ish. The introduction to a Wellman story is OK, and the wags of Westwood have done a better than usual job with their take-off on Pete Manx. Do something about your wrapping methods. It is impossible to unwap the mag without tearing the edges. ....... Remember--your hektoing is good--but your format is not so hot. Type out every page, in full, exactly the way you want it, for a dummy. The chief thing wrong with SUN SPOTS, is, as Gilbert says in FANFARE, "sloppiness." It has improved steadily in this respect, and still is improving. A good dummy would eliminate practically ALL of its sloppy appearance. ((no time to dummy it.))............... Art Widner, Jr. - Co-editor of FANFARE. Box 122. Bryantville, Massachusetts. Dear Charlie: ............ The first issue of FAN-ATIC was a pretty sad affair. If the second issue isn't a vast improvement, you had better take the advice offered in my article. ((page 4 --ed.)) Inasmuch as the colloquialism "fan" is derived from the proper English word "fanatic" your title is pointess and devoid of even the poor signifigance of a pun. ((I disagree, Art. The two words have been separate for so long that the title does contain a pun. --ed.)) Anyhow, good luck with the second issue, and if I were you, I wouldn't emulate SUN SPOTS at all. I fail to see what good features they have that could possibly merit copying. ((not really that bad?)) Earl Singleton - Editor of NEPENTHE, Co-editor of FANFARE. (P.S. Earl has committed suicide.) MIT Grad House. Cambridge Mass. Dear CAB: FAN-ATIC came; and I think you are going places with your mag. It is a very good first issue, and thoroughly sets at rest my fears that you would turn out something similar to SUN SPOTS. Not that I don't like the Solaroiders; I do. But you must admit that SUN SPOTS a little too generally juvenile. ........... Let's have a good issue this time--and soon. next page. ########### The assistant editor of FAN-ATIC is Yehudi. He is also the guy who pulls all the boners and makes all the mistakes; so if you don't like anything in here, blame it on Yehudi, not Boling. Yehudi won't mind.
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FAN-ATIC, Vol 1, No 2. March 1941. Page 8. COMPLIMENTS AND OTHERWISE. by YOU Continued. D.B. Thompson's letter continued. ........For the interior, I suggest that you use some hekto, in every issue. There was a lot of difficulty, no doubt, with hektoing, but you really get legible results (too few copies--ed.)) Whatever you do, take the extra pains and time necessary to make up a very careful and accurate dummy. .............. Your material is quite satisfactory, especially for a first ish. The introduction to a Wellman story is OK, and the wags of Westwood have done a better than usual job with their take-off on Pete Manx. Do something about your wrapping methods. It is impossible to unwap the mag without tearing the edges. ....... Remember--your hektoing is good--but your format is not so hot. Type out every page, in full, exactly the way you want it, for a dummy. The chief thing wrong with SUN SPOTS, is, as Gilbert says in FANFARE, "sloppiness." It has improved steadily in this respect, and still is improving. A good dummy would eliminate practically ALL of its sloppy appearance. ((no time to dummy it.))............... Art Widner, Jr. - Co-editor of FANFARE. Box 122. Bryantville, Massachusetts. Dear Charlie: ............ The first issue of FAN-ATIC was a pretty sad affair. If the second issue isn't a vast improvement, you had better take the advice offered in my article. ((page 4 --ed.)) Inasmuch as the colloquialism "fan" is derived from the proper English word "fanatic" your title is pointess and devoid of even the poor signifigance of a pun. ((I disagree, Art. The two words have been separate for so long that the title does contain a pun. --ed.)) Anyhow, good luck with the second issue, and if I were you, I wouldn't emulate SUN SPOTS at all. I fail to see what good features they have that could possibly merit copying. ((not really that bad?)) Earl Singleton - Editor of NEPENTHE, Co-editor of FANFARE. (P.S. Earl has committed suicide.) MIT Grad House. Cambridge Mass. Dear CAB: FAN-ATIC came; and I think you are going places with your mag. It is a very good first issue, and thoroughly sets at rest my fears that you would turn out something similar to SUN SPOTS. Not that I don't like the Solaroiders; I do. But you must admit that SUN SPOTS a little too generally juvenile. ........... Let's have a good issue this time--and soon. next page. ########### The assistant editor of FAN-ATIC is Yehudi. He is also the guy who pulls all the boners and makes all the mistakes; so if you don't like anything in here, blame it on Yehudi, not Boling. Yehudi won't mind.
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