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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 30, March 1944
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attitudes, execution or implications"? Look--first person Acky speaking--do I draw 'em? U'll agree there are lousy letter in Vom & there're xlnt ones. There is no discrimination whether they come from infant prodigys or Methuselah's children, whether they urge alcoholism, abstinence, atheism, a new theism, devil worship or whatever the devil. They can pan Esperanto, they can praise Basic English, they may be rambling producst of diarrhea of the pen or a literary gem. They may be vulgar, progane, sublime. I don't see why merely with what U disagree should be singled out & blamed on me. It is the very same with the artwork. Personly, I prefer the more polisht work of fan artists of professional quality like the few we have been fortunate to publish by Wright, Turner, Gibson, Watson. But the scrawl by some inexperienced jerk is presented on the same basis as the beginner's letter. It gives him his opportunity to express himself. Keep in mind: This is the Voice of the Imagi-nation; not the Choice. It has ocurd to me we could take say 25 letters & IO illustrations, bould 'em down to the best 15 & 5, correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, give 'em even edges, spread the pix around artistically, & present a much more attractive publication. As an editor at heart, I'd like to do it. But I feel that would be presenting a false impression of this forum of fandom. It would be looking at fandom thru rose colord glasses. Come, U fans out there, say that U do bliev it important to preserve a thorogoing freespeech (& free art!) fanmag. Speaking of freisprache, I might put in my 2 Bok's worth at this point to point out that those who contend nudes have no place in either fantasy or weird work are not arguing merely with me but Finlay & Brundage & McCauley & Catherine Moore & A. Merritt & many others. The list of contributors of uncladamsels to fantasy fmz is legion. In fact, I bliev it almost may be said only those who have not "sind" in this respect, if some choose to consider it a sin, are fans who have never drawn! As for the lil cuts this ish, personally I think theyre kinda cute. Nothing sensational but not too bad; included bcuz theyve come to be expected, like Vargals or Petty peaches in the pgs of Esquire or--any of U remember IO Story Book mag, edited by Harry Stephen Keeler, which publisht "the oddest storys in America" & for some whimsical reason always had bathingirls & seminudes posing thruout its pgs? Mermaid by Wactenant Horton...Ray (cummings) Sea (Shore) Girl by Pvt Kris Voy...Swiss (Cheese) Miss by the Wac... pix initiald "K" are by Karl Welch. Concerning the pix this time, theyre buncht in the beginning & then U get none in the back--an objectional ways helt to Startling--bcus of an innovation, in that for the first time Morojo has prepare de mag without a dummy. We don't obtain all the esthetic effects we'd like that way but saves lotsa time so what do U say? All x to continue without dummying? Two notable fubars in this ish. First, redundance abundancy: In the 1st 4 pgs we forgot & rote editorial parenthetical remarks ((thus)) [undelined with tildes]. Either the double brackets or tildes were superfluous. The tildes we employ as a special Vom feture, the double brackets only on long editorial comments. We caut ourselves & corrected the duplication from the 5th stencil on. Then, in Harry Honig's letter, one complete line was left out. We defy U, however, to tell the difrence, or where the error of omission occurs! "I happen to know that you let an awful lot of hyper material slip thru your fingers," further criticized Jike. "For instance, if you and Mel Brown would divide up the Wilmorth Travelogs, it would enliven VOM considerably." Simply an oversight on our part, & this time a Willmorth Travelog enlivens our pgs. We may alternate these with 'Plans for Slans' (so we won't run out of parents so soon!) States Speer: "I recommend most urgently that you consider Kepner's suggestion that you paragraf within letters. We could easily do without one letter per issue, whidh'd more than make up for the space lost." We have acted on this in this ish, accepting Speer as volunteer & omitting his letter. (Actually, this is punishment for his daring us to put the matter to our readers. Jack, we love U--but we tisk!) (Juffus' swelletter will be featured next-time.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, aka VOM, #30. Mar '44. 15c, 7/$1. On a bimonthly schedule again. Produced in collaboration with World Fandom by Ackermoroko's Fubar Pubs, Bx 6475 Metro, Los Angeles 14, Cali4nia. ------------------------------bears repeating---------------------- VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, aka VOM, #30. Mar '44. 15c, 7/$1. On a bimonthly schedule again. Produced in collaboration with World Fandom by Ackermoroko's Fubar Pubs, Bx 6475 Metro, Los Angeles 14, Cali4nia.
