A fan magazine is a professionally written and published magazine intended for the amusement of fans of the subject matter which it covers. It is distinguished from a scholarly or literary magazine on the one hand, by the target audience of its contents, and from a fanzine on the other, by the professional and for-profit nature of its production and distribution. A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles. ... Fans of Janet Jackson, at Music Music The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend. ... A fanzine (see also: zine) is a nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular subject for the pleasure of others who share their interest. ...
Fans of this category are one who have an obssession with the characters, especially in the case of comics.
Fan is assumed by dictionaries to be an abbreviation of fanatic, though there seems to be no evidence of any intermediate stages of development of the one from the other.
Fanac is short for “fan activities”; and the desperately politically incorrect femmefan is a female SF fan (as in Fallen Angels by Niven, Pournelle and Flynn: “Downstairs in one of the function rooms, he found Dinsby in a circle of femmefans surrounding Gordon”).
The football fans in particular seem set to be a permanent part of the landscape and are having a wonderful time this month, even though, as Nick Hornby says in Fever Pitch, “The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score”.
Most readers were well up on the current scandals, and when the fanmagazines alluded to a star's "brave fight" or "lingering illness," they were knowledgeable enough to translate the terms into "drug addiction," or to know that "young foolishness," or "hot-headed wildness" meant sexual indiscretions of one kind or another.
As the traditional fanmagazines fell away, eventually to disappear and leave the market to these specialist publications and to the scandal-mongering tabloids, a new style of movie magazine was created in the 1980s that has continued to fill the void.
A fanmagazine is a professionally written and published magazine intended for the amusement of fans of the subject matter which it covers.
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