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writers and other contributors of articles or illustrations to fanzines are not paid. Fanzines are traditionally circulated free of charge, or for a nominal

zines include specific formats such as fanzines and perzines, and specific topics such as science-fiction fanzines or punk zines. Dissidents, under-represented

was coined by Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 issue of his fanzine Detours. "Fanzines" were distinguished from "prozines", that is, all professional

was composed and illustrated by Lee Porter. It was set up at a time when fanzines were being produced for a number of different topics, in order to provide

an 18th-century dialectal name for the letter Z Izzard (fanzine), a science fiction fanzine Bob Izzard, 1930s Australian rugby league player Brad Izzard

like Hunter S. Thompson, the teenage Groth published Fantastic Fanzine, a comics fanzine (whose name referenced the Marvel Comics title Fantastic Four)

decades after his death, Thomson's distinctive artwork still appears in such fanzines as the Hugo-nominated, Nova Award-winning Banana Wings. After Thomson won

The Time Traveller was one of the earliest science-fiction fanzines, started in 1932. The title was inspired by the protagonist of The Time Machine by

[active fan], which replaced the Best Fanzine category that year.) Hyphen was considered one of the pivotal fanzines of its era for its humour and wit contributed

trading and promoting small press comics and fanzines. The most well-known of these co-ops is the United Fanzine Organization, or UFO, a co-operative of minicomic