Fantasia (multimedia zine)
For other things with this title, see Fantasia.
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Fantasia |
| Publisher: | Teleport Press |
| Editor(s): | Melissa Brown and Karen M. D'Elia |
| Date(s): | 1988-1989 |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | print, zine |
| Size: | |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Blake's 7 (mostly) & multimedia |
| Language: | English |
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Fantasia is a gen multifandom (almost all Blake's 7) anthology.
General Reactions and Reviews
This is technically a multimedia zine, but in fact it's almost entirely B7. I've had #s 1 and 3 for a while and finally found #2- - I was vastly amused by its subtitle (which actually refers, as explained in the editorial, to the escape of a mouse in the editor's household during a zine meeting).If this zine comes your way cheaply, it's worth having a look at, but I don't recommend going to any great trouble or expense to get it.
I have a question about what seems to be a crossover story in #3. Blake and Cally meet a pair of Americans named Ralph and Maxwell, who give Cally "The Suit," which confers superpowers on its wearer. What does this refer to? Greatest American Hero, maybe? (a show I never saw-- that's just a guess.) [1]
Issue 1
Fantasia 1 was published in January 1988 and contains 88 pages. It has a front cover by Julie Montgomery. The other art is by Tom and Bill Carroll.
The zine is online here.
From the editorial:
We were told that the original title of this fanzine was in fact the title of another zine. Gail Walsh, Julie Montgomery and the two of us were in the car when the song on the radio was Fantasy Life by Aldo ova and suggestions were put forward like "Life is just a Fantasy", and "Can You Live this Fantasy Life." After some haggling, fighting, laughing, etc. we came up with "Fantasia", the film.
[snipped]
While working on this together, we found out many interesting things about each other. First off one of us is a fumble fingers at the keyboard. It took us four hours to edit and proofread a story that was typed in. Boy, what a night that was! Another frustration that came with typing in another story was getting to the fifteenth page and then having the disk decide there was no more room. And so in the computer's infinite wisdom, it dumped all fifteen pages. We had to start all over on a different disk which we did not have at the time.
Well, now to our thanks. We will first thank the great god of computer disks that he didn't dump anymore of our stories. A special thanks to Julie "Keld" Montgomery for putting up with all the flack we gave her and bugging for artwork for the front cover. Thanks to Gail Walsh for helping us proofread and being part of Teleport Productions. Thank you Sue Lob for listening to us argue when you really didn't know what on earth we were talking about. Thanks to everyone who contributed stories and to Tom Carroll for the last minute artwork we asked of him
Also, thanks to everyone who gave us support in putting together our first fanzine.
- Nonsense from the Editors (3)
- Rebirth by Deborah A. Millitello (Blake's 7) (4)
- Regret, poem by Deborah A. Millitello (Blake's 7) (21)
- Silent Cries by Cassandra Hayes (Blake's 7) (22)
- A Dirty Mind by Julie Montgomery and Melissa Brown (Blake's 7) (26)
- A New Beginning by Sarah Jane Keating (Blake's 7) (28)
- Blessed Be, poem by Lucy Leung (Blake's 7) (37)
- No Time for Bonzo by Karen M. D'Elia (Doctor Who, fourth Doctor) (38)
- Much, Adieu by by Deborah A. Millitello (Robin of Sherwood) (45)
- Strange Names I Have Heard, non-fiction by Melissa A. Brown (fannish names in the phone book) (56)
- Time in a Bottle by Deborah A. Millitello (Blake's 7) (59)
- Memories by Sarah Jane Keating (Blake's 7) (67)
- Legend by Karel Smolders (Blake's 7) (68)
- Gods Weep, poem by Deborah A. Millitello (Blake's 7) (80)
- The Last Garden by Leslie Surgento (original sf) (81)
- Gauda Prime, filk to the tune of "Desert Moon," by Melissa Brown and Julie Montgomery (Blake's 7) (89)
from issue #1, Tom and Bill Carroll
from issue #1
from issue #1, Tom and Bill Carroll
from issue #1, Tom and Bill Carroll
Issue 2
Fantasia 2 was published in August 1988 and contains 81 pages. Art by Celeste Hotaling, Kevin Handling and Amy Whiteneck.
