Ritblat/Grim News

Ritblat/Grim News was a fanzine published by Greg Pickersgill in London with two issues in 1974. The second included a deadline of May 10, 1974 for contributions for the next issue but it was in fact the last.

Ritblat formed the main content with Grim News appended as a three-page newszine. Pickersgill explained the source of the name:

The title comes from my momentary fascination with the name Conrad Ritblat, a West London estate agency of the day, which always put me in mind of a Philip Dick character-name. 

The Grim News element was originally intended as a successor to Checkpoint after Peter Roberts had apparently folded the title with its 46th issue in March 1974. However, Darrol Pardoe restarted it with #47 in April, and this was a contributing factor to the demise of Ritblat/Grim News.

Covers were, in common with Pickersgill's earlier Fouler, completely blank and there was no interior artwork.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	March 1974	26	Outside contributors were Ian Williams, John Brosnan, Alan Burns, and Leroy Kettle; Pickersgill's own contribution included an editorial and 'Eyeball', a fanzine review columns.
2	April 1974	30	Outside contributors were Kettle ('George Hammond' is a Kettle pseudonym) and Rob Holdstock, plus letters; Pickersgill again contributed an editorial and 'Eyeball'; final issue

• Ritblat/Grim News online at fanac.org
• Pickersgill's own writeup

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Publication

1974

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