Soft cover facsimile of the original. Contains fully-illustrated 1979 interview with Reid by David Britton. Before the collapse of Savoy Books Ltd in 1981 we planned to republish six 'Fudge the Elf' titles. Other titles were to have been, Fudge's Trip to the Moon, Fudge in Toffee Town, Fudge Turns Detective and Frolics with Fudge. Hopefully, before we die, we will return a couple more 'Fudge' books to the market place and put into book form for the first time Speck's Inventions, which contains possibly the most breathtaking of all Ken's art.

With additional Check List guide to the original Fudge newspaper strips by David Britton and David McCulloch.

See also: Of Elves And Ethics (All About Ken Reid's Fudge) by Carolyn Horn.

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"Two books of interest (again from Savoy) are The Tides of Lust by Samuel R Delany, and Charles Platt's The Gas. Both are highly erotic, some would say pornographic, and are definitely not for the squeamish. The Gas has an absorbing, if slightly laboured, introduction by Philip José Farmer who presents a rational argument for the existence of such books and puts the writers intent in context. Some readers may view the dichotomy inherent in publishing books like Fudge the Elf and John Warren's Return from the Wild alongside The Gas and The Tides of Lust with some puzzlement. Exploitation—if so which? The answer is neither. Britton and Butterworth care deeply about all the books they publish and are quick to defend them, reasonably, against unreasonable attacks. An interesting footnote is that the Savoy offices on Deansgate, Manchester, were raided recently by the police, who took away 3000 copies of The Tides of Lust and 2000 copies (approx) of The Gas. The authorities appear to have made up their minds already—have you?"

JERRY MORRELL

 

JOHN DOCHERTY, Manchester Evening News reader, 1980