The term fanzine is sometimes confused with " fan magazine ", but the latter term most often refers to commercially produced publications for ( rather than by ) fans.

The first media fanzine was a Star Trek fan publication called Spockanalia, published in September 1967 by members of the Lunarians.

Examples of this would include the Goon Defective Agency stories, written starting in 1956 by Irish fan John Berry and published in his and Arthur Thomson's fanzine Retribution.

He is a fan of West Ham United, and a former co-editor of the defunct fanzine Fortune's Always Hiding.

He is a former professor of physics at Brooklyn College ; a noted science fiction fan, author and fanzine publisher ; and a gaming authority.

Awards were once also given out for professional magazines in the professional magazine category, and are still awarded for fan magazines in the fanzine category.

The presence of gay members was noted by attendees of early conventions, but generally not discussed — the idea that gay or lesbian members would seek recognition within the SF community was " unthinkable ," and an accusation in the 1940s by a fanzine editor that the Los Angeles Science Fiction Association was " full of gay members " caused a scandal in fan circles.

In 1936, Maurice K. Hanson, a science fiction fan living in Nuneaton, founded a fanzine called Novae Terrae ( Latin for " new worlds ") for the local branch of the Science Fiction League.

He attended Stuyvesant High School during which time he co-wrote and published a comic fan magazine, The Comic Reader, which according to Levitz, was the first regularly published comics industry news fanzine.

Film critic and one-time fan Roger Ebert wrote: " Locs ( letters of comment ) were the currency of payment for fanzine contributors ; you wrote, and in the next issue got to read about what you had written.

* A piece of fan writing by Gaughan for the fanzine Alphecca.

The first Kirk / Spock fan fiction story was " A Fragment Out Of Time " by Diane Marchant, published in the fanzine Grup # 3 ( September 1974 ).

In June 1976, the first Kirk / Spock dedicated fanzine appeared, but as the number of non-science fiction fans grew, within several years " relationship " stories became the dominant form of Star Trek fan fiction outside the K / S genre.

In some relevant works, fanzines are called " fan magazines ", possibly because the term " fanzine " is seen as slang.

Robert Stratton " Buck " Coulson ( May 12, 1928-February 19, 1999 ) was an American science fiction writer, well-known fan, filk song writer, fanzine editor and bookseller from Indiana.

Film critic and one-time active fan Roger Ebert wrote: " Locs ( letters of comment ) were the currency of payment for fanzine contributors ; you wrote, and in the next issue got to read about what you had written.

Walter Allen Coslet ( born in Lewistown, Montana on October 31, 1922, died in Helena, Montana on November 29, 1996 ) was a well known science fiction fan, collector, and fanzine publisher as well as a charter member of the International Society of Bible Collectors, writing many articles for the society's publications.

A few fannish terms have become standard English, such as fanzine, short for " fan magazine ", coined by Russ Chauvenet in 1940, which swiftly replaced the older term fanmag.

Smorgasbord Records started out as Smorgasbord fanzine in 1986 by a hardcore fan named Chris Daily from Stamford CT. After a few issues of Skate Confusion zine, Chris changed the name to Smorgasbord Zine and then he took the magazine to the next level in 1988 with the release of the " X marks the spot " 7 " compilation.

The term is derived from Wilson Tucker, a pioneering American science fiction writer, fan and fanzine editor, who made a practice of using his friends ' names for minor characters in his stories.

Today, thanks to the advent of desktop publishing and self-publication, there is often little difference between the appearance of a fanzine and a professional magazine.

In 1985 the emergent When Saturday Comes ( a fanzine without a specific club focus that was subsequently launched as a mainstream magazine ) promoted a ' fanzine movement ' that gave birth to many more club titles during the late 80's which was something of a glory period for fanzines.

A zine ( ; an abbreviation of fanzine, or magazine ) is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original and, or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via photocopier.

A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day.

