Tag: fanzines

  • Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is from the Peak District, issue 17 of Matlock’s “Keep Off The Fence” from winter 1995. Excellent cover, news from the social club, lots of info about what is inside, the issue number date and price clearly visible.…

    FOTD; Keep Off The Fence, Matlock Town
  • It’s all about fandom nowadays, fandom this, fandom that but what does that word mean? It’s has only really come into common use in the past 20 years. As a noun it’s definition is “the state or condition of being…

    Fandom and Fanzines
  • Today’s #FOTD is issue 5 of long running Leeds fanzine The Hanging Sheep and comes with an ulterior motive. First though, let’s have a look through the excellent contents of this 40p belter from April 1989. The cover has the…

    FOTD; The Hanging Sheep, Leeds United
  • In honour of their cup win earlier today, Todays’ #FOTD is The Vale Park Beano issue 4 from 1998. Beano was a late entrant to the fanzine landscape, and trying to replace the massive void left when Seth Bottomley disappeared…

    FOTD; The Vale Park Beano, Port Vale
  • This week’s #FloodlightFriday comes to you from issue 15 of Charlton fanzine The Valiants Viewpoint from September 1989 with a superb cover photo sharing the sad news that the now deserted Valley has had it’s floodlights removed after just 28…

    #FloodlightFriday; Valiants Viewpoint, Charlton
  • This edition of “Editor” is a bit different as I’ve not actually been in touch with the editor, it’s just fallen in my lap so to speak. I recently bought a copy of issue 50 of superlative Cambridge United fanzine…

    Meet The Editor; Nigel Pearce, The Abbey Rabbit
  • Following on from yesterday’s “Fanzines sort of named after a film” we travel to September 1994 to look at Issue 8 of Walsall’s Blazing Saddlers for today’s #FanzineoftheDay (If anyone has a copy of Glentoran fanzine A Nightmare on Dee…

    FOTD; Blazing Saddlers, Walsall
  • As St Totteringham’s day is upon us again I thought I’d travel back to happier times at White Hart Lane but that is never as simple as you’d think. With that title perhaps I didn’t really need to explain that…

    FOTD; One Flew Over Seaman’s Head; Spurs
  • 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. 
  • Todays #FanzineoftheDay is general fanzine Blow Football issue 1 from August/September 1989, a date that will be important to remember in this week’s Subbuteo blog. Published from Birmingham by some old university pals it quickly became a very well respected…

    FOTD; Blow Football