The Exilian Crossection Art Folio
(1972 - Seth Dogramajian)

Seth Dogramajian (one of the first bandmates of Gene Simmons) put out a late-1960s sci-fi/fantasy fanzine called EXILE. After it's run of a handful of issues, one imagines that its name lived on in the form of this self-published collection of art compiled through Dogramajian's network of fan contacts. I think the 'fanzine' milieu needs to be kept most in mind here and so appreciate the enthusiasm of fresh adulthood and forgive the less experienced curation. This book is formed by taking the leaf-portfolios containing the 46 individual full-page drawings, along with the introduction, contents page & two pieces of heavier card stock and stapling them all together on the right side and running a sturdy tape-strip up it to make a single blank spine. The backs of all pages are blank. One of the pieces plus the cover itself, are black-&-white reproductions of color works. Two more are works turned sideways. The two Faddis pieces are photographs interestingly so heavily processed as to become near-abstracts. The two text pages each have a small rough sketch from Roy Krenkel. I'd say the artist list guides the perception of crumbs from the established artists, and then some good displays from the up-and-comers, leaving the spectrum of fair-to-middling and dreary pieces to the remaining exhibited fans & amateurs. That list of 'well-presented' artists is: George Barr (9)**, Bonnie Bergstrom, D. Bruce Berry, Grant Canfield, James Cawthorn, Seth Dogramajian (7), Stephen E. Fabian**, Connie Reich Faddis (2), Virgil Finlay, Frank Frazetta**, Jack Gaughan (2)**, Mike Gilbert, Robert E. Gilbert (2), Alexis Gilliland, Terry Jeeves, Jeffrey Catherine Jones**, Tim Kirk, Dave Ludwig, Jim McLeod (3), and Arthur Thompson.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Frazetta(a sketchwork), Jones(a sketchwork), Gaughan(one a sketchwork), Barr, and Fabian, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

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