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Geez... where to begin. With the beginning I guess.
TAFF stands for the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund. Every year the fund alternates between sending a fan from our side of the ocean to Britain, to attend a con, or from Britain to attend the worldcon here. (If the worldcon is in Britain, Canada, or Australia, some other con is chosen.) I ran for TAFF in 1983, hoping to go to the UK and meet people I knew only through their fanzines. But of the three candidates, Avedon Carol got the most votes. As part of my campaign, I did a number of cartoons -- this is the most elaborate.
Why am I given as Taral 124C41+? One of the earliest (and crappiest) pulp SF novels ever written was one by Hugo Gernsback. (The same pulp magazine editor the Hugo award was named after). The title was "Ralph 124C41+" Read it out loud... One too for see for one... plus. Why plus? I don't know. Maybe to show he was from the future.
There are likely too many joke in this to explain them all, but here's a few --
The title is after a schlocky SF movied called Death Race 2000. I ran in 1982, not 2000.
I believe in fact there was a Scandanavian worldcon bid, but even if there hadn't been one, nobody would have taken it seriously. The three or four Scadanavian fans known in the English speaking world were not considered a credible foundation for a worldcon.
Carrdon and Bran were actually one person... and *he* didn't exist at all! Carl Brandon was a fan made up by a real person, though. He had a bit of help, and for a time Carl Brandon has his own zine, became a notable fan writer, and earned an enviable reputation as a Big Name Fan. And then it was revealed that he didn't exist! I couldn't resist the idea that not only did he exist in this story, but there were different versions of him in different time-lines.
"Sverifan" was a term used by at least one Scandanavian fan for his kind. See why no-one took them seriously?
Drinking at the bar next to Bran and Carrdon is a caricature of noted British dru... fan, D. West -- in the same style he drew himself. Next to him is another British big Name Fan, Dave Langford. In the style *I* drew him. Langord was well known to be hard of hearing, which is why I drew him saying "eh?"
Among the thugs (muttering "death" in Swedish by the way) are a Vaughn Bode robot thingie, and one of the goons from E.C. Segar's original Popeye strip.
In the next panel, I've depicted the "expert" in decyphering dead fanspeak as Forrest J. Ackerman. Forry, before Famous Monsters of Filmland, was an active LA area busy-body, who among other things invented an annoying form of "futuristic" English that others scoffed at as "Ackermanese". At its extreme, it was as shown in the story. Today we would call it "texting."
TAFF stands for the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund. Every year the fund alternates between sending a fan from our side of the ocean to Britain, to attend a con, or from Britain to attend the worldcon here. (If the worldcon is in Britain, Canada, or Australia, some other con is chosen.) I ran for TAFF in 1983, hoping to go to the UK and meet people I knew only through their fanzines. But of the three candidates, Avedon Carol got the most votes. As part of my campaign, I did a number of cartoons -- this is the most elaborate.
Why am I given as Taral 124C41+? One of the earliest (and crappiest) pulp SF novels ever written was one by Hugo Gernsback. (The same pulp magazine editor the Hugo award was named after). The title was "Ralph 124C41+" Read it out loud... One too for see for one... plus. Why plus? I don't know. Maybe to show he was from the future.
There are likely too many joke in this to explain them all, but here's a few --
The title is after a schlocky SF movied called Death Race 2000. I ran in 1982, not 2000.
I believe in fact there was a Scandanavian worldcon bid, but even if there hadn't been one, nobody would have taken it seriously. The three or four Scadanavian fans known in the English speaking world were not considered a credible foundation for a worldcon.
Carrdon and Bran were actually one person... and *he* didn't exist at all! Carl Brandon was a fan made up by a real person, though. He had a bit of help, and for a time Carl Brandon has his own zine, became a notable fan writer, and earned an enviable reputation as a Big Name Fan. And then it was revealed that he didn't exist! I couldn't resist the idea that not only did he exist in this story, but there were different versions of him in different time-lines.
"Sverifan" was a term used by at least one Scandanavian fan for his kind. See why no-one took them seriously?
Drinking at the bar next to Bran and Carrdon is a caricature of noted British dru... fan, D. West -- in the same style he drew himself. Next to him is another British big Name Fan, Dave Langford. In the style *I* drew him. Langord was well known to be hard of hearing, which is why I drew him saying "eh?"
Among the thugs (muttering "death" in Swedish by the way) are a Vaughn Bode robot thingie, and one of the goons from E.C. Segar's original Popeye strip.
In the next panel, I've depicted the "expert" in decyphering dead fanspeak as Forrest J. Ackerman. Forry, before Famous Monsters of Filmland, was an active LA area busy-body, who among other things invented an annoying form of "futuristic" English that others scoffed at as "Ackermanese". At its extreme, it was as shown in the story. Today we would call it "texting."
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