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Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort . Previously published by John Brown Publishing (from 1991 to 2001), I Feel Good Publishing (2001 to 2005), Dennis Publishing (2005 to 2021), and Exponent (2021), as of December 2021 it is published by Diamond Publishing, part of Metropolis International .

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61-664: Mary Forbes Evans (née Lander, 5 May 1936 – 29 June 2010) was a British writer, collector and the co-founder, with her husband Hilary Evans , of the Mary Evans Picture Library. Caroline Mary Forbes Lander was born on 5 May 1936 at 8 Cotswold Gardens, Hendon , London, the youngest of four daughters of Digby Forbes Lander (1891–1969), an aircraft works accounts clerk, and his wife, Norah Doris Caroline Lander, née Williams (1898–1970). She lived in Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire, before moving to Southern Rhodesia at

122-692: A "constant [source] of valuable clippings, books, postcards, and entertaining letters"; Janet and Colin Bord, later authors of Mysterious Britain (Janet also wrote for Flying Saucer Review and Lionel Beer's Spacelink , while Colin's Fortean article in Gandalf's Garden was particularly cited by Rickard as bringing him/them to his attention); Phil Ledger, a " peripatetic marine biologist ", and The News ' "first enthusiastic fan"; Ken Campbell , Fortean theatre director and playwright ; John Michell ; graphic designer Richard Adams and Dick Gwynn, who both helped with

183-630: A copywriter in 1953. In 1964 he and his wife Mary Evans (1936–2010) founded the Mary Evans Picture Library, an archive of historical illustrations. In 1981 he co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena . Evans was an exponent of the Psychosocial Hypothesis of UFOs as culturally shaped visionary experiences. Evan's Harlots, Whores & Hookers: A History of Prostitution (1979),

244-610: A dozen issues after #42, returning as a contributing editor in Autumn 1990 (#55). The four — Rickard, Sieveking, Dash, and Moore — are often collectively referred to as "the Gang of Fort", after the Gang of Four . Issue #21 had the debut of FT semiregular column "Strange Deaths" (later descriptively subtitled "Unusual ways of shuffling off this mortal coil"), while issue #22 updated FT 's to include ( Ivan T. Sanderson 's) The Society for

305-423: A few years there, still growing, it moved again to larger premises, the former parish hall of All Saints' Blackheath . Mary Evans embraced technological change and continued to innovate, and by the time of her death the company employed 14 people, had a website containing nearly one million images, and an annual turnover of over £1 million. Together with Hilary, Mary Evans wrote several books featuring images from

366-409: A limited basis through WH Smiths . The move away from production on Rickard's typewriter gave "The Journal of Strange Phenomena," (as it was now subtitled) greater ability to produce longer, better laid-out articles. These opened with a seven-page guide to "Charles Fort and Fortean Times" by Bob Rickard, explaining the background and philosophy of FT , as well as outlining the influence of Fort, "who

427-795: A pejorative term for a debunker . Most Fortean researchers contribute articles, criticism, or letters to the magazine. It has also attracted more widespread coverage and praise. Fortean Times #69 claims, "extracts from FT have featured in at least three publications used for teaching English as a foreign language." Lynn Barber of The Independent on Sunday newspaper described writing in FT as "a model of elegant English." The magazine has organised an "UnConvention" (or UnCon ), most years since 1994 (the "missing" years being 2001, 2005, and 2009), at various venues in London (the University of London Union ,

488-402: A photograph of the medium Eusapia Palladino allegedly levitating a table "without trickery", but her hands or feet were not visible, nor two of the legs of the table. Scott concluded that Evans' description of the photograph was "sheer fantasy". Further book reviews: Fortean Times In December 2018, its print circulation was just over 14,800 copies per month. The magazine's tagline

549-474: A small house in Blackheath , in south-east London. In 1964, the couple founded the Mary Evans Picture Library, and in 1965, Hilary Evans left his job in advertising to work full-time with his wife on the library. Eventually the collection of tens of thousands of volumes, with hundreds of thousands of images, grew too large for their house, and the company moved to a small office near Blackheath station; after

610-530: A stall run by Derek Stokes (later to run Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed , and take a role in the day-to-day running of The Fortean Times ). After reading an advertisement in the underground magazine Oz (in 1969) for the International Fortean Organization (INFO), an American group "founded in 1966... by Paul and Ronald Willis," who had acquired material from the original Fortean Society (started in 1931, but in limbo since

