Post 1 of 6: Introduction

This is the first of six related posts today which, over the next few hours, will form the Web site-based part of our October 16, 2021, MonSFFA Halloween e-Meeting! We are also, concurrently and beginning right now, meeting virtually on Zoom, with additional content there scheduled.

We have another busy agenda this afternoon, so let’s get right to it!

1) TODAY’S HALLOWEEN MEETING: INTRODUCTION

As we gather online for this month’s virtual club meeting in celebration of upcoming Halloween, we take a moment to offer our thoughts, prayers, best wishes, good vibes, and smiley faces to MonSFFen Cathye Knapp and Marc Durocher, who have each recently undergone vital medical procedures in hospital. May you both recover quickly and fare well!

We have also heard that former club member Chris Daly, now living in the U.S., has been hospitalized with apparently serious COVID-19-related issues. Old-timers will remember Chris as among the early organizers of this club—initially we were MonSTA, the Montreal Star Trek Association—and as the publisher of the related fan magazine Final Frontier, unfortunately short-lived. We don’t have a lot of information at this time as to Chris’ situation, but we send waves of positivity his way and wish him the best possible outcome.

This is our 19th virtual MonSFFA meeting, and just our 19th nervous breakdown!—rest in peace, Charlie Watts.

The afternoon’s get-together will unfold both on Zoom and right here on the club’s Web site over the course of the next few hours, beginning with this first post, and followed by subsequent posts at 1:30PM, 2:45PM, 3:00PM, and 4:00PM, with a concluding post at 5:00PM. All posts will also be available concurrently on MonSFFA’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MonSFFA), however, note that the interface best suited for taking in this meeting is this very Web site.

As we cannot quite yet, with reasonable safety for all, assemble in larger numbers indoors, this October virtual meeting has been prepared especially for you, MonSFFA’s membership. Sit back, check out each of the afternoon’s posts, scroll down leisurely through the proffered content, and enjoy!

Don’t forget to comment on what we’ve presented. Let us know what you think of specific topics or the meeting overall. Your input helps us to tailor these virtual meetings for maximum interest and enjoyment.

Here’s how to join our Zoom chat this afternoon:

2) HOW TO JOIN THIS AFTERNOON’S VIRTUAL CHAT ON ZOOM!

To join our Zoom session today, click here and follow the prompts: This Afternoon’s MonSFFA e-Meeting on Zoom

If you’re not fully equipped to Zoom by computer, you can also join in by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. If you’re from out of town, find your Zoom call-in number here: International Call-In Numbers

Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:

Meeting ID: 821 2485 2917
Passcode: 753602

3) MEETING AGENDA

In This Afternoon’s Virtual Meeting:

1:00PM, Post 1 of 6 (Introduction, Zoom Opens!)

1) Introduction, Scary Stories on Zoom!

2) How to Join this Afternoon’s Virtual Chat on Zoom

3) Meeting Agenda

4) The Faces of Horror: Art of Basil Gogos

1:30PM, Post 2 of 6 (Braaains!)

5) Zoom Presentation and Discussion: Zombies!

2:45PM, Post 3 of 6 (Break!)

6) Mid-Meeting Break (Display Table, Today’s Raffle Prizes, Zoom Continues)

3:00PM, Post 4 of 6 (Show-and-Tell)

7) Zoom Presentation and Show-and-Tell: Strange Mysteries!
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4:00PM, Post 4 of 6 (Art Exhibition)

8) Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration, Part

5:00PM, Post 6 of 6 (Wrap-Up)

9) Two-Sentence Scares!

10) Thank-You!

For folks unable to join us for the afternoon’s Zoom presentations and discussions, we offer alternate programming which will be posted on this very Web site periodically throughout the afternoon, beginning with the following:

So while they’re reading aloud selected creepy, scary, gruesome passages from favourite horror stories right now on our Zoom, we invite those of you who are unequiped to join in that particular undertaking to instead enjoy this collection of movie-monster portraiture by celebrated illustrator Basil Gogos.

Of Greek parentage, Gogos was born in Eygpt on March 12, 1929, and lived in that country until immigrating to the U.S. with his family at age 16. He had taken an interest in art at a young age and with the idea of an eventual career in fine arts, attended at a number of New York art schools. Among these was The Art Students League of New York, where Gogos studied under eminent illustrator/teacher Frank J. Reilly. It is here that he truly blossomed as an artist and, after winning a contest at the school sponsored by Pocket Books, produced his first professional piece: the cover illustration for a Western paperback novel called Pursuit (1959).

He worked steadily throughout the 1960s producing illustrations for a variety of New York-based publications, the bulk of these the men’s adventure magazines of the day, for which he painted World War II action, crime scenes, and dangerous jungle adventures, all featuring beautiful, scantily-clad women in terrible peril.

His work for Warren Publications, however, is that for which he is most remembered, and revered. Gogos produced close to 50 covers over some two decades for Warren’s Famous Monsters of Filmland, a magazine launched in 1958 which catered to the so-called “Monster Kids” of the 1960s.

The publication featured articles about classic horror-film characters and movie monsters, such as Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, King Kong, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and others. At the time, the old horror movies of the 1930s,’40s, and ’50s were airing on TV and attracting a fresh generation of young fright-film fans. Gogos’ beautifully horrific portraits of these monsters, and of the actors who portrayed them, have become iconic.

The artist’s loose, exuberant brushwork, use of vivid primary and secondary colours, as if the subject was illuminated from multiple coloured-light sources, and application of chiaroscuro resulted in strikingly bold, dramatic, and memorable images of the ghoulish and ghastly. Gogos managed, too, to imbue in many of his subjects not only eeriness, hideousness, and fearfulness, but a noticeable pathos.

As the 1970s came to a close, Gogos left the field of commercial illustration to pursue his delayed fine arts ambitions. But he kept his hand in with occasional forays into movie poster illustration while working a day-job for United Artists as a photo-retouch artist. He later moved into advertising, and ultimately returned to horror art in the 1990s as a resurgence of interest in the genre took hold.

In recognition of his contributions to the classic horror field, Gogos was inducted into the Monster Kid Hall Of Fame at The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards in 2006. He was also awarded Comic-Con International’s Inkpot Award that same year.