Telos Publishing are putting the final touches to their upcoming The Fanzine Book: The Golden Age of the Doctor Who Underground Press, which should prove a glorious trip down memory lane for many fans of the long-running television show.
The work of author and graphic designer Alistair McGown, a reglar congtributor to the Doctor Who Chronicles, the book covers Doctor Who fandom’s earliest beginnings in the 1960s, through to the “golden age” of the 1970s and 1980s.
Several hundred different fanzine titles are documented, discussed and displayed in this fully-illustrated coffee-table hardback, due for release later this year, from hand-stapled newsletters to full colour, professionally-printed magazines.
The book features a brilliant Afterword from former Who producer Chris Chibnall, and a Foreword from the Fanzine Legend that is Martin Wiggins.
Featuring over one thousand images of fanzines through the years, The Fanzine Book offers an exhaustive history of UK fanzines and fandom from the very beginning through to 1989, and an A-Z listing of every UK fanzine the Telos team could find from the period, too.
Fantastic work, and eagerly anticipated!
• Don’t miss out on a hardback copy of The Fanzine Book – pre-order it here direct from Telos Publishing | 288pp approx. 11 × 8.5 format full colour hardback. ISBN: 978-1845832209 | Published Autumn 2023
- About the Author
- Latest Posts
John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
Categories: Art and Illustration, Books, Doctor Who, downthetubes News, Other Worlds, Science Fiction, Television
Video Review: The Fantastic Art of Ron Turner 
Talking Time Team: Doctor Who Panel to Panel probes book project 
Bath Children’s Literature Festival offers comics fun and Doctor Who night as just part of its lineup 
Andrew Skilleter’s new art book, Illuminart 3, spotlights more of his Doctor Who art