Frisky Business (the series of zines published by Almost Foolproof Press)

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Title:	Frisky Business
Publisher:	Almost Foolproof Press
Editor(s):	Ann Teitelbaum and Dar F
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Frisky Business is a series of slash zines published by Almost Foolproof Press.

There were 34 titles; some of the titles had multiple volumes. Some issues had a single-fandom focus, and some were multifandom.

It was a rare zine that computed its specific fandom content by percentages.

a 1997 flyer for an issue, is an example of content rated by percentages

The Title of the Series

It is very likely that the title of this series is a play on word of the 1983 Tom Cruise film, Risky Business.

The Friskys in Alpha Order

• Beach Blanket Frisky (1995)
• Bride of Frisky Business (November 1989)
• Bring Me the Head of Frisky Business (1991)
• The Day the Friskys Stood Still (1991)
• Due Frisky (1996-97)
• Endless Frisky Nights (1993)
• Extra Touchy Frisky (1997-2000)
• Frisky Business (1986-87)
• Frisky: Above and Beyond (1996)
• Frisky Business Strikes Back! (1991)
• Frisky Mountain High (1996)
• A Frisky Out of Water (October 1995)
• Frisky the Thirteenth (1992)
• A Frisky to Remember (1996)
• Gettin' Frisky With Simon/Simon (1987)
• Hot August Friskys (1992)
• Just Another Frisky (1997)
• Just the Friskys, Ma'am (May 1992)
• Kung Frisky: The Legend Continues (1996)
• Leapin' Friskys (May 1992-95)
• May the Frisky Be With You (May 1994)
• My Frisky Valentine (1993)
• Nightmare on Frisky Street (1993)
• Once, Twice, Three Times a Frisky (1999)
• One Handed Frisky (1998)
• Organized Frisky Bureau (1994-96)
• A Pocketful of Friskys (1994)
• Revenge of Frisky Business (1990)
• Son of Frisky Business (1989)
• The Summer I Turned Frisky (1999)
• Take Two Friskys And Call Me in the Morning (1999)
• The Wrath of Frisky Business (1992)
• XXX FILES: The Frisky Project (1994)
• You Don't Bring Me Friskys (1996)

The Friskys in Publishing Date Order

• Frisky Business
• Gettin' Frisky With Simon/Simon (January 1987)

• Son of Frisky Business (February 1989)
• Bride of Frisky Business (November 1989)
• Revenge of Frisky Business (1990)
• Bring Me the Head of Frisky Business (September 1991)
• The Day the Friskys Stood Still (September 1991)
• Frisky Business Strikes Back! (May 1991)
• Just the Friskys, Ma'am (May 1992)
• The Wrath of Frisky Business (May 1992)
• Hot August Friskys (September? 1992)
• Frisky the Thirteenth (October 1992)
• Leapin' Friskys (May 1992-95)

• Endless Frisky Nights (1993)
• My Frisky Valentine (February 1993)
• Nightmare on Frisky Street (1993)
• May the Frisky Be With You (May 1994)
• Organized Frisky Bureau (1994-96)
• A Pocketful of Friskys (May 1994)
• XXX FILES: The Frisky Project (October 1994)
• Beach Blanket Frisky (May 1995)
• A Frisky Out of Water (October 1995)
• Due Frisky (1996-97)
• Frisky: Above and Beyond (May 1996)
• Frisky Mountain High (May 1996)
• A Frisky to Remember (1996)
• Kung Frisky: The Legend Continues (May 1996)
• You Don't Bring Me Friskys (November 1996)
• Extra Touchy Frisky (1997-2000)
• Just Another Frisky (1997)
• One Handed Frisky (1998)
• Once, Twice, Three Times a Frisky (May 1999)

• The Summer I Turned Frisky (1999)
• Take Two Friskys And Call Me in the Morning (May 1999)

Proposed Friskys: Some Friskys That Weren't Frisky Enough

For a related topic, see Proposed Zines.

According to Media Monitor and various flyers, these are some Friskys that were proposed and never made it to fruition.

• Bring in the Friskys! (comedy-theme: Perfect Strangers Blazing Saddles, Young Frankestien, Car 54, Gilligan's Island)
• FR: The Frisky Room (an all-ER edition)
• Frisky Island (People visiting a Fantasy Island-type of resort where anything goes)
• Get the Friskys in a Circle (Western-theme: Bonanza, High Chaparral, Young Guns, Maverick, Iron Horse, Dances With Wolves)
• It Was a Dark and Frisky Night (Mysteries, brooding country manors, things that go bump in the night)
• Kinky Frisky ("other than 'vanilla' sex seems for this one, including S/M/, B/D, voyeurism and the like")
• Make 'Em Frisky (Stories based on sitcom characters)
• Night of the Living Friskys (a Halloween issue)
• One Night Frisky (Passionate one-night stands of couples who don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of staying together.)
• Open Wide and Say "Frisky"! (doctor-theme: Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, The Interns, Emergency)
• Pip, Pip and All That Sort of Frisky! (British-theme: Pros, Dempsey & Makepeace, Doctor in the House, Blake's 7)
• Plan Frisky from Outer Space (Aliens, original Trek, Lost in Space, Buckaroo Banzai, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Blob)
• Still Frisky After All These Years ("Take your favorite couple, and check in on them in after 10-20 years; are they still together? Got a promotion? Finally divorced the wife?" "Open to all fandoms except Due South, Sentinel and Wiseguy. We have separate zines for these.")
• We'll Always Have Frisky ("No particular theme, just the same love (and sex!) you've always found in Friskys.")