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[worldofagwu]

- happy friday the thirteenth everybody...!

better late than never dept: here's my stab at that "interests meme" thingy that's been doing the rounds -

Comments

[phlebas]

I'm shocked the Ape covers gallery doesn't seem to have this one. The most saleable comic book cover ever - apes, dinosaurs, someone crying, a question, a purple background and a claim that somebody demanded it!
I'm happy to elucidate some interests as long as I'm allowed to do it here rather than break my non-posting policy.

[worldofagwu]

- i'd very much like to hear abt the following, plse:
courgettes
g.k.chesterton
hawaiian shirts
margaritas
porcupine tree
transcendental numbers
william blake

( you're more than welcome to elucidate here, of course )

- i hadn't seen that secret origins cover before so ta for the link - i'm slightly tempted to see if i can find a gopy ( but i'm trying to wean myself off the floppys at the mo )

[phlebas]

courgettes: whether fried in slices, cooked in a thai curry or served raw with dips, simply a marvellous vegetable. I love the texture and the hint of bitterness.
g.k.chesterton: A clever and funny and often wise writer. As creator of Father Brown and The Man Who Was Thursday, my enthusiasm for metaphysical thrillers must be largely down to him.
hawaiian shirts: Ever since reading John Minson's gonzo columns in Crash. The height of cool.
margaritas: I make a mean one. Good with chicken mole.
porcupine tree: A fine latter-day prog band.
transcendental numbers: Not to knock your integers/rationals/algebraic numbers. But there's something about a number that you can't even say is the solution to an equation using whole numbers. Especially when several of them turn out to have very fundamental importance (pi and e, take a bow!).
william blake: Writer/artist/poet/metaphysicist/prophet/nutter. Also a cat person.

[worldofagwu]

- i wish i cld keep my yap as short & to the point as yours - my blah blah blah abt my seven interests was far too long winded

i expect you've already seen this neil gaiman drawing of sunday from the man who was thursday but just in case not:
http://digitalmedusa.com/sgettis/word/neil-gaiman-sunday-from-gkchestertons-the-man-who-was-thursday/

GWASS

[erkinpeaviss]

I love World Of Agwu. I especially enjoyed it today.

I would have dated Gorilla With A Stop Sign to the late, not early 80s, although a lot of the stuff in it was from earlier. We could just say it came out in the Thatcher period.

EP

Re: GWASS

[worldofagwu]

- THANK YOU...!

am happy to defer to the publisher of the lightweight press ( - & creator of it's legendary mascot boxing ben benskins ) regarding the date of GWASS

please at yr earliest gonvenience tell us about:
arthur comics
cream of corn soup
henry james
howlin' wolf
the mekons
noodles
&
paul ableman

[carrot_rope]

I also would like to give a thumbs up to do the joys of drawing apes! I better put some on a cover one day.

[worldofagwu]

wow, that's a GREAT drawing ( - tho i hope none of 'em ended up being "shot for meat" ) - thanks for the link

- curses...! - you have DEFEATED my puny meme scheme by craftily having no interests listed on yr LJ profile

[carrot_rope]

Thanks!

And also apologies, for I did not mean to defeat the meme. If it helps I could conjure up some new interests or defer you to the perils of my myspace page and it's interest laden contents.

[worldofagwu]

( i yam always a bit afraid of myspace pages in case they start "shouting" at me - but yours is v.user friendly )

if you wld still like to play along w/this meme thingy i'd be pleased to hear abt:
m.i.a.
jesus & mary chain
ghost world
anchorman
deadwood
neighbours
&
the electric kool-aid acid test

[martinskidmore]

Having you draw a cover was far from pity - it's probably my favourite FA cover, and given the big stars who did covers for me, that is pretty impressive. I admit I did rather enjoy the number of people who moaned about it.

I can't imagine there are more than half a dozen people in the world who would be interested in my definitive history of my FA days, even if I could remember it all a couple of decades later. Nothing terribly interesting happened, and nothing exciting that you don't already know all about. I do still feel some pride in what I achieved with it, silly as that is. I loved it when people would tell me they loved the more challenging criticism and the reduced focus on big superhero stuff, but how was I sustaining it with the reduced sales that must bring? The sales tripled under my editorship, and that's how I could afford glossy colour covers and even paying contributors (though not very much).

[worldofagwu]

i think you're quite right to feel pride in what you achieved with FA - best gomics fanzine EVER...! ( - no offence to the panelhouse )

- the way i see it, FA had thousands of readers in the 1980s, all of whom are now desperately wasting time at work googling for anything they feel vaguely nostalgic abt - & when they google for FA or yr name all they find is gavin's article ( - abt which i'll stick my neck out & say it's slightly misleading in places ) - or to put it another way i just wanna read the transcriptions of all yr telephone gonversations with alan moore...! ( - & abt the silly ppl who gomplained abt gerard's reviews )

- have you already done this meme thingy ? if not ( or if you wanna do it again ) i'd be very interested in hearing you talk abt:
billy wilder
dostoyevsky
girls aloud
hernandez brothers
match of the day
rauschenberg
&
the wu-tang clan

[worldofagwu]

"FA - best gomics fanzine EVER...! ( - no offence to the panelhouse )"

- i'm very sorry i forgot to mention chain reaction & wld like to take this opportuniy to apologise to the editors ( & their families, friends & gontributors ) for this oversight

my top three fanzines of all time:
1. fantasy advertiser
2. chain reaction
3. the panelhouse

[colin_fawcett]

FA was the first (and in fact only) magazine I subscribed to. I really can't over emphasize the impact it had on me. It was in the news section of FA that I saw the cover of Mechanics #2 which changed my life considerably. It was in a article on euro-comics I first saw Moebius. The interview with Dave and Deni Sim convinced me to try Cerebus. The report on the 1985 UKCAC made me make the long lonely trip down from Liverpool to London to visit the 86 one.
Yeah quite an important magazine to me is FA.

[ludickid]

The drawbacks of a comics-centric childhood: when I was a young feller, I actually thought that "zuvembie" was the correct word for the walkin' dead and not juzt something Roy came up with to skirt the Code. I figured zuvembie:zombie::refrigerator:fridge.

I was a misguided kid because of those damn funnyboooks.

[worldofagwu]

"I was a misguided kid because of those damn funnyboooks." - i think we all were in one way or another ( - me, i'm just pleased to see somebody else use the word zuvembie...! )

if you wld like to play the meme game here are my seven choices from yr interests:
american milk solids council
defending "the osterman weekend"
forgotten cereal mascots
getting defensive about postmodernism
prez
tawdry celebrity limericks
&
the feast of shame

( i resisted the temptation to choose "having 110 interests" )