Hassan Yusuf

Fan
Name:	Hassan Yusuf
Alias(es):	"Happy" Hass
Type:	fan writer, fanartist, zine editor, convention founder
Fandoms:	comics
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Hassan Yusuf was a co-editor of Chain Reaction and was a co-founder of United Kingdom Comic Art Convention and the UK Comic Art Award. He is also a writer and reviewer, known as one of the authors of the The Slings and Arrows Comic Guide (1997).

Notable Fanac

• United Kingdom Comic Art Convention - co-founder with Frank Plowright and Chris Savva, organizer [1985-1988]
• United Kingdom Comic Art Convention - (as the fanorg Rusty Staples, with Frank Plowright and Richard Barker) organizers [1989-1998]
• Glasgow Comic Art Convention [1990-1995] - co-founder and organizer with Frank Plowright and Chris Savva.

Example Fanart

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  Direct Currents (former name of Chain Reaction) Issue #1 front cover (1981)

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  Chain Reaction #2 front cover (1983)

Archives/Zines/Collections/Communities

Zines

As Editor

• Chain Reaction (Comics zine) - co-edited with Frank Plowright and Steve Whitaker [1981-1984]

As Contributor

• Chain Reaction (Comics zine)
  • Direct Currents Issue #1 - editorial; cover and interior art; "Direct Currents" - an overview of DC Comics titles since the "Implosion" of 1978, co-written with Chris Savva [1981]
  • Issue #1 - editorial; interior art; and "Cons Across the Ocean" - Comicana '82 con report. [1982/1983]
  • Issue #2 - editorial; cover and interior art; and "1982 Edited Highlights" with Steve Whitaker, Frank Plowright, article about the best of comics, 1982. [1983]
  • Issue #4 - editorial and art [1984]
  • Issue #5 - "My Favourite Comic" (New Gods Number 7, 1972); letters editor [1984]
  • Issue #6 - "1984 In Focus" co-written with Frank Plowright and Steve Whitaker - article on highlights in comics of 1984; letters editor [1984/1985]
  • Issue #7 - editorial; interior art; letters editor [1986].

• Fantaco's Chronicles Series
  • Annual #1 - review on Supergirl. [1983]