Dave Prosser: Artist

Recently, Chrispy posted a series of fanziine notes that referenced the art of David Prosser. (For quick access to all the blog notes on David Prosser, click on the "David Prosser" label below. ) Here is an anecdote submitted by George Wagner:

Dave Prosser was one of the very best of the late 1950s fan artists, and unlike many of the others he obviously liked to illustrate horror fiction rather than just producing a lot of the "cute" fan art of the day. He illustrated one of my earliest fictional efforts, in a fanzine published by one Robert N. Lambeck, himself a teenager. I don't remember the name, since it underwent several changes. I forget the original title entirely, but he changed it to CONNECTIFAN when his parents moved from north Florida to Connecticut. When they moved to Royal Oak, Michigan, just a short time later he changed the name to EXCONN. But Lambeck changed it again after several young readers claimed they weren't permitted to read anything published by an ex-convict! Anyway, that was where I was first exposed to Prosser's artwork.

Sincerely,
George Wagner

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1966 (Mirage #8)

54 pages with cover by David Prosser
highlights:
fiction:
Ray Trevino - The White Whales Race
Laurence Griffin - Sea Nymph
features :
Clark Ashton Smith , A Chronology
Avon Fantasy Reader , A Checklist
HP Lovecraft - Some Backgrounds Of Fairyland

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1960

Here is a rare image of VOLUME 1 NUMBER 2, FANTASTIC, ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL.

It was a published amateur fiction magazine by Chesapeake Publications, Baltimore, Maryland of 32 pages including cover.

Editorial by Jack L. Chalker,

The Doom that Came to Sarnath by H.P. Lovecraft,

Centaur: A Cleaning up,

Conspiracy Out of Dorwich by Howard St. John,

artwork by Phil Harrell,

Prosser, Donald Studebaker, publisher.

It was hard to track down, but here are some miscellaneous bits about a few of these folks.

At (click) I found: {Ned Brooks states} "It's February of 1993 and I am 55 years old ... {speaking of a cult comic} The Goon was a comic phenomenon of the fandom of the 1950s and 60s - the earliest of these tales is from 1956, and the latest (so far) from 1963. I had gotten into fandom in 1962, and remember seeing Phil Harrell's copies of some of this material. "

Only one tiny note on Studebaker: "John DeCles, pseudonym of Don Studebaker"

And a confirmation of: 1960, November, Kaleidoscope, Conspiracy Out of Dorwich, by Howard St. John at (click)

As stated before, Chlaker can be found at his web site www.jackchalker.com & on wikipedia.