No Sex #11
I loved this issue. I took a break to do what I liked to do best, that is display my strips and draw a cover. This cover incorporates a lot of black space in the cover art. When I look back I think that I would not have done so many covers with all the black spaces in them that I did. See this issue, NS10 and NS18. But I was infatuated. I think probably should have tried more halftone, but I was sick of that stuff and it was being used everywhere else. I thought that the black showed hand workmanship, it certainly was relaxing to do. Of course this is influenced by the fact that I was doing a lot of stuff that had "space" as a subject matter and space is black. This issue was 68 reduce digest offset pages with a hard stock light yellow cover. Steve Streeter was only on board as publisher for one issue, 10, and moved on so I was able to forward my marquee Heath Facts, which I used as a tax shelter and printed some of my art under. I was also a member of WSA/PA (492), FPA (50) and TUC. This issue had tons of art, including a piece I drew from Dynazine.
Contents: Cover by David Heath, Back cover by Dan Day, another possible front cover.
The cover featured my story, Iceman Meets Firefly. I collaborated on the story with Klaus Haisch to incorporate his character into my storyline. The story was a bit overblown but we had fun. Instead of going superhero on the cover, I stuck to what I knew, space and SF. There was also Dreamer, by Jim Bertges, Cold Steerage by Earl Geier, Star Stuff by John Howard, Revenge by C Robert Oliver, The Prefect Crime by Chad Draper, Scout Operations by me and a great little George Lane short story that he illustrated
David Heath, Jerry Collins, Lari Davidson, Chad Draper, Robert Barger, Mark Heike, Peter Iro, Jim Bertges, Dan Daly, Earl Geier, Nasty, John Howard, Tony Casoria, C Robert Oliver, SSG Beaumont, Ken Meyers Jr., Paul Watson, Jim Gray
Notes:
I have recently talked to Jim Bertges about Dreamer, a story he wrote for me and I had Dan Daly illustrate. We have been on a fanzine chat board for a couple years now and have been talking. We did not realize that he had done a story for this issue of No Sex, or any for that matter, till I started to get this issue prepared for the on-line. He was delighted and noted that he did not have a copy of NS11. It was my policy to give every contributor and advertiser a free copy so that seemed odd. It was made worse by the fact that I have no extra copies of any NS issue, some going back almost 30 years.