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SF FANS, HUGO VOTERS, & OTHER ALIENS

Mon Apr 7, 2008, 2:36 AM I was advised in strong terms to create a website where I could show my art to SF fans. After all, while relatively few of them read fanzines where my work has been published, it is only SF fans who vote on the Hugos. But why a gallery at DeviantArt, when I have another at FurAffinity? It might surprise you that there is a considerable difference between them. The gallery at FA is topheavy in furry art, erotica, and material I somewhat disingenuously describe as "niche". (Rather than "fetish", "perverted", or plain "wacko".) The material at DeviantArt contains a little such material, but is purposedly slanted at SF fans who may not be used to the infiniate variety of genre art on the internet.

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THE HUGO AND I

Let me start something like 35 years ago... I've been deeply involved with Science Fiction fandom since the early 1970's, and after all that time have made a small mark. For example, I'll be the Fan Guest of Honour at the worldcon in Montreal, in 2009. I've also been nominated once again for a Hugo award, this time by this year's worldcon in Denver. It's the 7th. time, and this time I'd like to *win* if it's possible.

The key to winning is probably reaching outside of the small fanzine community, which while not strictly closed, isn't well known to SF fandom as a whole. Most of the winners in recent years seem to have had presences in spin-off fandoms such as Trek or gaming or costuming. The winners were also able to attend conventions where they could display their work in the art show. I don't really have those options, but there was one way I could match other artists. An on-line presence.

The problem with my page at FA is that it's a pretty mixed bag, with a heavy emphasis on furry art, and much of it is too erotic or too kinky for a general audience. Friends urged me to find a different site for a showcase.

After a little thought, Deviant Art seemed the best option. Here I am. Browse thoroughly. Don't miss any folders regardless what I called them. And vote often...

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MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOST-WRITING

If you don't mind, rather than rewrite the same boring old details about myself, I'll quite from from FurAffinity.

Artist Profile:
I've been drawing almost before TV's were common, let alone computers and the internet. I was drawing furry characters before there was such a fandom. I might have been the first to use a computer to cut mimeograph stencils to publish an SF fanzine. But it's almost an entirely different world now, and I tend to be a bit slow keeping up. I don't carry a cell phone, own an iPod, known how to ICQ, use PayPal, or know how to operate my digital camera yet. But I try to hang in there.

What I have done (before middle age began to slow me down) includes some magazine and book illustration, a short and obscure career in b/w comics, private commissions, dealer at cons, and too many years as an active science fiction fan to care to number.

Because of the internet, making a living has become a lot trickier, it seems. It's multiplied the number of artists a hundredfold, but the audience is accustomed to 99% of the art being free. It's hard to know if there's a net gain. At the same time travel has gotten more expensive, and the border a paranoid free-fire zone. Cons are a memory. The final insult, a Canadian dollar is over par with the buck. If I take $100 US to the bank, it appears as a two figure entry in my bankbook now. Maybe I should just get a real job, like I had when I was 25. On the other hand, if I hold out another decade, I can 'retire' on welfare, and enjoy the first real prosperity I've ever known, and finally draw what I want!

Ambition is a cruel master.

Interview With My Favourite Person -- Me

Fri May 22, 2009, 8:10 PM
Journal Entry from FurAffinity: 4 days ago

One of my "duties" as a GoH at the upcoming Worldcon is to help promote Anticipation. A while ago I agreed to give an interview to a journalist for an on-line site called The Pulse. The raw questions & answer session were written into an article by Janet Hetherington that has finally been posted to the site.

I think you'll find it worthwhile to go to:

[link]

Meanwhile, since my last journal was up only three days, I'm going to paste it in below...


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It Isn't How You Look... It's How You See.

In the next few days I hope to get a call from an ophtamologist about an appointment.

Those who know me are familiar with the somewhat sardonic look I have. But my right eyelid droops as it does naturally, and is not an expression. However, of late it's drooping too much. It's interfering with my vision. Now and then over the last year or two its done this, and cleared up shortly, leading me to think my lid was swollen that day, for unknown reason. But the condition has persisted for a week now. It's more pronounced as well. The lid covers my pupil, and since I can't see out of it, the eye wants to close altogether. So I saw my doctor.

It isn't a problem with the eye. If I hold it open with my finger, I can see fine. But this would not only look stupid, it would be impossible to do all day. It isn't how I look that matters... but how I see.

  • Listening to: Televison likely, Tom Waits, Yes, or Blondie.
  • Reading: "Julian Comstock", Robert Charles Wilson
  • Watching: ...the little words moving across the screen
  • Playing: With little toy cars (1l18 scale).
  • Eating: Yes, but trying to watch my weight.
  • Drinking: Are you paying the tab? I'll have a Drambouie.

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Toronto
  • Interests: Coin collecting, die-cast cars, Roman history, too many other things to list, but those are current.
  • Favourite band or musician: Yes, Gentle Giant, Kate Bush, Lene Lovich, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Beatles, lots more...
  • Favourite genre of music: Anything but rap, gospel, or country.
  • Favourite artist: Carl Barks, Rene Uderzo, David Low, Herge, others...
  • Favourite poet or writer: Lindsey Davis, Mark Twain, Isaac Asimov, Raymond Chandler
  • Operating System: Window XP Pro
  • Favourite game: The Neverhood
  • Personal Quote: "Great men are rarely good men" -- Lord Acton
  • Tools of the Trade: Ball point pen, mechanical pencil, eraser, six inch rule, and paper.

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Can you tell me the URL for your FA page?
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Sure.

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Gaaltlahaleen
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I like TALES OF BEATRIX comic when it came out wish more of it would of been done in comic shops.
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I wish it had been economically feasible too. But for all but a handful of creators, b/w comics are a labour of love, and only the fast working artists survive.

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Gaaltlahaleen
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I like 'em young and wild, not too much "glamour".

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Gaaltlahaleen
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I don't thing I have every seen a "plain" Jungle Girl.
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Naturally... most Jungles are in the "tropics", not the "plains".

(pa dum dum.)

You walked right into that one.

(pa dum dum.)

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Gaaltlahaleen
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