It's 2005: Do You Know Where Your Fanzine Is?

[morgandawn]

"Most fans would probably love to own a hard copy of a fan publication. If more were exposed to printed fanzines, they might even want to collect them. Many new fans don’t know these publications exist or ever existed, particularly if they have never attended conventions, or their only exposure is to web stories beamed over the Internet. What they are missing is something rare and precious and even personally valuable….like the rudimentary books published in the Middle Ages. How prized those must have been for the new readers….”*

*A fanzine aficionado posting to an online forum in 2005 during one of many debates about whether fanzines would continue to survive as a fannish art form. Read more about this discussion on Fanlore and even more about the history of media fanzines here.

Comments

[intrigueing]

Eeeeee! Thanks for sharing! I love the not-that-outlandish comparison to rudimentary books from the Middle Ages (I sort think that fiction 50 years from now will look very different than it does today, and fanfic-ish stuff will be part of it), though I am mostly interested in zines made before the internet was an option.