#Mimeograph

[librarycomic]

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"LAZIEST UNDERGRADS HIRE STENOGRAPHER," Toronto Star. December 14, 1931. Page 1. --- Lectures Taken in Full for 50 Cents Week --- Commerce students at University of Toronto have decided it is too much of an effort to take notes in lectures so they have arranged to employ a stenographer. The scheme is to be tried out immediately in the political science course. For six economic periods a week the students will be able to concentrate on the lecturer, or to dream dreams. The committee in charge has arranged notes will cost a maximum of 50 cents a week for each student. A stenographer will attend the lectures and take down a word for word copy. This will be typed and mimeographed and the copies distributed to students in the scheme.

[pswgallery]

ToCall No. 20

Ruth-Wolf Rehfeldt died on February 26, 2024 at the age of 92 – with this special issue 44 artists and poets want to say goodbye with their work. All appropriate submissions have been selected to give everyone the opportunity to pay tribute to Ruth's work and life – so this issue of ToCall is a double edition. The traditional one-word poem on the front cover is based on the piece “Concrete Architecture” by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt.  

Printed with mimeograph duplicators Gestetner 160 and Gestetner 320. Edition of 100 copies.  Available here: https://www.psw.gallery/tocall-magazine

[miznawada]

💀 HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 👻

I will post what I missed one after another today! This is Day 10: Pumpkin 🎃

#mabsdrawlloweenclub

Material: Mimeograph

👻 ハッピーハロウィーン！💀

今日は #mabsdrawlloweenclub の抜けていたものをどんどん投稿していこうと思います。

これは Day 10: Pumpkin 🎃

画材：ガリ版

#mdwc23 #mdwc23d10 #miznawada #spookycute #drawlloween #halloween #pumpkin #和田みずな #mimeograph #ガリ版 #謄写版

[garadinervi]

Jean Perdrizet, La Tour logarithmique, (mimeograph, ballpoint pen, felt-tip pen and coloured pencil on stamped paper, folded paper, stamped and sent by mail), 1972 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Adagp, Paris. Photo: Audrey Laurans/Centre Pompidou]

[publicpools]

Soccer Summer

For an early summer, 3rd grade slowly crawling to a close, the pool still flat in its first sunbeams, in which freckles were soon lillypadding our faces, the schoolyard came abuzz for one last time.

Within all cliques and corners, underneath desks and sitting on top soaky gym benches, heads began sticking together as soccer stickers doubling as trading cards, carefully weighted by both rarity and the man's mane, exchanged hands.

With the album safely tucked away in the backpack, all the real treasures were collecting up in my chest pocket.

The boys from Brazil had replaced the usual assortment of popsicle sticks, chewing gum, and a bug or two. All unburdened now from the shirt mysteriously disappearing in the washer for weeks on end.

I. Le tigre

Since Mom's funeral, everything had flown out the window and my trusty faux-french polo grown onto a second skin.

And as attempting to not only fill the void within our atomized family, Dad kept the sticker packs coming. For once, 'long now observing a full six days of TV dinners, a coping mechanism I could deal with. We'd still take the Volvo over to Burger King on Sundays.

“… and not a word to the Aunties.”

Like I’d be talking!

Toast-in-mouth, I made myself disappear in my bedroom, one by one fired my sneakers into the corner, fished the sticker album out the backpack, balanced the still naked Wonderbread on top of the ant farm-in-a-making cocoa container, to finally plop onto my bed.

Flat on my tummy, the album flipped open on England's double spread, a good layer o’ ersatz Nutella now blanketing the toast, I fumbled my last pack of stickers out of a grass-stained back pocket, where it had been patiently waiting since today's incarnation of mystery meat avec peas.

Glistering in the bedside lamp's light, the thin aluminum wrapper crackled with a small promise.

Running my fingers above its embossed trademark knight, I at last reached for the tear-off strip lingering across the top.

I closed my eyes and held onto a mouthful of air.

One Mississippi.

Two Mississippi.

"God, please not another Lothar Matthäus!"

