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In article <1993Jan25.000414.25673@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> bobc@pyramid.unr.edu (Bob Conrad) writes:
>the other thing about all this zine
>talk that's pissing me off is evident in an announcement i got in the mail
>for an upcoming zine show.  it said "fanzines=artzines, homozines, litzines,
>femzines, musiczines, personalzines, punkzines, comiczines" or something
>to that effect.  to read it you'd get the impression on "punkzines" are
>some little bastard faction of fanzines, when in reality fanzines have been
>nurtured and hyped almost exclusively by the punk scene for the last
>15 years!  sure, they word "fanzine" originally came from sci-fi rags
>in the early 70s but it's been punk culture that kept the word alive
>and then pushed it to its presnt possibilities.  

As the editor of a science fiction fanzine, I'd like to thank you for
your condescending sneer.

For your information, Buster, the first SF fanzine was published in
NINEteenTHIRTY.  And SF people have kept up a steady stream of
eccentric publications ever since.

>it's been the punk
>culture that nurtured and revitalized the small underground press the same
>way it nurtured and revitalized vinyl and cassette tapes and film and
>fashion and rock-n-roll and, to some extent, radical art and radical
>politics....END  (there's more but you get the point)

This may well be.  I wish you well in your ongoing efforts to conduct
a cultural revolution.

Punk.

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