Interior art

[orangeandblue]

Why scan Interior art? I can understand the fanzine covers for reference and I can understand posting art which is already online. But posting interior art from zines I don't understand. Has anyone contacted the artists and gotten permission from them? Do you need to?
Why not start scanning the stories from all the older fanzines and posting them too.

Comments

[morgandawn]

"or say that art is only included to talk about the art, and if this isn't the case soon someone ought to come along and would talk about the art eventually. That is just silly."

Actually, that's a Wiki. It is built on collaborative editing and the hope that if you write something on something, someone else will come along and flesh it out further. It can be frustrating to see these huge gaps in content and fanzine pages sitting there with just an image and a title and nothing else. Fanlore is just starting to pull in more substantive content - up to this point, a lot of what I've been seeing has been bare bones documenting. But you have to start somewhere.

[ratcreature]

Of course someone will end up talking about some of the images (at least I sure hope so), but just as most stories that are listed won't be talked about further, unless they where remarkable in some way, most art won't be talked about in detail. Only while the stories are just represented with a title and author, plenty of the art, in particular covers, ends up being represented with an archived copy of the whole thing.