Syndizine

Syndizine is a gen multimedia fanzine. It was the first multimedia zine that contained content that wasn't based on science fiction shows. "One index finger on the mouse scroll bar and the other on my clit": slash writers' views on pornography, censorship, feminism and risk (2001) 
==About== 
==Comments by the Editor: 2017==
==General Reactions and Reviews==
==Issue 1==
Syndizine 1 was published in May 1979 and has 105 pages. 
It was published by Lori Chapek-Carleton, and edited by Paula Block.
A story summary from one unknown source for "The End" is "Starsky pushes Hutch out of the way of a bullet during a liquor store robbery and dies. Years later, Hutch dies stopping another robbery and they meet before going to Heaven together." But -- this is totally not what the story is about. See spoiler summary in the footnote. Hutch is shot in the chest during a routine collar. Starsky puts the bad guy in the back seat of the car, and carries Hutch to the front seat. As they are driving to the hospital, Hutch dies. When Starsky realizes this, he drives the Torino over a cliff, engulfing all three occupants in a fiery flame. 
Editorial by Paula Block: 
Editorial by Lori Chapek-Carleton: 
* Fear and Loathing in Fandom, editorial by Paula M. Block (3)
* Vertical Control, "publishtorial" by Lori Chapek-Carleton (4)
* I Have a Pretty Good Imagination by Alexandra Ramsay (Man from UNCLE) (Illya and a lightsaber) (5) (reprinted in Tales of Two U.N.C.L.E.S. #2)
* The Divine Painkiller, poem by Paula M. Block (M*A*S*H) (8)
* Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling, a High Chaparral story by Po Block (10)
* A Hawk and a Handsaw by Eileen Roy (UNCLE/Prisoner), a follow-up to "The Final Affair" in The Wolves and the Lambs Affair & The Final Affair and Warped Space #18) (18)
* Finale by Paula Block (UNCLE/Prisoner), a follow-up to "The Final Affair" in The Wolves and the Lambs Affair & The Final Affair and Warped Space #18) (22)
* Battlestar Impractical by Cool Han Luke (22)
* Those Below, a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea story by Carolyn R. Meredith (introduces Seaview to Cthulhu) (24)
* Whatever Happened to the IMF? by Paula Smith (Mission Impossible) (43)
* fold-out Centerfold, And Now For Something Completely Different, art by Gordon Carleton (Monty Python)
* Talk Show by Paula Smith (Starsky and Hutch) (the author says "It's not that good, but as I swiped the plot from a comic book, what do you expect?") (47)
* Root Rot Time by R.M. "Ro" Jakubjansky (Quark) (in script form) (52)
* Five Ways to Sunday by Kelly Hill (Maverick) (60)
* P.O.V." by Jackie Paciello (Lou Grant) (70)
* Summer Storm" by Amanda Ruffin (James at 16) (75)
* Contagion by Paula Block (MASH) (88)
* The End by Jan Lindner (Starsky and Hutch) Art is by Signe Landon (103)
File:Syndizine1-1.jpg|from issue #1, for "The End," art by Signe Landon
File:Syndizine1-2.jpg|from issue #1, Phil Foglio
File:Syndizine1-3.jpg|from issue #1, Gordon Carleton
File:Syndizine1-4.jpg|from issue #1, Gordon Carleton
File:Syndizine1-5.jpg|from issue #1, Connie Faddis for "Contagion"
File:Syndizine1-6.jpg|from issue #1, Connie Faddis for "Contagion"
File:Syndizine1-7.jpg|from issue #1, Signe Landon for "I Have a Pretty Good Imagination"
File:Syndizine1-8.jpg|from issue #1, Signe Landon for "Talk Show"
File:Syndizine1-9.jpg|from issue #1, Signe Landon for "Talk Show"
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Syndizine 2 has the subtitle "Son of Syndizine" was published in May 1981 and has 174 pages. 
It won the MediaWest FanQ award for "Best Other Media 'Zine". 
It was published by Lori Chapek-Carleton, and edited by Paula Block.
