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.

The fanzine movement has even spread to the United States, where ice hockey fans in Chicago and St. Louis have produced several popular fanzines, including Blue Line Magazine and The Committed Indian for the Chicago Blackhawks, along with Game Night Revue and St Louis Game Time for the St. Louis Blues.

Born in Yorkshire, England, Fletcher was inspired by the London punk rock movement and started a fanzine as a thirteen-year-old schoolboy which he named Jamming !.

Autumn Poison were part of the cassette culture movement, releasing two cassette albums for New Crimes fanzine, although did not release any vinyl until 1994, when Brown and Burnett reformed the group to record a track for the Bullshit Detector Volume 4 compilation put together by Resistance Productions, a small record label based in Switzerland.

A fanzine ( portmanteau of fan and magazine or-zine ) is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon ( such as a literary or musical genre ) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Despite never playing live, they were interviewed by a fanzine named SCUM, in which Sid Vicious proclaimed " I'll just be the yob that I am now ".

The convention was organised by the editors of " The Block ", the now defunct unofficial fanzine, which ran from 1993 – 1998.

The club's official programme is Bullseye and there was also a fanzine called Talking Bull until the 2008 – 09 season, which has now been changed to an online format.

In the late 1940s, science fiction fanzine artist Ray Nelson ( himself still in high school ) adopted the use of the propeller beanie as emblematic shorthand for science fiction fandom, in self-mockery of the popular image of fans as childish and concerned with ephemera ( i. e., science fiction ); references to it are ironically now used to identify old-fashioned fans, as opposed to more modern fans of media SF.

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.

File 770 is a long-running science fiction fanzine and newszine published by Mike Glyer ; it is named after the now legendary party held in Room 770 at Nolacon, the 9th World Science Fiction Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, that ran continuously for nearly two days and upstaged all the other events at that 1951 Worldcon.

The fanzine presented much donaldistic research, including a large index of Danish Disney comic books ( which is now maintained by the Inducks project and the original authors ).

Although he sold his science fiction collection, spanning thirty-five years, in 1972 to a collector in Portland, Oregon ( the fanzine collection is now in the Albin O. Kuhn Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County ), he continued to accumulate science fiction books and magazines until his death.

Another important local institution was Tim Yohannan's fanzine, Maximumrocknroll, as well as his show on Berkeley, California public radio station KPFA Maximum RocknRoll Radio Show, which played the younger Northern California bands.

As well as a demo article writer for CPC Attack, he was editor of the Amstrad-centred BTL disczine and he was the final editor of the WACCI fanzine.

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.

An official re-release of the Project X EP, and a book containing all issues of Schism fanzine as well as bonus material, were released in the fall of 2005 by Bridge 9 Records.

According to HomeGround, a Kate Bush fanzine, it was scrapped when Disney asked Bush to rewrite the song and Bush refused ; however, according to Disney, the song was cut from the film when preview audiences did not respond well to the track.

In 1989, the fanzine expanded to cover other genre films and television series as well as Doctor Who, and the title was changed to DreamWatch Bulletin so that the popular abbreviation DWB would remain intact.

In 1977, the Ottawa Science Fiction Society was founded, providing a venue for writers such as Charles R. Saunders and Charles de Lint through their club fanzine Stardock, as well as sponsoring Maplecon in its early years.

Richard G later teamed up with Chris Green producing two issues of Bits fanzine and X Cassettes which released music from local bands like Quality Drivel, as well as groups from further afield.

During the course of his research for the fanzine, Levitz became well known at the offices of DC Comics, where in December 1972, editor Joe Orlando gave him his first freelance work, initially writing text pages and letter pages, and later working as a per diem assistant editor before writing stories.

Morgan was formerly Pete Tamlyn and, under that name, published the Diplomacy and roleplaying game fanzine The Acolyte as well as authoring a column in the early 1980s for the British Dungeons & Dragons magazine Imagine.

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.

For the remainder of 1994 Shampoo did well, finding fans in both the mainstream and alternative music scenes-boosted in part by their links to Manic Street Preachers fanscene ; however they also drew scathing comment from those within the small UK Riot Grrrl scene who saw the band as a repeat of We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use Its " sellout " to commercialism-future artist Lucy McKenzie ( then in the short lived Riot Grrrl band ' Batfink ') wrote scathingly in her schoolgirl fanzine Poppy / Violet that " Shampoo = Miss June And July Of The Paedophile Calendar ".

In 2005 she began publishing a fanzine, Drawing Moustaches In Magazines Monthly Magazine ( Bi-Monthly ), which is distributed for free, and has featured contributions from Robin Ince, Kevin Eldon and Stewart Lee, as well as Danielle Ward and Isy Suttie.