The Cavalier

Zine
Title:	The Cavalier
Publisher:	Fern Marder and Carol Walske Press
Editor(s):	Fern Marder and Carol Walske
Date(s):	1986
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Medium:	print
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Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Buckaroo Banzai
Language:	English
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The Cavalier is a gen 217-page Buckaroo Banzai anthology.

front cover by Carol Walske

back cover by Dianne C. Wickes

Computer graphics and type by Carol Walske, via Zenith Z-90 and Diablo 630. Front cover by Carol Walske. Back cover by Dianne C. WIckes. Other art by Walske and Wickes.

About

From an interview with Fern Marder: "A word on the Buckaroo Banzai zine. We published 'The Cavalier' in connection with the official 20th Century Fox fan club for the movie the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, for whom we kind of ran an east coast office. We were utterly startled to find a mention of this, including our names, in an interview on the Banzai DVD, that came out a few years ago. A while back, on another fractal website, we found a post from a fractal fan trying to find out if the Carol Walske who did fractals, was the Carol Walske who did The Cavalier. The creative world is so wonderfully small."

a 1986 flyer

From a Flyer

The Banzai Institute is a fascinating place to live and work—you run into old friends and meet lots of new people. We just couldn't wait for Earl Mac Rauch to write another Buckaroo Banzai novel, so we took [natters into our own hands. THE CAVALIER is a collection of some long and short stories about the past, present and future of our Team Banzai friends and introductions to some of the other people who make the Banzai Institute what it is.

All the familiar faces are here--Buckaroo, Rawhide, Reno, Perfect Tommy, New Jersey, Professor Hikita, Sam, Billy, Pinky, Mrs. Johnson and Penny Priddy. You'll also get to know folks you've only met in print, like Peggy Banzai, Pecos and, yes, curse him, Hanoi Xan. And to meet some totally new Team Banzai people—Downtown, Peanut, Blackjack, Rejoice, Gareth and many more. The directors of the Blue Blaze Irregulars have put their collective talents to work to bring you our points of view on the Buckaroo Banzai universe. The more than twenty stories have been written— individually and in collaboration—by Fern "Sunshine" Marder, Lori "Illinois Kate" Oberscheven, Denise "Catnip" Tathwell, and Carol "D.J." Walske. Artwork, cartoons and computer graphics by Dianne "Hollywood" Wickes and "D.J." 200 pages, offset print.

THE CAVALIER is an independent project conceived, engineered, and funded by the New York office of the BBI. It is NOT an official fan club publication and its contents represent the views and efforts Of its contributors only. Unfortunately, that means that we've got to recoup the production and mailing costs.

From the Editorial

Not since Star Wars has any movie so screamed at us to DO SOMETHING. The Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information is a haven for creative research and expression. It is populated by fascinating characters- some of whom we saw in the movie, some of whom we met in the novelization and other written material, and a potentially infinite collection of personages who make up the interns, residents, Blue Blazes and so forth inhabiting the Institute and its environs. The philosophy of the Institute proclaims everything possible, the unexpected to be expected, and each person's individual talents and values to be nourished and encouraged. This collection of fiction, etc. is only a very small sampling of what could come out of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and the Banzai Institute. It represents some ideas of a few people who believe in Buckaroo Banzai enough to work on the Board of Directors of the Blue Blaze Irregulars, the Official Buckaroo Banzai Fan Club. This is not an official publication of the fan club. The problems inherent in publishing a club fanzine, as different from the newsletter, "World Watch One," are insurmountable. Enough soapbox. Buckaroo wouldn't approve. So what is this thing,The Cavalier? These stories represent a cross-section of possible Banzai themes: background on the characters we've met, follow-up on situations and ideas presented in the movie, and speculation and invention on who and what else might be going on behind those gates in New Brunswick. Most of these stories came about because characters kept walking in the door, knocking on our heads and announcing, "I belong at the Institute and I'm going to tell you why." You will notice that these stories represent varied viewpoints on the Banzai universe. Denise and Lori's Institute is one very personal to the characters we met in the movie — and includes a post-8th Dimension Rawhide. Our (Fern and Carol's) Institute is a much broader, rambling campus of people, somewhat more in line with the novelization. The main thing to remember is that just as each of us took what we were given and extrapolated from there, every reader's idea of 'what happened before1 and 'what happened after' is equally valid — indeed, perhaps even more valid for each of you, since your idea is what 'works' for you. A prime example of this is the last story in The Cavalier, the only story not generated 'in-house,' as it were. Anne Elizabeth Zeek and Sara Campbell, two Blue Blazes, had very different answers and a very different approach to many of the questions left open by the movie. The style of the story will be very familiar to those devotees of Earl MacRauch's novel. Suffice it to say that we 'stopped press' to include this story. . . Those readers familiar with our previous endeavors will notice that this zine looks and reads nothing like anything we've done before. That's because Buckaroo Banzai is like nothing we've ever encountered before, and we tried to match its unique character with a zine something out of the ordinary.

Table of Contents

• Moving through Matter (3)
• Once Upon a Time... by Fern Marder (...a cowboy met a stranger.) ( 5)
• Through a Glass Darkly by Fern Marder (Team Banzai gains a new psientist) (7)
• West of the Pecos by Lori Oberscheven (Manna in the wilderness.) (16)
• A Seedy Story by Carol Walske (Team Banzai reports on things large, green and pitiful...) (18)
• Spread a Little Happiness by Fern Marder. (Buckaroo brings a little Sunshine into our lives.) (22)
• Token Lectroid Page (24)
• A Close Encounter of the Eighth Dimension or The Intern Strikes Back by Fern Marder and Carol Walske (One intern's 35mm dream scores a 10 on the Richter scale.) (25) (script form)
• A Rose by any Other Name by Denise Tathwell (At the church of St. John the Divine, arsenic and old lace.) (45)
• The Peggy Paradox by Fern Marder (Point and counterpoint - a two-penny opera.) (49)
• Nuts To You by Carol Walske (Anonymity is never assured, even with the Perfect pseudonym) (54)
• Rejoice by Fern Marder (Reno's Portrait of the Intern as a Young Man) (63)
• That was the River by Fern Marder and Carol Walske (Introduction to a Questing - and questioning - Beast.) (66)
• Rawhide Rides Again by Denise Tathwell (Medicine, miracle or maybe something else entirely.) (75)
• Tales of the Young Ones (Three you've just met plus two more make new waves, rockous music, and five easy pieces.)
  • Time Out by Fern Marder (82)
  • A Girl Called Johnny by Fern Marder and Carol Walske (86)
  • The Young Ones by Fern Marder (92)
  • Not the Color Purple by Carol Walske (95)
  • Saint Patrick's Day by Fern Marder (101)
• Keep a Candle Burning by Denise Tathwell (The Calypso team returns safe...but not sound.) (107)
• A Fable of the Reconstruction (A sequel to Rawhide Rides Again and Keep a Candle Burning) by John Pseudonym (Lori Oberscheven, Fern Marder, and Carol Walske) (127)
• Chameleon by Carol Walske (One Cavalier's errant path to the Institute.) (134)
• Postscript by Fern Marder (From the Chameleon's mailbox.) (176)
• Buckaroo Banzai and the Return From Hell by Anne Elizabeth Zeek and Sara Campbell (Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...) (178)

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