Ralph Rayburn Phillips

(1896-1974)

Ralph Rayburn Phillips, a Portland, OR, fan active in the 1940s and ’50s, contributed to the fanzines Destiny and Scientifantasy. He was connected to the NorWesCon and invented the ghod Ul-Ul to promote it.

He was both a fanartist and a commercial artist and exhibited in galleries. He spent his early life in the east, till age 16, attended high school in Portland, went to Applied Art School in Michigan and then returned to Oregon.

A brief biography is available on the blog Tellers of Weird Tales.

Manly Bannister wrote a profile of Phillips in Destiny 8, 1953.

Joshua Blu Buhs wrote about his relations with Forteans and Buddhism and summarized his life. "Ralph would live in Portland until his death in 1974, going from Bohemian to Beatnik to Hippie. The Oregon Journal reported in 1970, 'He has been a familiar figure in the SW Park Blocks for years—tall, silver-haired, simply but neatly dressed, and always barefoot. You usually see him on a park bench, sucking on his pipe, as he reads his latest library book, all the while absent-mindedly wriggling his toes.'”

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