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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4613006" data-attributes="member: 13892">Ha! I was just getting ready to chime in and mention the excellence of Iridia and how it serves as a great example of a fanzine with tight focus, good editorial control, and scads of useful content packed into a small package. I've read a lot of fanzines in my day, and the only two that have ever really impressed are Iridia and Random Order Creations Comics & Games (now gone, sadly) for the very reasons that I mention above. That said, ODDities warrants an honorable mention for the occasional excellent article, though with the exceptions of the excellent issues 8 and 9, it came up short for me overall.One thing that I think Iridia wisely does is break up the 'zine into regular columns and features, with the remaining space being devoted to one-off topics and such. It seems to me that most failed fanzines take the opposite approach, pushing a random assortment of articles and having few (if any) regular features. There are a lot of fanzines that start off with a great premise but then try to sample a bit of everything under the sun in an attempt to cater to everybody and, as a result, end up a catering to no single audience well. The anchors that regular columns and features provide seems to be an effective way to avoid this pitfall. So, to answer the OP's question, I always like to see new fanzines — but I think it better to plan out a regular format, layout/design, and focus prior to publication than trying to map out all of that stuff as you go.</blockquote>

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