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Banshee, whole no. 4, March 1944
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Banshee * * * 9 By Bill Ryder they were designed for midgets! I'm not going to sing the praises of even lines on the right side of the page because I've seen pages done without them that were easy reading and pleasing to the eye. It all depends on how the editor handles the space on each page. There is a KNACK in handling white space. Thinl of it as so much black mass, the type, on a field of white, the paper, and it has to look right. Try to avoid the solid dense look that is so common in most publications. PLan to put a little color on each page or group of pages. An initial, the title, or even just a straight line in a different color will do a lot towards giving the page a pleasing appearance. Nothing screwy so far in these suggestions, is there? Here's a few more. Try using fewer pages and come out more often!! Don't hown; let me prove why that's a good suggestion. Fewer pages means less work and you will feel more like tackling the job and more likely you will do a better job of it. Think that over. You know the old saying, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder of something else." How about more of the smaller size mags, Reader's Digest size? This size has a great many advantages, for instance, you can glue the pages instead of stapling and the mag will lay flat when opened. You can mail it without and envelope by gluing on another sheet and using that for a covering and for addressing. In that small size it's not that hard to get together a twenty four page mag. Best of all, it's possible to mail a twenty four page mag for a penny. That helps to balance the books! Almost everyone sticks the name on the front cover along with a drawing and the cover is finished and what have you got? Just another fanmag with a nice cover. Most commercial publications have to do that to sell but why do you? Why not make yours different? Give it a personality, because, after all, most fanmags are just one person, the editor, in print. Put a crest, a design, or a monogram on the cover; change the color you print it with from issue to issue or use different colored paper, and put that good drawing that was going on the cover on the inside without any name on it other that the artist's. Then the subscribers can remove it, if they want to, and hang it! What say to that? Now for our ART section. It's not news that photo stencils are out and that with them it is possible to reproduce photos -- but add to that drawings and you have something. Offset printing is expensive and you have to have somebody to do it for you, but you can make photo stencils and use them. Drawings printed with a silk screen outfit from photo stencils are pieces of art! Printed with one color the cost is very low, but if you use several colors the cost is only about the same as photo offset. Silk screen is an easy and low cost way to add color to your mag. That is about all the space we have, but there is one more suggestion: look over the commercial publications for ideas on lettering, page layout, and art. (Esqiore for some kinds of art??) You can pick up a few tricks that way to keep your fanmag new, different, and a pleasure to read. Write to me if you will and let me know what you think. I'll be glad to hear from you, but please leave your axe at home! Thanks, Larry, for the space.
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Banshee * * * 9 By Bill Ryder they were designed for midgets! I'm not going to sing the praises of even lines on the right side of the page because I've seen pages done without them that were easy reading and pleasing to the eye. It all depends on how the editor handles the space on each page. There is a KNACK in handling white space. Thinl of it as so much black mass, the type, on a field of white, the paper, and it has to look right. Try to avoid the solid dense look that is so common in most publications. PLan to put a little color on each page or group of pages. An initial, the title, or even just a straight line in a different color will do a lot towards giving the page a pleasing appearance. Nothing screwy so far in these suggestions, is there? Here's a few more. Try using fewer pages and come out more often!! Don't hown; let me prove why that's a good suggestion. Fewer pages means less work and you will feel more like tackling the job and more likely you will do a better job of it. Think that over. You know the old saying, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder of something else." How about more of the smaller size mags, Reader's Digest size? This size has a great many advantages, for instance, you can glue the pages instead of stapling and the mag will lay flat when opened. You can mail it without and envelope by gluing on another sheet and using that for a covering and for addressing. In that small size it's not that hard to get together a twenty four page mag. Best of all, it's possible to mail a twenty four page mag for a penny. That helps to balance the books! Almost everyone sticks the name on the front cover along with a drawing and the cover is finished and what have you got? Just another fanmag with a nice cover. Most commercial publications have to do that to sell but why do you? Why not make yours different? Give it a personality, because, after all, most fanmags are just one person, the editor, in print. Put a crest, a design, or a monogram on the cover; change the color you print it with from issue to issue or use different colored paper, and put that good drawing that was going on the cover on the inside without any name on it other that the artist's. Then the subscribers can remove it, if they want to, and hang it! What say to that? Now for our ART section. It's not news that photo stencils are out and that with them it is possible to reproduce photos -- but add to that drawings and you have something. Offset printing is expensive and you have to have somebody to do it for you, but you can make photo stencils and use them. Drawings printed with a silk screen outfit from photo stencils are pieces of art! Printed with one color the cost is very low, but if you use several colors the cost is only about the same as photo offset. Silk screen is an easy and low cost way to add color to your mag. That is about all the space we have, but there is one more suggestion: look over the commercial publications for ideas on lettering, page layout, and art. (Esqiore for some kinds of art??) You can pick up a few tricks that way to keep your fanmag new, different, and a pleasure to read. Write to me if you will and let me know what you think. I'll be glad to hear from you, but please leave your axe at home! Thanks, Larry, for the space.
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