671-407: A subtitle of "Portents & Prodigies", Fortean Times was born. After 15 issues of The News , issue #16 (1976) had the magazine renamed Fortean Times , which "new title emerged from correspondence between Bob Rickard and Paul Willis" — the two having talked of creating a Fortean version of The Times newspaper, "full of weird and wonderful news and read by millions worldwide". Its cover bore

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732-471: A year of six issues ) for 20 pages, The News was produced on Rickard's typewriter, with headings created with Letraset , during (as Rickard says in #2) the late-1970s blackouts . The first issue featured a cover (which would become briefly the unofficial logo of The News ) drawn by Rickard from a Selfridges advertisement originally created by Bernard Partridge . From the second issue, pictures and photographs from various newspapers were interpolated within

793-461: Is "The World of Strange Phenomena". The roots of the magazine that was to become Fortean Times can be traced back to Bob Rickard's discovering the works of Charles Fort through the secondhand method of reading science-fiction stories: " John Campbell , the editor of Astounding Science Fiction (as Analog was then titled), for example," writes Rickard, "encouraged many authors to expand Fort's data and comments into imaginative stories." In

854-424: Is Dead". Fortean Studies , the magazine's more academic sister publication published yearly volumes in the late 1990s. The seventh and last issue was published in 2001. Its website tracks Fortean news stories and holds a small archive of articles and photographs. For many years, it also supported a busy internet forum for the discussion of Fortean topics. With the advent of GDPR legislation in 2018, this forum

915-431: Is not a mandatory requirement, and some articles focus on a specific theory or point of view. Although such articles are presented as the opinion of the author and not the editors (who claim to have no opinions), this has occasionally led to controversy. In January 1997, the magazine ran an article by David Percy under the headline "FAKE! Did NASA hoax the moon landing photos?". The article outraged many readers and led to

976-520: Is still largely unknown", writes Rickard, and also included the first of Nigel Watson's "Enigma Variations" columns and Loren Coleman 's "Devil Names and Fortean Places" article sat alongside comments by Colin Bord, Tim Dinsdale , V. G. W. Harrison , and Rickard on Anthony 'Doc' Shiels ' 1977 " Nessie " photographs. The magazine itself dropped the description 'non-profitmaking' from its publication information, and ceased to name its stated affiliations to INFO, SITU, and "other Fortean journals" in favour of

1037-702: The Institute of Education , the Commonwealth Institute , and in recent years, Friends House ). Many "hot topics" of the day have been discussed, such as the Ray Santilli "alien autopsy" film at the 1996 UnCon, and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales at the 1998 event, which also saw Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince discussing Templar conspiracies and hidden symbolism in the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci , years before these were turned into mass-media subjects by The Da Vinci Code . Besides

1098-591: The 1959 death of its founder Tiffany Thayer ), Rickard began to correspond with the brothers, particularly Paul. Rickard was instrumental in encouraging the Willises to publish their own Fortean journal – the INFO Journal: Science and the Unknown began intermittent publication in spring, 1967 – and sent them many British newspaper clippings, although few came to print. Rickard later discovered that

1159-400: The 1980s, after which glossy covers followed. Several changes of logo and font have occurred throughout its life. The identification of correct original sources by contributors is a defining feature of the magazine, as it was for Charles Fort himself. However, the "objective reality" of these reports is not as important. The magazine "maintains a position of benevolent scepticism towards both

1220-458: The 40+ years of its publication, Fortean Times has changed both format and publishers on a few occasions. Early issues (particularly of The News ) were produced in black and white (for ease of photocopying), and the whole was largely produced by typewriter until #29. Colour, professional printing, and wider distribution followed, and a 6.5- x 4.5-in size held sway for several years before the magazine settled into its "normal" A4 (magazine) size in

1281-510: The Fortean Sourcebooks" for #7, and issue #8 was the first issue of volume 2, after Rickard decided to end volume 1 with #7 (not #6 as fully bimonthly titles do), since that issue was dated November '74, thereby attempting to keep each volume aligned with a year. Issue #8 (or, volume 2, issue #1) got the special "Christmas present" of headings by Hunt Emerson, after Rickard was introduced to Emerson by Carol and Nick Moore, as Hunt

