Small Press Re-Discoveries

We recently moved a few things around and re-discovered a bunch of Mini-Comics (Phobovore Comix might live again!), old Zines and other stuff from the early to mid-Eighties. There were copies of Fringeward, Serendipity, Scream Factory, After Hours, Scavengers' Newsletter; plus there were a few copies of Silver Griffin, an RPG-zine that was produced locally back then.

Silver Griffin was where we first discovered/encountered Remgarn, one of the more disreputable NPCs whom we've used to good effect in numerous scenarios that we've run at various conventions and the like. The Exotic Armors article was written for AD&D (1st edition), so it might even be slightly useful after all this time. Especially with the impending reprint of the 1st edition books by WoTC.

Why do you think it was named
'Griff Silv Crater?'

The Guide to the Weird City might also be worth reprinting, if only for historical perspective. There had been plans to expand the central map significantly, but that never happened, or rather it hasn't happened yet.

Bybark the Mad, Zabbrum the World Walker, Flame-Snails, Ice Lions...It was a lot of fun working on those articles for Silver Griffin. 


It's also great to see new Zines like Fight On!, Delve!, Oubliette, The Manor, Crawl and Loviatar (and others) out there, and more seem to be popping up all the time. It'd be great to see the Zine & Mini-Comics small press scene be reborn. Maybe there'll be a revival of sorts and we'll see a new version of W. Paul Ganley's Weirdbook. That'd be awesome.

We re-used this guy on our post about Scribbles...