EFG (Doctor Who zine)
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| Title: | EFG |
| Publisher: | Doctor Who Club of Victoria |
| Editor(s): | Sian O’Neale, Leah Zachariah and David Richardson |
| Date(s): | 1996 |
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| Fandom: | Doctor Who |
| Language: | English |
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EFG was a Doctor Who Australian parody production, one with "...a slightly bitchy zine about DW fandom from Sian O’Neale, Leah Zachariah and David Richardson which was suppressed when Sian felt it had overstepped the mark in regards to some of his BNF friends." [1]
See Elite Fan Group for origins of the title of this zine.
Fan Comments
Anyway, I did manage to get my copy of EFG in the end, and it’s a real shame all the fuss occured because it is one damn funny zine. I note Sydney fan Matthew Rayner mentions EFG in a piece about his favourite fanzines in Temporal Orbit, calling it ‘a slightly bitchy zine about DW fandom from Sian O’Neale, Leah Zachariah and David Richardson which was suppressed when Sian felt it had overstepped the mark in regards to some of his BNF friends.’It is mercilessly cruel on Trekkies and Gallifrey/Black Light (the last ten pages of the zine are a sharply accurate parody called Blackish Light), and with Lee Zachariah at his comic best, it really is a classic.
The editorial by Sian O’Neale was also eerily prophetic when he stated that the ‘humourzine is a risky, relatively rare, and vulgar creature that has the extraordinary ability to divide popular opinion and stir up hate’ and that the ‘zine would have come out a lot sooner had I not spotted some errors and mistakes in our piss-taking and some of the rumours and lies originally contained within had to be corrected. I am not generally in favour of censorship but there is a limit to what a zine can say’. Damn, I want to see the original now!
For the record, EFG was ‘edited by (in no particular order) Lee Zachariah, Sian O’Neale and Tristan Nieto, and… [was]… co-edited by (in a very particular order) David J Richardson, Andrew Deans, Andrew McKinna, and Brendan Seery’.[2]
References
- ^ from Matthew Rayner in Temporal Orbit
- ^ How I Killed a Fanzine, Archived version by David J. Richardson, see that page for much more