redneck@txdirect.net (Redneck Gaijin) wrote:
RG> >
RG> > Hi people,
RG> >
RG> > I am writing some articles about Internet for a  Japonese Animation
RG> >Magazine in my country (Brazil) and I need some informations about the li
RG> >and the fan fics.
RG> >
RG> > 1) What is Spam?
RG> 
RG> Spam is unwanted email or Usenet content, unsolicited posts or emails
RG> off-topic or annoying by nature. Basically, electronic junk mail or filler
RG> 
RG> > 2)Anybody know who wrote the 1st fan-fic?When?
RG> 
RG> I have heard allegations claiming the first -anime- fanfic was Ryan Mathew
RG> (see? I spelled it right this time!) 'The Ballad of Lord Robin,' but I dou
RG> this is strictly true. 
RG> 
RG> Fan stories for 'Ninja High School,' an American manga-inspired comic, dat
RG> back to 1988.

Don't forget the Star Trek:Tos fan stories, which go back to the 70's and
maybe late 60's

RG> 
RG> Fan fiction itself goes back as far as fandom, and even farther... one cou
RG> consider the 'Davy Crockett Magazines' of the 1830s and 1840s as fanfics.
RG> 
RG> > 3)Do you know any fan-fic writer who become a pro-writer?

There are a number of people who where involved with ST:TOS fandom
who later had full-blown ST:TOS novels published during the middle
70's/early 80's the best example I can think of right now would be
Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath who had a couple of novels published by
Bantam Books around 1979 or so.