Come Over The Dyke

[Biscuit]

It says on the cover "Issue No 2 due out...in a few months". Looks like it'll be an as & when affair.

So they'll have time to write some good stuff rather than use any of the crap I submitted to One F.

 

[Easy 10]

Harsh

 

[Wilka]

Don't want to be to harsh as the money is going to the alive and kicking appeal but there was to much filling with pictures they had nicked from the program and not enough articals.

Expect it will get better with time though.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I enjoyed it. A decent read. Maybe a tad over-reliant on the match action photos, but the quality of the shots used was excellent. Easy 10's Are You A NIMBY quiz was well worth a second read and the history of Albion songs through the ages was well-researched / remembered. Plus Attila's classic 'Falmer Pond' on the back cover, featuring the all-time killer rhyming couplet (which I hope he won't mind me reproducing here - tenner to the Alive & Kicking fund if he does) in his direct appeal to Prescott:

"You knocked that deadly Welsh egg thrower down
And didn't let the crap canoeist drown"

Probably the best two lines of poetry ever written. IMHO, like

 

[Raphael Meade]

hopefully precious little

bit uncalled for...

 

[Rougvie]

I enjoyed it to, it kind of took me back to Gullseye days when people had respect for those guys who were putting in a lot of graft to save our club in the real world, not just by making 10000 or so posts on an internet message board.

Well done Paul.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Don't want to be to harsh as the money is going to the alive and kicking appeal but there was to much filling with pictures they had nicked from the program and not enough articals.

*Treading VERY, VERY CAREFULLY here* - since Paul Hazlewood and Roz are both members of the matchday programme photographic team ... and I'm the last person to dare suggest that snappers shouldn't get their piccies into print.

But ... it is arguable that people don't expect to see a lot of matchday photographs in a fanzine. COTD has nine pages of them - 76 pictures in total, presumably all of them taken by Paul.

The best fanzines are outlets for new writing and some of that will be fairly rough and ready stuff. Crap jokes, stream of consciousness ranting about things that DO NOT MATTER - like the colour of players' hair.

It looks to me like COTD was the fanzine that was nervous about taking the normal risks. It's beautifully produced, but ...

I went to the Albion Collectors' Fair yesterday and had the opportunity to thumb through some early editions of Gulls Eye - photocopied pages of hand written drivel, but very much alive and certainly kicking.

COTD needs to do more kicking, imo. And it would be better if it opened its pages to some new feet.

But hey ... it's raising money for the Albion! Which is just as important.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

I very much agree with the above - it was faultlessly produced, but was a little light on charm. A fanzine should be the virtual antithesis of the matchday programme, and this in many ways resembled its little brother. Good job, though - and doubtless any future editions will continue to evolve.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Was disappointed too, though Easy's Nimby piece was funny. Best thing imho was the chants double spread

 

[Roadrunner]

If there are any cartoonists out there interested in contributing to a forthcoming Comic Book Style fanzine please contact Paul at privatefishing@yahoo.com. Just to reiterate, I am posting on Paul's behalf so don't reply to me !