The smell of tight sitting glue emerged, one only rivaled by the thick, carrot-like tang embodied into the pulp of a million mimeographed worksheets, that had us all grown into suburban, soon cold bunny till September, junkies.

I opened my eyes and, one by one, freed the squad out of their own casket.

It were mostly minor mullets, and fast thumbing through the album: doubles! -But! sporting green kit, reflecting a sheepish smirk and what looked like a forced haircut of his own: Jesús.

I quickly finished up the toast to tuck the sticker album under my pillow. Slightly askew, Mexico’s number 16 awaiting the rest of his teammates.

Perhaps tomorrow I could trade some in, maybe John would be back too. It was still a full week till the first World Cup matches came beaming in from across the Atlantic.

Shame my sister wasn't collecting –

or leaving her room.

After tunneling out of my shirt, leaving behind the bread's last fragments in the fabric, I, as doubling as a boyhood bible, unearthed Pippi Longstocking in the South Seas out from the depths of my nightstand drawer.

Where as mimeographed, Mom’s molecules had become embedded within the browning pages.

It still smelled of black coffee and hospital hallways.

words, mimo     like waves,             memo          rolling,                rolling,        mammo- rolling.               Mama        gram. cresting over         my                 head.

It had been eight weeks, the book a life raft. No land in sight.

I untangled my fingers and kept leafing on, across side notes and dogear treasures, till England’s silver-metallic Three Lions came gleaming in, still guarding our last page.

With Pippi Longstocking jacketing my chest, the lamp’s light cone collapsed into a black hole.

✻  ✻  ✻

[mimeographrevolution]

Judice, Edward (photographer)

Secretary and mimeograph machine, ca. August 1974

Secretary operating a mimeograph machine, Rodney Hunt Company.

Special Collections, UMass, Amherst

[libralthinking]

PCC Library Digital Collections.

“Office worker using a mimeograph.”

Date unknown.

[jujupepi]

A Pre-History of Fanfiction III: Birth of SF Fandom & the Mimeograph

Part 1

Part 2

Chapter 3: Birth of SF 

The nativity of science fiction was happening concurrently with Sherlock-mania. Science Fiction as a genre was crystallized in 1926 when Amazing Stories magazine was first printed. Amazing Stories was a place to read science fiction to your heart’s content, as well as other speculative fiction. In each issue, fan letters were printed with names and addresses, allowing fans to communicate with each other. The SF fan base was rabid and creative, many fans of one generation became the writers and editors and the next. 

A subculture was born along with the genre. Saler defines subcultures as a “social collection within the broader society whose members share certain symbols, traditions, values, customs, rituals, interest, and ways of doing things.” SF fandom surely checked these boxes. For example, let's look at ‘symbols.’ Even though one SF story can be radically different from another is character, setting, writing style, and so on, there are certain shorthands that a fan would know without more explanation like the words ‘transmitter’ or ‘teleporter beam.’ A SF would have an immediate conception of what that is while a member of broader society would not. 

As for rituals and traditions, SF fans were organized in a way unseen in previous fandoms. The first conventions started popping up in the 30s. Here fans could see each other face to face, not just in the pages of Amazing Stories. Science Fiction fandom flourished in this time period, birthing hundreds of zines, conventions, and groups. But the fandom was not a monolith,  SF subculture also started to splinter at this time leading to infighting and drama. 

According to Alec Nevala-Lee, at the First World Science Convention held in New York City on July 2, 1939, fandom drama came to a head. The New Fandom was a group led by Big Name Fan Sam Moskowitz who wanted control over planning the Convention. His enemies were the Futurians, less a group and more of a random assortment of writers collected around Donald A. Wollheim. According to Mosckowitz, a handful of Furturians walked into the convection and demanded to pass out copies of a pamphlet. Moskowitz was ready to let them until he saw that the pamphlet referred to the planning committee as a “dictatorship.” Moskowitz banned them on the spot. 

