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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Medium: print
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Genre: slash
Fandom: multimedia
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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

The Friskys in Publishing Date Order

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.")