Black Hole Chaos

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## Black Hole Chaos

Proton Jon holding up the Fanzine in front of his face, showing the back cover that features Cardboard Jon.

### Author

NasueBlueCoati, RotoEve, Red, ThePhantomAegis, Aihaive, NerdArtAndGames

### Illustrator

Rosie (roselii49), Jasper (jasperthecrab), Camille Skyloft, Patchy (Patchouli\_EN), Rhyme (PrimeExplorer), ThunderCreates, AquariusBat, MikaKoyama, DropsOfMoonlight, AriZonia, Dovi (Sephiroth1204), TheFlaming1UP, RedztheName, Danny (dolicezza), GaiaMyanai, Mel-Sky (SkyTodStar), PortalKat42, AntwanTamato, Doc (xtrat3rrestrial), Kyupo, Snickerblizzles, Azureleviathan, SpontCombust, Ruxan, Chlo\_Chloe, Learn2chillax, Princess Skyler

## “The Lore of Bigger”

The **“Black Hole Chaos”** fanzine was created in 2022 by fans of ProtonJon’s community, most of them also being members of the Egg PAC art community. It went on sale in July 2022 and ended sales a month after for a release in late September/early October 2022. Residual sales happened on Monday, October 10th.

It highlights parts of the stream lore surrounding ProtonJon’s more recent years of streaming and the multiverse of Jon alts we know as the Jonaverse, with illustrations to go with each entry. Knowing there were so many, they picked a very special few to highlight—the ones that were more recognizable out of the bunch.

Within Jonaverse lore, community members (even those outside the PAC) came together to chronicle and document as many alts and characters as possible. They found themselves needing a space to not only make the fanzine, but also to publish it and release some sweet merch alongside it. A push was made by this team to expand and revamp the messy Art Wing into a proper professional studio to pair with the existing Multimedia Wing. With some shuffling around to create a private meeting room and lounge, they started going to work on their project for several months…

From late April to early September, sections of the aforementioned wings were practically barred off for secrecy as the team worked tirelessly to get this out to everyone (even the Multimedia Wing's conference room was booked that entire summer). Eventually, in late September through early October, the fanzine and its merch finally got delivered out to people who wanted one. To everyone's surprise (even to most of the contributors), Cardboard Jon was featured on the back cover! From that initial shock, you suddenly realize... you're in for a *treat*.

## Featured Alts/Characters and Original Artists

In order of appearance:

* RosaJon (Jumney)
* PonPon (AriZonia)
* Beefuru (Rhyme)
* Purple the Dragon (Mel-Sky)
* Electron Jen (modern design by ChaozAgent)
* Buffton Jon (concept/photoshops by 000w, design by WolfBoyX13)
* Cardboard Jon (“created” by MalMakes and the TRG Colo 2022 crew) - **"mascot"**
* Egg (OC of Fuyuko-Yuki, AKA Ghost Winter)
* Joliana (SuperIcee)
* Keeper of Space (Yolk the Joke)
* Glitch (Treekianthia)
* Pastel Jon (Camille Skyleste)
* Hydra Jon (concept by ProtonJon, design by FicusArt)
* Weedgar (DropsOfMoonlight)
* Touque Kid (LovingSakuraKat)
* Alien [Rosa]Jon (Lunar-Imagination)
* Oyster Jon (WolfBoyX13)
* Ska Jon (PortalKat42)
* Noir Jon (Camille Skyleste)
* Super Sentai [Rosa]Jon (Rhyme)
* Omni Jon (WolfBoyX13)

## Contributors

Twitter handles are given below, if available.

### Project Leads

* Rosie (@roselii49) - Lead
* Mimo (@mimos\_candyshop) - Co-Lead and Logistics, Merch
* Jasper (@jasperthecrab) - Organizer
* Camille (@cskymille) - Graphic design
* NasueBlue (no Twitter handle) - Graphic design

