From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars zine)

From a Certain Point of View was a Star Wars zine, with an emphasis on Luke Skywalker stories. 
There were five issues.
The title is a quote from Return of the Jedi; Obi-wan Kenobi justifies lying to Luke about Darth Vader by saying that what he said was true "from a certain point of view".
The flyer for the first issue says: "The zine that dares to answer the question: 'Is there SWars after ROTJ?'"
==The Submission Guidelines==
Printed in the first issue: "This is tough. How do I give you tips for meeting FACPOV's high standards without scaring you off."
Image:fromacertain1-22.jpg|from issue #1, page one 
Image:fromacertain1-23.jpg|from issue #1, page two
==About the Printing and Color==
A fan in 2016 commented: "[This was a] zine that looked like no other zine in the fandom, with creative use of layout and color and solid contributions." comment by kslangley at What was your first fandom?, August 28, 2016
In 1985, the editor explained: 
==Copyright Statement and Disclaimer==
From issue #1: 
==Issue 1 ("The Art Nouveau Fantasy Edition")==
From a Certain Point of View 1 was published in 1985 and contains 80 pages. 
It contains art by Sherlock, Mary Lowe, Dani Lani, Cathye Faraci, Carolyn Cooper, Pat Easley, Wanda Lybarger, and Jenni Hennig.
Fans could request either Luke or Han on the front cover; the one they didn't pick went on the back cover. This was an example of turning lemons into lemonade! In the 1986 essay Walking the Tightrope: Experiments and Risk Taking in Zine Design, the editor commented on this stylistic "choice": 
From a flyer: 
From the editorial: 
 
* Ben's Lament, a poem by Linda Vandiver, illustrated by Dani Lane ("Ben regrets his failure with Anakin.") (4)
* Nothing Ever Happens ("Running away from home solved six year old Luke Skywalker’s boredom — with a vengeance.") (5)
* Cartoonist’s Gallery (12)
* Wedding Bells ("Leia’s getting married — but to whom, or what?") by Susan Sizemore (18)
* Artist’s Gallery by Sherlock, Pat Easley, Jenni, Carolyn Cooper, Sherlock, and Wanda Lybarger (29)
* Echo by Katharine Scarritt ("Somehow Leia always knew Luke was her brother, but how and what past shadows came forth that night.") (38)
* Puzzles by Lynda Vandiver (41)
* Between a Father and a Son, poem by Mary Keever ("What passes between a father and a son when one is found and lost again.") (42)
* One Small Thing ("Han Solo was just minding his own business, enjoying some free time when a starving pickpocket made his day.") by Carolyn Cooper (43)
* Just a Little Something I Picked Up ("Luke Skywalker gets a little surprise. What do you do with a Jedi’s daughter—especially when she prefers Han.") by Carolyn Cooper (55)
* Not Everyone by Marcia Brin ("Does everyone have the Force? Han thinks not and with good reason.") (75) 
* Just for Fun, word puzzle answers, some rebel graffiti and "some foolishness" by Cathye Faraci (77)
* Contributor Guidelines (78) 
 
Image:fromacertain1-24.jpg|from issue #1, table of contents page
Image:fromacertain1-1.jpg|from issue #1, Dani Lane
Image:fromacertain1-2.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-3.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-4.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-5.jpg|from issue #1, Cathye Faraci
Image:fromacertain1-6.jpg|from issue #1, Dani Lane
Image:fromacertain1-7.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-8.jpg|from issue #1, Wanda Lybarger
Image:fromacertain1-9.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-10.jpg|from issue #1, Jenni Hennig
Image:fromacertain1-11.jpg|from issue #1, Carolyn Cooper
Image:fromacertain1-12.jpg|from issue #1, Mary Lowe
Image:fromacertain1-13.jpg|from issue #1, sample title page
Image:fromacertain1-14.jpg|from issue #1, Jenni Hennig
Image:fromacertain1-15.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock (two page illo)
Image:fromacertain1-16.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-17.jpg|from issue #1, page detail, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-18.jpg|from issue #1, page detail, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-19.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock
Image:fromacertain1-20.jpg|from issue #1, Sherlock
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1===
 
