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93-522: Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog . Common topics and themes include technology , futurism , science fiction , gadgets , intellectual property , Disney , and left-wing politics . It twice won the Bloggies for Weblog of the Year, in 2004 and 2005. The editors are Mark Frauenfelder , David Pescovitz , Carla Sinclair , and Rob Beschizza , and

186-514: A brain tumor , a man who pumped up the skin of his face with saline solution , many different ways to clean one's earwax , and a lengthy discussion of the Internet video " 2 Girls 1 Cup ". On 18 May 2007, Boing Boing announced that Virgin America , as part of its "Name Our Planes!" campaign, would be naming one of its new aircraft "Unicorn Chaser", after having asked Boing Boing to suggest

279-422: A copy machine . Zines are the product of either a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly photocopied into physical prints for circulation. A fanzine ( blend of fan and magazine ) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest. The term

372-409: A porn star from also using the name Violet Blue", and many commenters found the removal troubling, but Xeni Jardin said that she hoped she would not have to make the reasons public. Zine A zine ( / z iː n / ZEEN ; short for magazine or fanzine ) is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via

465-533: A weblog on 21 January 2000, describing it as a "directory of wonderful things". Over time, Frauenfelder was joined by four co-editors: Doctorow, Pescovitz, Jardin and Beschizza, all of whom previously contributed to Wired magazine . Maggie Koerth-Baker , after a run as a guest blogger in 2009, joined the site as its Science Editor, leaving to join a Nieman Foundation fellowship in 2014. In September 2003, Boing Boing removed their Quicktopics user-comment feature without warning or explanation. Bloggers commenting on

558-439: A webzine though with more focus on the anti-authoritarian movement than its original title. Artcore Fanzine (established in 1986) continues to this day, recently publishing a number of 30-year anniversary issues. Mira Bellwether 's zine Fucking Trans Women , published in 2010 online and 2013 in print, proved influential in the field of transgender sexuality , receiving both scholarly and popular-culture attention. It

651-578: A Pennsylvania hospital and The Dial (1840–44) by Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson . Zines were given a pop culture revival in March 2021 with the release of the Amy Poehler -directed film Moxie , released by Netflix , about a 16-year old high school student who starts a feminist zine to empower the young women at her school. In the 1920s during the Harlem Renaissance ,

744-607: A basic tutorial in the use of hand tools. All of Platt's books sharing the Make: logo are illustrated with his own drawings and photographs. Platt acquired an early desktop computer, an Ohio Scientific C4P, and learned to write game programs for it which were distributed as shareware . Subsequently, he wrote educational software published by Trillium Press, and participated in the first conference on cellular automata at MIT , where he demonstrated MS-DOS -based software that he composed and sold by mail order. His program to generate

837-474: A demand from Polo Ralph Lauren 's lawyers to remove a post concerning a heavily manipulated image of model Filippa Hamilton , originally published by the Photoshop Disasters blog. The latter was forced to comply with the company's demand by its hosting provider. Ralph Lauren issued DMCA takedown notices to BoingBoing 's ISP and Blogspot , which hosts Photoshop Disasters, claiming their use of

930-466: A graphic designer, he was largely responsible for the collage-like appearance of much of the magazine at the time. During 1970 Charles Platt became a consulting editor for Avon Books company, acquiring work for their science-fiction list. Subsequently, he performed a similar role for the short-lived paperback trade-name Condor Publishing, and was science-fiction editor for Franklin Watts, Inc. During

1023-482: A group of Black creatives in Harlem began a literary magazine "the better to express ourselves freely and independently – without interference from old heads, white or [black]." This led to the creation of a " little magazine " entitled Fire!! . Only one issue of Fire!! was released, but this inspired the creation of other "little magazines" by Black authors. Contributions by Black writers, artists, and activists to

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1116-502: A high speed, high quality Tor exit node. For example, the act of " disemvoweling " was popularized by the site—literally stripping out the vowels of any comment a moderator had taken exception to. Sex blogger Violet Blue has been mentioned, interviewed and once contributed at Boing Boing . On 23 June 2008, Blue posted on her blog, Tiny Nibbles , that all posts related to her had been deleted from Boing Boing , without explanation. The Los Angeles Times featured an interview that cast

1209-616: A larger audience. This has been reflected in the creation of zine archives and related programming in such mainstream institutions as the Tate museum and the British Library . Written in a variety of formats from desktop-published text to comics , collages and stories, zines cover broad topics including fanfiction , politics, poetry, art & design, ephemera , personal journals, social theory, intersectional feminism , single-topic obsession, or sexual content far enough outside

1302-458: A mailing list or sold at conventions. Many had high production values and some were sold at convention auctions for hundreds of dollars. Janus , later called Aurora , was a science fiction feminist zine created by Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll in 1975. It contained short stories, essays, and film reviews. Among its contributors were authors such as Octavia Butler , Joanna Russ , Samuel R. Delany , and Suzette Hayden Elgin . Janus/Aurora

