Jo's Journal

Zine
Title:	Jo's Journal
Publisher:	Jo Anderson Fan Club
Editor(s):	Gloria Handley
Type:	fan club newsletter
Date(s):	October 1993-to at least 1995
Frequency:	quarterly (October, January, April, July)
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Language:	English
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Jo's Journal is a fan club newsletter with a focus on the actress who portrayed Diana Bennett in Beauty and the Beast (TV).

About

From a 1995 ad:

JO ANDERSON FAN CLUB - You are invited to join the Jo Anderson Fan Club, celebrating the career and accomplishments of Miss Jo Anderson. Your $15 ($20 overseas) membership includes an 8 X 10 photo of Miss Anderson, a membership card and a one year subscription to the quarterly newsletter, Jo's Journal. Jo's Journal includes reviews of Miss Anderson's work, both past and present, artwork by well known fan artists, news items, poetry, letters of comment, etc. (submissions accepted). Updates of Miss Anderson's current projects will be sent via postcard as warranted. Jo Anderson Fan Club, c/o Gloria Handley...

Issue 1

Jo's Journal 1 was published in October 1993 and contains 16 pages. The front cover is by Rosemarie Hauer.

cover of issue #1, reprinted in Huntress #2

• photo of Jo Anderson and Rosemarie Hauer
• Jo's biography
• Jo's credits
• screencaps from movies
• news bits
• Showcase (info about shows Jo was in)
• fan's birthday dates
• two letters from fans (expressing appreciation for Jo)
• photos of Jo at the UK convention, Masquerades
• letter from the editor, Gloria Handley

Issue 2

Jo's Journal 2 was published in January 1994 and contains 22 pages. The front cover is by P.S. Nim.

cover of issue #2

• a long correction of information, supplied by Jo Anderson, in the biography and credits in the last issue
• info about the movie: Jack Deed - Badge of Honor
• news tidbits
• three letters from fans (one is a reprint with a correction from the first issue, one is a report of meeting Anderson in October 1992 at the Halloween Convention in Solingen, Germany by the German Beauty and the Beast Fan Club, The Tunnel Commuity )
• one letter from Jo Anderson
• The Coin, poem by Sara Teasdale
• editorial by Gloria Handley

Issue 3

Jo's Journal 3

Issue 4

Jo's Journal 4

Issue 5

Jo's Journal 5

• con report by Rhonda Collins for TunnelCon III

Issue 6

Jo's Journal 6

• Love's Journey, poem by Rhonda Collins

Issue 7

Jo's Journal 7

Issue 8

Jo's Journal 8

• poetry by Jo Anderson

Issue 9

Jo's Journal 9

Issue 10

Jo's Journal 10 was published in January 1996 and contains 27 pages.

front cover of issue #10, Rosemarie Hauer

back cover of issue #10

frontispiece from issue #10, Sign translation provided by Sue Haley of Laura's Cavern

The cover is by Rosemarie Hauer.

This issue has a frontispiece in Sign. This was provided by Sue Haley of Laura's Cavern, a UK based group that offered assistance to hearing-impaired Beauty and the Beast fans at fan run events.

From the editor:

1995 was a great year for me personally - especially with having the opportunity to meet and talk with Jo at our writer's conference in June. I'm still smiling over that one! During our last two monthly Beauty and the Beast gatherings, people were still talking about how the poems written and read by Jo still touched them.

[...]

It is OOPS! TIME!! on a Grand Scale. Your editor is more than a little red-faced at the moment. She neglected to catch a big boo-boo in the last edition of Jo's Journal with regard to a story that Sue Haley wrote and sent for publication. It seems that I left off the last page of Sue's story "It Changed Everything." Therefore, the ENTIRE story will be re-run in this issue. (Blush! I even remember thinking at the time that the story seemed to end rather quickly. Double blush! For some reason I didn't think to turn the page over to check.

• Editorial
• letter of comment by Sue Haley
• a page from a mainstream publication describing Jo Anderson's appearance on a Miami Vice episode, three pages of black and white screenshots
• a review from "Variety," a mainstream publication about Anderson's movie, "Season of Change," six pages of black and white screenshots
• It Changed Everything, fiction by Sue Haley (re-run from the previous issue)
• a list of zines that feature Diana stories
• "how the stars cope with Problem Hair!" - clipping from "Celebrity Hair," October 1995
• a list of fan birthday
• a photo of a toddler