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SF#3, Like to (HA’ November 1952 Published ARTICLES 961 e c o THE ILLUSTRATING MAN,'Ed Emshwiller.i...6 Av er •With two vastly different self-portraits Spring, fey by JOHN L. MAGNUS, jr. of OH, FOR THE LIFE OF A -BEM............................... .11 the pe A new era in stfic terminology Young Peop by DICK CLARKSON Extra — Radica SCIENCE FICTION EXIT FANTASY.................18 Society for Why there is a difference and where 'tis the Promotion by JOHN L. MAGNUS, jr. of Ami able EDITOR...John L Magnus, jr ' NEXIALIST REPORT................................................ .28 Cond i t i o n s NEXIALIST...Andrew Conn A superman's viewpoint Everywhere............ HEAD TYPIST...Carolyn Sachs by ANDREW CONN more conven­ TYPISTS....Judy Levin FEATURES iently known Bob Mischier THE FIRST ISSUE...........................................................13 a s HYPERSPACE. Mary Garrett Sixth in a series--Planet Stories Ydnie Nocc by BOE SILVERBERG SF is monthly, Lawrence Magnuson THE EDITORS RAGE. ..............................................4 and goes in the TREASURER..Ronald Nuttall We shift into high gear mails on the BUSINESS MANAGER.... THIS REVOLVING WORLD........................................ ...15 first day o f Bob Mischler Evaluation of science fiction predictions each. Subscrip­ ARTISTS....Alden Faulkner WHAT'S WITH THE PROS?...........................................21 tion rates----$1 Vevie Cole A black and white plague on the market for 8 issues, $2 Richard Bergeron ART for 17 issues. EMSH HYPERSPACE, Last month’s cover Advertising i s DUPLICATING EXPERTS.... and at the rate of Bill Barkley CRITICAL MASS, this month’s cover $1 per page, 50/ Bill Whitten and per half page. Frank Conner TOMORROW'S SPORTS, a series Plug your mag or Bob Mischler by ALDEN FAULKNER sell some of ecnerwaL sungaM BACOVER those old mags. UTOPIANS...Martha Bicking by RICHARD BERGERON Martha Wubnig Other illos by Vevie Cole, Alden Faulkner, Back copies Barbara Balas and EMSH . are available at Barbara Kahn 15 / apiece. SF So, next month will find ole SF bright and early on time the first of the month, and it will be four pages longer. This means an increase of eight pages over two First thing you may notice about this months. But we also want to Increase in issue is that it is the same size as last quality as well as quanity, so we’re going month’s. to take some extra-special pains with that Second thing is that wo have some rec­ December issue. We're going to experiment ognized fan authors...but also that some with color mimeography (NOT in the type.... we hrOitiisSd. you last month aren't here. on illos and headings only) and many of the Well, the first two are directly result­ other things up our sleeve that we're just ant from the third thing which you can't aching to try. possibly miss—we're on time...even a few As an afterthought to this, I may bring days before deadline. out that though several of the regular SF Don't know whether you noticed it or departments are missing this month, especi­ not, but we’were'a week•late last month... ally the letter column, which I really hate this was because I didn't get back from to let lapse..but we ’ 11 catch up next month. Chicago till a week after the confounded (To give you an idea of how much some fans month started, and it takes a minimum of a correspond..Larry Touzinski and Dick Clark­ month’to’put but a zine... especially when son together have sent in enough letters to you have to write most of it yourself. fill a whole magazine combined-how's that?) So, you're receiving this just three Every endeavor will be made to keep up all weeks after the'last one. Somewhat of a of them in the future as we grow and grow record. And it's all because all of you and grow..,.but there just wasn't room this lovely contributors are being so kind to us time. --and also that we have a positively huge There has been much discussion as to staff.' ‘One of the largest. whether fan fiction is worthwhile....and Since we are putting this one out in whether a fiction fanzine could be worth­ such a hurry, we are using all the material while . we have on hand instead of waiting for some Well, to tell the truth....fan fiction of the articles we promised you last month. has always been a pain to me, even though Ordinarily, we would have waited for all of I am pounding out several thousand words a the submissions to come in, and then fit month I never submit any of it. the magazine to them. This would make the But Bob Johnson proved