The first home match of the season has for the last 20 years heralded the first issue of the TWTD fanzine of a new campaign. This year, however, will be different as we’ve decided to stop producing the paper-based zine.
Over the last year we’ve found it increasingly hard to find the time to put zines together with the final issue, number 99, coming out before Christmas.
The website and other commitments have taken up an increasingly large amount of time and in line with most similar paper-based fanzine, sales have dropped in recent years to around 1,000, about one-fifteenth of the website’s current daily unique users.
We had planned to put together a compilation ‘best of’ issue 100, but having looked through the material there is far too much we’d want to include for just a fanzine, so there may be a book at some point in the future. In the meantime, the TWTD fanzine will be stuck at number 99, plus the 1992 Summer Special which was unnumbered.
Many thanks to the many contributors, purchasers, readers and sellers over the years, both during our period as editors and under the previous stewardships of Paul Stephens, Steve Mellen and Gavin Barber and Phil Arnold. Subscribers with issues outstanding will be reimbursed in the next couple of weeks.
The end of the paper TWTD doesn’t mean we don’t still want contributions from site readers. If you want to express an opinion or write anything in general which you feel deserves greater attention than just a story comment or a Message Board post, then become a TWTD blogger.