Around the beginning of 1987 I encountered an advertisement in a magazine somewhere for The Church of the SubGenius. I sent off one US dollar to see what I’d get, and and I received two 11” x 17” sheets of folded, stapled, coated white paper postmarked the 20th of February, 1987. I’d never seen anything quite like it, and it was a wonderful thing to behold. I imagine it was a huge task to make, given the household computer graphics capabilities of 1986 technology at best. It’s possible x-acto knives and rubber cement may have been involved, just as they were with my magazine in its early days (1995) as a photocopied zine.
I will confess my taste was overwhelmed by the new availability of typefaces other than courier on my typewriter. By issue three when I teamed up with Art Director Paul Hogarth and started printing offset, the Wegway logo became much more sedate.
Wegway cover issue #1, 52 pages, 1995
Wegway cover, issue #3, 72 pages, 2002, cover by John Scott who was very disappointed that this image, which appeared in another magazine, was not published as the centre spread and thus had a deep fold, so we arranged to put the offending fold on the front cover.
Thanks to the internet, I now know who created The Church of the Subgenius: “Ivan Stang (born Douglass St. Clair Smith; August 21, 1953) is an American writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding the Church with friend Philo Drummond in 1979, though Stang himself denied this and claimed the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.” [Wikipedia], an organization to which I make a small donation every year. There’s lots more information about Dobbs there if you’re interested. I also donate to the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine. Both of these organizations are worthy of our support, and may become even more-so as AI continues to develop.