NEWLY ADDED:
TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #252 (December 2018) (Added on January 5, 2019) *Click the cover* at left to read a PDF of the new issue! ______________________________________________ Front cover by new UFO Chairman David Branstetter. Columns this issue by David Branstetter, Jason Bullock, Rob Cooley, Rob Imes, Larry Johnson, Tim Kelly, Jim Main and Ian Shires. ___________________________________ |
TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS! is the title of the UFO Newsletter. On this page, you will find back issues of the newsletter available in PDF format. This site is continually under construction, as old issues are scanned and new issues are added to the archive. You will also be able to find current issues of the newsletter on this page for you to download. For a complete checklist of the newsletter, please visit The TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS Index.
The UFO has a long history. The group began life as the BPP (Blue Plaque Publications) in November 1968, founded by Carl Gafford, who published six issues of the BPP Newsletter between 1970 and 1972. By 1973 the BPP disbanded, but not before a new applicant, Steve Keeter, had been voted into its ranks. In the summer of '73, Steve tried to reform the group and published an issue of the newsletter which he mailed out to all of the former BPP members. None of them was interested in rejoining the group, so in December 1973, Steve sent out another newsletter (Vol. 2, No. 2) to a brand-new group of small-press creators that he hoped would join him in a renamed BPP (Blue Phoenix Publications, so named because he wanted the co-op to rise again from the ashes like a phoenix). The new members included Jim Main, who would become a pivotal player in the group's future. In 1974, the group changed its name to the UFO (United Fanzine Organization) and the following year the newsletter was named Tetragrammaton Fragments! (although the "!" at the end of the title is often disregarded).
After many membership changes, the UFO quietly disbanded during the Chairmanship of Chris (Ed) Rock following the publication of T-Frags #84 in May 1981. Jim Main revived the group in November 1984 with the publication of T-Frags #85, and was joined in the membership roster by Sam Gafford (younger brother of founder Carl Gafford), cartoonist Don Martinec, and former Chairman Chris Rock. A long list of small-press publishers and creators soon joined the UFO, including returning members Steve Keeter (who would succeed Jim Main as Chairman) and Larry Johnson. Despite the occasional controversies that arose during that era, the 1980s could be seen as the UFO's "golden age," as more members joined than ever before, bringing the group's roster to the maximum number of 25 members by 1988.
The UFO continued into the 1990s and 2000s under new Chairmen, with T-Frags being continuously published during all that time. Although both Steve Keeter and Jim Main had dropped out of the group by the mid-1990s, they returned as active members in the mid-to-late 2000s, and were recently voted into Honorary Member status. Tetragrammaton Fragments still appears in printed format, as well as PDF. Below you will be able to download and view PDFs of the newsletter, with more issues to be added as time permits. Enjoy!
(Note: Former UFO member Larry Blake has declined to have his T-Frags columns online, so those pages are not included in the PDFs here. Issues that are affected by this exclusion have a "minus Larry Blake column" notation. If any other former members of the UFO object to their old T-Frags columns appearing on this site, please contact Rob Imes to request that your column be removed. Thanks!)
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THE BPP NEWSLETTER #5 (Summary of the issue only, from T-Frags #197)
(June 1971) (Carl Gafford, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
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THE BPP NEWSLETTER Vol. II, No. II
(December 1973) (Steve Keeter, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #42 (Vol. 3, No. 26)
(October 1976) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #43 (Vol. 3, No. 27)
(November 1976) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #44 (Vol. 3, No. 28)
(December 1976) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
__TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #48 (Vol. 3, No. 32)
(April 1977) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #49 (Vol. 3, No. 33)
(May 1977) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #50 (Vol. 3, No. 34)
(June 1977) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #51 (Vol. 3, No. 35)
(July 1977) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #52 (Vol. 3, No. 36)
(August 1977) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman) _________________________________________________________________ |
TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #53 (Vol. 3, No. 37)
(September 1977) (Kurt Erichsen, Chairman; Jay Zilber, Chairman-Elect) _________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #54 (Vol. 4, No. 1)
(October 1977) (Jay L. Zilber, Chairman) _________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #55 (Vol. 4, No. 2)
(November 1977) (Jay L. Zilber, Chairman) _________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #56 (Vol. 4, No. 3)
(December 1977) (Jay L. Zilber, Chairman) _________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #66 (Vol. 5, No. 1)
(October 1978) (Bill Mutschler, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #68 (Vol. 5, No. 3)
(December 1978) (Bill Mutschler, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #70 (Vol. 5, No. 5)
(March 1979) (Chris Rock, Acting Chairman; Bill Mutschler, outgoing Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #71
(May 1979) (Jay Zilber, Emergency Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #85
(November 1984) (Jim Main, Chairman) (first T-Frags since May 1981) __________________________________________________________________ |
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_TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #86
(January 1985) (Jim Main, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
COMING SOON
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #87
(March 1985) (Jim Main, Chairman) ___________________________________________________________________ |
COMING SOON
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #88
(May 1985) (Jim Main, Chairman) ____________________________________________________________________ |
COMING SOON
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #89
(July 1985) (Jim Main, Chairman) ___________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #90
(September 1985) (Jim Main, Chairman) ___________________________________________________________________ |
COMING SOON
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #91
(November 1985) (Jim Main, Chairman) ___________________________________________________________________ |
COMING SOON
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #92
(January 1986) (Jim Main, Chairman) ____________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #93
(March 1986) (minus Larry Blake column) (Jim Main, Chairman) ___________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #202
(January 2008) (Nic Carcieri, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #227
(March 2013) (Rob Imes, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #228
(May 2013) (Rob Imes, Chairman) __________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #229
(July 2013) (Rob Imes, Chairman) ___________________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #230
(October 2013) (Rob Imes, Chairman) _________________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #234
(June 2014) (Rob Imes, Chairman) ___________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #248
(February 2018) (Rob Imes, Chairman) ___________________________________________________ |
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TETRAGRAMMATON FRAGMENTS #252
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