White Cover

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Zine
Title: White Cover
Publisher: Vincent's World Press
Editor(s): Patricia Kehoe & Rita Hazlett
Date(s): July 1993
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Medium: print zine
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Genre: het
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Language: English
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White Cover is an explicit het 182-page Beauty and the Beast (TV) anthology edited by Patricia Kehoe & Rita Hazlett.

The art is by Inez Brown, Patricia Devoe, Alexandra Fossinger, Renate Haller, Rosemarie Hauer, Shirley Leonard, Terrie Milliman, and Pam Tuck. There is one nude color centerfold by Inez Brown and another color illustration by Pam Tuck. The silhouette cover is by Rosemarie Hauer.

Created in Reaction to Black Cover

While not mentioned in the the zine itself, it was created in response to the publication of Black Cover, an adult het fanzine that many in fandom considered pornographic and not in keeping with the show's canonical depiction of the Vincent/Catherine relationship.

From the Zine's Dedication

This book is dedicated to you, the reader, without whom none of this is possible, and to Ron Perlman, for his integrity and sincerity in an industry where, at times, such words are clearly forgotten.

The purpose of the writers and artists involved in WHITE COVER is to entertain. If you've felt the 'dream' fading more and more over these last months, hopefully the stories, poetry, and artwork contained herein will rekindle fond memories of a world that we all love: the tunnels.

Contents

  • Twist of Fate by Barbara Hill ("Dead C is given by Fate, a diminutive, bossy angelic spirit, a chance to return to V and take one single action to avert her own death.") (1)
  • A Simple Life by Patricia Kehoe (Catherine is pregnant with triplets: "She grinned at him ironically. 'That's what Peter says.' Patting Vincent's stunned face, Catherine laughed joyously and ruffled his tawny hair. 'You and your eager, lusty little sperm. Bye-bye, simple life!'") (15)
  • The Return: The Darkness and the Light, poem by Mona Batir (26)
  • The Best Is Yet To Be by J.A. Cliffe ("V overhears tunnel people speaking disapprovingly of him as an animal.") (27)
  • Waiting, poem by Michele (66)
  • Reflections of Love by P.E. Leslie - Vignette
  • Primal Needs, vignette by Trisha Kehoe (69)
  • The Wish by Rosemarie Hauer ("V is given a choice to either know who he is, change who he is, or share who he is.") (73)
  • To Be a Friend by Betty Reardon ("Young men V and Pascal go to visit the helpers together.") (89)
  • The Invitation, poem by Michele (96)
  • Modern Conveniences, vignette by Linda Mooney ("In which V has an encounter with an Epilady hair remover.") (97)
  • Shall I?, poem by Michele (100)
  • Game, Set, Match, vignette by Patricia Kehoe (101)
  • Love's Lesson by Gwen Lord ("C talks V into first time sex.") (103)
  • Kindling the Fire by Andrea Dumasius ("V/C have an encounter while she's healing after Jacob's birth.") (109)
  • Slot A Into Hole B, vignette by Trisha Kehoe (123)
  • Fire Roses, poem by Cynthia Fuller (126)
  • A Pinch of Spice by Betty Mills ("V, kidded by Cullen and Winslow for never having seen a stag film, finds C's wearing a particularly revealing kind of knit bodysuit is a turn on.") (127)
  • Won't You Come Inside, poem by P.E. Leslie (136)
  • Desire, poem by D. Der Hovanessian (138)
  • Blending Tomorrows, vignette by Patrica Kehoe (139)
  • Dear Daddy by Rita Hazlett ("C, missing her father, learns the origins of the letter-burning ceremony.") (141)
  • An Exchange of Notes by Anonymous (146)
  • The One by Patricia Kehoe ("V/C come to terms with his primal, other self.") (147)

Sample Interior

Reactions and Reviews

1993

The Summer 1993 Qfer contained a review of this zine that included these comments:

This zine is mostly a collection of miscellaneous sex stories, often with very little content beyond that. If sexual encounter with body parts fully described is a major part of your definition of romance, you'll enjoy this zine.

The editor of this zine took great umbrage at these comments and wrote an open letter which was printed in Vincent's World #9. See And now, be prepared for something I've never done in print: BLOWN MY STACK!.

1997

Somewhat raw around the edges, occasionally iffy in grammar and mechanics (spelling, word choice, punctuation), this Classic anthology mainly concentrates on graphic V/C erotic encounters. Some stories, however, do not have a sexual focus. In “The Best Is Yet To Be” by J. A. Cliffe, a long “first time” story in which C manages to talk V into sex, at a crucial moment (sexually speaking), V overhears tunnel people speaking disapprovingly of him as “an animal” and describing his and C's love as perverted. This sets up whole new set of inhibitions to plague the lovers. C also talks V into “first time” sex in Gwen Lord's “Love's Lesson.” In Andrea Dumasius' “Kindling the Fire,” V/C have suitable sex, considering she's healing after Jacob's birth (memorable line: “The subtle merging of their mouths was a palatable sensation."). In “A Pinch of Spice,” by Betty Mills, V, kidded by Cullen and Winslow for never having seen a stag film, finds C's wearing a particularly revealing kind of knit bodysuit is a “turn on.”

Vignettes include P. E. Leslie's “Reflections of Love”; Linda Mooney's “Modern Conveniences,” in which V has a nasty brush [pun intended] with an “Epilady” hair remover; Kehoe's “A Simple Life,” “Game, Set, and Match,” “Primal Needs,” “Slot A into Hole B,” and “Blending Tomorrows.”

In Barbara Hill's interesting “Twist of Fate,” dead C is given by Fate, a diminutive, bossy angelic spirit, a chance to return to V and take one single action to avert her own death. Which action will she choose to change? In Rosemarie Hauer's “The Wish,” V is given a choice by a powerful, unseen voice. V can choose either to know who he is, change who he is, or share who he is; and if V fails to choose, the voice threatens to do it for him. In Rita Hazlett's “Dear Daddy,” C, missing her father, learns the origins of the letter-burning ceremony, that go back much farther than Eric and Ellie. In “To Be A Friend” by Betty Reardon, young men V and Pascal go to visit the helpers together, and Pascal afterward reveals his personal reason for asking to come along. The zine ends with Kehoe's “The One,” in which V/C come to terms with his primal, Other self.

Poetry by Kehoe, Mona Batir, Michele, Cynthia Fuller, P. E. Leslie, D. Der Hovanessian. Art (some frontal nudity, explicit positions) by Inez Brown, Patricia Devoe, Alexandra Fossinger, Renate Haller, Rosemarie Hauer, Shirley Leonard, Teri Milliman, Pam Tuck; one nude color centerfold by Inez Brown; another color picture by Pam Tuck. Silhouette cover by Hauer. [1]

References

  1. ^ from Helpers' Network Quality Fanzine Review -- 1997, Archived version
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