ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2019 Entry 19th July 2019: Post 01: ZERO .. and the lovely Elvira. ZERO .. and the lovely Elvira. Frequent visitors to the site will know of my keen interest in all things Elvira. I recently was watching some fascinating interviews with Cassandra Peterson discussing the Elvira character and was amazed that she secured the rights of the character almost at the very beginning of her career with Elvira. Evidently the company she worked for were resistant to improving her salary and so agreed to give Cassandra the full rights to Elvira including all her clothing etc. This has been of great benefit to Cassandra over the years who still dons the Elvira gear and goes on stage. Recently Cassandra had published a book of all her pictures and it was this that I was searching Ebay for when I came across this copy of ZERO magazine from June 1990. Sadly the book is only shipped currently from the States and so I will wait till one appears in the UK. Trust me you will be the first to know. Anyhoo .. the magazine is a very colourful and rich body of all things Commodore etc for the period and it made me reflect on just how lucky I was growing up in an era when we had real magazines and artists and journalists that went out of their way to entertain. Elvira herself is a larger than life character and is befitting that she is featured amongst the high colour pages of this quite magical magazine. There really is no substitute for the printed word and real honest to goodness journalism. I fear the current social order will never benefit from a world where true editorials were composed in lines of greater than 140 characters or words ( sorry don't do Twitter ). Artwork and imagery was so important when conjuring up the flavour of games, books and productions. And so there was a literal army of skilled and talented people working to give readers the very best in published work. And so frequently. And so here are a few select images from the ZERO magazine which to me is a work of art. But then they all are. It was a very sad day when computer magazines became little more than advertising journals, and worse blog entries on the internet by mindless idiots .... Hang on !! Do I mean me ? The cover disk was from the November 1990 edition by the way. ZERO .. and the lovely Elvira.

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