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This is to notify Timebinder types,and any other fans who may have
known him of the death of a First Fandom member, namely my Dad, James
M. Rogers. He died on September 11th, 1998 of a stroke. James, naturally, became introduced to fandom through the letter columns in the magazines and soon struck up a correspondance with fellow Oklahomans Dan McPhail and Jack Speer. He (along with his surviving sister, Mary Rogers) was a prolific illustrator for several fanzines in the 1930's, notably The Science Fiftion Fan and others associated with Olon F. Wiggins. Some of these zines were on display around the dealers room at the last Boston worldcon, and a couple of you may recall seeing them. After WW2, he fell away from fandom though he continued to read SF and supernatural stories with a passion. Gradually, he read lessand less SF though he reamined addicted to supernatural stories literally up to the day he died. In the late 1970s and 80s, when I became active in fandom, he again began drawing for Dan McPhail's FAPA zine (as well as for my own aptly named Thrilling Crudzine).....the stuff still looked much as it had in the 1930's, full of baroque Frank R. Paul and Virgil Finlay stylings. As far as Dad was concerned, SF pretty well expired with Gernsback's sale of WONDER STORIES, and his art reflected that. He leaves behind a legacy of love and a heck of a lot of pulps. James |