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   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   > > HarryLime wrote:   
   > >> Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >   
   > >>>>>> Since we're on the subject of school magazines, here are a few photos   
   of my school's Art & Literary Magazine, EXCALIBUR.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> The magazine was a full-sized (8 1/2 x 11), saddle stapled, glossy,   
   with full color artwork.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Here's a shot of the color artwork.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Nice work, who is the artist?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> There were many artists involved in the three issues I put out.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> As per the pieces reproduced here:   
   > >>>   
   > >>> The cover of the Spring '89 issue is by The Brain Douche Collaboration.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> The color painting on the left in our Spring '88 centerfold is called   
   "Whoring for a Man-Made God," and is by OROC.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> The color painting on the right is called "Madonna and Child," and is by   
   Orlando Rodriguez.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> And the pencil sketch for "The Harlot" is, of course, mine.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Other artists whose works appeared in the magazines were Richard J.   
   Treitner, Patricia Ann Corrigan, Catharine Page, George Velez, Regtuiniah   
   Chavis, Herbert Reynosa (Haro), John K. Gomez, James McDonald and Robert   
   Russell.   
   > >>   
   > >> From what I've seen, excellent work by all, kudos.   
   > >   
   > > Thank you, Will.   
   > >   
   > > It was pretty good considering my total lack of experience as an editor at   
   the time.  It was also fairly "edgy" for the Reagan Era.  Our first Faculty   
   sponsor/advisor dropped us like a hot potato when he saw the type of artwork   
   we were featuring.   
   >   
   > I believe I've told this story before, but I may as well repeat it in the   
   Excalibur thread.   
   >   
   > I became the editor-in-chief of Excalibur at the end of my first semester of   
   college, more or less by accident.   
   >   
   > JCSC was a small college (one block in length x half a block depth).  I   
   lived on campus in one of the three dormitories, and worked in the Student   
   Union building (which housed the cafeteria, the game room, several student   
   lounges, all of the school    
   organizations, and the Gothic Pub).  Needless to say, most of the students   
   hung out there.   
   >   
   > It was at the Student Union that I met and became friends with a senior   
   classmate named Megan.  We would start dating at the end of the semester, but   
   at the time of this story, we were just good friends.  Megan was a member of   
   the school paper, and    
   brought me some old copies that featured the poetry of one of her friends that   
   she thought I might like, as it was in a dark (proto-Goth) tone similar to my   
   own.  I'd written about two dozen poems at the time, and asked her how to   
   submit one to the paper.   
     She told me that she didn't think they were publishing poetry any more, but   
   that a mutual friend, Dina, who worked on the paper and who was running for   
   the editor position, would know.   
   >   
   > Dina told me that the paper was no longer publishing poetry, because another   
   student had started an art & literary magazine and they didn't want their   
   publications to be competing in that regard.  She suggested that I submit my   
   poetry there.  I did.     
   And I anxiously waited to learn whether my poetry had been accepted.   
   >   
   > Toward the end of the semester, I asked Dina when the magazine would be   
   coming out.  She said that it wouldn't be.  The student who'd started it was   
   too busy with his finals and was going to let the magazine fold.  She said it   
   was her belief that he    
   just wanted to say that he founded an art & literary magazine on his resume.    
   I asked if she, or someone from the paper, could take it over, but she said   
   they all had finals to study for as well.   
   >   
   > Since I'd been waiting all semester to see my poem in print, I pushed the   
   issue a bit further.  She was beginning to become a little impatient with me,   
   and told that if I wanted to have my poem in the magazine so badly, I should   
   go upstairs and publish    
   it myself.  So I did.   
   >   
   > I walked into the newspaper office (the magazine had been allotted a small,   
   sectioned off corner in the back of the room) and announced myself with the   
   appropriate dramatic flair, "I am Pendragon and I have come to claim   
   Excalibur!"  And to my absolute    
   shock, they gave it to me.   
   >   
   > Thus began the illustrious literary career of Michael Malefica Pendragon.   
      
   I've read some of your history before but thanks again for the update.   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=701382975#701382975   
      
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