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How to use fanzine in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun

Fanzine means a magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest. Example: “Many early music fanzines are now lost to time.”

Examples of fanzine by meaning

nounA magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.

  • I don't know how many fanzines there've been, but surely no fewer than 500 different items, some running for one issue and some for several dozen.1950 September, Francis Towner Laney, “Syllabus for a Fanzine”, in Spacewarp, number 42, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2019, page 8
  • One day when I was chopping wood to make paper for my fanzine, he cast his spell, and there I've been until you came along."1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Tin Woodsfan”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013
  • Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts.1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun, →ISBN, page 9

More sentences with fanzine

  • Many early music fanzines are now lost to time.From the entry lost to time
  • Barbara O’Quinn was an English fan known for writing for a contemporary British fanzine named Tardis.2022 August 16, D[enis] G[eorge] Valdron, “1985 - THE HUES OF DOOM, (4 minutes, England, Animated, 6th Doctor, 5th Doctor)”, in A Pirate’s…. From the entry doctrix
  • Catwalk is just a celluloid fanzine, a 95-minute authorised industry fame-fest that is tame and predictable.1996 May 16, Anna Maria Dell’oso, “Homage to hips and lips”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, page 14. From the entry in-joky
  • I learned to write through fanzines, and have made many wonderful friends through Trekfandom.1990, Jean Lorrah, Metamorphosis, unnumbered page. From the entry Trekfandom
  • Such fanzines as Science Fiction Digest and The Comet were the mags of the day.1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Numerical Fandoms. From the entry Eofandom
  • Also a wish that half-done fanzines could be forgotten for a while.1950 April, Arthur H. Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, volume 7, number 1 (#37 overall). From the entry gafia
  • Incidentally, FANFARE is the neatest, most legible, and cleanest of any hectographed fanzine I have yet seen.1941 March, Leslie A. Croutch, “Clippings from Canada”, in Futurian War Digest, volume 1, number 6, page 4. From the entry fanmag
  • Apparently, this all started with some Star Trek stories and RPF or “real person fic” started in a Duran Duran fanzine.2007, Ruadhan J. McElroy, Simple Man: The Autobiography of Peter West, S. H. S. Publications, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry RPF
  • In a couple of months I'll be putting a covertape, featuring several bands, on my fanzine 'Blind Youth'.1996, Adie Nunn, “bands wanted for fanzine covertape”, in alt.music.uk (Usenet). From the entry covertape
  • I have been a fanzine editor and apahack, but it's been a while since last I pubbed my ish.1994 May 12, Erik Biever, “Re: stencil duplicators”, in alt.technology.obsolete (Usenet), message-ID <CppIyK.n2B@news.cis.umn.edu>. From the entry apahack
  • Humor bridges the uncomfortable gap between wanting to write in the fanzines and having expectations that real men don't write Treklit.1992, Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth, page 153. From the entry Treklit
  • QUANDRY (Hoffwoman) The famous fanzine published by Lee Hoffman of Savannah Ga. before she gafiated for the first time.1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II. From the entry gafiate
  • Such apazines are contributed to the bundle by their publishers without charge, being considered exchanges for the other members' fanzines.1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, APA. From the entry apazine
  • Symptoms are sheer boredom while trying to read promags or fanzines, and allowing correspondence to pile up unanswered.1950 April, Arthur H. Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, volume 7, number 1 (#37 overall). From the entry gafia
  • Or send your manuscripts to SHIVERS or one of the other fanzines specializing in that branch of fantasy.1950 April, Arthur H. Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, number 37, page 2. From the entry stfanzine
  • You won't find a finer fanzine, nor one that will get you behind the scenes in fandom and prodom quicker.1950 March, Rog Phillips, “The Club House”, in Amazing Stories, volume 24, number 3, page 186. From the entry prodom
  • This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.1956 September, Robert Bloch, “Some of Best Fans are Friends”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 11, number 3, page 57. From the entry fanac
  • It was published in a trekky fanzine. (There is also a distinction between groupy fans of Star Trek, known as trekkies, and more serious followers, known as trekkers.2005, The Spectator, page 24, column 1. From the entry trekky
  • She appeared in few publications, yet she had such an influence on Star Trek fanzines that many considered her a SMOF, or Secret Master of Fandom.2003, J. M. Verba, Boldly Writing, page 27. From the entry smof
  • I still prefer fanzines because they are printed and I'm a print junkie, but I don't buy as many as I used to buy in the past.2000 November 5, Shomeret [username], “Re: Fan Fiction Readers (and Writers)”, in alt.tv.highlander (Usenet). From the entry netfic
  • I would tend to look askance at the fan who's focussed all their activities into one area of fandom, whether it's fanzines, masquerade costuming, or conrunning.1986 June, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, “GoB Criteria”, in The Mad 3 Party, number 12, page 18. From the entry concom
  • On the other hand, often the fan who's mostly known as, say, a fanzine fan, has in fact quietly helped out in a variety of other areas.1986 June, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, “GoB Criteria”, in The Mad 3 Party, number 12, page 18. From the entry concom
  • A fanzine for general circulation in fandom is called a genzine (general interest fanzine) as opposed to one for an amateur press association (apa) which is called an apazine.1979 January-February, Darrell Schweitzer, “Occasionally Mentioning Science Fiction”, in Science Fiction Review, volume 8, number 1 (whole…. From the entry genzine
  • The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines.1952 November, Algis Budrys, Planet Stories, volume 5, number 9, page 111. From the entry fanmag
  • He contributed wit and whimsy to virtually all the major English fanzines for the next few years, but gradually lapsed into fafia under the increasing responsibilities of marriage and jobs.1964 November, “[Preface to] The Most Unforgettable Lupin Man I Ever Met”, in Terry Carr, editor, Entropy, number 1, archived from the…. From the entry fafia
  • This British peculiarity, this psychopathic abhorrence for open spaces in fanzines, has been remarked on by many people but until this moment nobody has explained the real reason for it.1961 August, Walter Alexander Willis, “Black Mail”, in Willis Papers. From the entry faned

Meaning of fanzine

  1. noun A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.

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Questions about fanzine in a sentence

How do you use fanzine in a sentence?
Fanzine is used as a noun. For example: “Many early music fanzines are now lost to time.”
What is a short sentence with fanzine?
“Many early music fanzines are now lost to time.”
What does fanzine mean?
Fanzine means a magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.

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