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1342-606: The Investigation of the Unexplained, alongside INFO. Issue #23 featured an article by Robert Anton Wilson on, aptly, " The 23 Phenomenon ," made available a second index (1975, to The News #8–13) and included a 12-page "Review Supplement", issued as a separately bound supplement since the then-printers had difficulty binding more than 40 pages. With #24, the printers were changed to Windhorse Press to overcome this difficulty, and FT became officially 52 pages in length,

1403-535: The Scunthorpe UFO Research Society), who wrote "Mysterious Moon" for The News #2. Watson later wrote a regular column of UFO commentary entitled Enigma Variations (from #29), and articles on the subject of UFO -related murders and stories of sexual assault by aliens. Phil Grant wrote about Ley lines for #3, and Mary Caine, who revised an earlier article (from Gandalf's Garden ) on The Glastonbury Zodiac for issue #4, which also had

1464-440: The address was changed.) Sieveking joined the FT team with #28 as co-associate editor, and writes, highlighting the intrinsic early difficulties in printing FT that that issue "was printed by an Israeli entrepreneur in northern Greece and shipped to London." That issue (#28), bearing a cover blurb of "Strange Phenomena", featured an early advertisement for the bookshop Dark They Were And Golden-Eyed, drawn by Bryan Talbot , while

1525-820: The age of seven. The family returned to England in 1950. Lander met her future husband Hilary Agard Evans (1929–2011), an advertising copywriter, and the son of Eric Agard Evans, a schoolmaster, when she was a teenager at a party. They married in 1956. Mary Evans had been a collector since childhood, especially of illustrated children's books. She shared a passion for collecting pictures and images with her husband Hilary Evans , and they explored book fairs, bookshops, used book stalls and markets, purchasing books, prints, photographs, engravings, cartoons, illustrations and assorted ephemera - "anything with an image". Their "magnificent obsession" soon filled their small flat in Kensington Church Street , so they moved to

1586-542: The changes cemented in issue #25 with a new font for the title and a change of address — c/o London-based "SF and cosmic" bookshop Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed, run by Derek Stokes (who had sold Rickard the four Fort books 10 years previously). The same issue ran an obituary for Eric Frank Russell , of whom Rickard was a considerable fan. He writes that Russell turned down an invitation to contribute material to The News back in 1973, having "earned his rest" after 40 years as an active Fortean. Rickard further states that Russell

1647-433: The closure of Stokes' bookshop). Issue #30 announced that while "over the last couple of issues [the] subscriber list... nearly doubled," so too had the "printing, production, and postage bill," necessitating a price rise to 95p/$ 2.50 — albeit softened by another length increase, to 68 pages. Now published not merely by Rickard, but by Fortean Times Ltd, it was typeset by Warpsmith Graphics and printed by Bija Press. The cover

1708-766: The debut of the "Reviews" section, beginning with comments on a book by John Michell , the Sphere reprint of Charles Fort's New Lands and John Sladek 's The New Apocrypha . Issues #2 and #3 noted, The News was published "with an arrangement with INFO", this was revised from #4 to it being "affiliated to the International Fortean Organization ". From #5, Mark A. Hall produced a section entitled "Fortean USA", continuing on from his earlier, discontinued, newsletter From My Files ; issue #5 also had William Porter's article on Llandrillo printed, after being delayed from #4 for space constraints. Janet Bord contributed "Some Fortean Ramblings" alongside William R. Corliss 's "The Evolution of

1769-728: The descriptive text "Strange phenomena — curiosities — prodigies — portents — mysteries," while the inside cover kept the "Fort face" logo from later issues of The News , but bore the revised legend "A Contemporary Record of Strange Phenomena". Included within was an offer for a "4-colour silk-screened poster" created by Hunt Emerson for this landmark issue. From the start, this new format compounded earlier financial difficulties for Rickard, following on from #14's plea: "we need more subscribers or we die!". ( Fortean Times issues #16–18 — as The News #1–15 before them — were solely edited, published, and in large part written and typed by Rickard himself. Even by passing on rising postal and paper costs to

1830-406: The earliest magazines, were published in smaller, 6.5 x 4.5in format) (The later collections were of a larger — A4 — size) Around 2005, FT began to release a series of digital archives. Beginning with more recent issues (presumably for reasons of ease — more recent issues would be more readily available as digital files), they have also begun to re-release the earliest issues — apparently

