Once Upon a Time... Is Now/Issues 043-044
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| Title: | Once Upon a Time... Is Now (Out-In, Out/In, Out...In) |
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| Editor(s): | Jeanne Cloud and Joyce DeBoard (issues #1-#27), Jeanne Cloud, Loreen Vanderkrats, and Linda Lakin (issues #27-#33 -- tho perhaps as far as #45), Jeanne Cloud and Loreen Vanderkrats (issues #46-#60 -- tho perhaps as early as #34) |
| Type: | letterzine |
| Date(s): | 1988 to 1996 |
| Frequency: | sometimes monthly, sometimes bi-monthly, at the end much more infrequent |
| Medium: | |
| Size: | digest-sized |
| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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Once Upon a Time... Is Now (Out-In, Out/In, Out...In) is a Beauty and the Beast letterzine. It is digest-sized.
See List of Letterzines for similar fanworks.
Contents
The zine is a collection of letters from fans (titled "From the Helpers") of the show discussing aspects of the show including the actors, characters, stories, and fanfiction. This zine also contains photos (both xeroxed and original), some original artwork, con reports, open letters, and sometimes clippings and interviews.
Some regular features were: "OK Good...OK Fine" (the editorial), "From the Library" (zine listings), and "On the Pipes" (fan clubs).
There were 60 issues published between 1988 to 1996.
Issue 43
Issue 43: Excerpts from the Letters
TCII was so much fun — and the banquet's surprise guests of Ron Koslow and Ripp, plus Ritch's marriage proposal to his beloved, will not be topped for excitement until the movie or return to TV announcement is made. Many, many thanks to Betty Neiswender and crew - and also now to Teri Johnson and her volunteers for Great Expectations. I have registered, reserved a room, and am counting the months to July.
Thank you for yet another excellent publication. I see my subscription is due, so please find 24 USA dollars enclosed. This is money well spent. Here at Helper’s Network UK, in England, we (Jacqui Clarke and I) do all we can to help in whatever way we can our "Beauty and the Beast"....
....There are many fans out there, some are gone, but they, like Arnold in T1 & T2 says, "I’ll be back". There are a vast and excellent supply of fanzines coming back for us, and here in England we have another B&B fan club started. Let us not lose sight of the light at the end of our tunnel. We will win, but we will win that much quicker if we all inject ourselves with a bit of our old 'GET UP AND GO’. Come on, get out those pens, dust off the cobwebs, and let’s go into battle, as we remember, that 'the pen is mightier than the sword'....
This year I could finally manage to attend the Halloween convention in Solingen/Germany (Oct. 24-26). It was a ten-hours-ride, but it was worth it. The Tunnel Team always does a wonderful job to organize those meetings. This year's fest was crowned by Jo Anderson's appearance....
....Jo tried to learn as much about her new role as she possibly could, and one day she asked someone of the staff, "You spoke about some development between the characters. Do I have to kiss Vincent?" The answer was, "We don't know yet." And then she wanted to know, "Did Vincent and Catherine ever consummate their love?" (Everybody in the room exploded with laughter when she told us that.) Again, the answer was, "We don't know exactly..."
Oh, what a beautiful smile appeared on her face when she was asked how it had been when she first saw Vincent. She said that she was feeling like a kid somehow.
He was eating lunch together with others she had already met before, and her first reaction was, "May I touch him?" Ron's answer was a surprised, but decided, "No!"
Jo was smiling a lot while she spoke about Vincent/Ron. She said that he was beautiful and that the mask was ingenious. You couldn't tell where it ended and the real face began. And smiling (again) she admitted that she was surprised about feeling so much for him. Of course one of the next questions was how she would have continued the relationship between V&D. (A hard question, and I do admire her for her reply.) She said that it was one of mankind's biggest mistakes to pack love into boxes, putting labels on them like "friendship", "romance", etc. What she would have wished for V&D was something deep, no matter what "box" one might assign to it.
She thought, though, that the love between Vincent and Catherine, as it had been portrayed so far and as she had come to know it step by step, was something unique and incomparable. That's why she would not have chosen the box with the label "romance" on it.
Issue 44
1993
Issue 44: Excerpts from the Letters
I just got the TunnelCon II tape and all the memories and feelings keep rushing back. What a weekend. I had spent the last year trying to see if I had anything worth contributing. When I went to South of Oz it had been as a brand new, dazed, amazed and very overwhelmed fan. The art was amazing and inspiring. For the first time in my life I wanted to draw well enough to be a part of it.
I had been spending every spare minute drawing since... and I could feel myself growing. What a deal; being able to improve my art and feed my zine habit at the same time as a contributing artist. Along the way I also found a great many friends and discovered the humor - zines, friends and phone bills.
Our BATB seemed to end the year on a positive note, with the release of Cinemaker's pro-novel, "Beyond Words, Beyond Silence". I thought this novel was excellent, in that it did more than just flesh out "The Trilogy", but added at least one new plot concept that changed the way I looked at Elliot Burch and his thought processes concerning Catherine and her 'secrets'.