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In Defense of the Phantagraph, 1945
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I do not need to expend great energy on fine fanzine techniques. I publish The Phantagraph for the fun of it. I do not have to prove to myself that I am an editor, as many fans do sub-consciously when they bring out their masterpieces of mimeography (with weak content). It happens to be a proven fact. It's my business. But The Phantagraph is strictly for my own pleasure. I print what I please, but even so, what I please is also what I think is worth appearing. I prefer to bring out many numbers of four pages rather than one issue of sixteen pages for reasons given in my second paragraph. I do not know at what Mr. de la Ree became hilarious in my May 1944 editorial. It happens to be factual. It also happens that when one publishes a magazine for ten years one can become a little attached. But evidently de la Ree is more acquainted with shoddy country journals than he is with that class of literary endeavor known as "little magazines". Very sad. But as for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. What it needs is more publications like The Phantagraph and less like Beowulf, The Precipitant, Blitherings, and Fan-Dango. Otherwise I am afraid that it stands in danger of having its title replaced by one more fitting, like, perhaps, shall we say the Psycho-analytic Amateur Press Association, or mayhap the Flighty Amateur Press Association? ###
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I do not need to expend great energy on fine fanzine techniques. I publish The Phantagraph for the fun of it. I do not have to prove to myself that I am an editor, as many fans do sub-consciously when they bring out their masterpieces of mimeography (with weak content). It happens to be a proven fact. It's my business. But The Phantagraph is strictly for my own pleasure. I print what I please, but even so, what I please is also what I think is worth appearing. I prefer to bring out many numbers of four pages rather than one issue of sixteen pages for reasons given in my second paragraph. I do not know at what Mr. de la Ree became hilarious in my May 1944 editorial. It happens to be factual. It also happens that when one publishes a magazine for ten years one can become a little attached. But evidently de la Ree is more acquainted with shoddy country journals than he is with that class of literary endeavor known as "little magazines". Very sad. But as for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. What it needs is more publications like The Phantagraph and less like Beowulf, The Precipitant, Blitherings, and Fan-Dango. Otherwise I am afraid that it stands in danger of having its title replaced by one more fitting, like, perhaps, shall we say the Psycho-analytic Amateur Press Association, or mayhap the Flighty Amateur Press Association? ###
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