Night Beast
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| Title: | Night Beast |
| Publisher: | Shadowboxe Graphix |
| Editor(s): | Kate Nickell |
| Date(s): | January 1993 |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV)/Night Court/McCloud/The Real Ghostbusters |
| Language: | English |
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Night Beast is a gen Beauty and the Beast (TV)/Night Court 108-page anthology.
The art is by Joy Riddle, Mariann Howarth, Melody Rondeau, and Kat.
This zine was a 1993 FanQ nominee.
Summary
From Media Monitor:
Read about how boyhood friends Vincent, Devin and Harry Stone and their adventures Above and Below the streets of New York. Meet their friends Marshall Sam McCloud, Judge Nicholas Marshall, and the Real Ghostbusters. It's the Beauty and the Beast with a little humor, Night Court with a little drama.
Zine Dedication
This zine is dedicated to the creators, actors, artists and writers who brought these imaginary people and places to life as well as our extended families who didn’t commit us even when they were sure we’d gone crazy.
The Editorial
Fanzines can take on a life of their own. Night Beast started slowly, as two or three short stories in other zines. (Thank you, ladies, for letting us reprint here.) Ideas multiplied; and finally I decided that the concept was good enough to carry a zine by itself.
Of course, it's someone else's fault. I've collected Beauty and the Beast art and stories since I first fell in love with Jean Marais' Beast in Cocteau's Belle et la Bete (1946). When the television show premiered, it was just another addition to my collection. An updated version that I enjoyed, but not a world that I felt a pressing need to expand on my own.
However, in fandom, you never know where things will take you. Joy, my art editor and co-conspirator, started watching Night Court because she heard that Brent Spiner had been a guest star on the series. Instead of feeding her Data files, so to speak, she became a fan of Harry Anderson. Thanks to the miracles of cable and VCRs, we caught up with five years of syndication in next to no time at all. Since there were no humor zines for Anderson and crew, I thought I was still safe.
Little did I know. As a joke, I combined the two universes. After all, they had a few details in common: setting, the law system, and --- most importantly -- a sense of magical realism. No matter what happens in either show, it's written as if it could happen. The characters make you believe in whatever they say and do.
The stories are arranged in chronological order according to when the characters encountered one another. If you're curious about the actual written order, go to the appendix.
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The history of the characters Above and Below coincide with the details revealed in both shows. It's just that the shows didn't tell us everything. (How could they? NC and B & the B were broadcast by NBC and CBS respectively.)
Like many zines, Night Beast chronicles how friendship enriches and expands the lives of the characters. It might not have happened exactly this way in the scripts, but, in a New York touched by magic and wonder, anything is possible.
Contents
- In the Beginning by Joy Riddle (B&B) (1)
- Patterns, poem by Kate Nickell (B&B) (5)
- Boys Will Be Boys by Kate Nickell (B&B) (6)
- Eyes Without a Face by Kate Nickell (McCloud/Night Court) (10)
- Puss in Boots by Joy Riddle (B&B/Night Court) (originally published in Crystal Visions) (28)
- Another Fine Mess by Sharon Dickerson (Night Court/Real Ghostbusters) (42)
- Animal Magnetism by Kate Nickell (Night Court) (originally published in Crystal Visions) (48)
- Teddybear's Picnic by Joy Riddle (B&B/Night Court) (originally published in Our Favorite Things #6) (52)
- Mirror of the Soul by Kate Nickell (B&B/Night Court) (57)
- Running in the Shadows, poem by Kate Nickell (B&B) (66)
- Angels Unawares by Kate Nickell (B&B/Night Court) (67)
- Castles in the Air by Kate Nickell (Night Court) (84)
- Fathers and Sons by Sharon Dickerson (B&B/Night Court) (88)
- Don't Tell Mom, the Babysitter's Dad by Kate Nickell (B&B/Night Court) (101)
- Appendix (106)
- The Lite at the End of the Tunnels, poem by Karen Robertson (B&B/Night Court) (108)
Sample Interior
Joy Riddle
Joy Riddle
Joy Riddle
Melody Rondeau
Joy Riddle
Melody Rondeau
Joy Riddle
Mariann Howarth
