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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 5, 2010 14:30:07 GMT
 A5 Black and white fanzine featuring text stories from Ralph Burns and Karl Thurgood weighing in at 64 pages. With added map-goodness from Karl! As with BWA this bad boy is going to be free of charge. So no excuses in not picking it up. Sadly a few tales couldn't make it due to page count issues, so a Director's Cut PDF version will be available not to soon after the end of Auto Assembly. Andy |
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Post by blueshift on Aug 5, 2010 14:40:14 GMT
Whoa, 64 pages?! I'm sure people wouldn't mind paying a bit for something like this, I don't want to see you spending all your money on printing  |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 5, 2010 14:45:32 GMT
I have other means for this one...
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 5, 2010 14:45:55 GMT
Besides the ruling Scotcon Triumvirate decreed it should be free, so it must be!
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Aug 5, 2010 14:46:33 GMT
Oh well, fair enough then!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2010 15:09:22 GMT
I have found a general reluctance over the last few cons for people to want to spend money on these kinds of things, so didn't want to be left with 50 of these things to take home!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Aug 5, 2010 15:48:53 GMT
I have found a general reluctance over the last few cons for people to want to spend money on these kinds of things, so didn't want to be left with 50 of these things to take home! -Ralph That is shocking. I shall make it my personal mission at this AA to push fanzines to as many people as possible! |
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Post by panderson on Aug 5, 2010 16:03:04 GMT
I have found a general reluctance over the last few cons for people to want to spend money on these kinds of things, so didn't want to be left with 50 of these things to take home! -Ralph That is shocking. I shall make it my personal mission at this AA to push fanzines to as many people as possible! BWAAAA they have sometimes been the best things I took home!! on a side note this conflab reminds me to get some old fanzines out for signing...a few have artwork by a certain Mr Roche and I am sure a few are by J Roberts...SEEEE fanzines are the hotbed of tommorow's stars!! |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2010 14:05:29 GMT
On Skype with Turnbull editing W.I.P. version 13 of this. Don't let it be said effort doesn't go into your freebies!
-Ralph
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Post by jameso on Aug 6, 2010 15:10:36 GMT
Reluctance from other fans to try your own fan projects is frustrating, but, to be honest, I wouldn't be too excited about picking up fan produced materials from people I don't know on other sites and commmunities, so I can't complain too much.
Along those lines, I have loads of spare fanzines I've done in the past which I'll have to try and remember to actually bring this year.
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Post by chrisl on Aug 6, 2010 15:18:33 GMT
Someone take along with them some original Nick Roche art from CG2 or Overlord II, and some original James Roberts art from Brothers in Arms #3 or a copy of Transtext and get them signed  |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2010 16:57:11 GMT
Reluctance from other fans to try your own fan projects is frustrating, but, to be honest, I wouldn't be too excited about picking up fan produced materials from people I don't know on other sites and commmunities, so I can't complain too much. Along those lines, I have loads of spare fanzines I've done in the past which I'll have to try and remember to actually bring this year. Oh, I always pick up fan produced stuff. This year I shall take great delight in picking up the Nordcon mag from the fan sales table. -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Aug 6, 2010 17:04:50 GMT
Reluctance from other fans to try your own fan projects is frustrating, but, to be honest, I wouldn't be too excited about picking up fan produced materials from people I don't know on other sites and commmunities, so I can't complain too much. Along those lines, I have loads of spare fanzines I've done in the past which I'll have to try and remember to actually bring this year. Oh, I always pick up fan produced stuff. This year I shall take great delight in picking up the Nordcon mag from the fan sales table. -Ralph Wont' it be in Norwegian? |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2010 19:08:56 GMT
No. I've read Turnbull's copy and it's in English.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2010 19:36:16 GMT
Like Ralph, I'll always give fanzines a go, even if it's not to my taste.
For those that have been to Botcon, what is that like for fanzines. Given the dire quality of the tie-in comics I'd hope a few enterprising fans put some things together.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2010 23:26:14 GMT
Pass 14 seems to have settled it. EV is locked.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2010 23:37:45 GMT
Hoo-ray!
Just compiling the Fictionary pieces and we are done, save for the printing, copying and stapling!
Andy
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Post by jameso on Aug 6, 2010 23:42:06 GMT
I didn't see any fan tables or products at Botcon last year, but then I wasn't really looking.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 7, 2010 11:05:01 GMT
That's a shame.
Just doing the proof of Escape Velocities the now, on the last spread.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2010 11:10:49 GMT
Version 17 for the win!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 21, 2010 14:06:06 GMT
Don't suppose there's any of these left is there?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 21, 2010 15:15:56 GMT
Yep. Turnbul will assist.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 22, 2010 15:26:15 GMT
I want his babies.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 27, 2010 23:38:21 GMT
I'll be putting PDF's of them online this weekend. Nicely formatted into spreads so two pages of a5 to one A4 sheet.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 29, 2010 10:32:16 GMT
Indeed. Some gremlins sneaked into the print version of the story 332 so can I please refer people to the upcoming PDF for the corrected version, which reads more easily. Cheers.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 29, 2010 17:07:37 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Aug 29, 2010 19:52:48 GMT
Is that a new logo for the site too? It looks snazzy!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 29, 2010 20:05:18 GMT
It is indeed.
Needed a wee change, and my love of G2 knows no bounds...
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Sept 17, 2010 19:44:28 GMT
Read this on the train down to Somerset. Absolutely fantastic stuff! I think I liked the earlier stories the best, really mad stuff about how future humans see the Transformers, creepy Micromasters (MIIII-CRO-MAAAAAAAAAAAN) and insane Micromaster battles. The second half with Perceptor was confusing at first but wrapped up in a satisfactory manner, but I'd probably have liked to see more epic Micromaster battles!
It's a shame the picture of the Micromaster being knighted didn't make it onto the cover instead. I know it was used in Fictionary too, but it is such a great and important image in this collection, I think it should have made it in in some way.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 18, 2010 11:43:53 GMT
Had it been a planned thing it would probably have had more Micromasters, but as it was originally a 'made up as you go' reaction to pictures in an interweb thread it went in that direction. Fun to do though. 'The Escape' remains my favourite thing I've ever done. Wouldn't change a word.
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