How to Use fanzine in a Sentence

fanzine

noun
  • Small-town skater dude, had a band, had a ramp in his backyard, had a fanzine.
    — Brad Cohan, SPIN, 13 June 2023
  • Humour was, indeed, a big part of the fanzine movement from the start.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 7 June 2025
  • Protecting fanzines becomes an art — bin bags at the ready.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • All of your heroes were there, sharing flyers, tapes, fanzines, stickers.
    — Andy Gensler, Billboard, 12 June 2017
  • Their first project together was a fanzine called Strange VD.
    — Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And there were all the cool fanzines and magazines like Boston Rock and Slash.
    — Michael Tedder, SPIN, 5 May 2026
  • Like a fanzine on film, The Slog Movie has an intimate backstage/on stage feel.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 6 July 2012
  • While still in their teens, the Benfords published 29 issues of the fanzine Void.
    — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2016
  • So Daniel Johnston's cassettes started getting talked about in the fanzines.
    — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2019
  • In 1995, Bruneel created a modest fanzine named after his old radio show.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2022
  • That’s all those people paying for tickets, travel, merchandise, programmes, fanzines, food, hotel rooms, drinks and more.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Into this mid-1980s maelstrom stepped the fanzines and a wonderful array of titles.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 7 June 2025
  • Chilton sells his fanzines on Sir Matt Busby Way, above the Bridgewater Canal.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Since football fandom kicked in in the 1970s, the path to football writing started as a teenager scribbling for a fanzine.
    — Amy Lawrence, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The word ‘united’ should mean that and slogans like ‘United We Stand’, the name of our fanzine, were a deliberate choice.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • At the time, comics fandom was primarily about buying and reading comics and fanzines, and fans were frequently looked down on as immature by mainstream culture.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • Lisa Prank, co-edited a fanzine called Summer of Sheryl, which situated Crow in a punk-rock context.
    — Jenn Pelly, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Forget the gee-whiz, fanzine frills -- although there is enough celebrity schmoozing to indulge an MTV mentality.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Each city’s event will showcase creative window and newsstand transformations, inviting guests to step inside and pick up a complimentary fanzine.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Instead of being limited to fanzines or local communities, people who are obsessed with artists or actors can now broadcast their obsession to the entire world.
    — Callum Booth, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The fanzine will be introduced in New York, Copenhagen and Seoul, each marked by an immersive takeover of an iconic magazine store and café space.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That depends on the ultra group, but all of them collect membership dues, and many of them raise funds by producing calendars or fanzines, or otherwise holding collections on matchdays.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
  • So bands started learning how to put on their own shows at VFW halls and about the power of independent press through fanzines, and how to broadcast a message at college radio.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
  • And as with Days of Ash, it’s accompanied by a new digital edition of Propaganda, the band’s 40-year-old fanzine.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That’s a potential 73,000 people a match paying for tickets, travel, merchandise, programmes, fanzines, food, drinks and more.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The Athletic hiring a literal Man United fanzine editor, who is close with the Glazers, just to get access.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • Numerous fanzines and conventions have allowed fans to celebrate every element of the cultural institution.
    — Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 18 July 2025
  • The fanzine features the illustrated storyline that inspired the collection, and invites fans to delve deeper into Daisy Duck’s adventures.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Cross also founded and for many years edited the Bruce Springsteen magazine Backstreets, possibly the best regarded of all the fanzines devoted to a single artist.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
  • His entrepreneurial journey started producing a computer fanzine on his high school’s photocopier in Exeter, England at the age of thirteen.
    — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021

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