Lon Atkins
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(October 15, 1942 – November 28, 2016)
Alonzo P. Atkins was a Southern fan who lived in LA a good part of his life. He chaired DeepSouthCon 4 in 1966. He was one of the initial editors of Rally! and an editor of Grand Fenwick Gazette.
He was a member of ALA-APA and SFPA (of which he served as OE) and a number of other apae.
He was married, for a time, to Kathy Atkins.
- The Apache (for Chapel Hill APA)
- Balrog (for TAPS)
- Blue Jaunte (for STOBCLER)
- Book of Job (with Wally Weber)
- Clarges (for SFPA and N'APA)
- The DEGLER! Factory (for APA-F).
- Grand Fenwick Gazette
- Gro (for SAPS)
- Gyre (for N'APA)
- Hapless (with Wally Weber)
- Hoop (for N'APA)
- Mel (for SFPA 50)
- Melikaphkhaz (for SFPA)
- Murther (for ALA-apa)
- Officious June TNFF (hoax, with Wally Weber)
- Pepsi-coma [1966] (with others)
- Rally!
Lon Atkins. Drawing by Joe Staton.
- The Thought of the Outside (a single-issue apazine published with Lee Jacobs for Stobcler, SFPA and TAPS)
- Tigre [1981-] (for SAPS)
- The Widget Factory (for APA-F)
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1967 — Westercon 20
- 1979 — Just Imagicon
- 1982 — DeepSouthCon 20, Rebel Award
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