Notes
Phantasm,
vol.
1,
no.
2,
issue
2,
1976
Independent
literary
journal
of
original
poetry,
fiction,
artwork,
articles,
features,
photos,
commentary,
book
reviews,
interviews,
and
announcements.
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This issue was the first Phantasm to have text typeset other than the typewriter and handset lead type Larry Jackson was setting. Jackson was owed money by Larry Brock, who took a job with a downtown Chico photography store that was starting an adult magazine. They purchased one of the newest machines for setting type--a phototypesetter. To pay his debt Brock set Phantasm's first feature article with a phototypesetter, a story written by Edward Kulkosky who organized poetry readings in New York. As with all the type set for the magazine, Jackson pasted it up for camera-ready copy. Jackson paid Bill Donohue five dollars to draw a cartoon to illustrate the story. |
Thereafter only poetry was set with a typewriter and headlines were still made by hand with lead type and a letterpress at Nelvin Jackson's Printing. Brock did one more issue, then Jackson paid Margo Johnson in Paradise, California, to set the type on her phototypesetter that she operated at home. Margo later started a business in Chico, The Graphic Fox, with her husband Lamar, and turned it into a successful print shop owned today by Larry Laney.
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Larry Jackson purchases an ad for Phantasm in the New York Review of Books, March 18, 1976, for $12.60. |
