fanzine

noun

fan·​zine ˈfan-ˌzēn How to pronounce fanzine (audio)
: a magazine written by and for fans
a sci-fi fanzine
a punk rocker with her own fanzine

Examples of fanzine in a Sentence

a musician with her own fanzine
Recent Examples on the Web Moore was once a college music journalist at Western Connecticut State University, who quit the paper to create a fanzine—the OG Xerox, fold, staple and mail kind—full of writing too headstrong for school publications—the Richard Meltzer, Lester Bangs kind. Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024 Like in 2013, when the nonprofit punk fanzine Razorcake applied for a tiny Los Angeles-area FM station on the same signal as an EMF translator down in Orange County, and EMF barraged it with complaints about potential interference. Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024 Bonus items: an Angel-on-acrylic panel; 48-pg book with unreleased photos; new 20-pg fanzine; LA gig poster litho; 2 ticket stubs; replicas of the promo Angel mobile, 3 gig flyers, all-access tour laminate & 4 backstage passes. Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023 Producing the fanzine back then was no easy task, either; laying out the actual issues required weekend-long trips to Connecticut, where Brannon would camp out in the office of a friend’s dad whose work computer had a copy of QuarkXPress. Shawn Reynaldo, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023 Bonus items: an angel-on-acrylic panel; 48-pg book with unreleased photos; new 20-pg fanzine; LA gig poster litho; 2 ticket stubs; replicas of the promo angel mobile, 3 gig flyers, all-access tour laminate & 4 backstage passes. Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023 In the beginning Mike founded Ugly Things in 1983 as a 30-page fanzine. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023 Small-town skater dude, had a band, had a ramp in his backyard, had a fanzine. Brad Cohan, SPIN, 13 June 2023 Forget the gee-whiz, fanzine frills -- although there is enough celebrity schmoozing to indulge an MTV mentality. San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

fan entry 3 + magazine

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of fanzine was in 1942

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“Fanzine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fanzine. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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