King of the Kippax | Last ever edition (p 20)

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Used to buy them all at one stage. Blueprint was the best one imo it was a bit more feisty, irreverent and aggressive than most of the others

I think City fans were lucky to have such a differing style of fanzines to choose from. I think the most at anyone point on sale was 6.

 

[LongsightM13]

I think City fans were lucky to have such a differing style of fanzines to choose from. I think the most at anyone point on sale was 6.

As I said I bought them all. It was weird that you could almost guess where people were from by the fanzine they bought or wrote for. KoTK, Bert Trautmann’s helmet and Chips and Gravy seemed a bit yonner/north Manchester, the former always seemed to have loads of musical references to irrelevant old hippies like YES and Roy Harper. Blueprint seemed more south Manchester, Borrows was from Didsbury iirc and more in tune with our humour

 

[Corky]

Preferred City til I Cry for the viz style comic strips, the worst was Bert Trautman's Helmet.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Preferred City til I Cry for the viz style comic strips, the worst was Bert Trautman's Helmet.

I wrote the scripts for Dagenham Dan, The Man U Fan (but not the drawings)
You will know the inspiration for the title ;)

After the first one, I actually sent a copy to Viz and they politely declined......

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Blueprint seemed more south Manchester, Borrows was from Didsbury iirc and more in tune with our humour

When Blue Print started Mike was from Bury, Frank was in Cleckheaton near Bradford, Rob and Chris Swinton and Jocky Salford - and of course Dave Wallace for first 2 issues from Leigh.
I joined issue 4 when in Sale and Bill a few issues later and he was living in Wigan then!

 

[LongsightM13]

Preferred City til I Cry for the viz style comic strips, the worst was Bert Trautman's Helmet.

I liked BTH and still subscribe to the online version. I lived outside Manchester for 20 years so every home game was a trek so I loved them all for the different voices and takes. As I said though Blueprint was short lived but definitely had more of a south Manchester/Birch Villa/Clarence vibe

 

[LongsightM13]

When Blue Print started Mike was from Bury, Frank was in Cleckheaton near Bradford, Rob and Chris Swinton and Jocky Salford - and of course Dave Wallace for first 2 issues from Leigh.
I joined issue 4 when in Sale and Bill a few issues later and he was living in Wigan then!

More the general vibe, baby

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I liked BTH and still subscribe to the online version. I lived outside Manchester for 20 years so every home game was a trek so I loved them all for the different voices and takes. As I said though Blueprint was short lived but definitely had more of a south Manchester/Birch Villa/Clarence vibe

Yes 6 years. 88 to 94.
By which time there were 8 Blue Print babies born between us and our time was taken up doing other things

 

[Corky]

I wrote the scripts for Dagenham Dan, The Man U Fan (but not the drawings)
You will know the inspiration for the title ;)

After the first one, I actually sent a copy to Viz and they politely declined......

Preferred Durham dug the Man U thug.

One 'episode' he is ironing his shirt for derby day to go down the pub, it turns out to be derby day in Durham and he gets twatted by Sunderland and Newcastle (even though Northumberland) fans, then claims how he battered them all when in hospital.

It was a clear Sid the Sexist rip-off.

 

[Damocles]

I wonder if there's people either full collections of the old fanzines? It would be fascinating for them to be digitised and preserved in some way