Startoons (multifandom cartoon pro book)
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| Title: | Startoons |
| Creator: | Joan Winston |
| Date(s): | 1979 |
| Medium: | book of cartoons |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS & Star Wars & others |
| Language: | English |
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Startoons is a pro-book of fannish cartoons edited by Joan Winston and published by Playboy Press.
Reactions and Reviews
Joan Winston and the contributors have put together a fun and funny book. Her reproduction is fair to fairly good, especially for the medium, and the arrangement eclectic. The variety of contents prevents this from the label of 'Star Trek' material, but it should give it a wider market. Startoons is humorous, filled with good cartoons and clever ideas. (And I heard the fans were paid real money for them, too, which is good to hear.) The problem is that this book wasn't designed for fans. A fan has seen most of this before -- and much of it was better before the editing, re-drawing and re-writing. This book is designed for Everybody Else, closet fan to mundane. Yet at the same time, the readers almost have to be knowledgeable about all the major SF movies and TV shows of the past several years. Those who aren't will miss most of the jokes. Strangely, (or perhaps not) the part that seem the weakest are those most fannish. The Scrod, for example, suffers from an attempt to translate an 'in' joke, and becomes only marginally humorous as a result. My advice to fans is to borrow it, as you probably have half of it already. And then if you like it, buy a copy, as, unlike some recent pro books, this does come from fan and fannish sources. [1]
A book of cartoons, mostly Star Trek but with a few Star Wars and other SF orientated, ones among them. Like all humour, it does depend largely on one's own sense of the ridiculous how funny you find it. I would doubt that the book will find much sale except amongst ST fans since certain of the jokes are 'in' jokes, even although an attempt is made to explain the origins of some of them. I had seen a fair number of these cartoons before - I would expect most long-term fans to have seen at least some of them - and found the book a mixture of the amusing and the incomprehensible. [2]