It was first used by US sci fi enthusiast Louis Russell Chauvenet in 1940 and by 1949 was in common use. ‘Fanzine’ was abbreviated to ‘zine’ in 1970s. The rise of fanzines was part of the punk subcultural response to mainstream society – in this case, mainstream print. Distribution: Zines were hand-made publications produced in […]
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