Tanglewebb Press

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Zine Publisher
Name: Tanglewebb Press
Contact: zines were agented by Nut Hatch Press
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Fandoms: Professionals and other
Status: defunct
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Tanglewebb Press was an Australian-based fanzine publisher that published mainly Professionals slash fanzines in the 1990s. Their zines were agented through Nut Hatch Press, another Australian fanzine publisher.

Challenges

In 1992, Jane of Australia commented on some Tanglewood problems:

The process of atrophy has struck our Aus sister press, Tanglewebb. They are closing, and I wish I could blame it on the global depression, but sadly it's not thai simple. A friend in the US was good enough to let Tanglewebb know that they were being ripped off, their zines were being pirated and sold as facsimile editions in America. Bad enough, but here is the cruncher: the pirate is in Australia, those facsimiles are being shipped o/seas from here and probably bought in all good faith. This kind of news sends shock waves around any press. Tbe same thing happened to the publishers of the Ennarare media lines last year. Same thing happened to Entropy Express in the mists of time, when JJ was at the helm. This sickness kills small presses, and make large ones ill. Nut Hatch is probably being pirated, but thanks to the fact we have such an excellent distributor, and we've been going so long that we have an enormous list of zines available, we can survive. Tanglewebb can't. We grieve to see a press die due to piracy, and there's a cold shudder running through us all. If our sales implode and fall to about 60 or some ridiculous figure, we know what's the cause of it. But what to do about it? That, as Hamlet said, is the question.

The press took a planned break that was meant to be a year. In Taemon's Cuckoos [1], the presses' last zine, the editors wrote:

In the dim, dark ages of 1992, the collected Tanglewebb announced that we were to take some time off in order to recharge our batteries, work on unfinished projects and generally goof around. We wished for one year, to do just that. Sigh.... you would have thought we would have known better, wouldn't you?

In 1993, the press had this announcement:

Dear Readers and Friends, Tanglewebb wishes to announce that as of December 1993, Tanglewebb Press will be closed. But for now some good news. A small nucleus from Tanglewebb has decided to form a new Press. This Press will be called "The Inkslinger's Society", and their first zine will be entitled "Queen's Fate" by Tess Rae.[2]

Zines

In 1991, a "Bodie/Doyle Fantasy Calendar" was proposed but never published.

Flyers

References

  1. ^ It was this break, as well as many production problems and delays that caused the "Taemon's Cuckoos" to have a copyright date of 1991 and a release date of 1993.
  2. ^ On the Double #28
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