Jester in Exile
Jester in Exile was (to be) a fanzine planned or at least spoken of by Harold Gottliffe around 1942 as he was away in the War, but clearly never produced. The name comes from Green Jester, the earlier publishing house of the Leeds SFL.
In Futurian War Digest #19 (April 1942), J. Michael Rosenblum reported:
And still [Gotliffe] hopes to bring out his long-planned Jester in Exile (the reference is to the Green Jester Press, publishers of The Futurian) and the latest effort is a scheme to produce it on Airgraphs by duplicating, which feat Harold intends to perform as soon as Airgraphs are extended to USA.
The Airgraph Service was a system of transporting letters between Middle East and UK by the very limited air transport available after "compressing" them to microfilm, lowering the weight and bulk about 150 times: See https://alphabetilately.org/airgraph.html , https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/16591 or wikipedia:V-mail#British 'Airgraph'. However the size of the forms submitted to the post office (which the first "Airgraphs" seems to mean) was severely limited, just a bit more than a poctsard, and the service was never extended to addresses outside the British Empire, not to mention that the authorities would likely frown on its being (ab)used to mass-mail even a cardzine to many recipients, as opposed to finding somebody to duplicate it more conventionally at the target country.
In #23 (October 1942), W. Skelton wrote to say:
According to Gottliffe's last letter, service contingencies have slightly held up his Jester in Exile plans, but I hope he brings it out sooner or later, then I may at last make a debut as a fan-mag contributor.
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