1395-480: A name. An Airbus A320 with registration code N626VA eventually joined the fleet with that name. In August 2007, Boing Boing introduced a gadgets-focused companion site headed by former Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson. Johnson left in July 2009, to be replaced by Rob Beschizza, formerly of Wired News . Other writers include Steven Leckart and Lisa Katayama. Offworld, a blog covering video games edited by Brandon Boyer ,

1488-623: A new component, Boing Boing TV , that consists of video segments including SPAMasterpiece Theater ( 2008 ) with John Hodgman , produced by its co-editors in conjunction with DECA, the Digital Entertainment Corporation of America . Art tech group monochrom was a frequent contributor. They created their sock puppet series Kiki and Bubu for Boing Boing TV . The episodes appear online, as well as on Virgin America flights. Boing Boing has been described as an "outspoken critic of censorship elsewhere", and operates

1581-458: A niche skill or art, or developing a story, as opposed to seeking profit. Zines have served as a significant medium of communication in various subcultures , and frequently draw inspiration from a "do-it-yourself" philosophy that disregards the traditional conventions of professional design and publishing houses, proposing an alternative, confident, and self-aware contribution. Handwritten zines, or carbon zines, are individually made, emphasizing

1674-667: A number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Dagger , Profane Existence , Punk Planet , Razorcake , Slug and Lettuce , Sobriquet and Tail Spins . The early American punk zine Search and Destroy eventually became the influential fringe-cultural magazine Re/Search . "In the post-punk era several well-written fanzines emerged that cast an almost academic look at earlier, neglected musical forms, including Mike Stax' Ugly Things , Billy Miller and Miriam Linna 's Kicks , Jake Austen's Roctober , Kim Cooper's Scram , P. Edwin Letcher's Garage & Beat , and

1767-552: A pen, or an instrument, or get anything done, we are creating the revolution. We ARE the revolution." Erika Reinstein, Fantastic Fanzine No. 2 Women use this grassroots medium to discuss their personal lived experiences, and themes including body image, sexuality, gender norms, and violence to express anger, and reclaim/refigure femininity. Scholar and zinester Mimi Thi Nguyen notes that these norms unequally burdened riot grrrls of color with allowing white riot grrrls access to their personal experiences, an act which in itself

1860-553: A personal connection between creator and reader, turning imagined communities into embodied ones. Historically, zines have provided community for socially isolated individuals or groups through the ability to express and pursue common ideas and subjects. For this reason, zines have cultural and academic value as tangible traces of marginal communities, many of which are otherwise little-documented. Zines present groups that have been dismissed with an opportunity to voice their opinion, both with other members of their own communities or with

1953-409: A real source of income from this." The advertising income during the first quarter was already $ 27,000, and as of 2010, Boing Boing still "makes a nice living for its founders and a handful of contract employees", but it is no longer a member of Battelle's blog network Federated Media Publishing, Inc. Boing Boing featured a "guest blogger" sidebar, then stopped the series in summer of 2004. In 2008,

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2046-558: A rebuttal to Platt's article and commentary on his methods that was published partially in the "Rants and Raves" section of Wired , Issue 3.02. Platt's book Make:Electronics was published in December, 2009 by O'Reilly Media. An introductory-level hands-on tutorial, it is available in conjunction with kits of components from Maker Shed. Make:More Electronics (a sequel) and volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Encyclopedia of Electronic Components have since been published, followed by Make: Tools ,

2139-576: A reciprocal relationship where women could also be seen as creators rather than consumers. Starting in this decade, multinational companies started appropriating and commodifying zines and DIY culture. Their faux zines created a commercialized hipster lifestyle. By late in the decade, independent zinesters were accused of "selling out" to make a profit. Zines are sold, traded or given as gifts at symposiums, publishing fairs, record and book stores and concerts, via independent media outlets, zine 'distros', mail order or through direct correspondence with

2232-460: A restored comment facility, moderated by Teresa Nielsen Hayden . In 2013, Boing Boing switched from the proprietary Disqus comment system to Discourse , an open-source internet forum developed by Jeff Atwood , Robin Ward and Sam Saffron. In 2004, the project incorporated as Happy Mutants LLC, and John Battelle became the blog's business manager. Boing Boing , by the mid-2000s, "had become one of

2325-518: A section editor for Make (magazine) , for which he had already been a frequent contributor. In 2011 he became a contributing editor to the magazine, and retains that title currently. Platt became interested in cryonics during 1990 after visiting the Alcor Life Extension Foundation . He wrote a book on the subject, Life Unlimited, for which a contract was issued by Wired Books; the publisher ceased doing business, and

