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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=longtom@oeste.com.ar href="mailto:longtom@oeste.com.ar">Fabio
Blanco</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dcml@stp.ling.uu.se
href="mailto:dcml@stp.ling.uu.se">DCML</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 29, 2002 2:08
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> what a fanzine can
contain?</DIV>
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<DIV>>Well, I know some of you have experience on fanzines, so I would like
know about what I can publish and what no in >a Disney comics fanzine. Of
course will be a very limited run of issues... <FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been working on a fanzine for around one
year, and I can tell you the organization and contents strongly depend on what
the fanzine is about. Each type of fan-printed magazine has its own particular
characteristic; for example, a friends' organization's fanzine will
probably show a calendar with the organization's festivities, meetings,
anniversaries, and such: or, fanzines about movies could sometimes publish fan
art, fan fiction or interviews by the subscribed fans. Also, keep in mind a
fanzine's print-cost is not so low: especially, those multi-paged, colored
fanzines, are very expensive, and obviously not-so-common. Our fanzine was,
for example, advertised - and mainly paid - by our school: each class's
volunteers wrote their article(s) (according to which fields were still empty
in the fanzine's organization), then, at the end of the month, articles were
gathered, scanned, eventually corrected, and typed on the fanzine along with
the graphic layout. The first copy was colored: later, the publisheds, among
which I have been working, passed it to the headmistress, who photocopied a
black and white issue for each student of the school. At the first days of the
new month, when even the scholastic newspaper was around, some volunteers
passed from class to class and they sold the issues for a very low price:
considering the initiative had been welcomed by a lot of students, the result
was enough to pay the packets of paper and the price of press. A fanzine whom
readers are settled in different countries, is a bit different thing: usually,
the fee for subscribers is a few more expensive, as the director will have to
pay not only the print, but even the copies and the postal' cost.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now, about the contents... there are some "basic"
patterns a regular fanzine should follow, yet as I told above, it mainly
depends on the fanzine itself. A comic fanzine could easily contain a list of
rare or out-of-print issues; articles about the most memorable stories, or
analyzing a story's detail: interviews and/or who-is-who page for autors:
characters' informations: a list of misprints or mistakes in comics (the most
immediate example I can think for a Disney comic is the famous "fourth nephew"
of Donald): of course last news about Disney comics, as, for example, all
known notices about a new upcoming story: the reader's opinion about it:
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>and so on. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As I'm writing from Italy, I'm not sure if all
the above fields are legal to be published in a fanzine in other states, but I
hope this can help</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>