Welcome to Florida Fandom on Line....Florida Fandom has been around since 1976 as a Fanzine. We have stayed with the time as well as we could. When we started we would type up the articles on an electric typewriter and then cut and paste together the zine. We would then take it to a printer and have it printed offset. We latter moved to using a computer to type it up on, but we still had to cut and paste. We changed from offset to the cheaper photocopy, after photocopy got as good if not better than offset. Computers and their programs got better and we were able to put the complete zine together on the computer and then have copies made. Now we have the next step...publishing to the web, instead of having it printed in a hard copy. There are many advantages to the web. One you don't have to wait for new a new issue to add new material, it becomes an on going zine. It is updated section by section. New items can be added and old can be removed without redoing the entire zine.
Reviews of Comics. Ramblings of an old comics fan. And other relating things - like Superheroes in the movies.
Reviews of books, movies, and TV Shows.  This will be the home of Ruth's Reviews and The Snodgrass Report.
Information on Cons, Clubs, Fanzines, On Line, and Fan Profiles.
And its a step to the Right....Time to do the time warp again. Felt this movie should have a place of it's own.
Here are reporductions of the print issues of Florida Fandom.
Not really part of Florida Fandom, but it does tell about the two visits we did to Ruth Mom in New Mexico.  One from Florida by Greyhound bus and the other from Tennessee by car.  Has pictures.
This is the very first issue of FF. It was called number zero. It contained a lot of the things that would latter evolve into regular features in FF. We sent copies out to others,to get feed back on it. Our original plans was for the zine to be made up of articles and art by Florida Fans, but we started getting materials from everywhere...
The above picture is by Steven Fox and appeared in the print version of Florida Fandom #11 August 1985. Steven started sending artwork to Florida Fandom in the very early days and Ruth and I had the Great pleasure of meeting him in the early 80's at a Philcon. We were able to see some of his full size work in the artshow. If anyone knows Steven let him know we would love to hear form him again.
We are hoping by being on line we will once again meet some of the people we knew because of Florida Fandom. And we have heard from several since we have been on line - John Ellis, Ken Mitchrony,Jeff Gaither, Jeff Cooke, and finding out about a wonderful list on Yahoo (check out update for more about this) have been able to get in contact with more. We have found a lot of old friends since we have been on the web, but we would like to hear from more. If you drop in here.. send us an email and it will appear on our LOC page.
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