2418-464: A similar do-it-yourself publication model. In the UK Fracture and Reason To Believe were significant fanzines in the early 2000s, both ending in late 2003. Rancid News filled the gap left by these two zines for a short while. On its tenth issue Rancid News changed its name to Last Hours with 7 issues published under this title before going on hiatus. Last Hours still operates as

2511-552: A specific focus (e.g. women's studies) or those that are relevant to a local region. Libraries and institutions with notable zine collections include: The Indie Photobook Library, an independent archive in the Washington, D.C., area, is a large collection of photobooks and photo zines dating from 2008 to 2016 which the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University acquired in 2016. In California,

2604-432: A table to sell or barter their work. Over time, zinesters have added posters, stickers, buttons and patches to these events. In many libraries, schools and community centers around the world, zinesters hold meetings to create, share, and pass down the art of making zines. With the rise of the Internet in the mid-1990s, zines initially faded from public awareness possibly due to the ability of private web-pages to fulfill much

2697-530: A variety of science-fiction novels, including Garbage World, Protektor, and Free Zone, and two books in Piers Anthony's Chthon universe, titled Plasm and Soma. He ceased writing science fiction after 1990. From 1980 to 1982, Platt interviewed about forty major science-fiction writers such as Andre Norton , Philip K. Dick , J. G. Ballard , Frank Herbert , Isaac Asimov , Kurt Vonnegut, Jr , Ray Bradbury , John Brunner . These interviews were

2790-566: A webzine. Richard Klemensen's Little Shoppe of Horrors , having a particular focus on " Hammer Horrors ", began in 1972 and is still publishing as of 2017. The Baltimore -based Black Oracle (1969–1978) from writer-turned- John Waters repertory member George Stover was a diminutive zine that evolved into the larger-format Cinemacabre. Stover's Black Oracle partner Bill George published his own short-lived zine The Late Show (1974–1976; with co-editor Martin Falck), and later became editor of

2883-588: A weekly podcast , "Boing Boing Boing", intended to cover the week's posts and upcoming projects. The show's cast consists of the Boing Boing editors, accompanied by a weekly guest. In the same month, Boing Boing introduced a second podcast called "Get Illuminated", which features interviews with writers, artists, and other creatives. The site's own original content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license , as of November 2019. In September 2009, Boing Boing refused to comply with

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2976-424: A wholly new and very refreshing way". As a fiction writer, Charles Platt has also used pseudonyms: Aston Cantwell (1983), Robert Clarke ( Less Than Human , a science-fiction comedy of 1986) and Charlotte Prentiss (historical and prehistory novels, between 1981 and 1999). He contributed to the series of Playboy Press erotic novels with the house pseudonym Blakely St. James that was shared by many other writers during

3069-901: Is Microcosm Publishing in Portland, Oregon . Some other longstanding operations include Great Worm Express Distribution in Toronto , CornDog Publishing in Ipswich in the UK, Café Royal Books in Southport in the UK, AK Press in Oakland, California , Missing Link Records in Melbourne . and Wasted Ink Zine Distro in Phoenix, AZ. A number of major public and academic libraries and museums carry zines and other small press publications, often with

3162-584: Is a practice created by Boing Boing editors as an antidote to blog postings linking to sites containing disgusting or shocking images . The shocking post would be immediately followed by another post containing a picture of a unicorn . Xeni Jardin posted the first one (titled "And now, we pause for a Unicorn Moment.") in August 2003 as a reply to a picture of a rash posted by editor Mark Frauenfelder in an attempt to get readers to diagnose it for him. It has also been used as an antidote for posts containing photos of

3255-428: Is that I can read it without translating it from the consensual, public world, which is sexist, and unconcerned with women per se, and managing to make it make sense to me and my condition." Russ observed that while science fiction fans looked down on Star Trek fans, Star Trek fans looked down on K/S writers. Kirk/Spock zines contained fanfiction , artwork, and poetry created by fans. Zines were then sent to fans on

3348-625: The Los Angeles Times . While covering the 1994 Hackers on Planet Earth Conference for his article "Hackers: Threat or Menace?" in Issue 2.11 of Wired Magazine, Platt annoyed attendees by his interjections during the panel discussion entitled "What is this Cryptography Stuff and Why Should I Care?" Platt repeatedly inquired loudly "Where's the crime?", an exclamation later adopted as a nickname for him by some hackers. The conference organizer, Eric Corley (aka Emmanuel Goldstein) penned

3441-538: The Cinefantastique prozine spinoff Femme Fatales . In the mid-1970s, North Carolina teenager Sam Irvin published the horror/science-fiction fanzine Bizarre which included his original interviews with UK actors and filmmakers; Irvin would later become a producer-director in his own right. Japanese Fantasy Film Journal (JFFJ) (1968–1983) from Greg Shoemaker covered Toho 's Godzilla and his Asian brethren. Japanese Giants (JG) appeared in 1974 and

