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- Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:47 am
- Forum: The Discuss (or, "Show Off/Plug") Your Work Section!
- Topic: The 1976 New York Star Trek Convention aka DisasterCon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2930
Re: The 1976 New York Star Trek Convention aka DisasterCon
It surprised me though that that late into the 70s and Trekkies were still being seen as weirdos, even to other SF fans. Guess that TNG and the movies was when the mythologicalizing of TOS became a thing. If I had to guess, I would guess that the lack of home video is what made it weird, because th...
- Sat Jul 09, 2022 2:58 pm
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: C/FO's 45th anniversary?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1975
Re: C/FO's 45th anniversary?
I am slowly starting to wonder, what can be said about the C/FO that hasn't already? I suppose someone could write up an intro paragraph and then link the various media floating around as an anniversary index. It's impact is important but it's felt so distantly through so many other threads, it rea...
- Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:46 pm
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: Can anyone please help my article on the fall of C/FO?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1863
Re: Can anyone please help my article on the fall of C/FO?
Congrats! Not sure if it is a typo or my own ignorance, but did you mean to say the first C/FO was started in Chicago? The standard story is that it started in Los Angeles, but the only non-Fred people I know of who talked about Fred before the C/FO were connected to his sci-fi fandom hobby and the ...
- Fri May 20, 2022 6:20 pm
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: C/FO's 45th anniversary?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1975
C/FO's 45th anniversary?
Fred Patten put it this way in Watching Anime, Reading Manga : The Cartoon/Fantasy Organization held its first monthly meeting on Saturday, May 21, 1977, coincidentally the same weekend that Star Wars was released. The anniversary of American anime fandom is usually dated from the beginning of this ...
- Tue May 17, 2022 9:28 am
- Forum: Buy, Sell, & Trade
- Topic: NEED HELP WITH 90s ANIME TEES
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8098
Re: NEED HELP WITH 90s ANIME TEES
A sign of success for all the old-schoolers, maybe, as now old anime t-shirts are viewed sort of like old band t-shirts, "I liked them before they were cool" or "I was raised liking good anime, my dad taught Kenichi Sonada how to play beer pong at AnimeCon '91-" type stories. :lo...
- Mon May 02, 2022 6:17 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Where Are They Now: Ed Godziszewski
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2918
Where Are They Now: Ed Godziszewski
An early member of the C/FO from Chicago, Ed became a published author, writing The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Godzilla and co-authoring Ishiro Honda, A Life In Film, From Godzilla to Kurosawa.
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:39 am
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: fps Magazine
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1073
Re: fps Magazine
It was revived in 2003 as a web-only publication, and continued on (according to Wikipedia), until the editor-in-chief, Emru Townsend, died of cancer in 2010. It looks like I mixed up the dates -- Emru Townsend died in 2008, but the magazine continued for another couple years, the decision to retir...
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:08 am
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: fps Magazine
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1073
fps Magazine
fps.jpg From an old version of the website: In the fall of 1991, I was lamenting the state of animation magazines and criticism. Everything was divided into camps: people spoke of Japanese, classic, computer, independent, or commercial animation—but rarely looked at where different fields and techn...
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:17 pm
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: Animanga Nuzu
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9820
Re: Animanga Nuzu
Not sure if it is a case of name re-use, but it looks like someone printed out issue 3 and it is now safely stored in the Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection: https://comics.lib.msu.edu/rri/jrri/japan_a.htm
- Sun Mar 27, 2022 12:10 pm
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Crunchyroll to stop offering free option for newer anime
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3072
Re: Crunchyroll to stop offering free option for newer anime
Maybe it will given anime clubs a second wind, provided Crunchyroll doesn't double-down and start charging clubs rental-VHS prices to keep their memberships.