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11 - 03 - 2014 - The OuterEdge With Richard S. Shaver
This Sunday night, Shaver correspondent, friend, photographer and scholar Richard Toronto takes the Outer Edge into subterranean realms!!
In 1972 Richard S. Shaver opened a letter from an inquisitive California kid named Richard Toronto. As the story goes, Shaver’s reply changed Toronto’s life forever. For the next four years until Shaver’s death in 1975, Toronto enrolled in Shaver’s rokfogo home correspondence course, where Shaver encouraged him to photograph rock books and become a writer. A few years after Shaver’s death, Toronto founded Shavertron, a fanzine for Shaver Mystery buffs. In time it gathered a cult following, keeping Shaver’s memory alive for 29 issues from 1979 to 1992 as “The Only Source of Post-Deluge Shaverania.” It took another 35 years before Toronto wrote the book that became Shaver’s first published biography: War Over Lemuria. Since its publication in 2013, Toronto's California-based Shavertron Press has produced several ground-breaking new works on Shaver and the Mystery. His most recent offering is ROKFOGO, a two-volume set devoted entirely to Shaver's Outsider Art career of painting and photography. This, Toronto says, is his farewell to Shaver, as he plans to gafiate from the Shaver Mystery publishing scene in 2014.
Toronto attended San Francisco and Sacramento State Universities, graduating in 1994 with a BA in Journalism. He worked in the Arts in Mental Health program at Napa State Hospital in Napa, California, where he taught photography to the criminally insane. He also covered the arts and entertainment beat, among others, as a reporter at a suburban daily newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first magazine article about Richard S. Shaver appeared in Beyond Reality magazine in 1976. In 2002 he converted Shavertron to an E-zine, where it can be found at www.shavertron.com to this day.
Also featured in this broadcast will be a very rare tape that Richard S. Shaver sent to Richard Toronto, a rambling monologue originally recorded on reel-to-reel tape. In this short clip, Shaver talks about his views of our modern world and culture, science fiction and pulp scifi publishing, and of course his famous (or infamous) "rock books", "rokfogo" or "rogfogo", which he claimed were ancient records left in stone by the advanced races of the past... the same races who went underground and became the terrifying "dero" of Shaver Mystery lore.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theouteredgeradio
Go to psn-radio.com to chat live in our chatroom during the show.
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This Sunday night, Shaver correspondent, friend, photographer and scholar Richard Toronto takes the Outer Edge into subterranean realms!!
In 1972 Richard S. Shaver opened a letter from an inquisitive California kid named Richard Toronto. As the story goes, Shaver’s reply changed Toronto’s life forever. For the next four years until Shaver’s death in 1975, Toronto enrolled in Shaver’s rokfogo home correspondence course, where Shaver encouraged him to photograph rock books and become a writer. A few years after Shaver’s death, Toronto founded Shavertron, a fanzine for Shaver Mystery buffs. In time it gathered a cult following, keeping Shaver’s memory alive for 29 issues from 1979 to 1992 as “The Only Source of Post-Deluge Shaverania.” It took another 35 years before Toronto wrote the book that became Shaver’s first published biography: War Over Lemuria. Since its publication in 2013, Toronto's California-based Shavertron Press has produced several ground-breaking new works on Shaver and the Mystery. His most recent offering is ROKFOGO, a two-volume set devoted entirely to Shaver's Outsider Art career of painting and photography. This, Toronto says, is his farewell to Shaver, as he plans to gafiate from the Shaver Mystery publishing scene in 2014.
Toronto attended San Francisco and Sacramento State Universities, graduating in 1994 with a BA in Journalism. He worked in the Arts in Mental Health program at Napa State Hospital in Napa, California, where he taught photography to the criminally insane. He also covered the arts and entertainment beat, among others, as a reporter at a suburban daily newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first magazine article about Richard S. Shaver appeared in Beyond Reality magazine in 1976. In 2002 he converted Shavertron to an E-zine, where it can be found at www.shavertron.com to this day.
Also featured in this broadcast will be a very rare tape that Richard S. Shaver sent to Richard Toronto, a rambling monologue originally recorded on reel-to-reel tape. In this short clip, Shaver talks about his views of our modern world and culture, science fiction and pulp scifi publishing, and of course his famous (or infamous) "rock books", "rokfogo" or "rogfogo", which he claimed were ancient records left in stone by the advanced races of the past... the same races who went underground and became the terrifying "dero" of Shaver Mystery lore.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theouteredgeradio
Go to psn-radio.com to chat live in our chatroom during the show.