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Stuart Wynne- Letter of the Month

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:40 pm
by Fiery Phoenix
Whilst having a flick through some Zzap's, a name came out to me in the Rrap section. Stuart Wynne, Chester. Letter of the Month in issue 26. This must be the same Syuart Wynne who later became Editor.

I don't know if this was noted before or not, so I apologise if it has.

Pretty good letter, " Lloyd " even says, to quote, " one of the most constructive and useful Zzap! Rrap letters I've ever received! "

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:49 pm
by LeeT
Richard Eddy also got some artwork printed in CRASH a while before he was taken on at Newsfield.

Oh, and anyone remember the letter from Gordo in CU?

!

:lol:

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:46 pm
by gordon
:)

Those were the days: CU shortest letter competition winner, Zzap! lackey, all my own hair... And now what? It's all downhill from 25, I tell you!

Ahahahaha!

Ahaha.

Ah.

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:51 pm
by Lloyd Mangram
Gary Penn's map of Ancipital in Big K (december 1984) or was it PCG?

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:24 pm
by Fiery Phoenix
Then of course Julian Rignall in an early C&VG being crowned arcade champ of the year or something

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:59 am
by Ian Osborne
I remember Stuart Wynne was from up north, and 'Chester' sounds about right - the letter-writer probably was Zzap's future editor.

Interestingly, while I worked for him in the early days of Impact Magazines, he was writing a science fiction novel. I've no idea whether he finished it, or if it was published. Perhaps Gordo's not the only ex-editor of Zzap to turn his hand to novels...

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:06 pm
by gordon
Found this one by Stuart, which probably sold better than my first book. :)

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:10 pm
by LeeT
Having had a quick search at Amazon, I only came across this result which has got to be 'our' Mr Wynne.

EDIT: Arrghh! Beaten in minutes by Gordo :lol:

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:40 pm
by Lloyd Mangram
gordon wrote:Found this one by Stuart, which probably sold better than my first book. :)
Your first book?
Wasn't that 'The Mario Party'??

:D :wink:

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:28 pm
by gordon
Mr.Zzapback wrote:Wasn't that 'The Mario Party'??
That's the one. A story of a Mario fanboy who carved up a Princess Peach look-a-like with a scalpel. Sold 11 copies, 8 of them to my mother.

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:44 am
by PaulEMoz
gordon wrote:Found this one by Stuart, which probably sold better than my first book. :)
See, now if only Spindizzy was as popular as fat plumbers, you'd have been quids in. :)

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:04 pm
by Mangram's Tippex Thinner
Yes, Stu was from Chester.

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:20 am
by Fiery Phoenix
On the suject of Stuart Wynne, is there a documented sighting of him in the pages of Zzap?

We all know how much the other staff members loved being photographed, especially the Gordon, Kati and Maff years, but Stuart, not one photo. I'm sure of it.

Robin Hogg and Phil King had a few pics and were in the challenges, but Stuart, nowt. I'm sure of it - although I only have Zzap up to the issue they stopped Amiga coverage - around 74 I think.

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:00 am
by LeeT
Fiery Phoenix wrote:On the suject of Stuart Wynne, is there a documented sighting of him in the pages of Zzap?
I've never seen a photo of him in ZZAP! (or TGM where he also worked). There again, have you seen his reviewers head (the one where he looks like he is shivering)?!
:wink:

I always thought it was weird when they announced SW had an accident and The Scorelord took over (even in review comments) - Probably just 'cos Wynne was publicity shy?

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:19 am
by Ian Osborne
Stu didn't like having his photo taken, but if you want to see what he looked like, the first post-newsfield Zzap! (Ish 79) had a picture of the entire staff in it, on Page 5.

Image

Stuart's in the front row, third from the left. And I'm first on the right, in the front row! :D