How to Use fanzine in a Sentence

fanzine

noun
  • Small-town skater dude, had a band, had a ramp in his backyard, had a fanzine.
    Brad Cohan, SPIN, 13 June 2023
  • While still in their teens, the Benfords published 29 issues of the fanzine Void.
    Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2016
  • Like a fanzine on film, The Slog Movie has an intimate backstage/on stage feel.
    Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 6 July 2012
  • So Daniel Johnston's cassettes started getting talked about in the fanzines.
    Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2019
  • All of your heroes were there, sharing flyers, tapes, fanzines, stickers.
    Andy Gensler, Billboard, 12 June 2017
  • In 1995, Bruneel created a modest fanzine named after his old radio show.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Vonda McIntyre and Joanna Russ both singled this story out in fanzines in the late ’60s and ’70s, and said this is the story that made them realize there was no place for women in the field.
    Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 12 May 2018
  • Lisa Prank, co-edited a fanzine called Summer of Sheryl, which situated Crow in a punk-rock context.
    Jenn Pelly, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Forget the gee-whiz, fanzine frills -- although there is enough celebrity schmoozing to indulge an MTV mentality.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But a former Imagineer involved in the development of the attraction told the now-defunct fanzine E-Ticket that even Walt himself had some reservations about the scene.
    Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
  • At the time, comics fandom was primarily about buying and reading comics and fanzines, and fans were frequently looked down on as immature by mainstream culture.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • My idea was to edit a sort of magazine, like a special issue of some crazy fanzine, conveying MSGM’s identity in a very direct, honest, unpretentious way.
    Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2020
  • In an early 1990s fanzine, Despentes came across a story by the experimental feminist writer Kathy Acker, and the accompanying photo—short hair, red lips, hard stare—stopped her cold.
    Nadja Spiegelman, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
  • His entrepreneurial journey started producing a computer fanzine on his high school’s photocopier in Exeter, England at the age of thirteen.
    Melanie Fine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021

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