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Factsheet Five: Zines

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Factsheet Five: ZinesFactsheet Five was THE place to find out about zines, small press magazines and minicomics. If you wanted to get the word out about your publication you sent them a copy to review. If you wanted to know what was available you read the thing.

In 1991 I contributed a couple of covers. I also drew a number of spot illustrations and section headings. I’ll be posting a selection of those over the next few days.

This one, in case the snazzy lettering makes it hard to read, was a heading for the Zines section.

The Night Flyer

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Night Flyer

By 1989 I’d discovered the world of zines – comics, minicomics, personal journals, music zines, art zines, fiction zines and so much more. I thought it would be fun to do illustrations for the SF/Fantasy/Horror fiction zines but first I figured I needed a portfolio to show the editors what I could do. Rather than just create some random drawings or illustrate some of my favorite but possibly obscure short stories I decided to create illustrations for an author I was pretty sure anyone doing a fiction zine would have read – Stephen King.

I worked up a series of illustrations based on some of his short stories. I don’t remember how I chose the stories I decided to illustrate. They’re not all from a single collection.

This one is for “The Night Flyer”, a story about a very mobile vampire.