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"Lutrai Priestess" by Jay Naylor 2008
From his own settings & stories on www.jaynaylor.com
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Note
(posted 25 November 2006)
Your website herder has a new email address:
kenfletch'at)comcast.net (substitute @ for 'at))
This is in addition to the Yahoo email address: kenandgiovanna'at)yahoo.com

Zine Updates
  26 February 2008: Hardcopy zines available through Spontoon Island #11
additional information here

Webpage Updates
A page of selected recent new art

25 February 2008
"Kocha Koi" Chapter 2, by Walt Reimer, Mitch Marmel, & Eric Costello,
"Scouting Party" Chapter 3, by Charles M. K. Horner
(an excerpt from a Spontoon Island serial story from 1967),
"A Leaf in the Wind" Chapter 2, by Walt Reimer
 all on the Story page. An 'Artistic Study' by Seth Triggs
 has been added to Mitch Marmel's story "Break Away",
located in the "May Day" section way down
at the bottom of the Story page.
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Announcing a forum for talk about Spontoon Island:
(including websites and zines)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spontoon_Island/
A Yahoo Group moderated by Mitch Marmel.

Announcing a forum: 'Spicy Spontoon'
Speculation on Spicy Spontoon Stories and 1930s fantasies.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spicy_Spontoon/
An over-18 Yahoo Group moderated by Mitch Marmel
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18 February 2008
Chapter 131 of "Luck of the Dragon", by Walt Reimer,
"Kocha Koi" Chapter 1, by Walt Reimer, Mitch Marmel, & Eric Costello
on the Story page. New art moved to the Art pages.

11 February 2008
Beginning "A Leaf in the Wind", by Walt Reimer,
on the Story page. Richard Bartrop provides a portrait
and backstory for "Big Red" in the Characters section of the Art page.

8 February 2008
Aleutian hospitality at the extreme Winter Survival test in December 1936,
in "Gone With the Wind-Chill", from the excerpts from Amelia's Diary,
by Simon Barber (concluding this segment). Soon to return to
"Pole Starlets", where the seaplane trip to Antarctica will be
already in progress (in March 1937) -- on the Story page.
New illustrations via the Art page, including reposting of some
pictures in the "Aircraft" section. Thanks to artists: Blackie,
Richard Bartrop, & Seth C. Triggs.

1 February 2008
Chapter 129 of "Luck of the Dragon",
and an Epilog to "Sub Rosa", both by Walt Reimer,
& we continue with the extreme Winter Survival test in December 1936,
in "Gone With the Wind-Chill", from the excerpts from Amelia's Diary,
by Simon Barber; all on the Story page.
New art is uploaded in the Songmark Academy Art Archive,
& there are Animation Cels from cartoons
you might see at a Spontoon theater,
and the illustrations can also be found via the Art page.

28 January 2008
"Sub Rosa" Chapter 11, by Walt Reimer;
and we go back to Amelia's Diary in early December 1936,
for the third-year students' Winter Survival test in the Aleutian Islands:
"Gone With the Wind-Chill", excerpts from Amelia's Diary by Simon Barber;
& Chapter 128 of "Luck of the Dragon", by Walt Reimer,
 all on the Story page.

13 January 2008
Chapter 127 of "Luck of the Dragon", & "Sub Rosa" Chapter 10,
by Walt Reimer, and a transcript of a "Four Fools" radio-play,
"Tropical Troublemakers", produced by Walter Reimer,
(with additional material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie),
on the Story page. There is a collection of images of Miss Caroline Lamm.

5 January 2008
Aloha! and Happy New Year!
Chapter 126 of "Luck of the Dragon", & "Sub Rosa" Chapter 9,
by Walt Reimer, on the Story page.
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I would recommend you take a look at
"The Adventures of Mia" webpage by Enrico Casarosa.
This was a comic book of a few years ago, set in the seaplane-racing 1930s.
The webpage provides background, sketches, and guest art.
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"Ace & Queenie" comic strip updates by Rusty Haller.
Intrigue and suspense on the Spontoon Islands!
At his own webpage: http://www.aceandqueenie.com
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Thanks go to Moses Lambert for his email and suggestions,
which include adding links to stories directly from this list of new uploads..
That reminds me to thank Jonathan Nicholls for his emailed
comments and suggestions, which were also much appreciated.
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This website (among several others) has been given the

Golden Mimeograph Award
by the folks at http://www.naorhy.com
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"Spontoon Postcards" wanted!
Postcard illos shared from visitors and tourists
to the Spontoon Archipelago are welcome! If you send them,
they may be posted to the "Visitors & Tourists" page.
Illos (.gif) under 400k and fitting the 1920 to 1950
time period are the most welcome.
Do show your own characters, shareware characters,
or public domain characters having some PG-13 fun.
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Corporate trademark characters are unlikely to be seen here.
They have their own trademark protected vacation islands to visit,
and likely only send copyrighted vacation postcards to
their corporate legal staff.
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January-December 2007
(Fifty-seven baskets of updates in 2007)

January-December 2006
(Seventy-two baskets of updates in 2006)

January-December 2005
(Sixty-eight baskets of updates in 2005)

January-December 2004
(Fifty-one updates in 2004)

March-December 2003
(Thirty-two updates to finish 2003)

8 March 2003
Many small updates since December 2002

2001-2002
(Fourteen uploads)

20 August 2001
Webpage launch

9 August 2001
Webpage is rolled down the ramp to the water