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attitudes, execution or implications"? Look--first person Acky speaking--do I draw 'em? U'll agree there are lousy letter in Vom & there're xlnt ones. There is no discrimination whether they come from infant prodigys or Methuselah's children, whether they urge alcoholism, abstinence, atheism, a new theism, devil worship or whatever the devil. They can pan Esperanto, they can praise Basic English, they may be rambling producst of diarrhea of the pen or a literary gem. They may be vulgar, progane, sublime. I don't see why merely with what U disagree should be singled out & blamed on me. It is the very same with the artwork. Personly, I prefer the more polisht work of fan artists of professional quality like the few we have been fortunate to publish by Wright, Turner, Gibson, Watson. But the scrawl by some inexperienced jerk is presented on the same basis as the beginner's letter. It gives him his opportunity to express himself. Keep in mind: This is the Voice of the Imagi-nation; not the Choice. It has ocurd to me we could take say 25 letters & IO illustrations, bould 'em down to the best 15 & 5, correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, give 'em even edges, spread the pix around artistically, & present a much more attractive publication. As an editor at heart, I'd like to do it. But I feel that would be presenting a false impression of this forum of fandom. It would be looking at fandom thru rose colord glasses. Come, U fans out there, say that U do bliev it important to preserve a thorogoing freespeech (& free art!) fanmag. Speaking of freisprache, I might put in my 2 Bok's worth at this point to point out that those who contend nudes have no place in either fantasy or weird work are not arguing merely with me but Finlay & Brundage & McCauley & Catherine Moore & A. Merritt & many others. The list of contributors of uncladamsels to fantasy fmz is legion. In fact, I bliev it almost may be said only those who have not "sind" in this respect, if some choose to consider it a sin, are fans who have never drawn! As for the lil cuts this ish, personally I think theyre kinda cute. Nothing sensational but not too bad; included bcuz theyve come to be expected, like Vargals or Petty peaches in the pgs of Esquire or--any of U remember IO Story Book mag, edited by Harry Stephen Keeler, which publisht "the oddest storys in America" & for some whimsical reason always had bathingirls & seminudes posing thruout its pgs? Mermaid by Wactenant Horton...Ray (cummings) Sea (Shore) Girl by Pvt Kris Voy...Swiss (Cheese) Miss by the Wac... pix initiald "K" are by Karl Welch. Concerning the pix this time, theyre buncht in the beginning & then U get none in the back--an objectional ways helt to Startling--bcus of an innovation, in that for the first time Morojo has prepare de mag without a dummy. We don't obtain all the esthetic effects we'd like that way but saves lotsa time so what do U say? All x to continue without dummying? Two notable fubars in this ish. First, redundance abundancy: In the 1st 4 pgs we forgot & rote editorial parenthetical remarks ((thus)) [undelined with tildes]. Either the double brackets or tildes were superfluous. The tildes we employ as a special Vom feture, the double brackets only on long editorial comments. We caut ourselves & corrected the duplication from the 5th stencil on. Then, in Harry Honig's letter, one complete line was left out. We defy U, however, to tell the difrence, or where the error of omission occurs! "I happen to know that you let an awful lot of hyper material slip thru your fingers," further criticized Jike. "For instance, if you and Mel Brown would divide up the Wilmorth Travelogs, it would enliven VOM considerably." Simply an oversight on our part, & this time a Willmorth Travelog enlivens our pgs. We may alternate these with 'Plans for Slans' (so we won't run out of parents so soon!) States Speer: "I recommend most urgently that you consider Kepner's suggestion that you paragraf within letters. We could easily do without one letter per issue, whidh'd more than make up for the space lost." We have acted on this in this ish, accepting Speer as volunteer & omitting his letter. (Actually, this is punishment for his daring us to put the matter to our readers. Jack, we love U--but we tisk!) (Juffus' swelletter will be featured next-time.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, aka VOM, #30. Mar '44. 15c, 7/$1. On a bimonthly schedule again. Produced in collaboration with World Fandom by Ackermoroko's Fubar Pubs, Bx 6475 Metro, Los Angeles 14, Cali4nia. ------------------------------bears repeating---------------------- VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, aka VOM, #30. Mar '44. 15c, 7/$1. On a bimonthly schedule again. Produced in collaboration with World Fandom by Ackermoroko's Fubar Pubs, Bx 6475 Metro, Los Angeles 14, Cali4nia.
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