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| Topic Started: May 30 2006, 06:49 PM (1,701 Views) | |
| packmule | May 30 2006, 06:49 PM Post #1 |
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There is a very good magazine currently in circulation, started by Mr. J.D. Lees, a Canadian schoolteacher. The magazine is called G-Fan, and has been around since 1992. It used to be published every other month but currently hits the racks four times a year(quarterly), in March, June, September, and December. This magazine includes the latest info and news regarding Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman and other giant Asian superheroes, as well as tokusatsu(action movies) films. Along with updates are great retrospectives on classic kaiju eiga and other films, as well as artist's submissions, fan mail, links to all the best kaiju and toy dealers, a DVD review page, and other various submissions. Mr. Lees has many individuals who contribute in the making of this fine publication. I have all but the first half-dozen issues, back when this zine was much smaller. G-Fan can be ordered as a subscription directly from the G-Fan website, or it can be found at Tower Records in the magazine section. There are also various comics/collectables shops that carry it as well-here in Atlanta, GA Oxford Comics carries G-Fan. The magazine runs $5.00 n issue or $20.00 for a year's subscription. Subscribers often get extra goodies with their issue in the form of special foldout art submissions. If you haven't read this magazine, I hope you will give it a try. Post any comments or questions about G-Fan here. Mr Green The site: G-Fan |
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| Johnny Rod | Jun 17 2006, 08:27 PM Post #2 |
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I actually have a couple of issues of G-Fan, a fantastic magazine!!! thumbs up Unfortunately the collector's shop I used to get them from (ACE/ Forbidden Planet) doesn't get them any more. A good magazine though and one I'd recomend to all of you Godzilla, Ultraman, and Gamera fans. |
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| packmule | Jun 17 2006, 08:39 PM Post #3 |
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Just a reminder that you can get this magazine via a subscription, for about $20 a year(that's four issues). J.D. Lees accepts Paypal or you can mail him the payment as a check or money order. faster <!--emo&shifty eyes-->  <!--endemo-->
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| Johnny Rod | Jun 17 2006, 08:47 PM Post #4 |
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But would he deliver to England? question |
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| packmule | Jun 21 2006, 04:57 AM Post #5 |
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That's a good question Johnny. If I were you I would locate his official email address, on his website, and send him an email asking him about this-if his answer is "yes" make sure to find out about shipping rates, etc. The link: G-Fan If his answer is "no", perhaps I can pick up an extra copy of this magazine every three months and send it to you by mail. This is an option for you. |
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| Johnny Rod | Jun 21 2006, 08:21 AM Post #6 |
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Okay Packmule, does G-Fan only come out every 3 months? Also, I'd preffer it if you could pick up an extra copy and send it to me when the magazines are out (I'll pay you of course :lol: ). Also, I might be moving house soon so if you could send me a PM before you send anything then that'd be great (just to avoid the parcel being sent to the wrong house crazy ). Thanks |
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| gvamp | Jun 21 2006, 04:21 PM Post #7 |
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G-Fan ships internationally but you have to pay $25 a year instead of $20, IMO G-Fan took a huge dive in quality the past few years ever since JD had his falling out with a regular contributer to the magazine and as well as a fall out with director Shosuke (think that's his first name) Kaneko director of Gamera Trilogy and GMK. I still respect JD as he is a very nice man and I'd like to meet him someday. |
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| packmule | Jun 21 2006, 05:38 PM Post #8 |
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G-Fan used to be published every other month, or six times a year. J.D. Lees made it known to his readers of this magazine, through a statement in the magazine itself, of his intentions to cut back the issues to every three months, or quarterly. The reason: he wanted to be able to spend more time with his family-he has a wife and two daughters. While disappointed at the decrease in issues per year I consider his reason completely justified. Mr. Lees had lamented many times in his "hellos" to readers in the issues about the demands that this magazine placed on his time. Remember too that he is a schoolteacher, itself a tough job. I have never met him, only exhanged a few emails(not recently).I like his magazine and, as Godzilla fan, absolutely appreciate his effort since 1992(when the magazine began, a smaller publication) to keep this magazine going. Thank you gvamp for the heads-up about the international rate being $25.00. Johnny, if you want to order it online for the $25, that is an option for you, or, as I mentioned before, I can mail you an extra copy when I pick up mine at Oxford Comics or Tower Records. The next issue, #76, should be out about now(summer issue-June). I will begin checking for it at Oxford or Tower this weekend. Gvamp, I heard that J.D. Lees had a major falling out with Norman England(through a posting exchange with "kpa" at MZ earlier this year). Is this the "contributor" you were referring to? Also, "kpa"(Keith Aiken) made mention of the "Kaneko" incident as well-not saying I disbelieve any of it, though it certainly sounds out of character for J.D. Lees. confused |
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| Ro-Dan | Jun 21 2006, 05:53 PM Post #9 |
