Fanzines! The Earliest Works of Your Favorite Comic Creators! Fandom's Finest Comics! 

When I was younger a guy I knew was obsessed with da levy and got a mimeograph machine. We made so many awful zines and left them everywhere in philly, especially at zipperhead and atomic comics

This is what I'm here for 👊 more vids like this, please. You guys shine a light on so much art and content i just never knew existed (comic reader for 20 years) so I feel, I've heard it all... but I like the deep cuts, like this video! .. and If anyone knows how to cut deep, its Jim and Ed... specially Ed (yeah I read RR... goddamn dude haha)

I am always intrigued by fanzines. Maybe someone can answer me: Are there still fanzines that accept any body's work? I am talking about non-professional, amateur work.

I’m very impressed these fanzine’s are collected, it’s so hard and expensive to hunt down fanzine that have all the legends of comics.

So happy to see you talk about Bill Schelly. I remember talking to Ed at APE one year about his work, especially his Golden Age of Comics Fandom book ... Bill did live in Pittsburgh (Bethel Park, I believe) in his teenage years. His dad was a railroad exec. So that explains how he knew Jim Shooter. Read Bill's excellent autobiography, Sense of Wonder, which TwoMorrows originally published in a version that focuses on his love of comics. Bill updated it a few years back to include more about his life, including coming out and about his children (he was a surrogate father, very involved in the upbringing of his kids). He is really missed. He died in Sept. 2019, so it's 2 years now. My favorite book of his is Empire of Monsters, on Jim Warren, but his Harvey Kurtzman bio is his magnum opus. He also did bios on Otto Binder and Joe Kubert. It was my sad pleasure to work with him right before he died on a history of Comic-Con article for the Comic-Con Souvenir Book in 2019, celebrating the event's 50th anniversary.

Thanks so much for this video; and the information on the books this is all reprinted in. I started checking out the comic fanzines back in the late 1960s. Rockets Blast Comic Collection (issue 58 or 59) had all these ads for amateur fanzines. So I recognized a number of the oages

Cool to see George Metzger's work here. I met him a couple times at VanCAFs and we had a great time "tossing the shit around" (his words). He showed me his original pages which were so amazing to see up close. He also had his old beat up copy of a manga volume from the 70s containing Astro Boy and Lupin the Third. We hung out for ages and I thought it was a shame that hundreds of young comic fans just breezed by his table and clearly had no idea who he was

Alan Weiss was in Jim Starlin's early Detroit crew, along with Al Milgrom. A great artist. There is a great recent Scott Dunbier interview with Weiss on RU-vid.

George Barr went on to paint a lot of sci-fi & fantasy paperback covers in the 70s and 80s.

Most of that work is offset; by the 70's a lot of the art-oriented fanzines were able to take advantage of the relatively new technology. Star-Studded (home of Dr. Weird) and Bill Black's Paragon books were beautifully produced offset zines. To pick a name out of your video, George Barr was mostly in Science Fiction fandom and appeared in Tom Reamy's Trumpet, a really lush Science Fiction fanzine, where Barr's adaptation of the Broken Sword appeared. Reamy had a great editorial personalty and there was a lot of humor in his writing; he eventually became a pro writer. When Reamy and some other fans got involved with the satirical Flesh Gordon movie, Barr ended up doing the poster art, and also became a book cover artist (some interiors as well, for Don Grant's Conan books). One of the skills Barr excelled in was ballpoint pen art, and if you search for some of that, they are just beautiful, very painterly art.

...the Eye (a favorite), Dr. Weird, the Savage Land by Don Newton (who surprised me not getting into the pro comics sooner than he did), etc, etc. Thanks again.

Glad to see you touch on Bill Black's stuff. He's one of the pioneers of small press publishing and really the only one left. Still working even in "retirement."

I think it would be dope to create a group like this, where it's a bunch of comic creators making and exchanging personal work like this. It would be fun.

so cool. great episode.

I love your RU-vid videos very much Ed and Jim! Good Work! 👍😃

This is my favorite channel on RU-vid.

Are the fanzines public domain?

Notification Gang! Love fanzines 🔥

As I'm watching this episode I look up on amazon to see if volume 1 is available and see that it is for $24.99 and when I go to purchase it, someone else beats me to the punch and the price increases to $31 - the kayfabe effect is real people. (I bought the $31 edition before it went up even more.)

pretty snazzy

@6:41 What is "The Girl From LSD"?