3534-643: The Long Beach Public Library began to be the first public library in the state to start circulating zines for three weeks at a time in 2015. In 2017 the Los Angeles Public Library started to circulate zines publicly to its patrons as well. Both projects have been credited to librarian Ziba Zehdar who has been an advocate in promoting circulating zines publicly at libraries in California. It has been suggested that

3627-575: The Lunarians . Some of the earliest examples of academic fandom were written on Star Trek zines, specifically K/S ( Kirk / Spock ) slash zines, which featured a gay relationship between the two. Author Joanna Russ wrote in her 1985 analysis of K/S zines that slash fandom at the time consisted of around 500 core fans and was 100% female. "K/S not only speaks to my condition. It is written in Female. I don't mean that literally, of course. What I mean

3720-789: The Mandelbrot Set was also self-published and sold primary to university mathematical departments. He is the author of six computer books, from the satirical Micro-Mania to the instructional Graphics Guide to the Commodore 64. For many years he taught computer graphics classes in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Platt joined Michael Moorcock 's New Worlds (magazine) team as de facto art director and graphic designer from 1967 to 1970. Although not trained as

3813-635: The amateur press movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, which would in turn intersect with Black literary magazines during the Harlem Renaissance , and the subculture of science fiction fandom in the 1930s. The popular graphic-style associated with zines is influenced artistically and politically by the subcultures of Dada , Fluxus , Surrealism , and Situationism . Many trace zines' lineage from as far back as Thomas Paine 's exceptionally popular 1776 pamphlet Common Sense , Benjamin Franklin 's literary magazine for psychiatric patients at

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3906-565: The mainstream to be prohibitive of inclusion in more traditional media. (An example of the latter is Boyd McDonald 's Straight to Hell , which reached a circulation of 20,000. ) Although there are a few eras associated with zine-making, this "wave" narrative proposes a limited view of the vast range of topics, styles and environments zines occupied. Dissidents, under-represented, and marginalized groups have published their own opinions in leaflet and pamphlet form for as long as such technology has been available. The concept of zines can be traced to

3999-404: The punk subculture in the late 1970s, along with the increasing accessibility to copy machines, publishing software, and home printing technologies. Punk became a genre for the working class because of the economic necessity to use creative DIY methods, which were echoed in both zine and Punk music creation. Zines became vital to the popularization and spread of punk spreading to countries outside

4092-520: The "guest blogger" series was resumed, with guests posting in the main blog for two-week periods. Guests have included Charles Platt , John Shirley , Mark Dery , Tiffany Lee Brown , Karen Marcelo of Survival Research Laboratories , Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom , Rudy Rucker , Gareth Branwyn , Wiley Wiggins , Jason Scott of textfiles.com , Jessamyn West of librarian.net , journalists Danny O'Brien and Quinn Norton and comedian John Hodgman . In September 2006, Boing Boing introduced

4185-531: The 1970s. Platt is also known for writing the novel The Gas during 1970 for the Ophelia Press (OPH-216), an imprint of publisher Maurice Girodias 's Olympia Press . (Girodias also published several of Barry N. Malzberg's early novels.) When Platt's novel was published in the United Kingdom by Savoy Books during 1980, copies were seized by the UK's Director of Public Prosecutions. Platt wrote

4278-494: The 1980s Platt self-published The Patchin Review, a magazine of literary criticism and commentary emphasizing science fiction. Although each issue sold only 1,000 copies, the venture acquired notoriety for its edgy attitude and attracted contributions from many then-well-known science fiction editors and authors, including Philip K. Dick , Gregory Benford , Brian W. Aldiss , David Hartwell , and others. During 2007 Platt became

4371-453: The 1980s, with the rise of stadium superstars, many home-grown rock fanzines emerged. At the peak of Bruce Springsteen 's megastardom following the Born in the U.S.A. album and Born in the U.S.A. Tour in the mid-1980s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere. Gary Desmond's Candy's Room , coming from Liverpool,

4464-941: The Bomp (1970), are among the most popular early rock fanzines. Crawdaddy! (1966) quickly moved from its fanzine roots to become one of the first rock music "prozines" with paid advertisers and newsstand distribution. Bomp remained a fanzine, featuring many writers who would later become prominent music journalists, including Lester Bangs , Greil Marcus , Ken Barnes, Ed Ward , Dave Marsh , Mike Saunders and R. Meltzer as well as cover art by Jay Kinney and Bill Rotsler (both veterans of science fiction and Comics fandom). Other rock fanzines of this period include denim delinquent (1971) edited by Jymn Parrett, Flash (1972) edited by Mark Shipper, Eurock Magazine (1973–1993) edited by Archie Patterson and Bam Balam written and published by Brian Hogg in East Lothian, Scotland (1974). In

