Factsheet Five Archive Project

Exploring the history of zines, comics, anarchism, sci-fi, the occult, & other weirdness via the pages, letters, ftps, & BBSes of Factsheet Five. Also on IG.

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@joliebraun @OhioStateRBML Whoa, his story is kinda wild. Up there with church of subgenious

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If anyone knows M, reach out to @huahasu. #zines #factsheetfive #secretasianman #zinehistory

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In a recent interview with the NYT, Hua Hsu was asked about his favorite book no one else has heard of. His response? A zine called Secret Asian Man published by someone named "M." Here's a review of said zine from Issue 62 of F5 from October 1997.

https://t.co/d5HIfT0NfY

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Having a blast this week hanging out at the @PSULibArchives looking at #queerarchives. Two of the pubs pulled included #MyComrade + #HotheadPaisan. I tracked down their inaugural reviews in #FactsheetFive (zines new to F5 were marked w/ a box). #zines #queercomics

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@jbushnell Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen. Flaming hooks!

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@TraceyWestBooks We do!

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New post up about Issue 45, the infamous and tragic Hudson Luce issue. https://t.co/TI8HfxGizq #factsheet5 #zines #zinehistory #underground #amateurpress #DIYpublishing

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Also included is a suggestion from Aaron #COMETBUS to include more articles and graphics -- a sign of things to come for sure as F5 including turned into a magazine.

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Here are some letters from Issue 19 (Aug 1986), asking Gunderloy questions about F5, including how he finds #zines, decides which publications to exclude (professional mags and porn get a no but hate lit and #erotica is ok)...

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...how he minimizes his financial losses, how distribution breaks down, if anyone famous was included in F5, why there was no black content in the magazine, and more. Gunderloy answers all of these questions.

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On the sidebar of this issue are some wild line drawings. Check it out.

#zines #zinehistory #factsheetfive #factsheet5 #MikeGunderloy #linedrawings

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Another great mail day. I filled a gap in the corpus by purchasing Issue 19 from August 1986, which is *not* in the MG Archive in Albany. This issue is important for a few reasons.

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F5 would stay at that address for 5 more years, practically doubling in size each year before transferring to Hudson Luce in late 1991.

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@syndprod Not exactly what you’re after but I love my Fosi. BT + RCA/speaker hook ups out the back. https://t.co/hTKDjZlT3T

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Oops. Photo is from 1990, not 91.

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Solid mail day. Press photo of MG back in 1991 & an author copy of Behind the #Zines, which has a little something in it about this project.