James Shields has won the 2010 GUFF race. He will attend Aussiecon 4 in September.
[Via Ansible Links.]
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2010 GUFF Winner
Friday, April 9th, 2010A Well-Versed DUFF Winner
Thursday, April 8th, 2010By John Hertz (upon hearing fans selected him as the 2010 Down Under Fan Fund delegate):
It’s grand to hear I won DUFF!
Evidently your votes were Quant Suff! [1]
I’ll go to the con!
I’ll meet folks, party on!
I may not sleep much! I’ll be tough![1] Alfred Bester joke for Keith DeCandido; The Stars My Destination ch. 2 [2]
[2] Footnote for Claire Brialey
John Hertz Is 2010 DUFF Winner
Monday, April 5th, 2010John Hertz of Los Angeles has been voted the Down Under Fan Fund delegate to the 2010 Worldcon in Australia.
North American DUFF Administrators Steve and Sue Francis said, “It required all 4 rounds of vote redistribution to determine the winner.”
Hertz began the runoff with a clear plurality, 48 first-place votes out of 131 cast, and maintained a substantial lead until the automatic runoff produced a majority. The voting statistics are given in the Francis’ report: 2010 DUFF Results (PDF file).
Lacey Wins CUFF
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Diane Lacey has won the 2010 Canadian Unity Fan Fund race. She’ll be going to Keycon 27 in May.
LeAmber Raven Kensley, last year’s CUFF delegate and the fund administrator, wrote online that she received 40 votes. She said it was a close race but hasn’t posted the voting totals.
On My Sleeve Zine Helps TAFF, DUFF
Sunday, March 14th, 2010A collection of John Hertz’ fanwriting, On My Sleeve, is available for a donation of at least US$5 or equivalent to TAFF (the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund) or DUFF (the Down Under Fan Fund). Click here to see the Table of Contents (and a bit of poetry besides.)
Donate in local money payable to the Fund Administrator; ask that JH be notified, who will then mail the zine.
For TAFF: Steve Green, 33 Scott Rd, Solihull B92 7LQ, England, U.K.; Chris Garcia, 962 W. Weddell Dr. #15, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, U.S.A.
For DUFF: Emma Hawkes, 9/36 Cape St., Osborne Park, WA 6017, Australia; Sue & Steve Francis, P.O. Box 58009, Louisville, KY 40268, U.S.A.
Online CUFF Voting
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The CUFF ballot is now online. The Canadian Unity Fan Fund (CUFF) invites any Canadian (resident or citizen) fan who was active in fandom prior to April 2008 to contribute CDN$5 (or more) and vote to select Diane Lacey or Rob Uhrig as Eastern Canada’s delegate to Canvention 30/Keycon 27.
Due to a delay in getting the ballot out, the voting deadline has been extended to March 13.
[Thanks to Diane Lacey for the story.]
2010 DUFF Voting Opens
Sunday, February 7th, 2010Voting 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.
CUFF Race Begins Soon
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010The 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.
Do Artists Always Lose Fan Funds?
Friday, December 25th, 2009When 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.
TAFF Winners Announced
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Anne 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.]