4557-561: The DIY Punk subculture in tandem with the American era of third-wave feminism , and used the consciousness-raising method of organizing and communication. As feminist documents, they follow a longer legacy of feminist and women's self-publication that includes scrapbooking , periodicals and health publications, allowing women to circulate ideas that would not otherwise be published. The American publication Bikini Kill (1990) introduced

4650-614: The Los Angeles Zine Fest started in 2012 with only a handful of exhibitors, now hosting over 200 exhibitors. These are considered to be some of the biggest zine fests in the United States, Other big zine fests across the globe include, San Francisco Zine Fest, Brooklyn Zine Fest, Chicago Zine Fest, Feminist Zine Fest, Amsterdam Zine Jam, and Sticky Zine Fair. At each zine fest, the zinester can be their own independent distributor and publisher simply by standing behind

4743-630: The Ottawa hardcore scene. The Bay Area zine Cometbus was first created at Berkeley by the zinester and musician Aaron Cometbus . Gearhead Nation was a monthly punk freesheet that lasted from the early 1990s to 1997 in Dublin, Ireland. Some hardcore punk zines became available online such as the e-zine chronicling the Australian hardcore scene, RestAssured. In Italy, Mazquerade ran from 1979 to 1981 and Raw Art Fanzine ran from 1995 to 2000. In

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4836-864: The Riot Grrrl Manifesto in their second issue as a way of establishing space. Zinesters Erika Reinstein and May Summer founded the Riot Grrrl Press to serve as a zine distribution network that would allow riot grrrls to "express themselves and reach large audiences without having to rely on the mainstream press". "BECAUSE we girls want to create mediums that speak to US. We are tired of boy band after boy band, boy zine after boy zine, boy punk after boy punk after boy . . . BECAUSE in every form of media I see us/myself slapped, decapitated, laughed at, trivialized, pushed, ignored, stereotyped, kicked, scorned, molested, silenced, invalidated, knifed, shot, choked, and killed ... BECAUSE every time we pick up

4929-546: The Toronto suburbs. The episodes are narrated and presented in the form of zine issues that she creates, inheriting her father's storytelling passion. The show won titles from the Canadian Comedy Awards and Gemini Awards during its development. Charles Platt (author) Platt's novel The Silicon Man has been endorsed by William Gibson as "A plausible, well-crafted narrative exploring cyberspace in

5022-524: The UK and America, such as Ireland, Indonesia, and more by 1977. Amateur, fan-created zines played an important role in spreading information about different scenes (city or regional-based subcultures) and bands (e.g. British fanzines like Mark Perry's Sniffin Glue and Shane MacGowan's Bondage ) in the pre-Internet era. They typically included reviews of shows and records, interviews with bands, letters, and ads for records and labels. The punk subculture in

5115-491: The UK's Shindig! and Italy's Misty Lane ." Mark Wilkins, the promotion director for 1982 onwards US punk/thrash label Mystic Records , had over 450 US fanzines and 150 foreign fanzines he promoted to regularly. He and Mystic Records owner Doug Moody edited The Mystic News Newsletter which was published quarterly and went into every promo package to fanzines. Wilkins also published the highly successful Los Angeles punk humor zine Wild Times and when he ran out of funding for

5208-561: The US an in Effect, launched in 1988 described the New York City punk scene. Among later titles, Maximum RocknRoll is a major punk zine, with over 300 issues published. As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s, and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth , Nirvana , Fugazi , Bikini Kill , Green Day and the Offspring ,

5301-555: The US, Flipside (created by Al Kowalewski, Pooch (Patrick DiPuccio), Larry Lash (Steven Shoemaker), Tory, X-8 (Sam Diaz)) and Slash (created by Steve Samioff and Claude Bessy) were important punk zines for the Los Angeles scene, both debuting in 1977. In 1977 in Australia, Bruce Milne and Clinton Walker fused their respective punk zines Plastered Press and Suicide Alley to launch Pulp ; Milne later went on to invent

5394-922: The United Kingdom spearheaded a surge of interest in fanzines as a countercultural alternative to established print media. The first and still best known UK 'punk zine' was Sniffin' Glue , produced by Deptford punk fan Mark Perry which ran for 12 photocopied issues; the first issue produced by Perry immediately following (and in response to) the London debut of the Ramones on 4 July 1976. Other UK fanzines included Blam! , Bombsite , Burnt Offering , Chainsaw , New Crimes , Vague , Jamming , Artcore Fanzine , Love and Molotov Cocktails , To Hell With Poverty , New Youth , Peroxide , ENZK , Juniper beri-beri , No Cure , Communication Blur , Rox , Grim Humour , Spuno , Cool Notes and Fumes . By 1990, Maximum Rocknroll "had become

