Interview with William Hupe
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| Title: | Interview with William Hupe |
| Interviewer: | Susan P. Batho |
| Interviewee: | William Hupe |
| Date(s): | April 29, 2006 |
| Medium: | online as PDF |
| Fandom(s): | many |
| External Links: | effect of commercialisation and direct intervention by the owners of intellectual copyright : a case study : the Australian Star Trek fan community by Susan Batho (2009) |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
William Hupe was interviewed by Susan P. Batho via email in 2006.
The interview was included in an academic paper by Susan P. Batho which addresses the effect of the Viacom Crackdown, TPTB, and Australian fandom.
Part of a Series
- Interview with Susan Batho
- Interview with Geoff Allshorn
- Interview with Julie Gormly
- Interview with Ruth Collerson and Joanne Kerr
- Interview with Shayne C. McCormack
- Interview with Ian McLean
- Interview with Tricia McKinlay
- Interview with Rose Mitchell
- Interview with Regina
- Interview with Jim Rondeau
- Interview with Derek and Sharon Screen
- Interview with Rachel Shave
- Interview with Nikki White
- Interview with Donna Hanson
- Interview with Bob Miller
- Interview with William Hupe
- Interview with Dr. Ann Hupe
- Interview with Fern Clarke and Jodi Williams
Excerpts
I’m not sure how to answer that as I don’t know [if I consider my self an active fan]. I had heard rumours of a meeting between Paramount and fans in Australia, and it had not gone well, which mystified me. I mean, I had seen the promotional tape for Star Trek: The Next Generation where one of the bigwigs at Paramount actually credited the fans and thanked them for keeping Star Trek alive; I published the first fanzine based on that show for another press and it created a lot of positive publicity at WorldCon that year, with, as I was told later, some of the professional writers in attendance pointing out what some of the fans had done already. But, it was hard to ignore the sources, and we had already had a run in with Adrian Paul over Highlander: The Series t-shirts I had been selling (an artist who drew for our fanzines had done a scenery t-shirt that had an original drawing of the Highlander on it, and Adrian Paul wanted US$50,000 from us to license the tshirts… we stopped selling them instead)… and my wife had had enough of the politics and such in fandom here in the States, so I basically dropped out in 1996.
I guess you’d say the first thing I did as an active fan was writing, which is something I’ve always loved to do. So it provided me with an outlet to write, and have other people look at and edit my writing so I could improve it. Another of my loves is traveling, so driving to convention so sell allowed me to pass through Yosemite and other places I’ve always wanted to see whilst en route. Not to mention receiving invites to Australia, Japan, and Germany, that through the wonders of frequent flier miles, I was actually able to do back in the years just after putting my wife through medical school and working 2 1/2 full time jobs at once. We were dead broke, but free flights, and staying with friends I had met through the writing and publishing meant I could go to these places.
Without my involvement in fandom, I would not be where I am today, living in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, working at what I love. It is unfortunate that I am not as involved in fandom as I once was, but it had been time to part ways on that level, and was fortunate enough to be able to use that experience in my work today.