### Fanzine Artists

* Patchy (@patchouli\_en) - **Front cover**
* Rhyme (@PRimeExplorer)
* Thunder (@CreatesThunder)
* Aqua (@AquariusBat)
* Mika (@mikakoyamaart)
* Drops (@DropsOMoonlight) - also helped make the **logo**
* AriZonia (@Ari\_Zonia)
* Dovi/Sephiroth1204 (@DovirothArt)
* TheFlaming1UP (@TheFlaming1UP)
* RedztheName (@RedztheName)
* Danny (@dolicezza)
* Gaia Myanai (@GMyanai)
* Mel-Sky (@SkyTodStar)
* PortalKat (@Portalkat42)
* Antwan (@AntwanTamato)
* Doc (@xtrat3rrestrial)
* Kyupo (@Kyupo\_Rdragon)
* Snickers (@Snickerblizzlez)
* Azure (@azureleviathan)

### Merch Artists

* SpontCombust (@CombustSpont)
* Ruxan (@RuxanKikilin)
* Chlo\_Chloe (no Twitter handle)
* Chillax (@learn2chillax)
* Skyler (@xPrincessSkyler)

### Lore Writers

* RotoEve (@Roto\_Eve)
* Red (no Twitter handle)
* ThePhantomAegis (no Twitter handle)
* Aihaive (no Twitter handle)
* Nerd A+G (@NerdArtAndGames)

### Other

* Stephen Georg (origin of back cover)
* MalMakes (credited for helping with Cardboard Jon)

## Trivia

* This project started out as an idea for a RosaJon fashion fanzine, a brain worm that Rosie tossed out to the Egg PAC general chat one February afternoon. As more people latched onto the idea, eventually it became more generalized as the Jonaverse fanzine that eventually came to be. It was further generalized by excluding alts that were too closely tied to existing video game characters (RosaJon, Touque Kid, and Weedgar notwitstanding, as they have become distinct enough from the IPs they derived from).
	+ The main piece for RosaJon echoes the original idea of the fanzine on its own.
	+ By proxy, PonPon's crown insignia was made distinct enough from the Super Crown design from the Super Mario series, as seen in Rhyme's illustration.
* Production started sometime in late April, after an alt and character submission period and contributor application period lasting about a month and a half. While fanzine sales ended on August 15th (Skyler's birthday), the fanzine and its merch were finalized in late September.
	+ Fanzine sales ended a day later for Mimo's Etsy shop, which was the purchase site of the zine for UK and European viewers (as opposed to Big Cartel for every other location).
* @JonaverseZine is the official Twitter of the project, which gave cryptic previews of both illustrations and lore writings before the launch of the zine. Any merch-related illustrations were shown off in full, however.
	+ As of late October, however, this was converted into the official Twitter for the TRG Colosseum fanzine.
* Merch came in the form of 4x6 art cards (one by Camille of Super Sentai Jon, one by SpontCombust of Glitch, and two by Chillax of Touque Kid), and two-sided acrylic charms (one by Skyler of PastelJon, and another by Ruxan of RosaJon and Bagel with pancakes). Additionally, a sticker sheet by Chlo-Chloe was made with an assortment of alts, but it turned out VERY tiny out of fear that they would be too big. A sticker by Rosie was included as a Day 1 preorder bonus, featuring Jon, RosaJon, and Beefuru.
* Cardboard Jon is featured on the back cover in a purple tint, as well as the inner back cover at the end of the zine itself in faded grayscale. According to Nasue, he used a screenshot of Cardboard Jon from the TRG Colo 2022 bumper of the same name as a placeholder for images in the design phase.
	+ *Pretty sure Rosie was the one who took the screenshot in the first place. There's like... three emotes of Cardboard Jon in the private Discord server for the fanzine's creation.*
	+ Stephen Georg is uncredited for the use of his footage as the back cover. (It's Fine™)
	+ Jasper is also uncredited for drawing Cardboard Jon in his piece as a background prop.
	+ Because of this, Cardboard Jon has since been called the mascot of the Fanzine.
* Nasue also made up placeholder text for the design phase:

Everyone says “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, but there’s no context for why that happened. Was the fox just a little shitposter who was trying to get his newest TokTime video to go viral? Imagine the title: **“EXTREME STUNT, JUMPING OVER THIS DOG, LOL“.**

## Sequel

On October 29, 2022, a fanzine for The Runaway Guys was announced, dubbed **The Runaway Guys Colozineum**! It was officially endorsed by all three TRG core members, and was sold during TRG Colosseum 2023 so all funds went go to Direct Relief and contributed to the final total of the event. (More information can be found here.)

The same Twitter account that was used for this Fanzine became the official Twitter for this new project.