5487-460: The adoption of zine culture by powerful and prestigious institutions contradicts their function as declarations of agency by marginalized groups. There has been a resurgence in the alternative publication culture beginning in the 2010s, in tandem with the influx of zine libraries and as a result of the digital age, which has sparked zine festivals across the globe. The San Francisco Zine Fest started in 2001 and features up to 200+ exhibitors, while

5580-967: The author. They are also sold online on distro websites, Etsy shops, blogs, or social networking profiles and are available for download. While zines are generally self-published, there are a few independent publishers who specialize in art zines such as Nieves Books in Zurich , founded by Benjamin Sommerhalder, and Café Royal Books founded by Craig Atkinson in 2005. In recent years a number of photocopied zines have risen to prominence or professional status and have found wide bookstore and online distribution. Notable among these are Giant Robot , Dazed & Confused , Bust , Bitch , Cometbus , Doris , Brainscan , The Miscreant, and Maximum RocknRoll . Live map of zine distributors worldwide There are many catalogued and online based mail-order distros for zines. The longest running distribution operation

5673-560: The basis for two books of profiles, Dream Makers (1980) and Dream Makers II (1983). They were nominated for Hugo Awards , and received a Locus Award . Platt began writing for Wired magazine in its third issue, and ultimately became one of its senior writers, contributing more than thirty full-length features. He was an early user of the internet service provider MindVox and wrote five books on computers and computer programming during that period. His nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Omni , The Washington Post , and

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5766-668: The cassette zine with Fast Forward , in 1980. In the American Midwest, a zine called Touch and Go described the area's hardcore scene from 1979 to 1983. We Got Power described the LA scene from 1981 to 1984, and included show reviews and band interviews with groups including DOA , the Misfits , Black Flag , Suicidal Tendencies , and the Circle Jerks . My Rules was a photo zine that included photos of hardcore shows from across

5859-466: The change at the time speculated that it stemmed from "identity impersonators and idiot flamers" pretending to be co-editors. Xeni Jardin was a guest on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to discuss The Washington Post ' s decision to remove its Comments section on its website, and she spoke from her experience at Boing Boing. In August 2007, Boing Boing staff launched a redesigned site, which included

5952-408: The company at the end of 2006. He continued to design and build prototypes of rapid cooling equipment for the company until 2010, and coauthored a pending patent (application number 20110040359, dated February 2011). His final work on a device that could cool patients after cardiac arrest, with potential applications in conventional medicine, was completed for a California laboratory in 2011. It employs

6045-478: The de facto bible of the scene, presenting a "passionate yet dogmatic view" of what hardcore was supposed to be." HeartattaCk and Profane Existence took the DIY lifestyle to a religious level for emo and post-hardcore and crust punk culture. Slug and Lettuce started at the state college of PA and became an international 10,000 copy production – all for free. In Canada, the zine Standard Issue chronicles

6138-531: The earliest incarnations of the zine and influenced subsequent publications. "Zinesters" like Lisa Ben and Jim Kepner honed their talents in the science fiction fandom before tackling gay rights, creating zines such as "Vice Versa" and "ONE" that drew networking and distribution ideas from their science fiction roots. A number of leading science fiction and fantasy authors rose through the ranks of fandom, creating "pro-zines" such as Frederik Pohl and Isaac Asimov . The first science fiction fanzine, The Comet ,

6231-509: The first science fiction magazine , Amazing Stories in 1926. In January 1927, Gernsback introduced a large letter column which printed reader's addresses. allowing them to write to each other; it was out of this mailing list that fans' own science fiction fanzines began. Fans also began writing to each other not only about science fiction but about fandom itself, leading to perzines . Science fiction fanzines vary in content, from short stories to convention reports to fanfiction were one of

6324-444: The first horror fanzines created as more serious alternatives to the popular Forrest J Ackerman 1958 magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland . Garden Ghouls Gazette – a 1960s horror title under the editorship of Dave Keil, then Gary Collins—was later headed by Frederick S. Clarke and in 1967 became the respected journal Cinefantastique . It later became a prozine under journalist-screenwriter Mark A. Altman and has continued as

6417-581: The first podcast of "Gweek" was released. Gweek is a podcast in which the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, TV shows, music, movies, tools, gadgets, apps, and other "neat" stuff. In the first episode of Gweek , Rob Beschizza and Mark Frauenfelder discussed subjects such as the video game Portal 2 , graphic novels, upcoming science fiction books, and recommendations of some of their favorite adventure games for mobile platforms. Boing Boing has since added several other podcasts. In November 2017,

