From: krisk@Apple.COM (Kris Kreutzman)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry
Subject: YARF! (yip! yowl! yahooo! etc!)
Summary: Information on YARF! the fanzine
Keywords: YARF,furry,newts,fanzine
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:04:37 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

Just an additional note to complete the information on YARF! from the previous
postings:

YARF! The Journal Of Applied Anthropomorphics
P.O. Box 1299, Cupertino, CA 95015-1299

Editor:        Jeffrey Ferris (and others, but he is the head dude)
Distribution:  6 to 8 weeks (we make the attempt, but not guaranteed)
History:       21 issues since January of 1990. ( Over 1200 pages! )
Price:         $5.00 (includes postage to US & Canada,
               overseas add $2/issue for airmail, yipe!)
Back issues:   Are available, ask for a list.  A few issues are sold out,
               but we will be reprinting them soon.
Size:          Usually around 50 full-size pages.  Thermal book binding.
               Sometimes larger issues are run for special events with
               a list price of $6 (which subscribers get at a discount).
Subscriptions: $40 for 8 issues (US$56 overseas airmail), which runs about
               a year.
Content:       "Art, stories, graphic series, reviews ... lots of stuff."
                 - Greywolf
Rating:        G to PG-13.  We are a general audience 'zine and leave the
               more adult theme material to other 'zines.
Contributors:  Mark Stanley, Monika Livingston, Watts Martin, Jimmy Chin,
               Kris Kreutzman, Chris Grant, Roy D. Pounds II, Ken Sample,
               Jordan Greywolf, Zjonni Perchalski, Jim Groat, Terrie Smith,
               Maggie DeAlarcon, Tom Verre', Lance Rund, Dave White
               plus other professional and amatuer artists and writers.
Contributions: Ask for our "Issue #0" for guidelines about who we are and
               what we would like to print.  Issue #0 is our old 8 page
               preview issue and is free.  Heck, we'll give them to anyone,
               just ask.  Jeff went a little crazy with the copier and we
               have a large box full of them.
Notes:         "Probably the best 'zine I've seen yet.  I even like it better
               than Everchanging Palace (more value for the bux)..." - Greywolf
                   --- Thanks Jordan...


Other Notes:

  The Post Box Change Affair - "It's not our fault!"  A postal box change
usually means that the owner of the box has moved.  But in this case it was
the post office which move on us.  And in their haste to move out of a tired
old 50's style building into their brand new location ten blocks away they seem
to have missplaced PO Box 1200.  It just upped and disappeared.  Honest!  They
probably mailed it to themselves and lost it.  So we had to pick from an array
of new addresses.  Box 1299 stood out the most so that was picked.  So please
address all your inquires, letters, threats and bombs to the new address.
(Hmm, maybe you should send the latter two to the old address, but the post
office will forward all mail to box 1200 to 1299, for a time...)  We did
announce the change in address in Flaming Hairballs, the YARF! editorial column.
You all READ Flaming Hairballs, don't you?

  The Production Move Affair - For those of you who have not heard, the
production of YARF! has moved north to an undisclosed location in or around
Portland Oregon. Jeff Ferris moved out of San Fransisco and has settled in
Portland and I don't blame him a bit.  It will cost less to produce an issue
in Oregon (no sales tax) which will help keep our costs under control as well
as do some future goodies... Subscriptions and back issues will still be
handled out of the Cupertino post box. We now are an interstate entity.
"Look for our new offices opening soon in international and extraplanitary
locations... :-)"

  The YARF! Is Dead Affair - "We're not dead, yet!"  Some people are under the
impression that YARF! is dead.  Not so.  We may be talking a short rest before
continuing to produce the magazine of quality and distinction that you have
come to know. :-) The production move was one reason for the delay between
issues 20 and 21.  But more importantly, YARF! is an amatuer 'zine which is run
on the spare time of its editors. And all the editors have real jobs and real
lives which occupy most of their time. The lives and jobs come first and will
cut into the time spent on YARF!  And a fanzine takes a LOT of spare time to
get the quality we want. Which is why we have a staff of editors instead of one
person.  So please be patient.  We're not dead, yet.  We are peddling as fast
as we can.  When we do croak you will know when we refund the remainder of the
subscribers money (as much as we can). At this time I would like to present to
Lance Rund, our production supervisor for several issue but most notably for
issues 17 through 20 (especially monster issue 18/19), the Metal of Distinction
for Outstanding Performance Above The Call of Duty with Laserprinter and
Gluestick clusters for his service to YARF! in getting those issues out during
a time of crisis for the other editors. Thank you, Lance.

  The San Diego Affair - No, we were not there.  We were busy with other mundane
events. However, we were dumb and did not send some issues to a representative
in the area. Dumb, dumb, dumb.  :-|


Still other notes:

  Greywolf,
The credit for the Quanta Biotechnics was left off by request of the artist so
it would look more like a real advertisement.  And I'm not telling who did it.
Anyway I thought that curiosity was for cats (and foxes)...
Oh, and sorry to hear about your name change.  We'll try to correct it for the
reprints.

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If anyone has questions or comments you can send them to me at
    "krisk@apple.com".
Please keep in mind that Apple keeps me busy so answers may be a little while in
returning.

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-- Kris Kreutzman -- SubEditor of YARF! -- krisk@apple.com --