No Sex #16

NS16 was published by Jerry Foley under his Night Shadow Comics logo. It was 18 digest offset pages on white stock. It featured a light blue wrap-around cover by Ken Raney. The issue is listed as March 1989, by now I am well married and my daughter is about  seven years old and fandom is fading as a hobby for me. The wife marveled at the checks that would come in for ads and subscriptions before, but now it just seemed to interfere with getting on with life after the army. This issue featured the small but great content look. Some of the "fun" aspects continued as I realized this project was not going to be some great endeavor as other fanzines had become because I had other things to do. With the smaller sizes and more responsibility in my life, I could almost feel the death-kneel for the project  I still wanted to do the zine and I still wanted to have fun. I was also aware that I was very tired of the publishing process and I could not achieve my dream or printing the zine on a computer for financial concerns. Also be aware that during this time I was also responsible for putting out 12 zines a years for the nation fan club N3F. A lot of my effort and material was going there to great effect but to the detriment of my zine, No Sex. Some of the information in this page was complied for me by Jerry Foley when he had a copy of the issue and I did not have access to the issue.

Contents: Full wrap around cover by Ken Raney

This issues' cover did not feature art from the issue. I just liked the art from Mr. Raney. there was a strip by Byron Black, Generation Gap, That’s the way it Goes by Dan Clowes (see notes below) and stories by Ralph Roberts and Beth Robbins.

Ken Raney, Randy Townsend, Byron Black, Bert Wee, Dave Garcia, Dan Clowes, Marie Evans, Rafael Kayanan, Beth Robbins, Chuck Upman, John Cosgriff, and Mark Heike

Notes:

I have discovered that Ken Raney (the cover artist) is from Kansas and is an illustrator of children's books. He is on the same web site that my hero Tom Eaton of Scholastic Magazine is on. Dan Clowes appears to be somewhat of an underground celeb nowadays and I am glad to say that I knew him when, but I really didn't know him that well, except that he was one of the many that was submitting great panel art in the later issues of No Sex. I was getting so art much that I didn't know what to do with all of it. After I got an email from the keeper of a Dan Clowes website I have linked to his name to that site, which is my wont, I have had a demand for copies of the pages to the 3-page story he did for us "That's the Way it Goes", I understand that the originals sold on Ebay handsomely. I wish I had kept them. None the less, here is a link to a scan of those pages, have fun. Dan Clowes strip.

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