1891-497: The editorial promised that the next issue would not only see the availability of Index 1976, but also be in a "larger and more professional format, typeset throughout, [with] better graphics, layout, and legibility." Indeed, #29, under a cover by Hunt Emerson, was printed fully typeset in A4 (thanks to art director Richard Adams of AdCo, and,according to Rickard's preface to Yesterday's News Tomorrow , Dick Gwynn) and even distributed on

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1952-435: The editorship of Paul Devereux , with whom FT shared an address for several issues) would be helping to type parts of subsequent issues to further delegate the burden from Rickard. Moore, Sieveking, and he were also later joined editorially by author Mike Dash (who is mentioned as particularly overseeing the publication of scholarly occasional papers), before Moore moved from full editorial to largely correspondent duties for

2013-458: The end of 2019, handing most of the "Strange Days" news editor role to Christopher Josiffe . Sieveking continues to write the archaeology column, compile the "Extra, Extra" section, and edit the letters pages, also acting as the main quality-control proof-reader (as well as producing an occasional feature). Sieveking's wife Val Stevenson was book-review editor for several years, eventually passing this role on to David V. Barrett in 2019. During

2074-583: The evolving layout and typesetting of later issues; Chris Squire, who helped organise the first subscription database; Canadian "Mr. X"; Mike Dash; and cartoonist Hunt Emerson . Emerson was introduced to Rickard in late 1974, when after seven issues, he "wanted to improve the graphics", which Emerson certainly did, providing around 30 headings for use in issues #8 onwards. (Emerson's still-on-going monthly "Phenomenomix" strip in FT had its prototype in #11's three-page "Fortean Funnies"). Other early contributors included writer and researcher Nigel Watson (chairman of

2135-529: The first cartoon strip under the title "Phenomenomix". Sieveking took over full editorial duties from Rickard with #43, helming the subsequent four quarterly issues (to #46) to give Rickard a chance to "revitalize", which he did, returning with #46 to the position of co-editor. Moore, Dash, and Ian Simmons (and others) variously edited the magazine for the next 18+ years, and although main editorship passed from Rickard and Sieveking to David Sutton in 2002, they both continued to contribute. Sieveking semiretired at

2196-411: The first year's issues (#1–7) became available. Colin Bord penned "Amazing Menagerie" for issue #10, while Paul Devereux and Andrew York compiled an exhaustive study of Leicestershire in "Portrait of a Fault Area", serialised in #11–12. Issue #11 featured Rickard and Emerson's first "Fortean Funnies" cartoon, while #12 had a price rise to 50p/$ 1.25, a logo change (from Selfridges' herald-on-horseback to

2257-515: The formal lecture programme, UnCon normally features exhibits by organizations such as the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena and the Centre for Fortean Zoology. The event often ends with a panel discussion, as was the case in 2002, when the subject was "Is Ufology Dead?". This was widely reported in the British media as an "official" statement by Fortean Times that "Ufology

2318-684: The library, including The Party that Lasted 100 Days: the Late Victorian Season (1976) and The Man who Drew the Drunkard's Daughter: the Life and Art of George Cruikshank (1978). They co-edited The Picture Researchers' Handbook , up until its eighth edition. Mary Evans died on 29 June 2010, at Riverlee Nursing Home, Greenwich. Hilary Evans died on 27 July 2011. They were survived by their daughter, Valentine Evans. Hilary Evans Hilary Agard Evans (6 March 1929 – 27 July 2011)

2379-628: The literature" that had crept into various Fortean works through misquotation or other difficulties. After 18 more-or-less solo-produced issues, long-term supporter and helper Steve Moore was credited as assistant editor for issues #19–21, becoming co-contributing editor (with Phil Ledger, Stan Nichols, and Paul J. Willis) on issues #22–26 and associate editor from issue #27. He was joined by contributing editor David Fideler, and subsequently (also as co-associate editor) by Paul Sieveking (#28— ) and Valerie Thomas (#31–32). Issue #20 announced that Kay Thompson (a staff member of Ley Hunter magazine, then under

