Yearnings
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Yearnings |
| Publisher: | WaRP Graphics |
| Editor(s): | Jane Fancher & Richard Pini |
| Date(s): | 1982-? |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Elfquest |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: |  |
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Yearnings is a gen Elfquest anthology. It has at least four issues.
Regarding the copyright statement in the first issue, the Pinis apparently had no hesitation in enabling fans to claim independent copyrights in fanworks.
The copyright notice included this statement: “Entire contents copyright 1982 WaRP Graphics. Individual stories, poems, songs, articles, artworks copyright 1982 by their respective creators.
Issue 1
Yearnings 1 was published in 1982 and contains 132 pages. It has cover art by Wendy Pini & Jane Fancher.
Excerpt from the inside cover:
You will notice on the table of contents page … that we call this magazine “The ELFQUEST Companion.” Why? Good question.
A couple of years ago, we started up the Elfquest Fan Club in order to address a need that we saw developing within Elfquest fandom. We found that, inspired by the world and characters created by Wendy and Richard Pini, readers of Elfquest were in turn creating their own elfin characters and locales, and writing about and drawing them. Several budding authors and artists had already sent their efforts in to WaRP Graphics for Wendy and Richard’s comments. We decided that a Fan Club would be the ideal sort of forum for these “adaptive” creators to show their works to other Elfquest fans.
Once the Fan Club got going, we found ourselves on the receiving end of a minor deluge of fan-generated fiction, poetry, and art. Some of it dealt direclty with the characters found in Elfquest magazine, some of it dealt with other, “what if” elves living on the EQ world, and some of it had nothing to do with Elfquest at all. A great deal of it was surprisingly good. We realized that we could never hope to showcase even a fraction of this work in the Fan Club newsletter, The Lodestone. And so we decided to try our hand at publishing a new magazine — one composed almost entirely of stories, pictures, songs, poems and so on contributed by the readers of Elfquest. It would be, indeed, a companion magazine to the Elfquest comic, a companion full of alternate fantasies and realities, a companion that might stimulate yet other readers to creativity.
…. Because several of the pieces in YEARNINGS deal with Elfquest-type characters — either the ones already in the comic or others in different parts of the Elfquest world — there is a natural temptation to think that perhaps these stories and so on represent “reality” in the EQ universe. We hope you see that this can’t be the case — otherwise chaos would result from all that input — and that these works should be thought of as “what if” stories. Only Richard and Wendy know what does and doesn’t exist in their nameless world.
CONTENTS:
Fiction
Beyond the Crossroads, Scott Schmitz; Eric and the Gremlin, Shanna Smith; A Brief Adventure in Mixed Media, Jeff Swycaffer; Welcome to Elf-World, Linda Lim; Of the Younger World, Daren Fellweiler; Siege of Suncliff Island, Betty Cerritelli & Debra Vergiss; Visitor to Sorrow’s End, Ronald James; Eyes That Are Not Blind, Judith Sampson; Littlefoot, John C. LaRue, Jr.; Brothers in All But Blood, “Mooncrest”
Poetry
Leetah’s Song, Caedmon Gordon; Ballad of the Wanderer, Diana Lee Worrell; Shadows, Keith O’Bea; Elfwood, Rilla Parker; Woodland Elves, Suzie Kucera; The Boar Hunt, Mark McAuliffe; The Capture of Strongbow, Patricia Oster; Nightgame, Eileen Eldred; Cub and Mouse, Nina Twersky; Woooooooooolves!, Arlan Keith Andrews
Elfilksongs
Lament of the Desert Holts, Daystar and Black Mountain Water Holts; Pini Elves, Tom and Janice Tuerff; An Elfquest Christmas, Elizabeth Strong; Picknose’s Lament, Dierdre Annett; Oddbit’s Delight, Leah Freedman; They All Had Pointed Ears, Ragnar Fyri
Articles
Leadership in EQ, Eric Ozog; “Little Number One,” Daniel Barer
Puzzles
Elfquest Word Search, Steven Tait; Elfquest Crossword Fit, Linda Richards
Art
Wendy Pini & Jane Fancher; Kim Wheat; Scott Schmitz; B.C. Shelby; Katherine Wadey; Jane Fancher; Mary Soderstrom; P.E. Cunningham; April Lee; Steve Gallacci; Wm. Gregory Elgin; Joe Lieuallen; Laurie Francis; Cathye Faraci; Nate Evans; Caedmon Gordon; Theresa Brandon; Michael Capriola; Leah Freedman; Edward Luena; David Bryant; Raoul Vezina; Wendell Washer; P. Wrenn; Cheryl Duval; Wendy Pini; Bjo Trimble; Staclie Leblanc; Terry Jackson; Mark McAuliffe; Tristan Schane; Tom Howell Jr.; Steve Reynolds; Terrie Smith; Henning Kure; Sarah Macht DeWitt; Pam Trinity; Scott McLeod;[1] Jerry Collins
interior from issue #1, "Come on in -- The imagination's fine!"
interior from issue #1, B.C. Shelby
interior from issue #1, Mary Soderstrom
interior from issue #1, P.E. Cunningham
interior from issue #1, Wm. Gregory Elgin
interior from issue #1, Laurie Francis
interior from issue #1, Nate Evans
interior from issue #1, Michael Capriola
interior from issue #1, filks
interior from issue #1, Raoul Vezina: illo "with regards" to the Pinis
interior from issue #1, Bjo Trimble: "A note of explanation - you will notice that this is the only unicorn and only dragon in all of YEARNINGS. We've seen these two beasties in so many places these days - stationery, drinking mugs, calendars, you-name-it - that Wendy was overheard to say, "If I see one mote unicorn or dragon I will spontaneously self-combust!" Bjo Trimble took that line to its logical conclusion..."
Issue 2
Yearnings 2
Issue 3
Yearnings 3
- contains fiction by Susan Williams
- other unknown content
Issue 4
Yearnings 4 cover by Brandon—stories by Hunt, Luchau, Sevenstar and more—Art by Kaalberg, Goodwin, Lee, Adam and more.
References
- ^ Scott McLeod is currently working in comics under the name Scott McCloud; RivkaT confirmed with him that this drawing was his.