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2010 DUFF Voting Opens

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Voting is now open for the 2010 Down Under Fan Fund. An extraordinarily large field of candidates — Jeffrey Boman, Terry Fong & Jannie Shea, John Hertz, Melanie Herz and John Purcell – are vying to become North America’s delegate to Aussiecon 4.

Jeffrey Boman is a Montreal fan whose fanzine The Original Universe won a 2009 Prix Aurora in the Fan Experience (Fanzine) category.  He’s been nominated by Australian fans Cath Ortlieb and LynC and North American fans Chris Garcia, Yvonne Penney and Cathy Palmer-Lister.

Terry Fong, another Montreal fan, is running in tandem with Oklahoma fan Jannie Shea. Both have tons of conrunning experience. Their nominators from Australasia are John Maizel and Shaun Tan; from North America, Ian Stockdale, Todd and Joni Dashoff and René Walling.

John Hertz of Los Angeles, publisher of Vanamonde and a regular contributor to File 770, has been nominated by Australasian fans Robin Johnson and Janice Gelb, as well as North Americans Peggy Rae Sapienza, Mike Glyer (naturally) and Randy Byers.

Melanie Herz of Palm Bay, Florida has devoted years to helping people run conventions, often as head of the Volunteers Department. Her Australasian nominators are Julian Warner and Alan Stewart. Her North American nominators are Elaine Brennan, Pat and Roger Sims and Jim Mann.

John Purcell of College Station, TX by way of Minneapolis in ‘73, is a prolific fanzine publisher. He’s been placed in contention by Australasian fans Bruce Gillespie and Bill Wright, and North American fans Arnie and Joyce Katz, Guy H Lillian III and Lloyd Penney.

To vote on paper, download the PDF ballot and follow the directions to mail it either to Steve and Sue Francis, North American DUFF administrators or to Emma Hawkes, Australia/New Zealand administrator. Ballots must be accompanied by a minimum donation of $5USD, $6AUD or $7NZD.

To vote online and pay voting fees or make donations via Paypal, use Jean Weber’s site http://wrevenge.com/duff2010/ (which shortly will be updated for this purpose.)

The voting period ends 11:59:59 p.m. (EST) on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Any ballots received after that time will not be counted.

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CUFF Race Begins Soon

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The Canadian Unity Fan Fund has a contested race for the first time since 2003, reports Diane Lacey, one of the fans who’ll be on the ballot. She helped administer the Hugos for last year’s Worldcon in Montreal.

Her rival for CUFF is Rob Uhrig, a member of the Klingon Assault Group (KAG/Kanada).

Voting takes place from February 5 to February 25. The winner will attend Keycon in Winnipeg over the May 22-24 weekend.

Diane’s nominators from the West are Fran Skene, Dave Clement, Richard Graeme Cameron and Tim Hogue. From the East they are Murray Moore, Rene Walling, Lance Sibley and Colin Hinz.

Rob’s nominators are: Dayna Dickens, Tourism Coordinator for the town of Vulcan; Margie Welsh, Thought Admiral Klingon Strike Force (KSF); Dana Dean, Minister and retired Admiral Starfleet Canada; Lori Lightfoot, KAG Kanada; David James, KAG Kanada; Paul Carreau, Thought Admiral (Retired) KAG Kanada.

[Thanks to Diane Lacey for the story.]

Update 2/5/2010: Added Rob Uhrig’s nominators per the comment below.

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Do Artists Always Lose Fan Funds?

Friday, December 25th, 2009

When Frank Wu came out on the losing end of the latest TAFF race a disgruntled friend of mine declared his surprise because Frank is such a popular fan. But he consoled Frank with a seductive conspiracy theory - that no artist has ever run for TAFF or DUFF and won.

Some of you are trying to climb through the screen right now in your eagerness to correct this impression. Please be patient while I take care of a preliminary question before getting to the main event.

Just who is a fanartist for purposes of this discussion? A lot of fans have had art in fanzines, myself included, without ever being numbered among the field’s fanartists. At least in my mind. So if you feel I’m being too subjective about who they are for purposes of this post, chime in.

Tremendous numbers of fanartists have lost TAFF. Terry Jeeves did it three times (1955, 1971, 1977). Other artists who have lost include Bjo (1959), Eddie Jones (1962), Bill Rotsler (1970), Jim Barker (1980), Grant Canfield (1983), Taral Wayne (1983), D. West (1984), Luke McGuff (1989), Joe Wesson (1995), and Frank Wu (2009).

