Tag: Creativity

  • We’ve discussed this before… It was inevitable that with the age and profile of fanzines and their editors that certain games and activities should receive more than a few mentions, part of growing up and a great way of filling…

    Frustrating and addictive; Fanzines and Subbuteo. 
  • 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
  • Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is issue 12 of On Cloud Seven a Hull fanzine from September 1991. Hull are newly relegated to the 3rd Division (League one) in their 88th season. The brilliant name stems from manager Colin Appleton’s idiomatic faux pas…

    FOTD; On Cloud Seven, Hull City
  • This week I opened the Cardiff fanzine Thin Blue Line issue 67 from 2008 which covers a story I though must have been a spoof about Hamburg SV opening a cemetery for fans, a cemetery shaped like the ground with…

    Great Fanzine Features of our Time.
  • A tale about either non league fandom or the perils of “tired and emotional” late night forays onto eBay, you decide….When I opened the latest late night eBay bounty package yesterday, 20 old football fanzines spilled out and I had…

    Non League Fanzines; A Treasure Trove