fanzine

fanzine

English

Etymology

Blend of fan +‎ magazine. Coined by Louis Russell "Russ" Chauvenet in the October 1940 edition of his own science fiction fanzine Detours, to replace the earlier fanmag[1].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfænˌziːn/
• Hyphenation: fan‧zine

Noun

fanzine (plural fanzines)

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

   Synonyms: dōjinshi, doujinshi

   • 1950 September, Laney, Francis Towner, “Syllabus for a Fanzine”, in Spacewarp‎, number 42, page 8:

     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.

   • 1959, Terry Carr & Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Tin Woodsfan”, in The BNF of Iz‎:

     "Well, long ago," said the Tin Woodsfan, "a fan and I were feuding, and the fan decided to drive me out of fandom. But no one can leave Iz because of the great burning desert called Public Contempt which surrounds this fannish land, and since nobody ever gafiates while still inside the country, he had to cast a spell of immobility upon me. 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."

   • 1988, McCrumb, Sharyn, Bimbos of the Death Sun, →ISBN, page 9:

     Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts.

   • 2013, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, volume 1, →ISBN, Fanzines, page 227:

     The US jazz magazine Coda began in 1958 as a 12-page mimeographed fanzine, put together by its editor and a team of volunteers working for beer and pizza.

Derived terms

• fmz (abbreviation)
• zine

Translations

a magazine, normally produced by amateurs

Chinese: Mandarin: 迷友雜誌／迷友杂志 (míyǒuzázhì), 同人誌／同人志 (zh) (tóngrénzhì) French: fanzine (fr) m, dōjinshi (fr) m German: Fanzine (de) n Japanese: 同人誌 (ja) (どうじんし, dōjinshi) Korean: 팬 잡지 (paen japji), 동인지 (ko) (dong'inji) Polish: fanzin (pl) m Portuguese: fanzine (pt) m Russian: фэнзи́н (ru) m (fɛnzín), додзинси́ (ru) m or n (dodzinsí)

References

1. Chauvenet, Louis Russell (October 6, 1940) Detours: “We hereby protest against the un-euphonious word "fanag" and announce our intention to plug fanzine as the best short form of "fan-magazine".”

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “fanzine”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 60–61.
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2023), “fanzine n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Further reading

• fanzine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• zinefan

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

fanzine m (plural fanzines)

1. fanzine

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Spanish

Noun

fanzine m (plural fanzines)

1. fanzine

Further reading

• “fanzine”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014