Carolyn Cooper
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| Name: | Carolyn Cooper |
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| Type: | fanzine publisher, fic writer, fan artist |
| Fandoms: | Star Wars, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Star Trek: TOS |
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Carolyn Cooper is a long time fanzine editor, publisher, writer and illustrator.
Her letterzine Blue Pencil contained what we now call meta essays, some of which have been highlighted here on Fanlore.
She also published The Klingon Joke Book and The Imperial Joke Book as well as the long running Star Wars fanzine series From a Certain Point of View.
In the days before the Internet, she published short daily newsletters at the 1986 Mediawest for convention attendees that were slipped under their hotel room doors.
Cooper also campaigned to get the fandom adzine Universal Translator on the Hugo ballot, though it did not win.
In 2020, she contributed an essay about fanzine history to Geek Elders Speak, a small press publication anthology about female creativity in mid-20th century fandom. [1]
Meta Essays
- Ancillary Merchandising: The Selling of Other Products to Defray Costs
- How to Look Like a Speckled Trout, or, How to Become Your Own Printer Without Owning a Press -- And Is it Worth It?
- The Invasion of Consumer Fans or Have Fans Become Jaded?
- Marysue Dixon Predicts
- A Question for the Audience
- Somehow, somewhere, some way, a hefty contingent of fans became "consumers."
- Walking the Tightrope: Experiments and Risk Taking in Zine Design
- What Happened to the Cheap Zine?
- What Is Profit and Is It Evil?
Panel Member
Fanzine Contributions
Multifandom
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
- Bloody Marvelous!
- Chinese Take-Away
- Purification
- Sound of the Flute
- The Persian Flaw
- The Third Eye
- Unification
Miami Vice
Star Trek
Star Wars
- From a Certain Point of View
- The Imperial Joke Book
- On a Clear Day You Can See Dagobah
- Revenge of the Garbage