Pogo
(Did you mean a comic strip or an Alpajpuri fanzine?)
(November 19, 1921 – May 21, 1996)
Mary Corinne “Patti” Gray (later Wood) was a Los Angeles fan frequently called by the Esperanto nickname Pogo. She and her cousin Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas) were avid Esperantists.
Pogo was one of the charter members of The National Fantasy Fan Federation. She was ardently pursued by the fanboys of the period. See “In Defense of Pogo.”
She married Russ Wood on December 11, 1941 in Yuma, Arizona. They were two of the founders of the Harbor Fantasy League, a group of fannish couples in the LA area. Together, she and Russ were nicknamed Pogorus, also the name of their fanzine. They had a son together named Curtis, but appear to have later divorced.
She published STF-ETTE, the first feminist fanzine, and, with Russ, Fan-Damn. She was heavily involved in FooFoo and was thus, of course, an anti-Ghughuist.
In 1942, she had a feud with Forry Ackerman, about which he pubbed The War Lock in FAPA 21.
- “In Defense of Pogo” by Charles D. Hornig (Hornig's Bulletin 1, 1941).
- Response to Hornig by Arthur Louis Joquel II (SunT(r)ails 1, p. 6).
- Photos on pages 135 and 248 of Harry Warner's history of fandom, All Our Yesterdays.
- Founding Members article with photo in the March 2016 National Fantasy Fan.
| From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944 |
| Nickname for Mrs. Russell M Wood, formerly Mary Corrine Gray, once called Patti. |
| Person | 1921—1996 |
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