In a total surprise, the United Fanzine Organization released its 2025 UFO Awards winners last night. Phoenix Productions won two awards – Best Publisher and Best Single Zine/Comic Book for Strange Times #5. This awards program honors UFO member publications one year in arrears; the 2025 awards are for books, comics and zines published inContinue reading “Phoenix wins two 2025 UFO Awards”
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Looking back, Looking forward (2025 edition)
Happy New Year! May 2025 be awesome for each and every one of you who choose to read this. (And everyone who doesn’t.) For those who’ve come in late, I wrote a piece back around New Year’s last year. In a way, it served as a North Star for my efforts in 2024. In another,Continue reading “Looking back, Looking forward (2025 edition)”
Strange Times 6 – Keith Newsome: Renaissance Man is LIVE!
At long last, Strange Times 6 is ready for your perusal! When I say ready, I mean READY! You can order it right now: I’m very excited about sharing this zine with the world (and I think Keith is, too!). Together, Keith and I pored through photos and images, matching them up with stories andContinue reading “Strange Times 6 – Keith Newsome: Renaissance Man is LIVE!”
Great Strange Times 6 review…and I don’t even have my copies yet!
Such is the way of Amazon…Strange Times 6 is finished, it’s approved for sale…and I’m waiting on the creator copies to arrive! (I’d make a “slow boat to China” joke, but Amazon prints their books domestically.) Anyway, someone beat the rush and ordered a copy on their own. Guess they liked it…5 stars! Not sureContinue reading “Great Strange Times 6 review…and I don’t even have my copies yet!”
An update … and a kind word
I know… I’ve been derelict with maintaining the site. I worked a little on it over the weekend, pairing the FANzine Live Phoenix Spotlight videos with their accompanying entries in the Library tab. So that’s done. And I’m woefully behind on weekly recaps. Those aren’t the most difficult to assemble, but they take time…and I’mContinue reading “An update … and a kind word”
FANzine Live: Week of August 17-23
Normalcy (h/t to President Harding) is coming back! School is in session, fall routines are starting to shake out. The chaos of summer is almost entirely past. We can breathe once again! So why not check out the latest FANzine Live video recaps? The Phoenix Spotlight kicks things off with a passion project of mine,Continue reading “FANzine Live: Week of August 17-23”
FANzine Live: Week of July 13-19
Four more ’til I’m caught up. Whaddya say we do just one recap per day and be up to date by Thursday? Check out the FANzine Live action during the Week of July 13-19. You folks got to watch cool zine videos while I was baking in an un-air conditioned school in Vienna in 90-plusContinue reading “FANzine Live: Week of July 13-19”
2024: The Halfway Point
New Year’s is a time of self-renewal. We make resolutions, mostly to improve ourselves in an effort to be happier, more confident and more satisfied with one’s life. I know, 99% of the resolutions are of the lose weight/exercise variety, and 99% of THOSE don’t pan out. But I’d like to try for a more modest, perhaps moreContinue reading “2024: The Halfway Point”
STRANGE TIMES 5 is LIVE! (But when is launch day?)
We live in Strange Times, indeed. For Strange Times 5 has been approved by Amazon. And the zine is “live”. But when is the exact launch day? I have no idea. Here’s why. So when does the zine launch? I have no idea. I guess it already has….?
Strange Times 5 — SOOOO close!
The mad dash of the self-publishers is ON! Like others locally, I’m moving heaven and earth to get ready for SPACE 2024. Prepping for a show can be as all-encompassing as one wants to make it, and my crazy summer plans suggest that this may be the only such event in which Phoenix will haveContinue reading “Strange Times 5 — SOOOO close!”
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