English

Noun

personalzine ‎(plural personalzines)

1. (fandom slang) A fanzine produced by a single person, often covering that person's own interests and activities.
   • 1986 November, White, Ted, “The Purple Fields of Fanac”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 21:

     Vegas put out VAGUE, a fanzine that had started out as a personalzine -- ****, a letter-substitute, one or two sheets. But he put it out so frequently, sometimes three or four a month, that it had generated its own momentum. Soon he was printing letters, and it was a dozen pages. Some of the letters were thinly disguised articles -- fans quickly learned the kinds of letters Don liked to print -- and from there it was an easy step to the monthly genzine of 20 pages which VAGUE became: an inevitable evolution.

   • 1992 October, Lindsay, Eric, Gegenschein, number 65:

     Gegenschein is a personalzine, so I don't accept reader's contributions ... however, when an Elder Ghod of fandom unexpectedly sends me an article, I can easily be persuaded to make an exception.

Synonyms

• perzine

Coordinate terms

• blog

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007) Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8, page 145