{"id":17469,"date":"2009-09-25T22:41:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T02:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17469"},"modified":"2015-01-06T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T20:16:38","slug":"my-own-small-press-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/25\/my-own-small-press-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"My own Small Press Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I’ll be spending the day tomorrow over in Bethesda at SPX, the Small Press Expo<\/a>, where I’ll wander a dealers’ room filled with minicomics and other alternative publications, I figured—why not show off some of my own early comics fanzines?<\/p>\n

Below are three covers of Call It … Fate<\/i>, which I published back in 1971. Well, to be honest, all I can be sure of is that I published one<\/i> of them back in 1971, because the only printed issue I still own a copy of is the one on the left with the green cover, which is the second issue. I don’t seem to own a copy of the first issue any more, and as for those other two covers, all I have are the originals, each marked #3.<\/p>\n

I have no memory whatsoever as to what that<\/i> was about! Was I trying to do a split-run with two different covers? Had I intended one for the third issue and the other for the fourth? Whatever the truth of the matter, it’s lost to me now. (And if you own a copy of the first or third issue, please feel free to surprise me!)<\/p>\n

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The artwork for the first two covers is by Evan Graber, and the third is by Doron Ben-Ami. I have no idea what’s up with Evan, as I haven’t spoken to him in 30 years, but thanks to facebook, I’ve caught up with Doron, and as you can see<\/a>, he kept with it and has turned into quite a talented artist.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that everything I see tomorrow will put whatever I was involved with to shame. (What were we then? 15?) But looking ahead to the event does bring back memories of my own minicomics, so I figured I’d put up a small taste anyway. When I have the time, I’ll upload some of the interior pages so you’ll be able to see my earliest comic-book writing. <\/p>\n

And when I do, we’ll both have to try not to wince.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I’ll be spending the day tomorrow over in Bethesda at SPX, the Small Press Expo, where I’ll wander a dealers’ room filled with minicomics and other alternative publications, I figured—why not show off some of my own early comics fanzines? Below are three covers of Call It … Fate, which I published back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17473,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469\/revisions\/17473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}