Frank Dietz (1973) may also belong on the list. His fanzine credits include Luna Monthly and I believe he did quite a bit of art for it, but I had trouble testing my recollection with online research because he shares a name with a well-known Disney artist.

Yet a look at TAFF history reveals the perhaps surprising fact that the list of winning fanartists is almost as long as the list of losers.

Lee Hoffman won TAFF in 1956, followed by ATom  (1964), Steve Stiles (1968), Eddie Jones (1969, winning on his second attempt), Stu Shiffman (1981), Jeanne Gomoll (1987), Dan Steffan (1995), Ulrika O’Brien (1998) and Sue Mason (2000).

The Down Under Fan Fund has also been kind to fanartists: Bill Rotsler (1977), Ken Fletcher (1979; he succeeded to the trip when I had to withdraw, having just been hired by the government), and the trio of Australian artists Nick Stathopoulos, Lewis Morley, Marilyn Pride (1986).

Fanartists can’t win fan funds? The real explanation may be that the winning fanartists are not remembered as they deserve, even by other fanartists. Several did fine trip reports.

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TAFF Winners Announced

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Anne KG Murphy and Brian Gray have been selected as North American TAFF delegates to the British Eastercon, Odyssey 2010.

Anne KG Murphy / Brian Gray, 49 first-place votes
Frank Wu, 30
No preference, 13
Hold over funds, 3

For more TAFF miscellany, including sort of a financial report, read The President’s Bathtub. (And I also donated and voted, no matter what the list says. Feel free to pencil me in…)

[Thanks to Steve Green and Chris Garcia.]

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2010 GUFF Race Opens

Monday, December 7th, 2009

I’m overdue to post a bit of fan fund news liberated from Ansible: The candidates in the Europe-to-Australasia GUFF race are James Shields and Douglas Spencer.

Anyone is eligible to vote for a GUFF delegate who was active in fandom prior to August 2008, and contributes at least £5 or $10 AUS (or the equivalent in other currencies) to the fund. Eligible voters can use the PDF voting form at guff2009.pdf, or vote online. Voting ends April 5, 2010 at 23:59 GMT.

Other GUFF News: Pat McMurray’s 2004 GUFF Trip report is now available either as a black and white publication for £4 ($8 AUS) or password protected colour pdf (6.38 mb) for £2 ($4 AUS). Contact:  Ang Rosin, 26 Hermitage Grove, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 6DR, United Kingdom - enclosing a cheque made payable to GUFF and your preferred delivery method. 

[Thanks to Ansible for the http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~lister/guff/ link.]

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2009 TAFF Ballot Released

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Wu and the tandem of Brian Gray and Anne KG Murphy are your 2009 Trans Atlantic Fan Fund candidates. The winner(s) will go to the 2010 Eastercon.

Wu’s nominators are Guy Lillian III, John Purcell, Kevin Roche, James Bacon and  Michael Rennie.

Gray’s and Murphy’s nominators are John Scalzi, Steven H Silver, Geri Sullivan, Paul Cornell and Cheryl Morgan.

Votes must reach the administrators Chris Garcia or Steve Green by December 22 before Chris Garcia’s watch strikes midnight. (Hint: it’s set to Pacific time).

[Story thieved from Ansible Links.]

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To the Antipodes with GUFF

Monday, September 7th, 2009

GUFF is alternatively the Going Under (or Get Up and Over) Fan Fund depending on the direction it’s sending a fan. In 2010 the winner will attend Aussiecon 4 the 68th Worldcon in Melbourne. Send nominees to Ang Rosin.

[Via Ansible Links.]

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Wanted: 2010 DUFF Nominees

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

DUFF 

Steve and Sue Francis have opened the nominations for the next Down Under Fan Fund delegate. The winning fan will travel to Aussiecon 4 (September 2-6, 2010), then take over administration and promotion of the fund for the next cycle.

The full press release appears after the jump.

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TAFF Nominees Sought

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Adventure and a trip to Eastercon await the next Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegate. Chris Garcia and Steve Green promise! And since they’re the two most recent winners, they ought to know. Nominations are being accepted until October 4.

The full press release appears after the jump.

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2005 TAFF Trip Report Now Available

Monday, April 20th, 2009

The rest of the world can now own what Corflu Zed members had first chance to buy – a copy of Jerry’s Suzle’s TAFF Report, Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegate Suzle Tompkins’ account of her trip to the 2005 Glasgow Worldcon co-written with Jerry Kaufman.

Suzle’s press release follows the jump.

(Somebody should gift Elst Weinstein with a copy of this. For obscure reasons, he’ll appreciate the photo of a warning sign painted in a driveway which a pothole repair has reduced to “Ook Both Ways.”)

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