First apazine

[barondave]

Gleaned from comments in a previous entry.

minnehaha B: First Apazine, October 6, 1978.

rvrjoe775: Heh, your fannish birthday is my birth birthday.

My first fanzine, Rommania #1, was collated into RAPS on January 29, 1974. Is that anyone's birthday?

I'd been kicking around comics fandom and the college sf club for a while, but I generally date my entry into SF Fandom when I pubbed my ish.

When is your fannish birthday?

Comments

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a week before my actual birth *date*, February 5, 1974. Close enough for ya? ;-)

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I knew I smelled ditto fluid around you...

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

If you're talking gaming fandom, probably October 1974, when I went to my first gaming group (RPGs and wargames) get together.

If you're talking SF fandom, my first con was the 1977 Midwestcon in Cincinnati (date forgotten).

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

My first con was one called FunCon, held at the Statler-Hilton in Los Angeles over July 4th weekend, 1968 (see user icon, from a photo taken there). That would normally have been Westercon time, but since Westercon had been subsumed into the Worldcon that year, some L.A. fans decided to fill in the empty space. I also attended that Worldcon, the original Baycon. I joined lasfs the following March, and it's been all downhill from there.

(I had actually some contact with fandom a few years earlier -- one of the teachers at my school was the widow of a well-connected LASFS member, and she brought Forrest J Ackerman and Walt Daugherty to meet us kids. Also, I was a frequent attendee of stamp and coin conventions, so moving on to S.F. cons was trivial.)

[barondave.livejournal.com]

In High School I collected comics. I went to half a dozen sf cons in NYC... for one day, to go to the Dealer's Room. In two years, I doubled my comic collection from 1049 to 2100 (iirc). I went to a dash of programming and shook hands with Arthur C. Clarke, and a bunch of comic artists, but don't really consider myself to have connected with sf fandom until college. But that's a different story.

[gamerchick.livejournal.com]

March 2, 2007 was my first con. I'm a young'un. (c:

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I was there to record the event. Beth at Marscon 2007 (file:///Users/davidromm/Pictures/Marscon%202007/mars07_source/21.html). Mark it in the books.

Now, we have to get you in an apa...

[supergee.livejournal.com]

5/5/77, when I printed and mailed out The Diagonal Relationship #1.

[kaustin.livejournal.com]

My first convention was Minicon 19, April 1st 1983. If you only count when I pubbed my first ish that would have been my wedding 'zine one-shot, Spelunker Today, September 17th, 2005.