 
==Issue 2 ("The Fantasy Edition")==
From a Certain Point of View 2 was published in 1986 and contains 187 pages.
The art is by Carolyn Cooper, Dani Lan3, Sherlock, Amy Watson, and Linda Richards.
From a flyer: "You wrote & we listened! So this year there's more! More pages, more color, more Hanna Beru, more art & more fun! How did Han lose his cookies? The real scoop behind the royal wedding? Is the honeymoon over? Will Beru make the worst dressed list? What secret ritual do Luke & Leia share? How's Admiral Piett stayin' alive? Is it all right to be afraid?"
From another flyer: "Does a Royal Wedding always end happily ever after? Did Princess Leia marry Prince Charming or a scruffy, nerf-herder? Or does kissing transform the groom? What secret rituals do Luke and Leia share? And what could the Princess and the Pauper possibly have in common? What does a hero do after the battles done and story ends? Can Luke solve the riddle of fashion quest? Or does Han stir up a witch's brew and lose his cookies? Plus cartoons, fabulous art galleries and more."
The editorial: 
More comments by the author from the zine: 
* Editorial (6)
* Letters of Comment (8)
* Sustenance, poem by CarolMel Ambassador ("How can Ben Kenobi sustain his home?) (11)
* Home for the Holidays by Scotty Perkins ("The holidays should be spent at home with loved ones. But what if you have no home?) (12)
* Crystal Visions by Ronda Henderson ("The visions of a Tatooine farm boy are vastly different from those of a Jedi Knight - or are they?") (20)
* Cartoonist's Gallery, art by Sherlock and Linda Richards (21)
* I Understand, poem by CarolMel Ambassador ("Does Luke leave Dagobah with more wisdom than Yoda things?") (29)
* The Wedding Trip by Joyce Devine and Lynda Vandiver ("An insider's account of the Royal honeymoon.") (30)
* It's All Right to Be Afraid by Mary St. Cry ("A deadly epidemic has struck the rebel forces and threatens everything and everyone.") (35)
* Filk Gallery (71)
** Han and Leia, to the tune of "Leather and Lace" sung by Stevie Nicks, by Kathryn Agel
**Even Droids Get the Blues, to the tune of "Baby's in Black" by the Beatles, by Marguerite P. O'Rourke 
**My Sweet Lovely Leia, to the tune of "My First Taste of Texas" sung by Ed Bruce, by Kathryn Agel
**Life in the Service, to the tune of "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by John Lennon, by Marguerite P. O'Rourke 
**Rebel Drinking Song, to the tune of "It's A Fine Life" from the musical Oliver, by Elaine Arnold
** The Turning, to the tune of "Memories" from "Cats," by Marguerite P. O'Rourke
**I Wonder What Solo Is Doing Tonight, to the tune of "I Wonder What the King Is Doing To night" from the musical Camelot, by Elaine Arnold 
**The Corridor, to the tune of "The Rose," For well-known use of this song, see The Rose, a very early Starsky & Hutch vid by Catherine V. Woldow 
**Home to Leia By Mornin', to the tune of "Amarillo by Mornin' sung by George Straight, by Kathryn Agel
**Piett's Theme, to the tune of "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees, by by Ronda Henderson
* A Higher Call by Ronda Henderson ("Must Leia make a choice between her love and her duty?") (88)
* Unfinished Business by Katharine Scarritt ("After the war there's not much for a former pirate to do - or is there?") (89)
* Art Gallery, art by Sherlock and Carolyn Cooper (120)
* A Small Talent by Carolyn Cooper ("Han loses his cookies and more while babysitting.") (126)
