Charles William Rotsler was an American artist, cartoonist, pornographer and science fiction author.
19 Facts About Bill Rotsler
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Bill Rotsler was a four-time Hugo Award winner and one-time Nebula Award nominee.
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Bill Rotsler's papers including dozens of matted color drawings, unpublished manuscripts and sketchbooks of original artwork are part of the Eaton collection at University of California, Riverside.
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From 1958, Bill Rotsler was involved in the pornography industry, first as a stills photographer on the set of adult films, and later as a film director and actor.
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In 1966, Bill Rotsler created Adam Film Quarterly, later called Adam Film World, as a sibling magazine to Knight Publishing's Adam magazine.
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Bill Rotsler even interviewed himself as these characters in Adam Film Quarterly.
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Bill Rotsler wrote, directed, or acted in some two dozen pornographic films during his career with Boxoffice International Pictures.
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Bill Rotsler wrote Contemporary Erotic Cinema in 1973, published by Ballantine and Penthouse, about pornographic movies from an aesthetic point of view.
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Bill Rotsler was a popular cartoonist for a large number of science fiction fanzines.
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Bill Rotsler's first cover illustration appeared on National Fantasy Fan, vol.
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In 1969, Harlan Ellison encouraged Bill Rotsler to write science fiction stories.
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Bill Rotsler won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist four times: 1975,1979,1996, and 1997.
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Bill Rotsler won a "retro-Hugo" for his work in 1946 and was runner-up for 1951.
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Bill Rotsler was a well-known attendee at West Coast science fiction conventions where he would give away his illustrations.
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Bill Rotsler is the author of "Rotsler's Rules for Costuming", which address the cosplay often found at these conventions.
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In 1982, Bill Rotsler published several Star Trek ties-ins for children for Wanderer Books.
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Bill Rotsler is credited with the first use of Nyota as Uhura's first name.
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Bill Rotsler was the source of the title of Harlan Ellison's short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream".
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Co-author Sharman DiVono and Bill Rotsler were jointly credited as Victor Appleton.