No Sex #1
Published by me
with no marquee around 1973, but dated April 1974. When I moved to
San Francisco and I
couldn't keep the art in me any more in the various little outlets i had, No Sex was born.
it was printed in full-sized electrostatic process.
26 one-sided pages. Hard stock
orange pages. I did it at the USF (University of San Francisco) School Press.
Contents: Cover by David Heath and the back cover was an ad type spread by me.
Issue #1 featured mostly art by myself doing strips about the Lob and
The Land
of Darkness, Globs and some Thugs (one of the Early "LEVs"). Several
pagers by me, one is a cover from Dan Watson's Eternity magazine. I would later
print a lot of my covers from other magazines in No Sex because I was doing covers for a lot of
"comics" fanzines and felt No Sex had a different more science fiction
audience that may not have seen the zine that the cover appeared on. Besides I
worked really hard on some of those covers, like the one in this issue.
Also
features a pager featuring my continuing "coca cola" parodies.
Features included my continuing No Sexist, which was my commentary and opinion
column, the crossword, which i never repeated, making one of those is hard and i
only wanted to do the squares. This issue includes is a drawing by my late brother Ricardo
Heath, he signs himself as Rico. Throughout the issue I beg for contributors and
people to advert in the zine. There is a review section called Capt Nemo and
friends, that is not by me, I can't for the life of me remember who it is by and
this is a good argument for proper crediting of people, even though if i remember
correctly this person did not want to be credited. I later change the name of
the review column to Vu-Zine when i took it over.
David Heath, Ricardo Heath, Dan Watson
Notes:
I just wanted to get something out I didn't have the faintest idea what I was doing. If I knew what digest offset was I would have gone that way, but at this point I was still weaning away from mimeograph. I will say that I like the clarity of the full-sized page.