GUFF-awe
Guff-awe (or perhaps GUFF-awe; majuscule typescript makes capitalisation details ambiguous) was a seriees of three one-page GUFF newsletters published in 1980 by John Foyster in Australia (in the same period, UK had The Northern Guffblower).
In his 1988 Guffawe 4 [1], Irwin Hirsh wrote:
GUFF administrator reports have come under all manner of titles. […] this level of consistency was discarded by John Foyster who used a wide range of titles. […] GUFFAWE is a title John Foyster used three times, all in the early part of his 5 year administration.
(Foyster followed with one GUFF Newsletter in 1981 and after the GUFF hiatus of 1982–3, one GUFF1984). However Hirsh seems to have missed Foyster's hyphen, so it is a question whether his own Guffawe series (#4, February 1988, to #9, August 1990; details available at https://ozfanfunds.com/?page_id=6#guffawe-ih ) should be treated separately.
Also, Guff(-)awe must not be confused with Paul Kincaid's turn-of-the-millennium Guffaw.
| # | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 1980 | very minimal, somewhat different from the next ones. Unnumbered but interspaced title; opens "Easter 1980: Dave Langford and John Foyster hereby call for nominations", their addresses (in order above), anecdote headlined "Guffaw 1." Was included as last page of Foyster's Chunder! V2.4 February–May 1980 |
| 2 | July 1980 | new heading with addresses of John Foyster and Rob Jackson, "closing date for nominations has been set back to 31 August", more on VOTING, MONEY and Foyster's postal auction, bottom marked Chunder! June–July 1980 page 13 |
| 3 | December 1980 | titled GUFF AWE 3 with no trace of hyphen in the space; header like #2 with minor variations; more on Foyster's moneyraising fanzine sale and auction; accompanied by the ballot |
GUFF-awe online at fanac.org
| Publication | 1980 |
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