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I stopped subscribing to the mag about a year ago. The content started to fall off, just as Gvamp stated. As a result of less content Lees has been dedicating more and more pages to that "Gfantis" comic. A comic I have NO interest in whatsoever. Fan fiction just doesn't interest me. |
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| packmule | Jun 21 2006, 07:33 PM Post #10 |
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I understand your sentiments. I like many aspects of G-Fan: the film retrospectives, the DVD reviews, other various and sundry subjective articles regarding Godzilla, other kaiju, and Ultraman. The fan artwork I received over the years as a subscriber was a nice little bonus, most of the artwork very good. That said I do not like the "Gfantis" comic, nor do I like the "Rex Summerall" series of short stories. I also think there has been something of a decline as well. There may come a day when I may quit buying it because I just do not like it anymore. That day hasn't arrived for me, for better or worse, yet. eyebrow |
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| gvamp | Jun 21 2006, 08:53 PM Post #11 |
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That is indeed the person that JD had a falling out with, and yes it's true about the Kaneko incident because he refuses to mention his name in later issues of G-Fan. |
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| packmule | Jun 22 2006, 04:05 AM Post #12 |
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As I mentioned earlier, I have a familiarity with the "Kaneko" incident involving J.D. Lees, but I am not informed about the soured relationship between Mr. Lees and Norman England. I have never met either individual. I have seen others on the internet who describe both as friendly, conscientous guys, so this is most unfortunate, especially regarding Mr. Lees, who appears to be a liason of sorts between Toho and fans here in the United States, Canada, and other Western countries. I find it most curious, and disheartening, to hear that he acted in such a despicable manner. thumbs down |
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| gvamp | Jun 22 2006, 01:55 PM Post #13 |
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I do too packmule. I also find it strange that there a many of us fans fueding with in the fandom. I mean I'm seeing former regulars from MZ taking bad about people there TK people having problems with KP people and so on I just don't understand it and it all just started about three years ago. |
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| packmule | Jun 22 2006, 04:11 PM Post #14 |
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I agree with you, and let me add that I allowed myself to become part of the very feuding that you mention, so much so that it resulted in me being banned from TK and Kaijuphile, which I accept responsibility for, and also some of the blame, but not all. It also resulted in me requesting, and receiving, membership terminations at Tokyomonsters forum and Kaiju Galaxy. I will not go into more specifics because it is water under the bridge. There are many, many good people at all of the aforementioned forums, and the sites themselves are I think all very good. There are no doubt many individuals on the major site forums that will continue to talk about others in a derogatory manner-I have been, and may still be, the subject of some of those conversations. I took a deep breath, considered why I was getting angry with other members on these boards, and made a decision to maintain myself at all times on the internet, regardless of the nature of the discussion, disagreement, or argument. For some people this comes easy, and for others, me included, it does not. I hope that these squabbles and other frictions within the fandom decrease. :rolleyes: |
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| Ro-Dan | Jun 22 2006, 05:51 PM Post #15 |
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So that's why JD Lees always trashes GMK! Ah-ha! Anyway, about Godzilla internet fandom. It's a real shame. We've really created schizms and cliques for ourselves throughout the community, haven't we? I wonder if the lack of new Godzilla films has created a kind of malaise in the community. We don't really have anything new to discuss, or any common interests outside of the Big G, so we turn to gossip. Also, there are a few egos in the community as well. People who think they're the biggest fish in this little pond we call G-Fandom. Another possibility is the fanbase itself is comprised of a lot of young, immature kids who have nothing better to do than invade other people's boards and cause havoc. There's a lot of factors for this schizm and I'm sure it's a combination of some or all the above comments. |
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| gvamp | Jun 22 2006, 08:53 PM Post #16 |
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IMO the fandom took it's first steps in decline after the GMK was released by decline I mean the fueding amongst ourselves and it only got worse in 2004 because of Godzilla's 50th, Final Wars and Godzilla Save the Earth this is when most of the stupid immature little kids got on the net. It's even worse now that we don't have any new Godzilla films or rarely any kaiju films coming out for that matter. |
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| packmule | Jun 23 2006, 04:26 AM Post #17 |