2440-405: The magazine's most vigorous postbag up to that time. In August 2000, the magazine's cover headline was "UFO? The shocking truth about the first flying saucers". The article in question, by James Easton, proposed a mundane explanation for Kenneth Arnold 's sighting — American white pelicans . This suggestion so outraged ufologists that many of them still use the term "pelican" or " pelicanist " as

2501-444: The magazine. A more academic journal, Fortean Studies , has also been printed and is an ongoing venture. In the late 1990s Polygram Spoken Word released an audio version of several Fortean stories, written and produced by Steve Deakin-Davies and featured Brian Cant and Joanna Bowen amongst its actors, this project was licensed from John Brown Publishing.( (c) 1997 Polygram Record operations ltd, Speaking Volumes no: 5361444) Starting in

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2562-458: The mid-1960s, while Rickard was studying product design at Birmingham Art College , he met several like-minded science-fiction fans, particularly crediting fellow student Peter Weston 's fan-produced Speculation magazine as helping him to "[learn] the art of putting together a fanzine ", some years before he created his own. Attending a science-fiction convention in 1968, Rickard obtained Ace paperback copies of all four of Fort's books from

2623-424: The more descriptive Fort's face-encircled) and a tweaking of its tagline to "bimonthly news & notes on Fortean phenomena." Issue #14 first mentioned Rickard and Michell's then-in-production book Phenomena! , which would be more actively trailed from #18. Issue #15 — now with 28 pages — announced that Rickard had decided to bow to popular opinion and retitle his miscellany with a more descriptive title. Thus, with

2684-433: The more general aim to be a "friend to all groups and magazines continuing the work of Charles Fort". It also contained a considerably higher number of advertisements, including both inside covers — making the page count slightly higher than previous issues, which had previously counted the cover as page 1 — and an early advertisement by Brian Bolland for Forbidden Planet (which would ironically begin to take off only after

2745-464: The move towards higher production values. With donations helping to offset costs, the price was held at 50p until issue #20, whereupon the magazine dropped to a quarterly schedule from Spring 1977 (issue #21) — but raised the page count (and price) to continue producing the same amount of material for the same yearly fee (40 pg, 75p ea. or £3/year). Issue #18 received a new semiregular feature entitled "Forteana Corrigenda", aimed at correcting "errors in

2806-527: The orthodox and the unorthodox" and " toes no party line ". The range of subject matter is extremely broad, including: Fortean Times also frequently covers the Ig Nobel Prizes , as well as unusual aspects of mainstream science and research. The magazine's current regular contents include: Most of the articles in Fortean Times are written in the style of objective journalism , but this

2867-498: The previous volumes had not sold well enough to continue completely up to date. (Concern over the likely cost of reprinting issues in the new full colour format led to a publishing decision to stockpile 500 unbound run-on copies of each number to provide the basis of future reprint editions, and this project resulted in one further collection — Snakes Alive! , collecting #93–97 — but the in-between issues #78–92 have not yet been collected in trade format.) (The early collections, like

2928-465: The production was fraught behind-the-scenes, as Ronald Willis had been seriously ill, Paul thus finding it difficult to "keep up with things" on his own. Ultimately, the Willises were instrumental in inspiring Rickard to create his own periodical. Ron Willis succumbed to a brain tumour in March 1975. Bearing a date of November 1973, the first issue of Rickard's self-produced and self-published The News

2989-414: The readership, which Rickard constantly reiterates that he is loath to do, the early Fortean Times was constantly facing an uphill financial battle.) Early editorials of the new FT , therefore (in fact beginning with The News #15) featured a notification of donations received, naming and thanking the hardcore readership (which included many current and future contributors) for monies received, which aided

3050-515: The text. The price was raised slightly for #6 — which also had its page count upped to 24 pages — due in large part to rising postal and paper costs. Helping behind the scenes was Steve Moore , a kindred spirit whom Rickard met at a comics convention when the latter was a subeditor at IPC . The two found they had much in common, including a love of Chinese mysticism, and Moore helped inspire Rickard to publish The News . The early issues featured some articles by different individuals, but were "largely

3111-427: The very early 1990s, Fortean Times produced a number of facsimile editions collecting the earliest issues of the magazine, in their entirety, including advertisements. These collections, prepared and edited for print by Paul Sieveking (including hand corrections to early typographic errors) are now out-of-print. Although demand was such to warrant reprints of several volumes, after collecting up to #77 FT decided that

