The real Cut 'n Paste,
when Desktop Publishing was a far away future.... All I had at the
time was a Dragon 32 (that's 32 kilobytes of memory) and a Dot-matrix
printer, this was the time the photocopier machine ruled!
Making your own headed
paper, to give yourself an identity, when you write to Businesses, and
replying to Pen-pals, and for Me it gave a coherent identity for My
fledgling Fan Club.
Editorial design tools
were a Pritt-stick (paper glue), a sharp pair of Scissors, a bottle
of Tippex (typewriter correction fluid), and a craft knife\scalpel, a
Pencil and Ruler and Rubber (Eraser), as well as an A3 (English paper
size) and\or A4 (English paper size) cutting board, oh and a Black
marker pen (to touch-up Artwork, during the photocopying stage), add
to this a manual or electric typewriter (that could be set to do
columns), but small pieces of text could be done by using the
Letratone (you are going to have to Goggle this) equivalent of
details transfers for letters and numbers. One key ingredient I
found was floor space, as sometimes a table just was not big enough
to do a layout!
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The Template.
The process that
involved using the photocopier machine to re-size Artwork (and
sometimes text), and copy your Cut 'n' Paste masters, then Tippex out
any paper shadows and pencil lines and photocopy that to produce the
final product, be it bespoke Headed Paper, Flyers & Posters, or a
News-sheet\newsletter or Fanzine were driven by the rules and
limitations of this technology, remember folks preparation is the
key, when you went to the print-shop, or Library to use the
Photocopier.
[NOTE:By the end of June 1990 My weekly
radiotherapy treatment for Cancer was stopped, as it was not
effective enough, and so I was quickly booked in to Hospital from the
8th. to the 13th.of July, for surgery to remove the Cancer from my
tongue, I was just 23 years old.]
[NOTE:
As I have already said that I was not an artist, I used a sticker
that came free with one of my Japanese Anime magazines (it is a Super
Deformed Ingram from Patlabor), and the character in the bottom right-hand corner is Princess 'Nausicaa' from the Manga 'Nausicaa of the valley of the wind' by Hayao Miyazaki. Then after much soul searching I came
up with name 'Anime Kyo UK' ( Animation Today UK ).]
Anime Kyo UK Links :-
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Fan Club
Birth of a Fan club.
90's Fans Questionaire
This is great stuff sunshine. 😁
ReplyDeleteI have to say though that I never knew you were being treated for cancer! Bloody hell! :O
Hi Rick, It was not the best of times, but my drive to do something about this new Anime stuff helped me along.
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