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AlexLeavitt
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For those of you interested in the Eaton Collection, which houses Fred Patten's collection of American fandom paraphernalia, I've written about it here: http://doalchemy.org/2009/07/trials-and-tribulations-with-the-fred-patten-collection/
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davecabrera
ANN Columnist
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Hi, everyone. Just wanted to drop in and say that I am the David Cabrera who appears in this zine (and I do Astro Toy here), in case people are wondering about an association. I will say for my piece that it's probably the weirdest thing I've ever written for anybody.
Given the success of this one (we're frankly shocked that over 10 people wanted it) the second zine is absolutely in the works. It's a little too early to start talking about when or how much, though. In any case, thanks to Brian for the review: we are all very pleasantly surprised. We've been very lucky to be so well-promoted lately! |
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enurtsol
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The last anime fanzine I'd been involved in was The Rose put out by Anime Hasshin and Lorraine Savage. The fun part of a fanzine was that readers could just contribute and send in their articles, art, poems, lyrics, translations, etc. Thus, fan contributions literally comprised most of the zine. Reading those contributions from other fans was what I miss the most of that bygone fanzine era.
So good luck to the Colony Drop guys! Last edited by enurtsol on Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:56 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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In keeping with the tone of this response thread, I'll also be blatantly self-promotional and mention that I edited and posted this article and you can see more of my work here: www.animenewsnetwork.com
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Unholy_Nny
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This is one of the funniest message board posts I have ever seen ever. Anyway, I got the Colony Drop 'zine in the mail last week. I believe it to be extremely awesome. |
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gwern
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Wow, The Rose. I haven't thought about for years, since I saw it listed in a big bibliography of anime/manga stuff and then went looking for extant copies. Did you know you can still find a lot of The Rose inside the Internet Archive? I was digging through it looking for Evangelion-related material (for my collection of material at http://www.gwern.net/otaku ), and I was pleased to find one otherwise untranslated Anno interview/discussion: http://web.archive.org/web/20050407200800/home.comcast.net/~hasshin/shimamoto.html One fun page I still remember was http://web.archive.org/web/20050213041430/http://home.comcast.net/~hasshin/okadacomm.html (And hm, rereading some of the pages might be worthwhile. I recently spent quite a while typing up two parts of Carl Horn's interview with Toshio Okada, Conscience of the Otaking, and here I find an offhand mention of the interview: http://web.archive.org/web/20050219233539/http://home.comcast.net/~hasshin/okada.html ) |
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_V_
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This is exciting, particularly the content they're covering: there are "Comic Book Historians" and a fair amount of coverage of "Anime History", but the growth and spread of the North American anime industry (which grew *out of* the original wave of fans, who started their own companies) affected how the market developed and what we live with today.
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Whats_Ur_Name
Posts: 5 Location: Connecticut, USA |
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My problem with the Zine is not the price, but of the fact that it took away time, effort and articles that could have gone into there website at COLONY DROP DOT COM. How are they going to change anime blogging for the better if they update every month? But still, this is a super-special-awesome homage to Fanzines, i'll give them that.
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Brent Allison
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But that describes history in general. Most anyone writing a history of anything acknowledges that they're making judgments about how people, events, ideas, etc. are organized. Not that I don't appreciate scholastic humility, but just letting the sources "speak for themselves" is a judgment call just from selective inclusion alone. Pet peeve aside, I'm sure what he's written is interesting all the same. Dave Merrill's been in the scene since before he hit puberty, and if his writing for this is anything like his stuff for Mr. Kitty, it should be worth a read. Next time anime fandom historians make it to Anime Expo, perhaps they should organize a field trip to UC-Riverside (this time via carpooling to avoid Alex's three hour bus commute). A handful can explore more archival material than just one. And hey, when USG decides to throw more travel funds my way, I'd be up for that excursion. |
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TimMaughan
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Wait! There's self promotion going on? I was not informed.
I can now reveal that I am the Tim Maughan mentioned in this article, and you can read more of my work - and purchase my fantastic, award-nominated book, right here: http://timmaughanbooks.com/paintwork/
True dat. But what's a brother gonna do? ITS THE 'DROP BABY. |
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