Celluloid Diversions

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Title:	Celluloid Diversions
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Editor(s):	Randall S. Stukey (chief); Pat Munson-Siter, Dave Merrill
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Date(s):	1980s?
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Fandom:	Animanga
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Language:	English
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Celluloid Diversions was a fanzine published by the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization. It published "articles, artwork, short fan fiction, and/or translations". It featured contributions by Tim Eldred, Marg Baskin, Pat Munson-Siter and others.

Celluloid Diversions was heavily opposed to video piracy and often featured lengthy editorials against the practice.

In November 1988, the New C/FO Bulletin was absorbed into Celluloid Diversions.

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The April 1988 edition of Celluloid Diversions was the first available to all members of the C/FO rather than just the San Antonio chapter.

Up until now this fanzine has only been available to C/FO-San Antonio members (but even with that restriction, we currently have about 90 subscribers), but the general C/FO has jointed with C/FO-San Antonio in a joint effort to make this publication available to every member of the C/FO who wants it (and can afford it - admittedly, a subscription is not cheap - more on this later).

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We publish fan articles, translations, synopses, humor, news, reviews, fan art, fan fiction and just about anything else relating to anime, manga, and other odd things that C/FO members like. About the only thing we do not cover at all are the X-rated videos (Cream Lemons and so forth).

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According to reader polls, the favorite feature of many readers is our "insert booklets" on specific series which we run as often as we have the material. An insert booklet is a larger than normal article published in reduced format so that more pages of material can be included in this publication for the same price. This issue we have an insert booklet on the series ZILLION, written by one of our contributing editors, Marg Baskin. Please remember that these are not included in every issue.

Randall S. Stukey, Celluloid Diversions Vol IV Number 4 April 1988

Celluloid Diversions addressed "C/FO politics" on a regular basis, naming the USA Yatsura apa in particular as "a number of people who simply loathe the new C/FO":

Actually, we are only acting against the for-profit dubber members of this group (and those C/FO members who are members of this group in violation of their signed membership statement) and the group itself is simply caught in the crossfire. This has been going on for months -- if I (or the C/FO) had been "at war" with this group - the entire thing would have been over with within a month or two.

Why is all the C/FO bashing going on? There are probably three major reasons. First, the majority of leadership of the C/FO is over 25 and fairly conservative - this is very unusual in fandom (most of fandom is either young or liberal, or both), and many simply find this impossible to believe; let alone accept. Second, simple jealousy. Many of the groups involved in C/FO bashing are small and are jealous of our large monthly newsletter and much larger membership. Third, last year's C/FO reorganization, while it pleased most of the membership, strongly alienated a small group of vocal people who want the C/FO to return to its old do-nothing, chapter-centered ways.

Stukey in Celluloid Diversions Vol V Number 4 April 1989

In June 1989, the zine stated that Volume V Number 9 would be the last issue. Along with a summary of Mobile Suit Gundam, the end of a serially published Lensman fanfic, and a debate in the letter column about the EDC's policy on showings of Cream Lemon (aka the Cream Lemon Dispute), the issue included an article titled "The Death of the C/FO".

This issue of Celluloid Diversions is probably the last you will see for some time.... the C/FO as you know it will soon be no more. Almost all of the active people and groups are leaving, having put up with more grief than they can take. In all probablity, the C/FO will quickly return to the "do nothing, publish little" condition that the C/FO was in before the current leadership took over in 1987. For that we all apologize, but three years of doing all the work and putting up with all the nonsense have taken their toll, we have done all we can and put up with all we can stand.

Stukey in Celluloid Diversions Vol V Number 9, June 1989