that a fiction mag about eight nages longer than last time fanzine could be successful---- in principle --and we wouldn't have been able to put it if not in finance. IF it was made a beauti­ out in the remaining time...much less do a ful thing, and used only the best stories. reputable job on it. I believe that one of the prime things a- gainst fan fiction is that it is 99$ fanta-(to?.3O) SF 7 Who is the most prolific, most colorful, and most versatile artist in the field to­ day? Who is the Kuttner of science fiction art? Who’s EMSH? They’re one and the same, of course. And how would you like to know more about this multi-phrenic master of science fiction art? I began wondering about these questions some time ago, so I wrote in to Galaxy to see if some of my suppositions were correct ..<and Ed Emshwiller wrote me back, relat­ ing some very juicy facts. In the first place, Eddie Emshwiller, much to my fainting surprise when I found out, is a local boy...his parents -'live ’’just up the road a piece"...and graduated from the same high school to which I am now entrusting the better years of my life. His art teacher, Mrs. Faye Sherry, was also mine, and is at the present time giv­ ing the same fine instruction to our art­ ists, Alden 'Faulkner and Vevie Cole, that set off science fiction's top illoer on his first flight. Mrs. Sherry sets him forth as one of the finest students she has had the pleasure to instruct, and "A true 9 SF 8 SF craftsman”. On the advice that he should "pick a I had the pleasure of visiting the field and stick to it" he looked at a sci­ Emshwiller*s home recently, and was able, ence fiction magazine and thought, "this is through his huge folios of drawings and the art of the future". (Any double meaning canvases, to watch his development into was strictly intended.) the truly great artist which he is today. So, he prepared a folio and shov.ed them When he was very young, he always said to the leading science fiction publishers. that he wanted to be a free lance artist... Galaxy hired him immediately,and he's been and he followed through until today he :is in fr-pnt of an easel ever since. the most productive of all science fiction illustrators, supplying' work to about ten different magazines. His art education really got under way in Montgomery Blair High School, in Silver Spring, Md. His father was a chemistry tea­ cher, is now a physisist, and a science fiction fan to boot, who always ’’just hap­ pened" to have a copy or two of Amazing a- round...so Ed was well exposed. Says his father, "They may have laughed at Jules Verne, and they took Frank Reade, jr. in fun, but most of those things have come true by now." Indeed they have—and you can be sure that there’s nothing fool­ ish about EMSH’s paintings, which are now adding so much to the field. "EMSH" went through the University of Michigan as an art major, a la G.I. after serving a hitch in the infantry, part of which was spent as battalion special ser­ ’SELF-PORTRAIT* vice officer in Italy. (His brother, Mac- lellan, also graduated from the U. of Mich­ igan, and is at present working toward a Says Ed, "Whenever possible I try to doctors degree in nuclear physics.) work in a little motorcycling, camping, and Ed studied graphics in Paris after his photography. Likewise I try to keep my hand graduation, and with his wife Carole, tour­ in fine arts but have had little opportuni­ ed Europe on his trusty motorcycle before ty for it recently." turning his attention to the cruel world When asked about his many pen-names, he stateside. replies, "EMSH, bILLEK, ED ALEX/EDER, ED SF 10 SF 11 EMSLER and other occasional pseudonyms in­ cluding HOWARD MULLER are names which I have used in my illustrations. Originally, each of the regular pseudonyms was associa­ ted with a particular style or approach to illustration, however, due to a number of factors this system has disintergrj^t e d somewhat. Nov; the use of various names and styles is simply designed to provide var­ A (Me W bRA In Scientific lERpnNOkOGY iety. As you may have noted, EMSH is the by DICK CLARKSON name stressed in terms of volume and cover Y’know—sometimes I wonder.... ever since paintings”. fandom got on to bems, there has been just He also says, "I thoroughly enjoy good that one and only term: bem. Nov/, you have science fiction”. gremlins and widgets (li'l gremlin tads), and snallygasters and argopelters (li’l This being true, he certainly must enjoy srxallygaster tads), but nothing smaller for his work...
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