Tag: art

  • This week’s #FloodlightFriday disaster comes from issue 13 of Norwich fanzine The Citizen right outta Spring 1991. 50p would buy you a fanzine with a fully acceptable garish colour but far too much text on the cover. This was quite…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Citizen, Norwich city
  • Though it is true that fanzines were almost always critical and satirical in nature and a ground ban was never far away, clubs generally used to get along with both zines and the local rag, their existence a mutual benefit…

    Fanzines, Newspapers and Publicity.
  • Yesterday of all days, the anniversary of Hillsborough news came through that Sheffield Wednesday are to be docked 15 points at the start of next season because the people buying the club aren’t offering to pay enough money to the…

    Meet The Editor; Peter Holmes, Everywhere and Nowhere.
  • Food is a very important part of going to the match, the timing of the game critical to choices such as eat/drink before /on the way to/ at the ground or all three. Food was therefore at the front of…

    Masterchef: The Fanzines
  • We move to the flatlands of East Anglia for today’s #FanzineoftheDay with issue 81 of Those Were the Days or TWTD.co.uk as the cover displays along with the date, March 2006 an the price £1.50…a curators dream. Bit miffed at…

    FOTD; Those Were The Days, Ipswich Town
  • I’m dedicating this blog to all the fantastic people at Leeds central library without whom none of this madness would have started and to Antony Ramm in particular who has been asking me to write a blog about fanzine poetry…

    The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; Poetry in fanzines
  • Mike Amos edited the fantastic fanzine Northern Ventures, Northern Gains for 27 years chronicling dog raffles, Kevin Keegan eating pie and peas, the death of a spongeman and 80p burgers the size of a tea plate in the Northern league.…

    Is there much more of this?
  • Art is famously very subjective; “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power” So it was…

    The Art of Fanzine Cover Art
  • Quite incredibly, since I published a list of all fanzines still in print a couple of weeks ago two (2) NEW fanzines have been in touch, Oldham’s BTBPAS or Beyond The Boundary (Park Alert System) and Sheffield Wednesday’s Everywhere and…

    A New Beginning (s)
  • Icymi (as the kids say) this is now officially an award-winning blog, well the research that goes into it is anyway. No big deal or changes, you just have to call me Sir now or something. Thanks to everyone who…

    Fanzines, Pies and Awards.