No Sex #2
Published by me using a straight photo-offset process, 31 double-sided black full pages on white plain paper for a 62 page count. Listed as May 1974, which means this issue got out quick after #1.
Contents: Cover by David Heath and the back cover is an ad type spread by me as well.
Featured art by myself on the cover for the Mars Reporter Feature strip. This was more of the same from the first issue, but I did get art from other sources, on reviewing a copy of the issue I note my brother Rick was in there again as a featured artist, a good thing. There were contributions by Jim Gray, Alan Mildwurm, a mini-poster by Klaus Haisch and myself. Adventures of the No Sex Reader starts this issue as well as the Cosmic Stopwatch (my review column, which got accolades as time went on). To keep the family thing going, my sister Pamela started her continuing novel, Tide-XK, in this issue. I wish I had printed it better, especially since she has done some other writing and screenplay action elsewhere. Guy Heath has an ad in this issue.
David Heath, Al Dulay, William Alan, Ricardo Heath, Pamela Heath, Mike Zimmerman, Jim Gray, Joe Caporale, Alan Mildwurm, Michael Brewer, Klaus Haisch, Dan Watson, Paul Watson, Lester Boutiller
Notes:
I was hung up on how things would be in the future and this issue had enough of that. The Mars Reporter follows my other project that made wish I could really draw and present better, that was the Luna Tech project. I always dreamt that if I went to college I would go to school on the Moon and they would called themselves the Luna Tech Lunatics.
My signature logo for No Sex started with
this issue. I also exported this design to TNFF of the N3F. I refined as time
with on, but it lost prominence as other people started doing the covers for me.
I had actually never seen a digest fanzine by this time, boy would times change. I to my wish and to contributions from family, friends and comics fans that saw the first issue. I should mention my friend Al Dulay. We used to hang out at the Student Union and the SF Quarterly office (which was ours since we were about the only artist on campus) and draw. Since I was working on the issues there, Al got to see the process and contribute art. I featured his art as I would later feature the art of other fan artists.
I had a lot of pages for this issue, but I had a lot of my own art I wanted to get out.