Do you recall NOSFAratu?
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Monday, February 7, 2022
NOSFAratu and Russell Bates
Presented by the Norman Oklahoma Science Fiction Association, and sponsored by Southside/Planet Comics, it was NOSFAratu.
I don't remember a dang thing about it. The month or day? Nope. However, I have proof that i was there!You see, the briefcase was mine, and the stuff you see on it was the stuff I was trying to sell. That means I had a dealer's table. Oh, and the guy making like a model for an instant-camera commercial? That's the late lamented Russell Bates, native Oklahoman and author of the STTAS episode "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth." I'd met him at BabelCon 1 in 1980, when he was bemused by my Vulcan character Selik. You can learn more about Russell and Selik by typing that name "Selik" in the search bar at the left.
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We don't have a date or place? (presumably Norman?)
ReplyDeleteI recall the program cover, so presumably so... I did not head to KU for grad school until August, so ...?
Correct. In the text between the program and Russell's photo, I say "I don't remember a dang thing about it. The month or day?"
ReplyDeleteAha! I was just re-reading closer: per panel topics as clues, this was after Challenger (so, sometime February 1986 or later) but before those comics listed "as on the way"— and you'll need a comics guy to research that. (Byrne's SUPERMAN and MArvel's NEW UNIVERSE). But likely sometime in 1986.
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