EACH THING IN ITS PLACE: Crankitorial ............................... 03 I Are A Author! ...........................06 Journey Fiction ........................ 09 Drinking Things .........................13 Shooting Shit with FJA .............10 Goodbye Wendy ....................... 21 Goodybye Joey & The Burn ..... 24 Goin’ Poestal ........................... 48 Things We May Have Done ..... 51 Skyliner #3 is a Zine From Pixel Motel. ©Pixel2018 PixelMotel. Most contents likely by me, you lazy bastards. This is an adult publication for those over 21. In case you haven’t been warned, PC doesn’t live here. If you need a warning about anything, this zine isn’t for you, and if you can’t take a joke, for god sakes, go no further. If you have ever flagged anything, you do not have permission to download, inspect, copy and are forbidden to lend your opinion online regarding this zine. Dissenting viewpoints are appreciated if written and signed by the author. Properties owned by donating artists (if any) and may not be copied without express say-so from whoever the hell that is. Seeking fannish creativity but we’re not holding our breath, fanboy! Alan White Space Cowboy CONTACT https:// https:// www.i IIIIIII www.fa IIIIIIIIIIIII mdb.c cebook IIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIII .com/ alan.w hite.31 Crankitorial Holy crap, another one of these things? Appears so, my friend. We’ll start by asking a most pertinent question: WHO READS THIS STUFF ANYWAY. .? Back in the chewin’ and spittin’ days, it was easy to see who read this stuff. Mainly because you handed potential readers the damn thing on the spot or sent it off through the mails in their general direction and hoped for the best. ”The Best” of course usually meant a “Letter of Comment” or maybe “The Usual”, a trade for a zine of their own, imagine that! Then you waited (but didn’t hold your breath). Why, I remember in 1980, I brought a stack of my new zine “Airwaves” to a meeting of LASFS. Surely a slick new offset zine would be the hit of the evening. I handed a copy to the first Fantard I approached who flipped through the thing and inquired “You call this a fanzine?” and promptly threw it on the floor. Well, it was a quick and honest response if somewhat shortsighted, but that’s just me. I plopped a pile of them on the clubhouse table and there they remained for the entirety of the evening as if bearing a sign reading “A Pox Resides Here.” If it wasn’t mimeo, it wasn’t happening. Zines, like time and fans come and go and today thanks to the internet, have become easier to create and share before the eyes of the world. Hope for the best, maybe get a ‘Like’ or emoji at the very least. When the first two issues of “Skyliner” came out, I placed them here and there on Facebook, where they might garner an interesting reception. Several months later, I have gone back to these pages to see (like cultured pearls) what has grown thereon: Faaneds Issue #1 Response: Seen by 91 • 14 Likes, Comments: 6. Bless you Penney & Purcell Issue #2 Response: Seen by 88 • 5 Likes, 2 Comments. Faaneds seem to be the Big Dog getting viewers and smattering of response. FANZINES: The Definitive Facebook Group Issue #1 Response: Seen by ? • 14 Likes, 1 Comment; Issue #2 Response: Seen by ?, 2 Likes, 8 Comments. Comments and likes seem pretty sparse across all posts for someplace with “Definitive” in the title. I guess the definitive response was Meh! The Style of Pulp Issues #1 & 2 Response: 0. Dang, this is a tough house. Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Writers and Artists Group Issue #2 Response: In place of my post, there resides a banner reading: “Some of your content has been flagged because it might go against our Community Standards.” What the hell does that mean? Society for the Perpetuation of Fannish Fandom Issue #1 Response: Seen by ? • 12 Likes, 10 Comments. Issue #2 Another damn banner. Don’t look now; these banners don’t perpetuate anything but fake neo-prudism. Fanzine Appreciation and History Issue #1 Response: Seen by ? • 12 Likes, 7 Comments. Issue #2 There was a banner here too! What Gives? Banner removed by Admin, thank you Alan. Seen by ? • 2 Likes, 3 Comments. It appears my rather jolly cover on Skyliner #2 has been judged by some troll lingering in the shadows of Facebook too excessive to be seen by the likes of YOU dear reader! I sent messages to five admins to explain their inaction by leaving the banner in place