The Wizard's Knob

Zine
Title:	The Wizard's Knob
Publisher:	The Guild of Fans and Disciples
Editor(s):	see below
Date(s):	1993-February 2000
Series?:
Medium:	print
Size:	A5
Genre:
Fandom:	Discworld
Language:	English
External Links:	http://www.geocities.com:80/Area51/1777/twk.html via Wayback Oct 14/00 group shot of issues #1-#14, (issue #4 excluded)
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The Wizard's Knob, or TWK was a nonprofit gen Discworld fanzine published by The Guild of Fans and Disciples. The zine ran for fourteen issues.

The zine has the subtitle: "The Terry Pratchett Magazine." and the cover name was shortened to "TWK" on issue #8. The name of the zine comes from the song, "A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End."

All issues were A5 except the fourth issue, which was A4. Issues 1 -2 were edited by John Penney and David Baxter, issues 3-5 were edited by John Penney, and issues 6-14 were edited by Steven Dean.

With Terry's growing mass of fans, it was inevitable that "The Wizard's Knob" was born - a fanzine stuffed full of fans' Discworld ramblings. As Terry's popularity grew, TWK established itself as a much needed source of all things Discworld, allowing fans to fill those empty months between book releases. An ongoing story ran in TWK about life on the "Flipside" of the Discworld - chapters submitted by readers and the best one printed.

Some content in unknown issues:

• Nanny Ogg's songs as filks
• a round robin called "Flipside," features the city of Venialli, famed for its open sewers canals.

Issue 1

Wizard's Knob 1 was published in Summer 1993.

Issue 2

Wizard's Knob 2 was published in Autumn 1993.

Issue 3

Wizard's Knob 3 was published in Autum/Winter 1994 (sic, though this may be intentional seeing how "Home, Sweat Home" is spelled.). It contains 44 pages.

It starts with a series of short tit bits of interest from the various plays and events that are going around, to "The Terry Pratchett Gossip Column". The content then gets a bit more in depth with reviews of the album, the tapes and several of the books as well as reviewing other fanzines of all sorts from music to Monty Python. A fair chunk of The Wizard's Knob is given over to the longer 'feature' articles which are all very good and include a "Careers Guide for the Undead", "From Page to Stage" - how a Discworld novel is adapted to the world of theatre, and possibly one of the funniest articles I have read in a long time, "Dragon Breeding". As well as all these people contributing to The Wizard's Knob there is even an article by our very own Leo Breebaart about the internet and afp.

Chris Ward

Issue 4

Wizard's Knob 4 was published in Summer 1995.

Issue 5

Issue 5 front cover

Wizard's Knob 5 was published in Spring 1996.

Issue 6

Wizard's Knob 6 was published in Summer 1996.

Issue 7

Wizard's Knob 7 was published in Winter 1996/97 and contains 39 pages.

• Includes a separate supplement: "Annotated Pratchett - 'The Light Fantastic' "

Issue 8

Wizard's Knob 8 was published in Summer 1997.

Issue 9

Wizard's Knob 9 was published in Autumn/Winter 1997.

Issue 10

Wizard's Knob 10 was published in Spring/Summer 1998.

Issue 11

Wizard's Knob 11 was published in Autumn 1998.

Issue 12

Wizard's Knob 12 was published in Spring 1999.

Issue 13

Wizard's Knob 13 was published in Summer 1999 and contains 39 pages.

• Includes a separate supplement: "Annotated Pratchett - 'Guards! Guards!' "

Issue 14

Wizard's Knob 14 was published in Early 2000.

• It included an interview with Dave Hodges the inspiration for the character hodgesaargh.

Gallery

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  group shot of issues #1-#14, (issue #4 excluded)

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  cover of issue #3

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  cover of issue #7

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  TOC of issue #7

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  cover of issue #12

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  TOC of issue #12