From a 1986 T'Kuhtian Press catalog: "It's 175 pages, and beats staring at a picture tube for all those hours!"
From Block's editorial: 
From the editorial by Chapek-Carleton: 
* AproPO (editorial) by editor Paula Block (1)
* AproLORI ("Publishartorial") by Lori Chapek-Carleton (2)
* Fanmail From Some Flounder (locs but no bagels) by Youse guys (3)
* New Journal, Entry One, poem by Jocelyn Feaster (The Incredible Hulk) (7)
* The Sands of Time Raid by Jackie Paciello (Moffit discovers an archaeological treasure in an area soon to be a battlefield, reprinted in Anything Goes #6) Rat Patrol (8)
* Monty Python Interviews Darth Vader by Judi L. Hendricks (20)
* Time After Time After Time by Paula M. Block (Time After Time (1979 film)) (23) 
* December 8th, 1980 by Judi L. Hendricks (poem and illo with John Lennon's assassination as the subject) (32)
* Requiem by Paula M. Block (Altered States) (34)
* Altered Seasons by Paula M. Block Tenspeed and Brownshoe) (38)
* Land of Honalee by Eileen Roy (Happy Days) (40)
* A Brother Helped is a Strong City by Roy Smith (Starsky and Hutch) (reprinted from Ten-Thirteen, with new art by Karen River -- "In the holocaust department, Roy Smith' s "A Brother Helped Is a Strong City" was parodied in Sue Doughnym's "He Ain't Heavy, He's My City", and extrapolated into Jill Ripley's Decorated for Death (which Jody Lynn Nye and I parodied in "Demonstrated to--Death" from Paula Smith in the program book for The Paul Muni Special (42)
* Words on a Wind, poem by Judi L. Hendricks (Shogun) (70)
* It's Who Do We Trust Time by Kathy Penland (comprised of "missing scenes" from the episode, "Savage Says the Most Dangerous Bird is the Jailbird," expanded on from a story in Savage Says) (Tenspeed & Brownshoe) (72)
* Pigs in Space Sketch by Paula Smith and Gordon Carleton (Muppets) (77)
* Reflections, poem by Marian Lindner (Star Wars) (82)
* Time After Time After Time After Time by Nancy Zingrove Solomon (Time After Time (1979 film)) (83)
* "Love Theme" from American Gigolo, poem by Judi L. Hendricks (108)
* The American Gigolo Primer -- Rated R by Paula M. Block (American Gigolo) (110)
* Don't Go Near the Water (Quincy) by Judi L. Hendricks & Jan Lindner (128) 
* Resolution, poem by Judi Hendricks (Masada) (169)
* Star Duck: The Molting Picture by Gordon Carleton (170)
 
* the art is by Beckey Aulenbach, Gordon Carleton, Phil Foglio, Todd Hamilton, Wacko Hendricks, Signe Landon, Martynn, Delores McAllister, Cheryl Newsome, Sue Perry, Karen River, and Joni Wagner.
File:Syndizine2-1.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Star*Duck
File:Syndizine2-2.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Masada
File:Syndizine2-3.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Karen River, Quincy
File:Syndizine2-4.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Joni Wagner, American Gigolo
File:Syndizine2-5.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Karen River, American Gigolo
File:Syndizine2-6.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Joni Wagner, American Gigolo
File:Syndizine2-7.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Signe Landon, Time After Time (1979 film)
File:Syndizine2-8.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Beckey Aulenbach (Star Wars)
File:Syndizine2-9.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Gordon Carleton (The Muppet Show)
File:Syndizine2-10.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Signe Landon (Tenspeed and Brownshoe)
File:Syndizine2-11.jpg|inside page from issue #2 Shogun)
File:Syndizine2-12.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Karen River, Starsky & Hutch)
File:Syndizine2-13.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Karen River, Starsky & Hutch)
File:Syndizine2-14.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Karen River, Happy Days)
File:Syndizine2-15.jpg|inside page from issue #2, (Altered States)
File:Syndizine2-16.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Sue Perry, John Lennon)
File:Syndizine2-17.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Joni Wagner, Time After Time (1979 film)
File:Syndizine2-18.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Phil Foglio, (Star Wars, Monty Python)
File:Syndizine2-19.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Signe Landon, (The Incredible Hulk)
File:Syndizine2-20.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Martynn, (Star Wars, Dallas)
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==Issue 3==
Syndizine 3 has the subtitle: "Beneath the Revenge of Syndizine" was published in Fall 1982 and is 124 pages long. 