It has the subtitle: "The One That Got Away" which refers, as explained in an editorial, to the escape of a mouse in the editor's household during a zine meeting.
The zine is online here.
- Nonsense from the Editors, editorial (3)
- All That Glistens, fiction by Amy L. Whiteneck (Blake's 7) Avon is after Servalan’s jewels. Can he pull off the heist?") (Blake's 7) (4)
- Alone by Diane Rabuano ("Vila finds himself alone on the Liberator. Avon gives a back rub.") (Blake's 7) (9)
- Infinity's Line by Irene Stubbs ("Was Orac right about Blake? Avon’s search for truth leads him from Terminal to Gauda Prime.") (Blake's 7) (14)
- Servalan, filk to the tune of "Julia" by The Eurythmics, by Sarah Jane Keating (Blake's 7) (14)
- After the Children Have Gone by Carole Smith ("Avon tries to help grief-stricken Cally after the events of “Children of Auron”.") (Blake's 7) (21)
- See Avon Run by Beth Ryan ("Vila, with Orac’s help, stumbles upon a funny tidbit about Avon’s childhood. (Blake's 7) (25)
- Birds of a Feather, non-fiction by Cassandra Hayes (Robin of Sherwood) (28)
- Gambit, Post and Pre by Irene Stubbs ("As Jerriere tries to explain the fallout of “Gambit” to Servalan, she realizes that Blake and Co weren’t the only visitors from Liberator that night. A surprise guest next door overhears the conversation.") (Blake's 7) (34)
- All's Fair in Love by Deborah Williams ("Avon tries to let go of Cally before Terminal. She’s having none of it.") (Blake's 7) (39)
- Goodbye, Cally by Diane Rabuano ("Avon and the others grieve for Cally on Terminal.") (Blake's 7) (43)
- Thoughts of a Pair of Genetically-Alike Sisters by Daisy (Deek) and Lucy (Mickey) Leung ("Cally and Zelda mind-talk to each other, with a certain dark-haired man a regular subject.") (Blake's 7) (46)
- Stranger Names We Have Heard by Corpse Keld The Little Thief (Blake's 7) (49)
- When Will It End, filk to the tune of "Don't Let It End" by Styx, by Cassandra Hayes (Blake's 7) (50)
- The Once and Future Queen by Karel Smolders ("The last great war of Rebellion vs Federation destroyed both the Federation and the human civilization as we knew it. Aging Avon is stranded on the post-apocalyptic Earth, searching for survivors to try and rebuild a better world.") (Blake's 7) (51)
- Bedtime Story, Deborah Millitello ("On Kezaarn, Vila tells his children [2] a bedtime story where he’s a big damn hero. But what did really happen that day?") (Blake's 7) (60)
- Submission guidelines for #3; ads for Liberator tree ornaments, Outer Worlds (Blake's 7)
from issue #1, Celeste Hotaling
from issue #1, Celeste Hotaling
from issue #1, Kevin Handling
from issue #1, ad for fan-made crystal D.S.V.s
Issue 3
Fantasia 3 has the subtitle: "Oops!" It was published in 1989. The front cover is a Bloom County parody. Art by Celeste Hotaling and Sarah Jane Keating.
- Dee Beetem and Sue Wells, "Believe It Or Not" (Blake's 7/Greatest American Hero)
- Tamara Verbande, "The Engineer" (Blake's 7)
- Daisy and Lucy Leung, "M: The Rambling of Vila" (Blake's 7)
- Deborah Millitello, "The Mirror of His Eyes" (Blake's 7)
- Tamara Verbande, "Interim" (Blake's 7)
- Carol K. Smith, "Payback's a Bitch" (Blake's 7)
- other fandoms: Robin of Sherwood and Doctor Who
References
- ^ from Sarah Thompson at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site
- ^ In this story, Vila is married to Kerril. Their four children are Jenna, Roj, Callie, and Kerr. Kerril is pregnant, and they plan to name the baby either Gan or Dayna.