A Trip Back to the Old School
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jedi_news, I saw this link to a blog entry on fanzines.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/03/early-science-f.html
I started buying zines in the early 1990s. I had never heard of them until the late '80s when I bought a book about SW and Star Trek collectibles, and in a 1991 issue of Starlog, I saw an ad for a SW zine. You have to remember there was only one SW novel out, there was very little fan fiction online if any, and nobody knew for certain when any new SW movies were coming down the pike. So fan fic zines were a big deal to me. Within five years, I'd started my own fan fic zine (in addition to a non-fic one).
Zines were a lot of fun but they got to be too much work and too expensive to produce or buy, especially when the internet changed everything. Why pay 30 bucks to read fic when you can find it online for free? Why wait a year to see your work in print when you can have it up in front of thousands of eyeballs in minutes? Sure, there are great things about zines--original art and editing to name two. But the game had changed and while a few old timers occasionally will put one out, just about all SW fan fic is online.
It's amusing to see the zines from other fandoms too. I especially get a kick out of the cover art that looks like Captain Kirk is setting his genitals on fire.
jedi_news, I saw this link to a blog entry on fanzines.http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/03/early-science-f.html
I started buying zines in the early 1990s. I had never heard of them until the late '80s when I bought a book about SW and Star Trek collectibles, and in a 1991 issue of Starlog, I saw an ad for a SW zine. You have to remember there was only one SW novel out, there was very little fan fiction online if any, and nobody knew for certain when any new SW movies were coming down the pike. So fan fic zines were a big deal to me. Within five years, I'd started my own fan fic zine (in addition to a non-fic one).
Zines were a lot of fun but they got to be too much work and too expensive to produce or buy, especially when the internet changed everything. Why pay 30 bucks to read fic when you can find it online for free? Why wait a year to see your work in print when you can have it up in front of thousands of eyeballs in minutes? Sure, there are great things about zines--original art and editing to name two. But the game had changed and while a few old timers occasionally will put one out, just about all SW fan fic is online.
It's amusing to see the zines from other fandoms too. I especially get a kick out of the cover art that looks like Captain Kirk is setting his genitals on fire.
