personalzine
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[edit]personalzine (plural personalzines)
- (fandom slang) A fanzine produced by a single person, often covering that person's own interests and activities.
- 1986 November, Ted White, “The Purple Fields of Fanac”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly[1], number 8, page 21:
- Vegas put out VAGUE, a fanzine that had started out as a personalzine -- hell, a letter-substitute, one or two sheets. But he put it out so frequently, sometimes three or four a month, that it had generated its own momentum. Soon he was printing letters, and it was a dozen pages. Some of the letters were thinly disguised articles -- fans quickly learned the kinds of letters Don liked to print -- and from there it was an easy step to the monthly genzine of 20 pages which VAGUE became: an inevitable evolution.
- 1992 October, Eric Lindsay, Gegenschein[2], number 65:
- Gegenschein is a personalzine, so I don't accept reader's contributions ... however, when an Elder Ghod of fandom unexpectedly sends me an article, I can easily be persuaded to make an exception.
- 2002, Aaron Cometbus, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, page 133:
- […] MUSICZINES, PERSONALZINES, PUNKZINES, COMICZINES OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
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[edit]- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “personalzine”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 145.