Post by account_disabled on Jan 2, 2024 9:09:52 GMT 5.5
When I attended comics school, at the end of the 90s, we were a group of kids - some, like me, more of a young adult than a boy - full of ideas and the desire to break into the world of drawn literature. There were those who loved drawing Disney, those who loved superheroes, those who loved manga, those who loved Bonelli's characters and those who, like me, didn't have a specific comic in mind, even if my drawing was always humorous and grotesque. It was at that time that I got into the heart of self-production , even if the name was certainly not new to me, given that years before, more or less between the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, I had come into contact with some fanzines (fan magazine ) who published comic stories and cultural articles.
The fanzine boom The term was coined in October 1940 by Louis Russell Chauvenet, because his small self-published magazine «Detours» for science fiction enthusiasts had to differentiate itself from professional magazines such as «Science Fiction». You've all at least heard of fanzines. There are really a lot of them around. Fanzines are one of the first examples, if not the first, of self-production or, as it is called today, self-publishing. At the beginning they were mimeographed . Some of you are too young to Special Data remember the mimeograph machine , a nineteenth-century invention that lasted until our (my!) 80s. But when I went to school it was used a lot, to create flyers or even to circulate information of any kind in schools, even threatening ones, why not? At that time I thought about sending some comics to a fanzine, in fact I think I did it or in any case I sent my proposal, but who remembers anymore? Some fanzines were subsidized by advertising: they were distributed in just one city and collected subscriptions from various shops and companies.
I don't know how much this method can still work today. A friend of mine's fanzine, « A6 », has some advertisements for Roman shops, but they are fewer than before. My first (attempted) self-production In the last year of comics school I created my own comic magazine to self-produce, I was the creator, the scriptwriter and the screenwriter and a friend of mine was the designer. It was a 64-page book, with 60 pages of story and the rest short columns. I stopped at the 11th page of the script. However, I have divided the subject into 10 chapters and, when it comes, I will make a novel out of it, perhaps illustrated by my friend. The theme is 1920s Chicago, with Italian-American gangs. Obviously it's a humorous story.
The fanzine boom The term was coined in October 1940 by Louis Russell Chauvenet, because his small self-published magazine «Detours» for science fiction enthusiasts had to differentiate itself from professional magazines such as «Science Fiction». You've all at least heard of fanzines. There are really a lot of them around. Fanzines are one of the first examples, if not the first, of self-production or, as it is called today, self-publishing. At the beginning they were mimeographed . Some of you are too young to Special Data remember the mimeograph machine , a nineteenth-century invention that lasted until our (my!) 80s. But when I went to school it was used a lot, to create flyers or even to circulate information of any kind in schools, even threatening ones, why not? At that time I thought about sending some comics to a fanzine, in fact I think I did it or in any case I sent my proposal, but who remembers anymore? Some fanzines were subsidized by advertising: they were distributed in just one city and collected subscriptions from various shops and companies.
I don't know how much this method can still work today. A friend of mine's fanzine, « A6 », has some advertisements for Roman shops, but they are fewer than before. My first (attempted) self-production In the last year of comics school I created my own comic magazine to self-produce, I was the creator, the scriptwriter and the screenwriter and a friend of mine was the designer. It was a 64-page book, with 60 pages of story and the rest short columns. I stopped at the 11th page of the script. However, I have divided the subject into 10 chapters and, when it comes, I will make a novel out of it, perhaps illustrated by my friend. The theme is 1920s Chicago, with Italian-American gangs. Obviously it's a humorous story.