It was published by Pegasus Press, and edited by Paula Block.
Artists: Beckey Aulenbach, Gordon Carleton, Bernie Davenport, J.R. Dunster, Todd Hamilton, Celeste Hotaling, Ros Ludwig, Wanda Lybarger, Martynn, Jackie Paciello, Susan Perry-Lewis, Karen River, and Joni Wagner.
Paula's editorial: 
Jackie's editorial (which is "rated R" due to the use of the word "bitch") is titled Obitchitorial: 
Judi's editorial addresses why Jackie has done so much of the work and includes the comment: "To Po the Younger, I bow in undisguised amazement. At the rate she's turning these zines out (with only three LoCs to urge her on) the next one'll be published before JED I comes out. Well, maybe not that fast.. .but close."
* Editorials (2)
* Fan Mail, LoCs (5)
* Crazy Eddy (spelled "Eddie" on the title page, "Eddy" in the tale of contents) and the Healing Power of Love by Paula Block and Nancy Zingrone (review of an article that originally appeared in the second issue of the Midwest PSI Research Institute Newsletter, 3/1/81) (9)
* Shadows by T.J. Burnside (Hill Street Blues) (11)
* Song of a General's Pride by D.C. Arian (17)
* Halloween Tales by Sherry Magee (Heroes) (reprinted in Flip of a Coin #12) (18)
* * Ghost Hunt (war story, does not appear in the table of contents and does not list an author) (37)
* Eulogy Between Friends by Bec Aulenbach (Barreta) (45)
* Vermithrax Pejorative, Better Lairs and Dungeons by Beverly Grant (Dragonslayer) (46)
* The Thurberesque Carnival by Celeste Hotaling, Paula Block, and Paula Smith (satires and humorous short stories) (47)
* After the Fall by Paula Block (Doctor Who, Fourth Doctor) (66)
* Going Three Times, contributed by Jean Stevenson, satirical bid sheets from MediaWest*Con (70)
* And Never Brought To Mind by Jackie Paciello (The Greatest American Hero) (72)
* Close-Up by J.L. Hendricks (76)
* Gumby Strikes Back by Pogumbi (Star Wars/Monty Python) (con skit transcript) (78)
* Gumbies of the Lost Ark by Gumby Davenport (Raiders of the Lost Ark/Monty Python) (con skit) (82)
* Brownian Motion by Sheryl Adsit (Q.E.D.) (92)
* A New Scenario by Irene Schafer (The Greatest American Hero) (99)
* A Little Change Back by Kelly Hill (Harry Crystal) (104)
* Espeth by Bev Grant (Dragonslayer) (106)
* Television Crossword Puzzle (109)
* H.M.S. Deathstar by Bev Grant (Star Wars Play/Parody) (110)
* Close-Up by J.R. Dunster (121)
* The Hill Street Blues-backed Speller by Paula Smith (122)
* Puzzle Answers (124)
File:Syndi3-1.jpg|from issue #3
File:Syndi3-2.jpg|from issue #3, Karen River
File:Syndi3-3.jpg|from issue #3, Wanda Lybarger
File:Syndi3-4.jpg|from issue #3
File:Syndi3-5.jpg|from issue #3
File:Syndi3-6.jpg|from issue #3
File:Syndi3-7.jpg|from issue #3, Karen River
File:Syndi3-8.jpg|from issue #3., Ros Ludwig
File:Syndi3-9.jpg|from issue #3, Paula Smith
File:Syndi3-10.jpg|from issue #3, Karen River
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3==
==References==
Category:Multimedia Gen and Het Zines
Category:1979 Zines
Category:1980s Zines