Snakebit

Zine
Title:	Snakebit
Publisher:	Escape Press and Escape Press of Texas
Editor(s):	J.A. Raish and Linda Ojard, then just J.A. Raish
Date(s):	1984-1990
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Medium:	print zine
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Fandom:	Escape from New York
Language:	English
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Snakebit is a gen Escape from New York anthology with two issues.

The first issue was published by Escape Press, and due to a "personal falling out between my co-editor, [Linda Ojard]" the second issue was published by Escape Press of Texas. Something must have been worked out, though, as the fourth issue was by Escape Press. Linda Ojard continued to write and contribute art to the other issues.

2017 Efforts to Archive it Online

Some of it is online here as PDFs.

From the archivist:

Extremely proud to finally share the second issue of this rare and most prominent Snake Plissken fan zine with the world! For many, many years I've been waiting for it to show up on eBay fruitless. I decided to take matters in my own hands and managed to get in contact with Jeanne Cavelos (Private Trap/Pages: 43-49) who luckily still had this zine and sent it to me as a loan! I did get an email from the editor of this zine J.A. Raish about a year ago. She was a bit upset that I didn't seek her up for permission to use Snakebit 1 on the site but when I told her that I tried without any result she seemed ok with it. She told me that she considered finally publishing Snakebit 3 (1990) and that she had some copies left of Snakebit 2. I suggested to her to sell them via the site but for some reason I never heard from her again. I recently tried to get in contact with her again for an interview regarding the zine etc but I got no reply. Oh well. If you read this Judi I just want to thank you for your dedication and for keeping the flame going through the 80s and early 90s. These two issues are very, very impressive and I'm very happy to share your and Linda Ojard's (1947 - 2013) work to a new generation as well as older fans.

This issue is particularly interesting since it contains an article written by Mike McQuay (EFNY Movie Tie-In Novelist) (1949 - 1995) and a letter from John Carpenter himself!

A Big Special Thanks To Jeanne Cavelos! You Are Awesome!

Issue 1

Snakebit 1 was published in June 1984 and contains 154 pages.

cover of issue #1

• List of Illustrations (1)
• Editorial Page (3)
• Cartoon by Kayli Armstrong (5)
• Fan List (7)
• When Plissken Comes Marching Home Again, Hurrah? (9)
• Word Search Puzzle (12)
• Nineteen Thirty-Six to Ninety-Seven by Eva Albertsson (15)
• Stairwell by Laurie Shanahan (18)
• Corellian... Farewell Eva Albertsson (19)
• Commissioner's Journal by Eva Albertsson (21)
• Poem to the Blue-Eyed Vision in Black by Amy New (27)
• After by J.A. Raish (29)
• War Hero by Sheila Paulson (33)
• Sliding Stealthily... by Barb Johnson (35)
• Rules by Barb Johnson (35)
• New York Night: 1997 by Barb Johnson (36)
• Serpent, Dear Serpent... by Amy New (39)
• The Coldest War by J.A. Raish (40)
• Call Me Snake... by Barb Johnson (89)
• Young Man/Old Man by Linda Ojard (90)
• Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Easy by Eva Albertson (124)
• It's Always Midnight Somewhere by Linda Ojard (126)
• Running Out of Time by Sandy Goodall (135)
• Unnamed Sequel by J. A. Raish 140)
• Recipe by Gabriele Franke (147)
• The Date by Babette Hahn (149)
• PLSSKN (1976 Datsun B-210) (149)
• Word Search Solution (152)
• Advertising

Issue 2

cover of issue #2, Linda Ojard

Snakebit 2 was published in November 1988 and contains 181 pages.

• List of Illustrations (1)
• Editorials (3)
• Letter of Comment by John Carpenter (5)
• Dear John... by J.A. Raish and Linda Ojard
• Letter of Comment by Mike McQuay (8)
• On Living With Snake by Mike McQuay (11)
• The Twelve Days of X-Mas: 1997 by J.A. Raish (17)
• One-Eyed Jack Times Three by Linda Ojard (37)
• Private Trap by Jeanne Cavelos (43)
• The Long Road Home, sequel to The Coldest War by J.A. Raish (50)
• Hobson's Choice by Sheila Paulson (99)
• Cartoon by Dave Garcia (102)
• Trivia Quiz by J.A. Raish (180)
• Young Man/Old Man II: Ten Years After the Night Before by Linda Ojard (105)
• Preview-Return to New York by J.A. Raish (178)
• Trivia Quiz Answers (180)
• Advertisements (181)

Issue 3

Snakebit 3 was published in 1990.

• The Legend of "Wild Cat Lacey" by J.A. Raish
• The Ballad of Mike Redhawk by Nan Mack
• Violets & Beer by Nan Mack
• The Price of Survival by Nan Mack
• art by Linda Ojard, including the cover
• fiction by Linda Ojard
• illos by Hindman
• LoCs, including some by John Carpenter and Mike McQuay
• other unknown content