* A Little Matter of Taste by Carolyn Cooper ("The terrors of the night bring a new understand for Leia and Beru.") (171)
* A Chip Off the Old Block by Carolyn Cooper ("An innocent question sets Han up for a taste of his own medicine") (182)
* Last Words (the FACPOV guidelines)
* FACPOV's Handy-Dandy LoC Form
File:fromacertain2flyer.jpg|a flyer for issue #2, printed in the 1988 MediaWest*Con program book; the art is from the zine's table of contents page
 Image:certainpoint2-1.jpg| from issue #2, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint2-2.jpg| from issue #2, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint2-3.jpg| from issue #2, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint2-4.jpg| from issue #2, Carolyn Cooper
 Image:certainpoint2-5.jpg| from issue #2, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint2-6.jpg| from issue #2, Sherlock
 Image:certainpoint2-7.jpg| from issue #2, Sherlock
 Image:certainpoint2-8.jpg| from issue #2, Sherlock
 Image:certainpoint2-9.jpg| from issue #2, Linda Richards
 Image:certainpoint2-10.jpg| from issue #2, Sherlock
 Image:certainpoint2-11.jpg| from issue #2, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint2-12.jpg| from issue #2, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint2-13.jpg| from issue #2, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint2-14.jpg| from issue #2, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint2-15.jpg| from issue #2, Sherlock
 Image:certainpoint2-16.jpg| from issue #2, Carolyn Cooper
 Image:certainpoint2-17.jpg| from issue #2, Sherlock
 Image:certainpoint2-18.jpg| from issue #2, Sherlock
 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2===
==Issue 3 ("The GQ Edition")==
From a Certain Point of View 3 was published in 1987 and contains 146 pages (five stories).
The art is by Jean Kluge, Dani Lane, and Carolyn Cooper. 
Description from an ad in Southern Enclave: 
Description from a flyer: 
* Editor's Voice, which includes Somehow, somewhere, some way, a hefty contingent of fans became "consumers." (4)
* Centerfield by Scotty Perkins ("A monumental battle of a different kind is waged on Endor the day AFTER the Death Star was destroyed -- and this time the Imperials are winning!"0 (9)
* The Nammerin Connection by Debra Doyle ("General Solo gave his son, Obi Organa-Solo, two gifts for the return to Nammerin, a Corellian heavy blaster and a bottle of Upland Reserves -- both are very dangerous.") (37)
* Admittance by CarolMel Ambassador ("there comes a time when even Jedi Masters must admit the truth about their lives -- and their limitations.") (79)
* Imperial Entanglements by Laura Michaels ("It's the job Han Solo and Chewbacca had always been looking for, steady, legal and honest. What could go wrong") (83)
* Naughty Bits by Carolyn Cooper ("A Jedi craves not these things; well, not often [as] Hanna Beru discovers when an educational lesson in social proprieties puts Han and Luke in a tight spot.") ("NOTE: This story is set in the Hanna Beru series in which Luke Skywalker discovers, while on a post-ROTJ mission with Princess Leia and Han Solo, that he has an illegitimate daughter from a previous visit to Ord Mantell. In previous stories, Luke and Han not only find out that the child, Hanna Beru, is an accomplished pickpocket and cardsharp, but that something's not right on Ord Manell; there are kidnappings, slave trading, and more, plus a prissy Viceroy who's driving the over-stressed Leia mad. Hopefully, references to previous events in other stories will be self-explanatory.") (97)
 
