Mail Art Periodicals - MoMA

profiteering..." Letters from Rudi Rubberoid (USA), Bug Post (USA), Rusty Clark
(USA), and John Herd (sic), Jr. (USA).
No. 4 (n.d.). Photocopy and rubber Stamp. 14"x8 1/2". (2 pages).
"Last issue were several mildly volatile comments on the'artistamp' industry &
current rampant huckserism of a large percentage of that community. In reply I
received a long & occasionally lucid commentary from Bug Post, which I'll
reproduce in nearly its entirety, with footnoted replies." Letters from Bug Post
(USA), Rudi Rubberoid (USA), Walt Evans (USA), and Rusty Clark (USA). "The
following folks sent somewhere around twenty to sixty cinderellas, which are
being divided at random between the sixty or so people receiving this mailing..."
No. 6 (n.d.). Photocopy. 14"x8 1/2". (2 pages). "I save I suppose onetenth
of the mail art I receive, which is till way too much to keep around
indefinitely. The rest I cannibalize or alter and send on. Very close to nothing is
wasted. It surprises me that some people send truly wonderful treasures, which
really spice up the run of the mill...At the other extreme are mail artists without
much artistic brilliance. Somehow I never mind seeing stuff from folks without
talent, as even the bad stuff is oddly wonderful. I confess I do occasionally weary
of people who are in ruts, whether famous like Shozo or unheard of like the rest
of us, who send out the same damned thing over and over again, with
imperceptible variations." "Hucksterism 'can' destroy community. My only
previous contact with Banana post was at a huckster event. As I introduced
myself, she began at once to try to sell me printing services and subscriptions.
there was not even a token friendly exchange...Perhaps Banana is a great
person who merely happens to make uninteresting Hallmark Card style stamps;
but she misuses the network for personal gain and that makes her representative
of a 'type' that puts a dollar value to the community. To me Mail Art is more like a
family dinner, not like a stroll through a shopping mall, an otherwise excellent
meal can be spoilt if Uncle Dufus only wants us to buy swampland, or sister
Poop-for-brains is relying on the family to keep her Amway business afloat."
Edited letters from Cairie Hodges (USA), Ann Maybe (aka Ex Posto Facto, USA).
Bob Kirkman (USA) and Anna Banana (Canada), who replies to the editor's
criticism. "First, thanks for letting me know your reactions to my excerpting some
of your comments, as unsettling as they are; and the opportunity to rebut your
editorial comments...In over 22 years of mail-art networking I have never met
anyone so quick to judge, condemn and 'go public' with pronouncements. My
business is producing stamps; this is how I make a living...Your judgments about
others are very back and white...snap judgments and holier-than-thous can
destroy community from within as much or more than any commercial
interface..." Contributors to the "Cinderella Stamp Exchange." "The 'Gazette' is
not really a public forum; it's my letter substitute to 60 folks who send me letters
stamps, and art."
No. 7 (n.d.). Photocopy. 11"x8 1/2". (2 pages). "The Anna Bananna
issue got more correspondence than any issue yet, most of it marked 'Do Not
Quote,' the majority complaining in essence that all they ever got back after