Announcing: The Fan Culture Preservation Project!
Langue Anglais The OTW is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the University of Iowa to create a Fan Culture Preservation Project. The Special Collections department at the University...
View ArticleMemorial Fund for Ming Wathne Established at the University of Iowa
Langue Anglais Ming Wathne, long time archivist of the Fanzine Archives, passed away on December 17, 2010 at the age of 84. Before she died, the OTW helped her transfer the entire archive - over 3,000...
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A Fannish Field Trip - Spotlight on the FCPP, Part of Open Doors
Langue Anglais Fan darksnowfalling recently took a day-long field trip to visit some of the archived Kirk/Spock zines included in the Fan Culture Preservation Project (FCPP), and generously shared the...
View ArticleDo you love zines?
Langue Anglais Those who enjoy fanzines, or who were part of Star Trek fandom in its early years, may enjoy the following story, and even want to lend a hand!Steven H. Wilson is an author and has...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Fandom and Technology
Langue Anglais Entertainment reporter Ken Baker has written a novel about a pop star dating a fan but in a twist it's the star who stalks the fan. His inspiration was the intimacy provided by social...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Fanfiction, where can you find it?
Langue Anglais College newspapers are a constant source of stories on fanfiction, but The Varsity tried to take a more comprehensive look at the practice, noting that "fan fiction predates the...
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OTW Fannews: Fandom in classrooms & history
Langue Anglais A post on the New York Times' Learning Network discussed students confronting 'what ifs' in classwork. "In this lesson, students will discuss how they 'read' their favorite television...
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OTW Fannews: Fannish practices
Langue Anglais The San Francisco Examiner reported on gay fans'annual Buffy celebrations. "It was the geeky gay holiday party of the year. 'Gay men love the show because it shows strength in places...
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OTW Fannews: Doing more with fanworks
Langue Anglais Blogger Priya Sridhar suggested that fanfiction can be used to analyze canon. "'Hitchups' first addresses one of the pressing issues in [How To Train Your Dragon]: female character...
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OTW Fannews: Fan words and papers
Langue Anglais Texas A&M's libraries wrote about the closing of a Game of Thrones exhibit while one on filk replaced it. "The Cushing Library filk collection will showcase examples of these...
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Spotlight on Open Doors: Scales of Justice
Langue Anglais First, a reminder that Open Doors will be holding the second of two public chats on Campfire (the online chat platform the OTW uses) for Yuletide participants on May 4, 1am UTC (what...
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OTW Fannews: Delving Into Fandom
Langue Anglais The University of Iowa libraries, which partner with the OTW's Open Doors project, have announced a major fanzine digitization project."10,000 science fiction fanzines will be digitized...
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OTW Fannews: Commercial Weirdness
Langue Anglais A post at Wired featured images from a new book on science fiction zines of the 1940s through 1960s. "Despite being produced with a limited tool set, and existing in a vastly different...
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OTW Fannews: Building on the Past
Langue Anglais Although many an article speculated about the future of Mad Men's characters, it was The Washington Post who looked into what would happen to the the fandom's RPG twitter accounts. "[A]t...
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OTW Fannews: Creating & Remembering Fans
Langue Anglais Slatewrote about the University of Iowa's Hevelin Collection of fanzines, quoting the OTW's Karen Hellekson who wrote "fanzines were typically self-published pamphlets, made from...
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