Tony Glynn
(November 9, 1929 – August 22, 2019)
Anthony Arthur Glynn was a UK fan, artist and writer from Manchester and later Southport near Liverpool active from the 1950s. He published the fanzine Squeak in the 1960s and contributed covers and interiors to other fanzines, notably Triode, from the mid-1950s. Harry Turner wrote in Triode #5 that 'Glynn's covers still have a "period." look. If there had been fans and. fanmags in the 1890s and Beardsley had been a fanartist, this would have been a typical cover!'
He attended the Supermancon in 1954 and Cytricon I in 1955. In a letter to Relapse #12 he recalled meeting his 'fan' at the latter, 'a youthful chap, little more than a schoolboy'. This was John Ashcroft who recognised Glynn's name from an appearance in Futuristic Science Stories.
He continued to attend conventions occasionally, including Loncon II in 1965, a convention in Ohio in 1969 (perhaps Marcon IV), and Torcon II in 1973. In the 1960s he was a member of The Fan Squadron, a group of fans who were also aircraft buffs. He also contributed artwork to fanzines such as Yandro and Niekas. In the 2000s he was a regular correspondent of Relapse and again contributed artwork.
Glynn also published a number of short stories between 1952 and 1954 as A. A. Glynn, plus two novels for Badger Books in the 1960s, one under a house name. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia notes that while he preferred sf he mostly wrote westerns. In the 2000s he again published a number of short stories, this time as Tony Glynn.
After serving in the army and working as a cinema projectionist, Glynn worked as a journalist for various national and local newspapers.
His sister was fellow fan Frances Glynn.
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