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Concerning kids on these boards I have always tried to be patient, and tolerant, to the oft struggles these young people(early to late teen) have with their grammar, spelling, punctuation, and ability to express their thoughts and opinions in a reasonable manner. I will continue to do this based on the belief I have, however misplaced it may be, that these young ones can benefit from the practice of communicating with each other, and with the older members of these forums. There are, unfortunately, too many of these teenage members on the boards that do nothing more than spam, troll, post rambling, incoherent nonsense, and the occasional sarcasm and/or outbursts of insults. This has no doubt, as you alluded to, exacerbated the struggle for many to generate reasonable topics for discussion on these sites. There is, I think, a great deal of arrogance and selfishness among the major discussion forums, as pertains to the younger set. It is disheartening to me, because in my personal opinion arrogance and this "I can post whatever I want" mentality are the last two things that should inhabit a forum. No one is perfect. We're all going to have our moments of sarcasm and testiness-that is a given because, as human beings, we have emotions that are not always going to be good. The problem is that these "moments" I refer to are, for many, not moments at all, but a common denominator of all of their post content. thumbs down Does Armand Vaquer still work for J.D. Lees? |
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| Johnny Rod | Jun 23 2006, 08:01 AM Post #18 |
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I think I mighy start buying them once there's some new news about the Big-G, the main reason to why the quality has gone down is probably the fact that there isn't much news about Godzilla anymore, I expect the new "IMAX" film due for release 2007 might jump-start the quality slightly. |
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| Ro-Dan | Jun 23 2006, 11:03 AM Post #19 |
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I'm sure the lack of new Godzilla films is partially to blame for G-Fan's content. I may re-subscribe when we hear rumblings of a new film. 2013 is still a ways off. |
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| packmule | Jun 24 2006, 05:50 AM Post #20 |
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But, on a positive note, this will afford you plenty of time to work on your Ultraman DVD collection, Dan. 
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| gvamp | Jun 24 2006, 09:39 AM Post #21 |
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I know that's what I'm going to do very very soon, skipping the releases next month of course and getting the remastered R2s. That's what G-Fan should do is run a retrospecte on the Ultraman I know I did enjoy there little mini article on Ultra Q about three summers ago. I know I was going to do an article series for G-Fan but the first installment has yet to be printed after being sent out a year ago. |
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| Johnny Rod | Jun 24 2006, 12:38 PM Post #22 |
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Well I would get those if I didn't get paid £3.50 an hour, which isn't much in the UK, especially when I only work about 2 hours a week!!! I'd have to save up for over 3 weeks just to buy 1 Ultraman DVD and the 4th week is to pay the delivery cost!!! I WILL buy Chayo's collection (If they come out) for the same price, that is the BEST option for poor students such as myself. |
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| gvamp | Jun 24 2006, 02:23 PM Post #23 |
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Well chances are the Chaiyo boxset isn't going to come out after all. |
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| packmule | Jun 24 2006, 03:32 PM Post #24 |
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Now that both my Ultraman and Ultraseven "DVD-Rs" are showing pixel breakdown and other picture-related problems, this is a definite wakeup call to stop buying these DVD-R copies. Good God, these two sets are less than eight months old, rarely watched, and are already failing to play on three different DVD players I have, all configured to play, among other things, DVD-R's. very angry For what's it worth Tom, I look forward to seeing that article in G-Fan. What was it about? Maybe you could post it here. ? |
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| gvamp | Jun 24 2006, 04:24 PM Post #25 |
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I plan on doing a retrospect of kaiju video games from the past my first piece was covering Godzilla Monster of Monsters for the NES. I think I'll resubmit it to JD later this week does anyone have his e-mail address? |
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| packmule | Jun 24 2006, 07:32 PM Post #26 |
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johnlees@mts.net. Please feel free, gvamp, to submit any of your work here for myself and the other members. I have always encouraged everyone here to do so. Thanks. Mr Green |
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| gvamp | Jun 24 2006, 09:53 PM Post #27 |
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I will I think I'm going to go back and read over the article in the next few days and try to improve on it, after that I'll post the updated version. |
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| packmule | Jun 25 2006, 07:01 AM Post #28 |
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Sounds good. I look forward to seeing your work posted at this site. thumbs up |
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| gvamp | Jun 25 2006, 01:31 PM Post #29 |
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Which section of the forum would you like me to post it in Lee when it's done? I think I'll work on it tonight and some tomorrow. Oh OT I got some good news I'm going to be speaking with a credit consuler on Wednesday so yeah that should ease my stress some what. |
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| packmule | Jun 25 2006, 06:20 PM Post #30 |
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You can place your submission in the newly created "The Official Video Game Thread" I made in the Video Gaming category, or you may enter it under a topic title of your choosing, in the Video Gaming category. Thank you for asking. thumbs up Regarding the other part of your last post, good luck, and keep me posted! :) |
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