Producing a fanzine used to be what U.S. fans do, too. Somehow/where/time we took the wrong path. *sigh* I suppose it had to do with more fans living in cities where there were more than two or three others of our ilk, with there being more than two or three Conventions a year in the world, and with more of us being able to afford to attend more Cons. But there's potential for a renaissance -- electronic fanzines are even less expensive to distribute than paper ones were fifty years ago, and Conventions are becoming too expensive for many of us to attend promiscuously. (No, I don't think I want to reconsider that word-choice, TYVM.) I don't want to try to evaluate the comparative merits of The Great Old Fanzines and The Best Modern Fanzines, but I'm sure the average quality is much higher now than it was 40+ years ago when I discovered the microcosm.
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Date: 2005-08-22 02:23 pm (UTC)