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FANZINE is an online general culture magazine that was launched in August 2005 at the CMYK Independent Magazine Festival in Barcelona, Spain. I was invited to this event to my surprise based on some hand made print zines I had done that were of very limited edition, unlike many of the glossy magazines at the festival. I had to inform the curator that I simply didn't have any zines left to bring or give out, but had this other idea, which was FANZINE. With the hard work of programmer Ernesto Gonzales and designer Douglas Savage, and general editing input from Mike Louie, then still back in San Francisco, we managed to get the site up by festival end.
And now years running our aim remains to provide a venue on the Internet for longer form writing, both fiction and non, that is at once intelligent, engaging, witty, informative, and fun. Not to disparage the blog format (we have a blog here too but rarely use it; also had a tweet-like news runner before twitter that worked well and maybe we'll bring that back), but we think what makes FANZINE special is that it is a unique place where professional writers can stretch out and write pieces that are substantive, that can stand the test of time. Therefore we keep 99.9% of our articles archived, and present them in as clean a fashion as we can design. We expect that our work will not be scanned, but rather read and reread years down the road.
Our contributors are journalists, novelists, and practicing artists. We believe that we have developed a community wherein the art of writing is respected and where writers are proud to showcase their works.
More new things to come... A Fanzine 3.0 by the end of the year for one thing, compatible with the new reading landscape, i.e.mobile, yet with an old school magazine feel. You'll be stoked.
Sincerely,
Casey McKinney
Fanzine's Founding Editor