6510-690: The history of comics. Through the 1960s, and 1970s, comic fanzines followed general formats, such as the industry news and information magazine ( The Comic Reader was one example), interview, history and review-based fanzines, and the fanzines which basically represented independent comic book-format exercises. In 1936, David Kyle published The Fantasy World , possibly the first comics fanzine. Malcolm Willits and Jim Bradley started The Comic Collector's News in October 1947. In 1953, Bhob Stewart published The EC Fan Bulletin , which launched EC fandom of imitative Entertaining Comic fanzines. Among

6603-448: The hobby, but also served as a common form for the organisation of play-by-mail games . Several fans active in science fiction and comics fandom recognized a shared interest in rock music, and the rock fanzine was born. Paul Williams and Greg Shaw were two such science fiction fans turned rock zine editors. Williams' Crawdaddy! (1966) and Shaw's two California-based zines, Mojo Navigator Rock and Roll News (1966) and Who Put

6696-400: The image infringed copyright. Blogspot complied, but Boing Boing 's ISP consulted with Boing Boing and agreed that the image was fair use . As a result, Boing Boing issued a mocking rebuttal, using the same image again and posting the takedown notice. The rebuttal was widely reported, including on frequently viewed websites such as The Huffington Post and ABC News . On 3 May 2011,

6789-419: The mid-1990s, zines were also published on the Internet as e-zines . Websites such as Gurl.com and ChickClick were created out of dissatisfaction of media available to women and parodied content found in mainstream teen and women's magazines. Both Gurl.com and ChickClick had a message board and free web hosting services, where users could also create and contribute their own content, which in turn created

6882-414: The most-read and linked-to blogs in the world" according to Fast Company . The site added advertising over the course of late 2004, placed above and to the left and right of material, and, in 2005, in the site's RSS feed as well. Editor Cory Doctorow noted that "John [Battelle] said it's going to be harder to make a little money to pay your bandwidth bills than it will be to make a lot of money and have

6975-562: The publisher is Jason Weisberger. One report named Boing Boing as the most popular blog in the world until 2006, when Chinese-language blogs became popular, and it remained among the most widely linked and cited blogs into the 2010s. Boing Boing (originally bOING bOING ) started as a zine in 1988 by married duo Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. Issues were subtitled "The World's Greatest Neurozine" . Associate editors included Gareth Branwyn , Jon Lebkowsky , Paco Nathan , and David Pescovitz . Along with Mondo 2000 , Boing Boing

7068-504: The same people). The concept of zine as an art form distinct from fanzine , and of the "zinesters" as member of their own subculture, had emerged. Zines of this era ranged from perzines of all varieties to those that covered an assortment of different and obscure topics. Genres reviewed by Factsheet Five included quirky, medley, fringe, music, punk, grrrlz, personal, science fiction, food, humour, spirituality, politics, queer, arts & letters, comix. The riot grrrl movement emerged from

7161-474: The same role of personal expression. Indeed, many zines were transformed into Webzines , such as Boing Boing or monochrom . The metadata standard for cataloging zines is xZineCorex , which maps to Dublin Core . E-zine creators were originally referred to as "adopters" because of their use of pre-made type and layouts, making the process less ambiguous. Since, social media, blogging and vlogging have adopted

7254-605: The silence on the part of Boing Boing on the matter as "inexplicable", causing a controversy as Boing Boing "has often presented itself as a stalwart of cultural openness". A heated debate ensued after a brief statement on the Boing Boing site regarding this action stated: "Violet behaved in a way that made us reconsider whether we wanted to lend her any credibility or associate with her. It's our blog and so we made an editorial decision, like we do every single day". In commentary attached to that blog entry, "many commenters surmised that they had something to do with Blue's suing to stop

7347-511: The site was sued by Playboy , which alleged that a hyperlink to copyright-infringing content at Imgur and YouTube was itself illegal. A Federal Court dismissed Playboy's claims on 14 February 2018 and Playboy released a statement suggesting that it was standing down on 28 February. Cory Doctorow left Boing Boing in January 2020, and soon started a solo blogging project titled Pluralistic . The circumstances surrounding Doctorow's exit from

7440-693: The text remains unpublished. Platt became President of CryoCare Foundation, which he co-initiated during 1993. He was Director of Suspension Services for Alcor, a company which may be best known for cryopreserving Ted Williams 's head and body after he died. During 2004 Platt became a director and General Manager of Suspended Animation, Inc., based in Boynton Beach, Florida . Suspended Animation pursues R&D to develop equipment and procedures for use in mitigating ischemic injury immediately after cardiac arrest in terminal patients who have made arrangements for cryopreservation . Platt resigned his jobs with

7533-422: The wave of EC fanzines that followed, the best-known was Ron Parker 's Hoo-Hah! In 1960, Richard and Pat Lupoff launched their science fiction and comics fanzine Xero and in 1961, Jerry Bails ' Alter Ego , devoted to costumed heroes , became a focal point for superhero comics fandom. Calvin T. Beck 's Journal of Frankenstein (later Castle of Frankenstein ) and Gary Svehla's Gore Creatures were

