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Thread: Hibs fanzines
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19-02-2019 06:33 AM #31HIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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19-02-2019 09:18 AM #33This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-02-2019 10:42 AM #35
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I was the co-founder of Hibs Monthly, which evolved into Mass Hibsteria, along with my old mate SideBurns.
We started it off while still at High School and initially it was really just a Hibs news bulletin (match reports etc). It was only when we became aware of the Fanzine 'scene' across the UK that it really took off and developed the wicked sense of humour it became renowned for. I still have vivid memories of putting it together with a typewriter, scissors, prit-stick, Letraset and Tippex!
When the Hibbie Hippie, Octopus (Irvine Welsh), the Raving Reporter and several other top-notch contributors came on board it started to grow and grow, and we also got a lot of help from other fanzines (AWOL, the old Meadowbank fanzine were particularly helpful) and outlets like the old Football Crazy shop up in Spittal Street.
The readers and their contributions made it what it was, and when I started playing fitba regularly on a Saturday I passed on the green and white baton to Jonnyboy and Sean Allan. Those two took it on to another level. Later esteemed editors included Graham Ewing and Nick Clater, while the Raving Reporter (MB) was always a stalwart of the editorial committee.
Looking back, if I'm being honest, I do cringe and regret one or two of the things we said and printed in the early days - I was young and Hibs and the fitba they played were often p*sh, so a lot of it was born out of frustration. However, the overriding memory I have is one of great pride, fun and mischief-making - we used to give Alex Miller and Dougie Cromb sleepless nights and we posed a lot of questions of the board and management. One of the finest issues we produced was the 1991 Skol Cup winning celebration edition, while the 'Summer Special' was always popular.
We were, I think, also the first publication to carry an advert for an upcoming book called Trainspotting.... I wonder how that did in the end?
Happy Hibbie days!
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19-02-2019 11:31 AM #36
I opened this thread in the hope that there had been a revival and one of those superb publications was being resuscitated.
Damm!
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19-02-2019 11:34 AM #37
The MHHM 2016 league cup final special was a great throwback. In Manchester you could still get Red Issue until just a couple of years ago but has sadly now stopped doing a print version as well. A yearly summer special would be brilliant.
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19-02-2019 11:41 AM #38
I also remember seeing the trainspotting advert and buying the book based on that.
On another note, I remember Hearts main fanzine was Always the Bridesmaid because they had went so long without winning anything. No Cups in Gorgie we used to sing back then, especially after the 91 Cup win.
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19-02-2019 11:53 AM #39
I remember a few doctored Calvin & Hobbes cartoons (in Mass Hibsteria) with Calvin in a Hibs Strip - Hibs Kid I think it was called.
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19-02-2019 12:02 PM #41
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19-02-2019 12:08 PM #42
I was too young to really be into the fanzine scene in it's heyday but I've read back through a lot of MHHM copies in recent years and they are superb. I also enjoyed the True Faith Newcastle fanzine which has recently started producing a paper copy again after years of being online only.
I suppose everything has it's day and there comes a time to let things lie but a once or twice a year special would be a big success imo. Alternatively to drag things into the modern age maybe a podcast with a few of the contributors, editors etc would work?PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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19-02-2019 12:59 PM #43This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Though, strangely, I'm not in the least embarrassed about the nonsense I was spouting in the pub just last Saturday 😁
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19-02-2019 01:05 PM #44
The London supporters association used to produce "Hibees Here Hibees There", I don't think that's been mentioned yet. From what I mind they managed quite a few editions.
Like most folk Hibs Monthly/Mass Hibsteria was the one I read most often. I was a teenager around the time of the fanzine boom and the subversiveness and humour really appealed to me as a kid who was discovering weird music and alternative culture and suchlike. Fanzines felt very much part of the same thing. Happy days. Things change though eh? That kind of DIY ethic doesn't exist in the same way now, although there are things like podcasts and the like with the NEW TECHNOLOGIES. Nice to reminisce though.
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19-02-2019 01:22 PM #45This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-02-2019 01:22 PM #46This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Great wee read it was.HIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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19-02-2019 02:19 PM #49
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19-02-2019 02:32 PM #52
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I should have added too that one of my favourite memories of the fanzine days was regularly getting invited/hauled into the offices of Messrs Miller and Cromb to explain ourselves and leaving them even more angry. Cromb would go through the entire fanzine with his highlighter pen and it's safe to say he didn't approve too much of his 'Davros' and 'Dennis Norden' nicknames.
True story.. when Miller took issue with being called 'Lexo' in the fanzine, Cromb called then co-editor Sean Allan at work demanding that we desist. All future references to Miller were sympathetically changed to '******** FACE' instead and Cromb never called Sean at work again after that.
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19-02-2019 03:11 PM #53This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Although I've never written anything for a Hibs fanzine, curiously enough I co-authored a piece in Always The Bridesmaid!
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19-02-2019 03:27 PM #54This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-02-2019 03:53 PM #55
I contributed a rubbishy wee comic strip called ‘Spambo the Jambo’ on occasion. Obviously about a stereotypical, deluded Hertz fan! Wouldn’t mind another shot at improving upon it if someone revives the printed ‘zine. 😬
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http://www.hibs.net/londonhibs/hhht.htm"We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
"Romanov was like a breath of fresh air - laced with cyanide." Me.
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19-02-2019 09:12 PM #58
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Would it be possible to get any of the old fanzines uploaded? I know most will be long gone, but even scanned pages or extracts etc, I'm sure would be interesting reading.
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19-02-2019 09:20 PM #59
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