Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:08:43 -0500 From: [g--l--n] at [bgnet.bgsu.edu] (Metroplex) Subject: FTP 529 Administrivia: As you may or may not be aware, I am a student at Bowling Green State University (home of...well, me I guess). The school yeas is winding down faster than a toy in a McDonalds Happy Meal, which leaves the future of FtP mailings in doubt. They WILL happen, I have no doubt, I'm just not sure as to when or how often. What will mostlikely happen is I will do it on the weekend when I'm not working or interning (at WMMS 100.7-FM), assuming I'm NOT working or interning on the weekend. That still isn't set in stone. Anyway, I just don't want anyone to be upset when FtP doesn't arrive on Monday, May 8. It'll get to you, I just haven't figured out when yet. ==== FIT TO PRINT by cathrine yronwode for the week of April 24, 1995 THIS IS FIT TO PRINT NUMBER 529: 'NUFF SAID: It is a trifle eccentric to review apa (amateur press association) zines as if they were something you could go out and buy at your local store, but i just received one worthy of mention: The 5th anniversary issue of 'Nuff Said, a stout compilation of personal experience, artwork, opinion, and reviews. The distribution is fairly low-25 copies, contributors are international, and there is a short waitlist-but if the central mailer didn't want me to publicize the group, i guess he wouldn't have sent me the sample, right? By the way, the MFC (Most Famous Contributor) to 'Nuff Said is Tom Orzechowski. Minac is 2 pages/3 mailings, page count averages 100, spiral bound with cardstock covers, and for more information, you should send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Central Mailer, Gregory Hecht, 32-02 Fox Run Drive, Plainsboro, New Jersey 08536. SPEAKING OF WHICH: That address -Fox Run Drive- reminded me of the only television series i watch (in fact, the only series i have watched since they stopped making new episodes of M*A*S*H). I would never have gotten into The X-Files except that my Comics Warehouse office-mate Susie Bosselmann, a true-blue X-phile, noticed that on one show, a psycho-logical profile was given for the typical serial killer, and the wording was close to the text Val Jones had written for the Eclipse Enterprises True Crime cards i edited. Susie wondered how that had come to be, and she brought in a tape containing five shows so i could check it out. The answer was simple: both Val and the X-Files screenwriter were paraphrasing material on serial killers pub-lished by the FBI (the real one, not the one Fox and Scully work for)-but by the time i had gotten that far into the story, i was hooked, and remain so. I am not so hooked, mind you, that i have subscribed to a cable service or bought a colour tv. I view the X-Files on a little b&w set that dates back to Lyndon Johnson's term as president. I'm just funny that way. Because Topps no longer sends me review copies (well, i wasn't crazy about the Lone Ranger series, so i guess they didn't trust my objectivity), i can't review the X-Files comic here. The truth is, # 3 has already hit the stands and i have not ever seen a copy. But then, i am not the only one. Seems like Topps or the retailers or the distributors did not gauge the market adequately. Buy-sell-trade ads for issue #1 run in alt.tv.x-files continually. Topps itself is selling returned newsstand copies at $5.00 a pop. This may be the first time in ten years that i have missed a "hot sleeper" title, and the irony is that it is also the first one i really wanted to read, based on its contents alone. Sigh, Oh well, i still have my little tv. THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR: If you are old enough to recall the great home-made mimeo zines of the past but up-to-date enough to appreciate clean, distinctive desk-top publishing, and if you love the art and story-telling of Jack Kirby, then you will surely get a kick out of The Jack Kirby Collector, now in its third issue. I was really impressed with the quality of layout and art reproduction in this special "theme issue" devoted to Captain America. Contents include a short interview with Joe Simon, Cap's co-creator, nostalgic remin-iscences by those who knew Jack, hard-to-find reproductions of Jack's pencils and portfolio art, short retrospective reviews of Avengers #4 (a personal all-time favourite of mine, by the way) and Captain America's Bicentennial Battles (the very first comic book i read upon re-joining fandom after an 8-year hiatus caused by the cancellation of Dr. Strange in 1969), and lots more. The Jack Kirby Collector is published with the endorsement of the Kirby estate and copies come with an inserted petition to be filled out and mailed to Marvel Comics, requesting that Jack receive creator credits on the characters he designed. Subs are $12.00 for six 16-page issues. The editor is John Morrow at TwoMorrows Advertising, 502 St. Mary's Street, Raleigh, North carolina 27605 (919) 833-8092. ==== Fit to Print appears in print each week in Comics Buyers Guide and is available via e-mail. Tell your friends! To subscribe to Fit to Print via e-mail send a request with the words "Subscribe FtP" in the subject header and your address in the body of the message to [g--l--n] at [bgnet.bgsu.edu.] You will be added to the list and receive the next available issue. Back issues are available. FTP to cerebus.acusd.edu and look in the Comics/About Comics/Comics News/Fit to Print directory. FtP is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~91mithra. Responses are welcome and should be directed to [g--l--n] at [bgnet.bgsu.edu.] Fit to Print is Copyright Cathrine Yronwode. All rights reserved.