Futurians, on the other hand, said that the plan to keep them out of the convention was brewing for months before the pamphlet incident in what they called The Great Exclusion Act. Tension between the two groups might be attributed to the Futurians communist leanings. The New Fandom and the Futurians continue to struggle for Fandom supremacy, with the New Fandom organizing dozens of conventions and the Furtuians generating talented writers including Isaac Asimov and Virginia Kidd. 

Feuding became a way of life for SF fandom, in the 60s a new fight started between the ‘new wave’ and the ‘old’. The old waved preferred printed stories like those found in Amazing Stories and favored speculative science rather than literary elements. The new wave on the other hand, often came to SF through TV shows and movies like The Outer Limits and The Planet of the Apes and enjoyed exploring character psychology. Linda Fleming quotes a fan reflecting on these changes saying: “The boundaries are much less clear today, however, because of the increase in size and because the literary SF culture nove overlaps with the larger, more commercialized Star Trek and comics fandoms.” Moving on from the drama though. Fans communicated not only in the pages of pulp magazines but also in handmade fanzines. These were DIY magazines usually printed in batches smaller than 500. They featured articles, original stories, fanfiction, art, as well as reviews of other zines (Zuber). Fandoms represented included SF in general as well as Fantasy, favoring Tolkein’s work and the Lovecraft universe. But what changed? What allowed fans to communicate with each other straight up rather than through a middle man to the point where they were foregoing publishers and making their own magazines?

Sidebar 1: The Mimeo 

Before we get to the next chapter, we have to talk about the technological development that made fanzines possible. Though printing had been around for over a century, it wasn’t possible to do cheaply or easily at home. The mimeograph changed all this. The mimeograph was created in the late 19th century but it became widespread in the 1950s. It retailed for around $500 to $1000 in today’s money which made it a somewhat inexpensive way to print at home. It's easy and uncomplicated to work, too, with a hand crank first and then later a motorized drum. It was favored by schools and businesses, giving access to people who possibly couldn’t afford their own. “Mimeo” was used as a catchall for many copying devices but the true mimeo worked by inking a series of stencils. 

The mimeo was used by writers and artists who couldn’t--or didn’t want to--be published by the big houses. This was the beginning of the DIY movement, when  writers, artists, and musicians avoided middlemen by creating and distributing their own work.

[stone-cold-groove]

No counterfeiting its flight.

[tinheadlu]

“Prince Rupert's Dropn” 2022 mimeograph

[marcogiovenale]

artist's books by wally depew @ printed matter

https://www.printedmatter.org/wally-depew Printed Matter is pleased to present a survey of artists’ books by American book artist and poet Wally Depew, spanning nearly 40 years of the artist’s practice. The exhibition is on view at our Chelsea location from March 9–April 11, 2024. On occasion of the show, Printed Matter is offering many of Depew’s out-of-print publications for purchase,…

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REPLY2psw

This is the result of a collaborative project with my social media community on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Mastodon.

Between January and July 2023, I posted TypoGraphics on social media and asked people to comment on them with a title. I then responded to a ‘chosen one’ title with a new TypoGraphic, to which the community responded with a new title, and so on.

Published by Plaugolt SatzWechsler, Germany, January 2024. Designed, printed and hand-bound by Petra Schulze-Wollgast.

Mimeo printed edition of 60 copies, 61 pages, 22 x 21 cm.

Available in my webshop.

[miznawada]

Late Post for Day 17: Ghoul 👹

#mabsdrawlloweenclub

Material: Mimeograph

画材：ガリ版（謄写版）

#mdwc23 #mdwc23d17 #miznawada #spookycute #drawlloween #halloween #ghoul #和田みずな #mimeograph #謄写版 #ガリ版

[garadinervi]

Jean Perdrizet, Untitled (Robot Cosmonaute), (verso), (mimeograph, ballpoint pen, coloured pencil and transparent plastic sticker on stamped paper), 1970 [Treger Saint Silvestre Collection, Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira. © Paulo Cunha Martins]

[mylittleredgirl]

happy easter to hawkeye setting up margaret/trapper instead of joining in

(from 1 x 24 "showtime." for @remyfire, bearer of the margaret/trapper torch this week)