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Blue News
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Blue News |
| Publisher: | Growing Excited Publications |
| Editor(s): | Arcane Annie |
| Type: | Newsletter |
| Date(s): | 1990-1992 |
| Frequency: | Irregular |
| Medium: | |
| Size: | A4 paper, 8 pages |
| Fandom: | Buckaroo Banzai |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | cited here |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Blue News is a Buckaroo Banzai newsletter published in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1990s. At least two issues were published.
Volume 1, Number 1
This issue was published in November 1990. It focused mainly on new films featuring the Buckaroo Banzai cast.
Articles included:
- Robocop 2: it's big, man, big (film featuring Peter Weller)
- Movie Reviews: Robocop 2
- Ghost: a visible success (film featuring Vincent Schiavelli)
- Smith, Wesson, Jamie and Clancy (Blue Steel film featuring Jamie Lee Curtis and Clancy Brown)
- Do-It-Yourself Robovision (designing Robocop's interfaces based on Mac and DOS computers)
- Sense and Sexuality: putting a Sea of Love on screen isn't as easy as it looks (film featuring Ellen Barkin)
The request for contributions on page six read:
Come on folks, send those cards and letters flooding in, especially ones with movie and/or soundtrack reviews enclosed. Also welcome is any BB-related news you hear on the grapevine (hey, ETW was cancelled by Channel 10 and yer editor is destitute!), illos, fillos, pillows and of course your comments, suggestions, ideas and/or abuse re Blue News. Sock it to me: I'll take it like a person!
Volume 2, Number 1
This issue was published in January/February 1992.
Gallery
ad for newsletter in Homosapien Trois
