Bruce Kidd

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Bruce Kidd was a fan and fanartist from Romford in Essex active in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was staff artist for Burroughsania and Archive.

Michael Moorcock introduced him in Burroughsania 5 (July 1956) in a passage written in all-caps that are spared to readers here:

The future editor of this page is named Bruce Kidd and sometimes goes under the alias of "Melvin". He is a Mad and Panic fan which as any ful nows are E .C. comic books and feature satire-like strips ... all the critics rave about. (i.e. "Melvin of the Apes" (sacrilege)) He is also a Ray Bradbury fan and has a goodly store of this writer's works. He thinks Tarzan is the best series ever written around one character.

In issue 7 (August 1956) Moorcock hailed his contributing artists as "two of fandom's best illustrators – Bruce Kidd and Arthur Thomson".

Kidd attended Cytricon II where Archie Mercer first met his own staff artist and said in Ploy 6 (June 1956),"He must be a fan – he wore a beanie." In the same issue of Ploy he was reported to be collaborating with Jim Linwood on a fanzine to be called Millennium but nothing ever came of it. He did however collaborate with Linwood and Michael Moorcock on Mood.

Oddly, in Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1956 Kidd is tagged as an "ex-active fan" despite all the activity detailed above. He was similarly tagged in 1957 and doesn't appear at all in 1958. He did however contribute to fanzines until at least 1960.

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