Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2018: Week 20

From issue #5/6, an ad for the zine series (address redacted)

The Witch and the Chameleon was a science fiction fanzine published by Amanda Bankier.

It is generally recognized as the first explicitly feminist fanzine and was planned to be four-six issues a year. There were five issues, the last one a double issue, published between August 1974 and Summer 1976.

While putting together the zine, Bankier placed an advert in the Worldcon Progress Report. One of the first respondents was American sci-fi author Vonda N. McIntyre, who became one of the zine's regular and influential contributors, helping to set the tone for the zine.

Because of her role in publishing this zine, Amanda Bankier was invited to be Fan Guest of Honor at WisCon in 1977.