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

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
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.
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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
 
Preferred City til I Cry for the viz style comic strips, the worst was Bert Trautman's Helmet.
 
Corky said:
Preferred City til I Cry for the viz style comic strips, the worst was Bert Trautman's Helmet.
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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......
 
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LongsightM13 said:
Blueprint seemed more south Manchester, Borrows was from Didsbury iirc and more in tune with our humour
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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!
 
Corky said:
Preferred City til I Cry for the viz style comic strips, the worst was Bert Trautman's Helmet.
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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 said:
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
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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
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
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......
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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.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
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
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The last thing we need to do is to rekindle the occasional ‘Fanzine Wars’ on here. Divisive and silly.
Suffice to say I have huge respect for all those who gave up their time to write for, produce or stand in the pissing rain selling to provide a platform for independent voices among the many different strands of our diverse fanbase during what were often our darkest hours. A thankless task and yet still the City fans stood up to the plate, in many guises. I salute them all.
Still liked Blueprint the best, though
 
Damocles said:
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
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I had nearly all of them in the loft at one stage. Ended up on a massive bonfire, along with many other treasured belongings, when I made the wrong choice of life companion
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
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......
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I remember one of the issues and I am sure that it had changed to Dagenham Dan - The Engerland Fan.
Can you remember doing that version Phil?
 
Which fanzine used to have the spoof letters to the MEN in it?

I remember one that proposed merging all the Greater Manchester teams as "ManStockUnityBoltBuryDale" in a bid to win the title after many years of failure - the response iirc correctly was "I wonder what EverLiverMere would say about that!"

Made me laugh at the time!
 
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