7626-486: The website were unclear at the time, although Doctorow acknowledged that he remained a co-owner of Boing Boing . MetaFilter described the end of the 19-year association between Doctorow and Boing Boing as "the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up " for the blog world. Doctorow's exit was not acknowledged by Boing Boing, with his name being quietly removed from the list of editors on 29 January 2020. A "unicorn chaser"

7719-540: The zine movement are often overlooked, in part "because they had such short runs and were spearheaded by a single or small group of individuals." During and after the Great Depression , editors of "pulp" science fiction magazines became increasingly frustrated with letters detailing the impossibilities of their science fiction stories. Over time they began to publish these overly-scrutinizing letters, complete with their return addresses. Hugo Gernsback published

7812-452: The zine syndicated some of the humorous material to over 100 US fanzines under the name of Mystic Mark. During the 1980s and onwards, Factsheet Five (the name came from a short story by John Brunner ), originally published by Mike Gunderloy and now defunct, catalogued and reviewed any zine or small press creation sent to it, along with their mailing addresses. In doing so, it formed a networking point for zine creators and readers (often

7905-543: Was added in November 2008. These sites were incorporated into Boing Boing itself around 2010. Plans to revive the Offworld site were announced in 2015, with Leigh Alexander as Editor-in-Chief and Laura Hudson as Editor. Leigh Alexander and Laura Hudson left Offworld in early 2016 after publishing a collection of selected articles, successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter in March 2016. In October 2007, Boing Boing started

7998-456: Was an influence in the development of the cyberpunk subculture . It reached a maximum circulation of 17,500 copies. The last issue of the zine was #15. Boing Boing was established as a website in 1995 and one year later was a web-only publication. While researching for an article about blogs in 1999, Frauenfelder became acquainted with the Blogger software. He relaunched Boing Boing as

8091-483: Was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and popularized within science fiction fandom , entering the Oxford English Dictionary in 1949. Popularly defined within a circulation of 1,000 or fewer copies, in practice many zines are produced in editions of fewer than 100. Among the various intentions for creation and publication are developing one's identity, sharing

8184-586: Was described in Sexuality & Culture as "a comprehensive guide to trans women's sexuality" and The Mary Sue as "the gold standard in transfeminine sex and masturbation". In the early 2000s, zines with comics in them had a "thriving" fandom . Two popular kids shows in the late 1990s and early 2000s featured zine-making: Our Hero (2000–02) and Rocket Power (1999–2004). The main character in Our Hero , Kale Stiglic, writes about her life in

8277-482: Was nominated for the Hugo Award for "Best Fanzine" in 1978, 1979, and 1980. Janus/Aurora was the most prominent science fiction feminist zine during its run, as well as one of the only zines that dealt with such content. Comics were mentioned and discussed as early as the late 1930s in the fanzines of science fiction fandom . They often included fan artwork based on existing characters as well as discussion of

8370-483: Was published for 30 years. In 1993, G-FAN was published, and reached its 100th regularly published issue in Fall 2012. FXRH ( Special effects by Ray Harryhausen ) (1971–1976) was a specialized zine co-created by future Hollywood FX artist Ernest D. Farino . Board game-focused zines, especially those focused on the board game Diplomacy , took off in the 1960s. These not only contained news and articles about

8463-598: Was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago and edited by Raymond A. Palmer and Walter Dennis. The first version of Superman (a bald-headed villain) appeared in the third issue of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster 's 1933 fanzine Science Fiction . The first media fanzine was a Star Trek fan publication called Spockanalia , published in September 1967 by members of

8556-551: Was supposed to address systemic racism. BUST - "The voice of the new world order" was created by Debbie Stoller, Laurie Hanzel and Marcelle Karp in 1993 to propose an alternate to the popular mainstream magazines Cosmopolitan and Glamour . Additional zines following this path are Shocking Pink (1981–82, 1987–92), Jigsaw (1988– ), Not Your Bitch 1989–1992 (Gypsy X, ed.) Bikini Kill (1990), Girl Germs (1990), Bamboo Girl (1995– ), BITCH Magazine (1996– ), Hip Mama (1997– ), Kitten Scratches (1999) and ROCKRGRL (1995–2005). In

8649-526: Was the first in 1980. This was quickly followed by Dan French's Point Blank , Dave Percival's The Fever , Jeff Matthews' Rendezvous , and Paul Limbrick's Jackson Cage . In the US, Backstreets Magazine started in Seattle in 1980 and still continues today as a glossy publication, now in communication with Springsteen's management and official website. Crème Brûlée documented post-rock genre and experimental music (1990s). Punk zines emerged as part of

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