Twilight Zine

TWILIGHT ZINE - A black ink and black color pencil drawing with zip-a-tone used as a grey color on an 11 x14 size vellum paper. It appears on the cover of "Twilight Zine, No.24".

In 1967 I was reading the letter section in a science fiction magazine and noticed that one of the letters was from the co-editors of a fanzine titled "Twilight Zine," and they were asking readers to contribute artwork to their fanzine. The co-editors were Leslie Turek and Cory Seidman who were students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at that time. Their fanzine was published by the MIT Science Fiction Society, Cambridge, MA.

I found the courage to create this drawing and mailed it to them. Several months later I received a copy of "Twilight Zine, No. 24" and saw my drawing on the cover. I was overjoyed, it was my first drawing to be published, anywhere. There is something about having one's first artwork accepted for publication that is special, the wonder of it is never equaled. And it was my first tiny step on the road to becoming a professional Science Fiction illustrator.