Trelaina
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | Trelaina, also Sasha/Sasha APA and Starsha/Starsha APA |
| Publisher: | Trelaina Amateur Press Society (T.A.P.S.) |
| Editor(s): | Frederick Kopetz, Brian Cirulnick |
| Type: | apazine |
| Date(s): | January 1983- |
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| Fandom: | anime |
| External Links: | book by Fred Patton |
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Trelaina is the first anime apazine started in order to discuss Star Blazers and general anime topics. At some point, the zine changed officers and was re-titled Sasha.
Some early zines mistakenly referred to Trelaina as "Trelania", most likely due to typos as both the zine and the press society were named for the Space Battleship Yamato character Trelaina.
Origins
Trelaina was originally titled Starsha, and published by the Starsha Amateur Press Association. In November 1982, The Star Blazers Fandom Report noted that founding editor Frederick Kopetz had handed the APA's leadership over to Brian Cirulnick, and the name of the APA and zine had been changed.
Issue 9 of The Star Blazers Fandom Report mentions the upcoming second issue of Trelaina, and its affiliation with Star Blazers Fan Club:
The Star Blazers Fan Club now has made the Trelaina Ametuer Press Society the official amatuer press society of the club, or the official "apa". For those of you who do not know what an amatuer press society or association is, it's a sort of big fanzine that is a collection of smaller fanzines inside. For the Trelaina A.P.S. people who are contributers have to make 25 copies of each fanzine, or copy count. But if you would like to see what an "apa" is your best bet is to get your hands on a copy. ...The first Trelania was about 30 pages.The Star Blazers Fandom Report, Issue 9 (March/Feb 1983)
Mike wanted meto take over an APA-zine (Amateur Press Association) from Fred Kopetz, which was essentially a pre-internet “chat room” on paper. Every contributor submitted 30 copies of their own fanzine, I collated it, and everyone got a copy of the completed publication. That became Trelaina which somehow (to this day I still don’t know how) took on a life of its own and became huge. Through that we met Tom Brevoort (now a VP at Marvel), Mike Kanterovich, Frank Strom and a bevy of other talented and creative individuals.Brian Cirulnick interviewed June 27, 2013 by Tim Eldred for Cosmo DNA
Eventually, editorship passed from Cirulnick to Phil Lipari, who continued the APA as Sasha.