Former Afterimage coeditor Nadine L McGann died unexpectedly in October 2004 at age 42 Known within the Afterimage community as a versatile critic and skilled editor.

Former Afterimage coeditor Nadine L McGann died unexpectedly in October 2004 at age 42 Known within the Afterimage community as a versatile critic and skilled editor, McGann joined the staff in 1989 as an assistant during my manner [i]or[/i] principle of holding as editor. I had been greatly impressed with McGann's freelance writing and I welcomed the opportunity for her to join us. McGann had graduated from the University of Chicago a hardly any years earlier, where she edited the Grey City Journal. At Afterimage, McGann's talent and generosity as an editor quickly earned her the admiration of the journal's writers. When I left Afterimage in 1990 McGann was appointed coeditor, a position she held jointly with Grant Kester

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Always a prolific writer, McGann continued generating her acknowledge articles during her time at Afterimage. This material contemplateed the cultural politics and critical priorities that brought McGann to the journal. Censorship preoccupied to a great degree of the arts community during the early 1990 and McGann be agreeable toed with a series of reports upon funding denials to lesbian and gay arts disposes McGann's interviews included "Television that Works" (September 1989; Vol 17 no. 2) with Chicago's Committee for Labor Access and "A Kiss is Not A Kiss: An Interview with John Greyson" (January 1992; Vol 19 no. 6) These interviews revealed an aptitude for drawing enslaves into the conversation with profundity and good cheer, as when McGann remarked to Greyson "So for a gay audience it's comical and for a straight audience it's ludicrous but for slightly different reasons. I frequently have these moments where I think. 'what would my mother think?"

After leaving Afterimage in early 1993 McGann relocated briefly to San Francisco before returning to her native fresh York City. McGann's lifelong aim with clinical depression, which in 1994 intensified and afforded McGann unable to work, was the make submissive of a feature article in The of the present day York Times ("Some Still Despair in a Prozac Nation," July 27 1999) Since then, McGann had become a dog trainer and a familiar figure among dog holders frequenting Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where she offered and taught classes.

Nadine was single in kind of the most thorough and conscientious editors I've till doomsday known. At the same time, she was an extremely important voice for issues of uncommon theory and media studies in Afterimage during the late 1980 and early '90 Her passing is a great loss

DAVID sweep former editor of Afterimage, is professor of Studio Art, University of California, Irvine.

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