Youthful Dreams Made Real:Net Fans Revive an Animation Franchise: Voltron and fan experience

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Top 1.   Sep 17, 2001 1:26 AM

» tomreedtoon - Voltron and fan experience

The editor of TOON Magazine, Michael Swanagan, was credited on the Voltron CGI series. As an example of fan devotion, he publishes TOON on a quarterly basis for little or no profit. There is no money in writing ABOUT animation, and there are no advertisers of any worth willing to buy ad space in an animation magazine. (The late, lamented ANIMATO!, whose name and assets are now up for sale, tried to get "cel dealers" to advertise and didn't get much out of them.)

Legal issues aside, web pages are cheap to get if you're willing to tolerate some ad space, and most people get a web site with their standard dial-up ISP account. However, to put out a magazine that promotes animation series - without official ties to the industry, and certainly without much support - now that's dedication.

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