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3172-469: The work of Bob Rickard, who typed them himself with some help from Steve Moore." Moore and Paul Screeton (then editor of The Ley Hunter ), both urged on the first few uncertain issues" and Moore frequently joined Rickard to "stuff envelopes and hand-write a few hundred addresses" to disseminate the early issues. Rickard also highlights amongst the key early Fortean Times advocates and supporters: Ion Alexis Will, who discovered The News in 1974 and became

3233-589: Was a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena. Evans was born in Shrewsbury , Shropshire , United Kingdom and educated at St George's School at Harpenden . After National Service in Palestine he went up to King's College, Cambridge , to read English, followed by a Master's at Birmingham University . He then spent some time as a private tutor before joining Mather & Crowther advertising agency as

3294-635: Was available directly from him. The magazine which was to continue Fort's work documenting the unexplained was founded by Robert J. M. "Bob" Rickard in 1973 as his self-published, bimonthly, mail-order "hobbyish newsletter" miscellany The News — "A Miscellany of Fortean Curiosities". The title is said to be "a contraction taken from Samuel Butler 's The News from Nowhere ", (although Rickard may be conflating/confusing Butler's Erewhon and William Morris ' News from Nowhere ). The News had fairly regular bimonthly publication for 15 issues between November 1973 and April 1976. Debuting at 35p (£1.80/$ 4.50 for

3355-401: Was criticized by historian Vern Bullough as an "anecdotal collection of incidents, some true, some not so true, with little analysis of the sources from which they came and even less understanding of the historical forces." Sceptical researcher Philip J. Klass described Evans one of the "best informed and more sensible of the pro-UFOlogists." Klass however, found it "regrettable" that Evans

3416-547: Was moved to the website of the Charles Fort Institute. The magazine has also occasionally published both academic and lighthearted books on various aspects of Forteana. Many of the earliest issues of FT were collected in book format in the early 1990s. In recent years, the print volumes have been overtaken by digital files, available on CD. In addition, several smaller collections have been compiled on various themes and sold, or given away as 'free gifts' with

3477-546: Was one of the key Fortean-fiction writers he read in Campbell 's Astounding Science Fiction and Analog , and the author of "the first Fortean book I [Rickard] ever read": Russell's Great World Mysteries . Issue #26 trailed "a special series of 'Occasional Papers' in Fortean subjects" to be edited by Steve Moore, and #27 — the 5th Anniversary issue — welcomed Michigan-native David Fideler (whose Anomaly Research Bulletin

3538-525: Was painted by Una Woodruff (whose Inventorum Natura was reviewed within) to illustrate John Michell 's article on "Spontaneous Images and Acheropites," drawing on his 1979 Thames & Hudson book dealing with — and titled — Simulacra . Bob Rickard produced an article on one " Clemente Dominguez : Pope, Heretic , Stigmatic "; Michael Hoffman speculated on the occult aspects of a serial killer in " The Sun of Sam "; Robert J. Schadewald wrote about "The Great Fish Fall of 1859", while Hunt Emerson produced

3599-617: Was the editor of the anthology UFOs, 1947–1987 published by the Fortean Times . According to Klass the book is unreliable and filled with pseudoscientific claims. Christopher Scott in the New Scientist criticized Evans for his lack of scientific understanding. Scott noted that Evans was heavily biased and credulous for accepting reports of paranormal phenomena at face value. Evans in Intrusions (1982) had presented

3660-635: Was then due to cease publication, although its subscribers, FT promised, would be absorbed by them) as FT 's "man in the New World". In 1978, mutual friend Ion Will introduced Rickard to Paul Sieveking, who recalls, "the Forteans used to meet every Tuesday afternoon above the science-fiction bookshop Dark They Were And Golden-Eyed in Soho to open post and interact. (Indeed, this was the semiofficial address of FT until that shop closed. With #35, Summer '81,

3721-507: Was working on Large Cow Comix . Described by Rickard as "as much a disciple of George [Herriman] ... and my [Rickard's] favourite artists from Mad ( Bill Elder and Wally Wood )" as Rickard was of Charles Fort, the two got on well, with Emerson producing not only a series of headings, but also later strips and covers for issues to the present. The death of INFO co-founder Ron Willis was announced in #9, which described itself as providing "bimonthly notes on Fortean phenomena", and an index to

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