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Fanzine Art

As well as the prose, poetry and band reviews/interviews my fanzines featured some pretty cool artwork. I liked to intersperse the hallmark fanzine cut and paste pages with a variety of drawings and cartoons too. What generally happened was I would type the individual fanzine pages that required artwork using my portable typewriter (and a healthy supply of Tippex), then hand over the finished page to one of the artists who offered their services. Some of the work they produced was highly imaginative.  Having always been a fan of pointillism I particularly liked the drawing below, by Martin Richardson. In issue 4 of Kindred Spirit we interviewed a local band called Arthur Askey's Legs (formerly known as Cotton Gussets). All I really remember about the band was they couldn't actually play any instruments and their version of Bela Lugosi's Dead reduced Bauhaus fans to tears.  I'm not quite sure what became of the band or their music but one of t