Editor Larry Jackson with Jennifer Rowe went to San Francisco and discovered artist Wendy Victor's art by accident. They spotted her sitting in a chair on the sidewalk near Ghiradelli Square by Fisherman's Wharf painting with charcoal. That is where Victor worked when she could get a space, doing portraits of tourists. To show tourists samples of her work she made a large wooden case stand that she unfolded and displayed her portraits. It was the only tool she had to promote her work. When her day ended Jackson and Rowe visited Victor in her apartment for an interview they had arranged. Trustingly, Victor handed over to Jackson, whom she had never known before the visit, her entire display case for him to take back to Chico and photograph for Phantasm. Jackson shipped the tall heavy case back on a Greyhound bus, which Victor had to go pick up across town in San Francisco without a car. Portraits from the case are used in this issue.