* Flipside ( fanzine ), a punk magazine published 1977 – 2001

He also published an art fanzine SMILE, the name of which was a play on the Mail Art zines FILE and VILE ( which in turn parodied the graphic design of LIFE magazine ).

As S & T reached its 40th year as a professionally produced magazine, as opposed to a fanzine, it laid claim to being the longest continually published wargame magazine.

Charles Burns ' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, and Another Room Magazine of Oakland, CA, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman.

While S & T had started as a wargaming ' fanzine ', under SPI it became more of a military history magazine that included a wargame.

Awards were also once given out for professional magazines in the professional magazine category, and since 1984 have been awarded for semi-professional magazines in the semiprozine category ; several magazines that were nominated for or won the fanzine category have gone on to be nominated for or win the semiprozine category since it was established.

A " fanzine " is defined for the award as a magazine that does not meet the Hugo award's criteria for a professional or semi-professional magazine.

Some authors have been adopted by their clubs-Jim Munro, once editor of the West Ham United fanzine Fortune's Always Dreaming, was hired by the club to write for its matchday magazine and is now sports editor of The Sun Online.

Founded in 1977 the magazine began as a school-printed fanzine and in 1978, with the fifth issue, featuring interviews with Paul Weller, Adam Ant and John Peel, adopted professional printing and wider distribution.

Gillings had an inventory of material that he had acquired while editing Fantasy, and he drew on this for Science Fantasy, as well as incorporating his own fanzine, Science Fantasy Review, into the new magazine.

Started by Jolly Blackburn, it began as an independent gaming fanzine in 1990, and was later transformed into a quality small-press magazine in 1993.

Gradually it evolved from a fanzine into a public magazine published twice a year in May and October.

The magazine began in 1936 as a fanzine called Novae Terrae, adopting its current title in 1939 after John Carnell became editor.

The zine was formed in 1979 in East Lansing, Michigan as Touch and Go magazine, a self-printed fanzine written and produced by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson.

Current HMS owners Gar Olmsted and Arthur Goodwin ( and formerly Cory Manka, who left after a legal dispute ) are also familiar names to long-time followers of the series, previously appearing in the credits of various games and / or as authors in the official magazine of the series and fanzine publications.

A scholar later stated that " One thing you almost never find in a science fiction fanzine is science fiction.

In 1961, Jerry Bails ' Alter Ego, devoted to costumed heroes, became a focal point for superhero comics fandom and is thus sometimes mistakenly cited as the first comics fanzine.

Among them is Charge !, a leading international fanzine exclusively for miniature wargaming enthusiasts for the American Civil War period.

The first association football fanzine is regarded as being Foul, a publication that ran between 1972 and 1976.

The longest running fanzine is The City Gent, produced by supporters of Bradford City FC, which first went on sale at Valley Parade in November 1984 and is now in its 26th season.

In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published a now-famous illustration of three chords, captioned " This is a chord, this is another, this is a third.

The best known fanzine ( or "' zine ") today is Ansible, edited by David Langford, winner of numerous Hugo awards.

Another long-running fanzine, dedicated to the world of Johnny Alpha, is Dogbreath, originally run by the pseudonymous Dr Bob it is now being produced by FutureQuake Publishing.

The term " fanzine " is also used to refer to fan-created magazines concerning other topics: the earliest rock-and-roll fanzines were edited by science fiction fans.

is derived from the jargon of the fanzine fans.

The fanzine movement is now well represented on the Web ; see webzine.

* The non-canon book The Best of Trek suggests that Uhura's first name is " Penda ", coined when a group of fanzine authors suggested it to her at an early convention.

In addition to these supporters ' groups, the club currently has one independent fanzine, United in Endeavour, which raises funds for Cambridge Fans United and is sold at home games.

In 2000, Mark Perry published Sniffin ' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory, which is a compilation of all the issues of the fanzine with some new material written by him.

" The title of the unofficial fanzine of the town's football club, Blackburn Rovers, is 4, 000 Holes.