Qu'est-ce que c'est fanzines?
(white lies, alibis)

• self published mini-magazines (the term is often truncated to zines). Sci-fi fans began writing fanzines to oppose the "prozines" which paid for copy.
• no longer just "about" traditional fandoms, (see Girls Can Do Anything)
• shocking; they ignore the traditional rules of publication which govern spatial layout, graphics, focused topics, etc.
• homemade (indie) aesthetic rather than glossy [Blurred boundaries between graphics and texts as well as heteroglossic voices most often signal this indie aesthetic.] Fanzines rely on computers and copy machines for publication.
• multiply layered texts and graphics (multi-genred), not to mention slang language and expletives which shock the traditions of verbal and visual good taste. Such "everyday language" (slang, colloquial phrasing, etc.) challenges the basic rules of "good writing."
• the print equivalent of cable access TV (New York Times)
• written by people unsatisfied with the way texts hail them; fanzines often rewrite these texts from alternative subject positions.