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It appears that the fanzine Banana Wings wants to use this original art that I drew during a "Chips & Coffee Meeting," way back in 1978. I scanned it just now, and it came out pretty damn good – but I still remind you that the art was drawn DURING a meeting, with a cheap magic marker, so it isn’t up to my usual standards of "perfectitude". Even so, the newly scanned original is much better looking than the copy I was send last month. That image was a .jpg made from a mimeographed page, and was faded as well as burred. In 1974, however, printing by hand was what we had -- there were no scanners.
In those days, all my art was catalogued and titled, so I'm able to say that the original was drawn in February, in the worst of winter, and called “Again Chips & Coffee .”
From left to right, the fans depicted are Patrick Nielsen Haden (just Haden at the time); Bob (Robert Charles) Wilson; a regular who probably wouldn’t want to be named; Bob (now Robin) Webber (or WebBob); Steve Mulburger; Steven Black (also under a different name); Victoria Vayne (also a partly assumed name); John Brunner (a long story, but, no, he wasn’t there), Bill the Waiter, and Saara Mar (who was not there either ... rats). I was busy at the “camera.” If you detect a common thread of assumed or changed names, it observed at the time as a peculiarity of Toronto club fandom in the 70s.
The script at the bottom, that also represents the tablecloth, is in “Kjola.” Eventually, I decided that the proper name for the language was Siroihin, and it says “Gaaltlahaleen,” meaning something like “so long,” but also might mean a sarcastic “good night,” as in "good grief!" I forget what it is that Saara is saying, but it is likely not just gibberish. How to read the script is also buried in my records, but would take effort to find the file folder -- which would be an actual file folder, not a computer folder.
The art was for the second issue of a short zine I published, called Down With, named after the 1950’s Toronto fanzine by Boyd Rayburn. There was a third issue, as well, and then my friend Victoria and I started over with a new first issue, called DNQ ... naturally, it began with the fourth issue. It lasted to 34 issues, many of which grew large and lavish.
The resemblance to Da Vinci’s painting, “Last Supper,” was largely accidental, although I must have become aware of it as the drawing progressed.
If it matters “Again Chips & Coffee” was the 298th, catalogued drawing in my record.
In those days, all my art was catalogued and titled, so I'm able to say that the original was drawn in February, in the worst of winter, and called “Again Chips & Coffee .”
From left to right, the fans depicted are Patrick Nielsen Haden (just Haden at the time); Bob (Robert Charles) Wilson; a regular who probably wouldn’t want to be named; Bob (now Robin) Webber (or WebBob); Steve Mulburger; Steven Black (also under a different name); Victoria Vayne (also a partly assumed name); John Brunner (a long story, but, no, he wasn’t there), Bill the Waiter, and Saara Mar (who was not there either ... rats). I was busy at the “camera.” If you detect a common thread of assumed or changed names, it observed at the time as a peculiarity of Toronto club fandom in the 70s.
The script at the bottom, that also represents the tablecloth, is in “Kjola.” Eventually, I decided that the proper name for the language was Siroihin, and it says “Gaaltlahaleen,” meaning something like “so long,” but also might mean a sarcastic “good night,” as in "good grief!" I forget what it is that Saara is saying, but it is likely not just gibberish. How to read the script is also buried in my records, but would take effort to find the file folder -- which would be an actual file folder, not a computer folder.
The art was for the second issue of a short zine I published, called Down With, named after the 1950’s Toronto fanzine by Boyd Rayburn. There was a third issue, as well, and then my friend Victoria and I started over with a new first issue, called DNQ ... naturally, it began with the fourth issue. It lasted to 34 issues, many of which grew large and lavish.
The resemblance to Da Vinci’s painting, “Last Supper,” was largely accidental, although I must have become aware of it as the drawing progressed.
If it matters “Again Chips & Coffee” was the 298th, catalogued drawing in my record.
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Yeah... I've know him since he was about 22, and we even went to high school together -- though we didn't know it at the time. I formed a school SF club, that was announced over the PA, but he didn't go to the first meeting because he thought it would be too amateurish. But then, a year or so later, we met at the Ontario Science Fiction club, which was then putting on the 1973 Worldcon. It's a small world. He lives a little way beyond Steeles, but we're both getting a little too old for horsing around, so we don't see each other as often as formerly.
I could believe it. I've only been there once, but I gather that Victoria thought that public conformity was a great virtue there, and didn't take kindly to it, though Victoria herself is not especially non-conformist. Eccentric, yet, but not well within the bounds of most bookish and introverted people. Oddly enough, though she and her SO are contemplating retirement, they are thinking of moving even further from the boarders of Toronto, to some small town in the west end, closer to Kitchener or Barrie than T.O.
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