 Image:certainpoint3-1.jpg| from issue #3, Carolyn Cooper
 Image:certainpoint3-2.jpg| from issue #3, Carolyn Cooper
 Image:certainpoint3-3.jpg| from issue #3, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint3-4.jpg| from issue #3, Carolyn Cooper
 Image:certainpoint3-5.jpg| from issue #3, Carolyn Cooper
 Image:certainpoint3-6.jpg| from issue #3, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint3-7.jpg| from issue #3, Dani Lane
 Image:certainpoint3-8.jpg| from issue #3, Jean Kluge
 Image:certainpoint3-9.jpg| from issue #3, Jean Kluge
 
Image:certainpoint3-11.jpg| from issue #3, sample text
 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3===
==Issue 4 ("The Enquirer Edition")==
 
From a Certain Point of View 4 was published in 1989 and has 138 pages. 
This issue contains no interior illustrations.
From an ad in Southern Enclave: 
From a flyer: 
The editorial: 
* Editor's Point of View (2)
* Contact In Issquay by Debra Doyle and J.D. MacDonald ("How come Han Solo pirate, smuggler and Rebel is so friendly with an Imperial officer? Will it jeopardize the mission? Can Luke handle negotiations in this wretched hive of scum and villainy? And will somebody please get Chewie out of jail?") (reprinted in Alliance & Empire #2) (3)
* Always in Motion is the Future by Ruth Rdecki ("Is this the future Yoda saw in his dark vision? lbs the best Dark Side piece we've ever seen! A thoroughly and frighteningly believable alternative to the escape from Bespin! Sorry, no hints. We don't want to spoil it for you!") (37) 
* An Average Day on a Kessel Spice Run by Laura Michaels ("To borrow from Judith Viorst [sic], it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Han Solo and Chewbacca on what should have been a simple pickup! Some days are like that — especially for our favorite Corellian!") (49)
* A Fine Time Was Had by All by Carolyn Cooper ("The 76-page conclusion to the on-going tale of Luke Skywalker, surprised Jedi father, and Hannah Beru, the Empire's revenge on our heroes. It's time to party for the Republic! Can Luke survive another of Leia's blind dates for him? Does Leia get a trick — or her treaty? Is Han as good at sabaac as he says —or is it just dumb luck? And after tonight, does Beru stand a chance of ever borrowing the ship when she's sixteen?") (61)
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4===
==Issue 5 ("The Romance Edition")==
 
From a Certain Point of View 5 was published in 1990 and is 198 pages long. It is the "Romance Edition."
It has art by Melea Fisher, Nora Mayers, and Carolyn Cooper.
 
 
* And They Call It Puppy Love (short story) by Carolyn E. Cooper (He drew women like a magnet. And Hanna Beru could not resist him. How could her father forbid it? What dark forces plotted against them?)
* Empire and Foundation (short short story) Anne-Virginie Dutech (The dashing pirate captain wanted Princess Leia at any price. Even if it meant dealing with the Emperor himself. Can Leia survive the desires of two men?)
* And For the Republic (novella) Nora Mayers (What dark destiny struggles to keep Princess Leia Organa from the arms of the handsome, heroic Han Solo? What tragic secret is Han Solo hiding? Will Luke Skyrwalker die a traitor's death? Must they seek sanctuary in another galaxy?) (Four years later, this story was later revised and published as the first part of Pursuit of the Nashtah.)
* Past Shadows, Future Voices (novel) Scotty Perkins (Luke Skywalker is the last of Jedi Knights — unless, he can find the lost Jedi secrets. And his only link is a mysterious and desireable woman. But is her destiny along the Dark path? Must the Princess Leia Organa choose between love and conscience? Can Han Solo find his missing friends in time?)
 
 Image:certainpoint5-1.jpg| from issue #5, Nora Mayers 
 Image:certainpoint5-2.jpg| from issue #5, Carolyn Cooper
 Image:certainpoint5-3.jpg| from issue #5, Nora Mayers 
 Image:certainpoint5-4.jpg| from issue #5, Nora Mayers 
 Image:certainpoint5-5.jpg| from issue #5, Nora Mayers 
 Image:certainpoint5-6.jpg| from issue #5, Melea Fisher
 Image:certainpoint5-7.jpg| from issue #5, Melea Fisher
 
 
==Issue 6 ("The Family Values Edition") (planned but not published)==
From a Certain Point of View 6 was planned for 1994. It was the "Family Values Edition." 
From an ad in Southern Enclave: "I'm looking for some good stories and art with our heroes and their childhoods, children, family relationships (maybe Han and Leia's wedding?), etc. As always, FACPOV prefers upbeat, positive pieces with our heroes as a prominent part, but I'll look at well-written dark drama."
==References==
Category:Star Wars Zines
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