or not even telling me it was there. Only one removed the banner. Go figure. The fanzine community has been around 90 years, 57 of which I have been a participant. Further text says the zine “Might be Sensitive” but that just doesn’t work for me. Well, these are new times, maybe I’m out of step with the new prude. Let’s see a show of hands; how many feel this cover “Might go against…” the fanzine community? One caveat, if you raise your hand, you must explain the means and extent to which that damage will be done. My bet is, “Might” is used by those with no information on the zine’s actual ability to do anything, making them full of shit. Shouldn’t a detractor be “sure” before they shut someone down? Since one must petition to become a member of each page, and each page sets up its own rules and regs, doesn’t every page therefore become its own community with their own standards who police their own pages and explain why they should shut someone down? I guess not. After all, why else would they allow The Prude Fairy to make decisions for them? At least the asshole who threw my zine on the floor made a decision and owned it, good for him. At least he had a fucking backbone. ◀ BLESS YOU ANDY HOOPER He who gets it! SKYLINER #1 & #2, No one else does fanzines that look anything like Alan White's fanzines. He's the love child of Richard Corben and Alphonse Mucha, raised by Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. He's absolutely attuned to all the things I loved about fandom at the age of 14: Hollywood monsters, cheesecake models in costume, futuristic weapons, vampire babes, fans and pros partying. Looking at this fanzine, who wouldn't want to be a fan? I have a strong sense that Alan's mix of images and hyperlinks are what all fanzines will be like in the future, but for now, it's a pretty unique experience. (from FLAG #21) THANK YOU Mr. HOOPER DECIDE FOR YOURSELF Get your back issues of Skyliner FREE! Click ME They’re as free as Free Speech Should be. Who would have thought Marijuana would be legal while personal fanzines on a private zine page would be banned without discussion? If you have a problem with it, write me. Train to Innsmouth Through Time and Space with Brush and Pixel OK, admit it, At some point you wanted to be an author. Author of what isn't important, but today we’re talking novels. I know I did. I spent weekends reading that rash of Burroughs paperbacks inundating the newsstands in the ‘60s and all those tawdry potboilers of women behind bars, and space chicks with brass bras, rayguns and riding dragons as if they were circus ponies! At first, it was tough finding a milieu. High-school filled us with enough angst, between Holden Caulfield, Franny, Zooey, Jimmy Stark, Meursault and Dan Freeman. And I certainly wasn’t doing myself any favors swimming through volumes of Ann Radcliffe and Montague Summers. What a steamy porridge that was, and I swear I don’t remember a hair of it today. I kinda got in at the end of the Pulp era. Cherokee Bookshop on Hollywood Blvd. was the Tut’s Tomb of old pulps where I bought a lot of that stuff if for no other reason than to get high sniffing pages of those hallowed tomes. Pulps, it seems, were my gateway drug of choice. I still absentmindedly sniff book pages today; force of habit without the same results. But I thought there was something cool; my vision of the pulp writer, living in a cheap flat, wearing suspenders and a fedora accompanied by the late-night clacking of his Smith Premier; tiling the floor with cigarette butts and whiskey bottles; ahhhh, next stop heroin! Oh, those dark and stormy nights, women screaming and tough guys named Vargo dying in the gutter like the dogs they were. And those stockings with seams disappearing into the short skirts of a waitress named Ruby. Well, as Tom Waits said: “…go ahead and call the cops; you don't meet nice girls in coffee shops”. To date, I’ve written four novels. But not for a moment do I expect anyone to take me for an author, God help us! I shall never cop to having the least talent to do so. It’s merely a hobby I enjoy and it keeps me from getting under foot of the little woman. To be fair, there are some good ideas to be found here and there in the pages of my stuff. And the occasional narrative that leaves a solid picture in your mind though you may need a weed-whacker to find it. But then there are the illustrations. That’s why I wanted to do this in the first place you know.