Al Hewetson
| Al Hewetson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 30, 1946 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | January 6, 2004 (aged 57) |
| Nationality | Scottish-Canadian |
| Area(s) | Writer, Editor |
| Pseudonym(s) | Joe Dentyn, Stuart Williams, Henry Bergman, Hugh Laskey, Harvey Lazarus, Howie Anderson, Peter Cappiello, Edward Farthing, Victor Buckley |
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Notable works
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Skywald Publications |
Alan Hewetson (August 30, 1946 – January 6, 2004) was a Scottish-Canadian writer and editor of American horror-comics magazines, best known for his work with the 1970s publisher Skywald Publications, where he created what he termed the magazines' "Horror-Mood" sensibility. He went on to become a publisher of city magazines in Canada.
Al Hewetson was born and initially raised in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of James and Elizabeth Hewetson. There he read such comic books as Classics Illustrated, The Beano and Eagle before his family migrated to Canada when he was 9 years old, in 1956. At his new home, he began reading the satirical Mad and Humbug magazines, becoming infatuated with the work of writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman. Through his involvement in comics fandom, he began corresponding with such future underground and alternative comics creators as Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch, Robert Crumb, and Art Spiegelman, and published a single issue of a fanzine, The Potrzebie Annual (no relation to fellow fan Bhob Stewart's Potrzebie).
He became a darkroom technician and then a staff news photographer at what was then the Sudbury Daily Star of Sudbury, Ontario, followed by photographer jobs at the Ottawa Journal, The Montreal Gazette in 1967, and Ottawa's Canadian Press. In 1966 and 1967, he worked for Expo 67, and in the middle of 1967 founded an advertising and photographic studio in Ottawa and began doing promotion for rock groups. That ended the following year. Also during this time, he photographed Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker at his office and home, and would later be photo editor for at least one of Diefenbaker's three 1975-1977 memoirs.
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