Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:26:41 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Unfunny Pages
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

dicconf wrote:

>  On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Stan wrote:
>
> > I can't help but wonder how much of SciFi and Fantasy suffers from
> > the same sort of treatment by the 'literary' crowd?
> >
> > http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11757
>
[...]
>
>  At a quick read-through the original article seemed to be decrying
>  the way the literary crowd made stfnal ideas dull.  It reminded me
>  (just a little) of a killer review I once read, about how the
>  magazine "Heavy Metal" was a static travesty of what a graphic novel
>  ought to be.

Speaking as a former editor of HEAVY METAL, it wasn't always like that.

--Ted White