Sludge

Sludge was a fanzine published by Bob Foster in the UK in 1951.

Walt Willis reviewed the first issue in Quandry #10 (May 1951):

Sludge #1 (Bob Foster) Four issues for one prozine. This modestly named effort is probably the most extraordinary fanzine I have ever encountered. Of course, I was in at the birth of it, and I know that the editor is a bricklayer, that he entered fandom only a few months ago, that he knows nothing of the ins and outs of fan publishing and that he hasn't got a typewriter or a mimeograph and that he in fact started with nothing but guts and enthusiasm; but even so! He wrote to me some while ago for advice on linocuts and when I saw his first effort I feared for him. It was a thin and brittle piece of inlaid lino — already fallen to pieces in the mails — and this he had rolled with water paint and a wooden roller and tried to print by hand. (I expect that Lee has some fellow feeling for him!) But the ones in his first issue show what can be done with determination. They are printed by foot pressure, of course, but nevertheless they are amazingly good. The zine's contents, too, are better than most first issues, but the editor with a modesty unusual in faneds has only distributed copies to the five fen he knows, so you’ll have to ask him for a copy. Do that: this zine has promise.

Its last issue was dated 'Winter 1951' but may have appeared in January 1952.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	Spring 1951	19
2	Summer 1951	30
3	Winter 1951	30	Final issue

Sludge online at fanac.org

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Publication

1951

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