Once Upon a Time... Is Now/Issues 045-046
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Once Upon a Time... Is Now (Out-In, Out/In, Out...In) |
| Publisher: | |
| 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 45
1993
Issue 45: Excerpts from the Letters
I fell in love with Beauty and the Beast after seeing only two episodes - "Though Lovers Be Lost" and "Walk Slowly". Somehow it really affected me and I knew I somehow HAD to get hold of all the previous episodes I had missed - which is not so easy, living in Africa.
After looking through every overseas magazine I could find, I found the address for "Pipeline" in "Starlog". After writing to them, they kindly sent me a copy of "Pipeline". I then wrote to Nan Dibble who knew someone with a B&B friend in South Africa. I wrote to this lady (the only other B&B fan I know of in South Africa, living some distance away from me) and she taped all the previous episodes from her copies for me, much to my great joy.
To me it feels like "Beauty and the Beast" is starting all over again. The thrill and love will never leave me. I wonder if Republic will ever really understand the love we have for this show. I have written to them, but if they did understand that WE WANT TO SPEND OUR MONEY, they would give us a lot more in new products than they are, and much more often.
Issue 46
Once Upon a Time... Is Now 46 was published in April/May 1993 and contains 32 pages.
It includes some photos of Ron Perlman and Roy Dotrice, the latter with chopsticks sticking out of his nose.
This issue contains a clipping of a review by David Sheward of the play (starring Roy Dotrice), "The Best of Friends."
This issue has a short column about Jay Avocone called "Jay Walking."
This issue contains a segment of an untitled round robin story.
Issue 46: Excerpts from the Letters
To give you one example which just leaves me speechless is my anti-drug program which I do with my fifth grade students.....After reading about all kinds of drugs, watching many videos, and having speakers come to my class and talking to my students, I could see that the students still were not grasping the effects of drugs on their lives. So I decided to show an episode of "Beauty and the Beast" to my class I use "In the Forest of the Night" to show just how cruel drug dealers can be and how they do not care about the people they sell the drugs to and all they care about is the money they make... After my students watched this episode, they wrote letters to the actors in B&B and we put them together into books and I gave the books to the stars at the conventions. The response really astounded my students...I want you to know that Roy Dotrice even took time to send my class and I a Christmas card from Jamaica. Now do not tell me there is no Santa Claus. This is truly a caring man, and I will support these stars in all they do!
Barbara Gipson is FANTASTIC, and I am thrilled to now own post card prints of pictures I had never seen before. WOW!!! Some pictures I have from zines but when I saw the catalog you sent, I could not hold back and ordered the photos of the prints. All I can do is recommend these wonderful pieces to everyone.
And to Barbara Gipson - you left me speechless with you most generous gifts. I think I must have looked over your prints about 10 times already. Your art is a great boost to fandom. You give us old scenes to remember, and new scenes that SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED and never did. Some of the pictures are explosive!