{"id":462,"date":"2013-07-19T03:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T09:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2013-09-28T02:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T08:48:00","slug":"g-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Asian Movie Month ‘Zine #1: G-Fan (special issue)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the release of\u00a0Pacific Rim<\/em>\u00a0and a new Godzilla\u00a0<\/em>to be released next year, the word “kaiju” will soon be mainstream; however in the 1980s and early ’90s (before the great geek takeover), it was one of the nerdiest of nerdy words. \u00a0Kaiju fans were considered waayyy nerdier than average sci-fi fans (the hierarchy of nerdom went, from coolest to nerdiest: 1)\u00a0Star Wars<\/em> fans; 2) horror geeks; 3) average sci fi\/ fantasy fans (including Lord of the Rings<\/strong> hippies and comic collectors); 4)\u00a0Star Trek<\/em> fans; 5)\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em> fans; 6) Kaiju fans; and lastly 7) Otaku (who were also pretty much regarded as perverts as well as nerds, mainly because of movies like\u00a0Urotsukidoji<\/em>). \u00a0Times have really changed). \u00a0I was pretty much all of the above. \u00a0I grew up watching Godzilla and Gamera (and other Japanese kaiju) movies and t.v. shows, and always loved them. \u00a0Luckily, there were tons of specialty fanzines available for most any geek’s passion, and G-Fan<\/strong> was for kaiju fans.<\/p>\n

The issue I’m highlighting here is actually kind of a ‘best of’ issue which came out in 1995, reprinting articles from the magazine’s earlier years (issues #1 through #7). \u00a0It was 63 pages long and featured lots of Godzilla art, several ‘Monster of the Month’ reprints, a list of the top 10 best Godzilla entrances in his movies, several articles on Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah<\/em> (which had recently been released, including one entitled “Implications of time travel in Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah<\/em>“), two articles on Godzilla comics (Marvel and other), a list of the top 14 kaiju as voted by Japanese kaiju fans, an article on Godzilla Vs. Mothra, a bunch of fan fic, and an article on the girls of the Godzilla movies.<\/p>\n

Evidently this magazine is still going today, and you can get more info about it here:
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Here’s some pages from this issue:<\/p>\n

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With the release of\u00a0Pacific Rim\u00a0and a new Godzilla\u00a0to be released next year, the word “kaiju” will soon be mainstream; however in the 1980s and early ’90s (before the great geek takeover), it was one of the nerdiest of nerdy words. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,112],"tags":[83,84,80,81,82],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-video-zines","category-g-fan-zine","tag-fanzines","tag-geek-culture","tag-godzilla","tag-kaiju","tag-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}