#13

Cool - I’ve placed the order, but don’t worry if you can’t despatch until you get back.

#14

Don’t worry- it’s going out today!

You a fan of DWJ then?

#15

my friend did a few editions of a zine and i sent her some drawings i did and took them to bars and stuff round the northern quarter to leave a few near their doorway or whatever. think she just printed them at home tbh. they were meant to be quarterly i think but she only did three. they were dead good tho

#16

This sounds really cool - I’m fine with all the wordy stuff, but illustrations is more difficult. I don’t want to rely on photos with stupid captions, but my arty skills are utterly lamentable.

#17

I’m curious about her - of course, I know Howl’s Moving Castle through Studio Ghibli and since watching that for the first time have always wanted to find the time to learn more about her work.

#18

I def def recommend her books. She has a lot though.

Through doing the zine I ended up being invited to her funeral. I think I was one of the last people to interview her before she died. Sadly I didn’t finish the zine before she went though.

The family had a private service (that I didn’t go to), then they had a public memorial a little later in Bristol with talks from her friends/people who had worked with her. It was kind of half funeral, half academic conference.

The book of Howl’s Moving Castle is the same in spirit/characters but a lot of details are different. The secret bit of the changing door opens up to suburban Wales for a start. (Also Howl is welsh)

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#19

I’ve written for a couple of football fanzines. Don’t sell it in the club shop it goes against the culture. If you’re not stood in the pissing down rain shouting “new xxx out today, xxxx fanzine” and getting weighed down by pound coins then spending the money before you’ve seen anyone to give it to and end up having to nip to the bank before the next match to get the money you owe and repeat the cycle all year.

#20

Ha! Reminds me of a Jonathan Wilson anecdote, this, of his time selling a Sunderland fanzine outside Blundell Park one winter afternoon / evening.

This, too, is a football fanzine, but the intention is that all the proceeds go back into the club - hence selling it through the club shop and online shop. My time on matchdays is generally spent doing multiple other jobs, so standing in front of the turnstiile in the pissing rain, whilst an attractive prospect, is a no-go unfortunately.

#21

@penoid - come back to us :cry:

#22

That sounds lovely!

Really looking forward to receiving the post and investigating :slight_smile:

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#23

she just got in touch with loads of people she knows who draw and that and asked if we wanted to send her anything. i guess going to art college helps idk

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#24

Get someone to help all it is wandering about selling it, we had kids doing it. Football fanzine culture is all about being seperated from the club.

The one that i wrote for at FC United did actually give all the profits back to the club but were never sold in the club shop or blessed by the club.
There will eventually be something controversial written that the club won’t like and you’ll start editing yourself which goes against the culture.

Don’t go out of pocket after the first one either if possible, if you make any profit use it to cover your next print run and build from that, if you make more than your next print run costs put that in a separate account, it will build up over the season.

We had a guy who did the lay out and we got it professionally printed so i don’t know anything about that part.

#25

That’s really useful info - thanks!

We’re a small Non-League club so getting people to help out with everything that needs doing on a matchday is nigh-on impossible, so getting people to help with the selling of a fanzine isn’t going to happen.

And, as the club shop is run by the independent Supporters Association who then make a donation to the club, I’m hoping that whole thing about controversy won’t become an issue. That said, it’s certainly something worth thinking about.

The overheads, I’m not too concerned about covering myself quite honestly - I don’t think the print-run is going to be massive and I’m happy to be a bit out of pocket.

#26

These people are good value, used to printing zines, and are a co-op:

http://www.footprinters.co.uk

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#27

No worries, if you want an article on the pitfalls of none league fanzines let me know :slightly_smiling_face:

#28

:smiley:

If that’s a genuine offer, that’d be superb!

#29

I did one issue with my friends when I was about 19. It was called Period Sex.

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#30

Sounds slightly different in tone to what mine will be :smiley:

#31

I made a couple in 1994 using an electronic typewriter then cutting it up and pasting onto A4 pages before furtively photocopying them in the school library. Mainly a mixture of bad reviews of music, some poor poetry and short stories and really bad drawings.

Great fun to do though.

#32

Sounds pretty cool! Nice work.

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