Bob Hoffman

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Robert A. Hoffman, called Hoffmania, was a fan and fanartist in California in the 1940s (and from various overseas assignments while in the Army). He belonged to LASFS and drew for members’ fanzines.

F. T. Laney, with whom he corresponded, described Bob in ASI:

Bob Hoffman (or RAH as he prefers to be called) has always had too much sense to allow himself1 to be dragged very deep into fandom. His ruling passion is classical music, and his musical studies both at USC and under well-known Hollywood fi­gures is calculated to land him in the musical end of the motion pic­ture industry. Bob has the largest symphonic record collection of any LASFSer, and in addition collects sound tracks, motion picture music, Cole Porter, and other similar stuff. He is totally non-hep. His interest in fantasy is a sideline, as is his artwork of various kinds, but he has a very fine collection of the stuff that makes fans go mad when they view it at Ackerman’s. Bob is a good conver­sationalist and a good mixer; it is too bad he is such an esthete! But esthete or no, he was a prime mover in THE ACOLYTE from the mo­ment he first hove on the scene until Uncle finally sent him overseas.

At Pacificon, the 1946 Worldcon, Hoffman appeared in the masquerade in a professional makeup recreation of Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein Monster.

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