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|      image_caption = ''Factsheet Five'' #25, February 1988, featuring cover art by Freddie Baer
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|            editor = [[Mike Gunderloy]] ("Æditor", 1982–1991)<br/>Hudson Luce (1991)<br/>R. Seth Friedman (1992–1998)
|            editor = [[Mike Gunderloy]] ("Æditor", 1982–1991)<br/>Hudson Luce (1991)<br/>R. Seth Friedman (1992–1998)
|          frequency = quarterly (varied)
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'''''Factsheet Five''''' was a periodical mostly consisting of short reviews of privately produced printed matter along with contact details of the editors and publishers.
'''''Factsheet Five''''' was a periodical mostly consisting of short reviews of privately produced printed matter along with contact details of the editors and publishers.
   
   
In the 1980s and early 1990s, its comprehensive reviews (thousands in each issue) made it the most important publication in its field, increasing distribution channels for self-publishers and heralding the wider spread of what would eventually be called [[fanzine]] or [[zine]] culture.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Braun |first=Jolie |date=2024 |title=1990s Zine Distribution and Understanding the Work of Zine Distros through Their Catalogs |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731777 |journal=The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America |volume=118 |issue=3 |pages=413–441 |doi=10.1086/731777 |issn=0006-128X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> A number of underground artists and writers read or submitted their work to ''Factsheet Five'', including [[Julie Doucet]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-23 |title=Julie Doucet: How a Zine Author Went Canonical |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/julie-doucet-how-a-zine-author-went-canonical |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> and [[Jonathan Lethem]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lethem |first=Jonathan |date=2023-08-11 |title=To Factsheet Five |url=https://medium.com/@jonathan.lethem/to-factsheet-five-200f234410ee |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref>
In the 1980s and early 1990s, its comprehensive reviews (thousands in each issue) made it the most important publication in its field, increasing distribution channels for self-publishers and heralding the wider spread of what would eventually be called [[fanzine]] or [[zine]] culture.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Braun |first=Jolie |date=2024 |title=1990s Zine Distribution and Understanding the Work of Zine Distros through Their Catalogs |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731777 |journal=The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America |volume=118 |issue=3 |pages=413–441 |doi=10.1086/731777 |issn=0006-128X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> A number of underground artists and writers read or submitted their work to ''Factsheet Five'', including [[John Porcellino]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=My Dad Got a Photocopier at His Office: John Porcellino on 30 Years of King-Cat |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/interviews/dad-got-photocopier-office-john-porcellino-30-years-king-cat |access-date=2025-11-11 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> [[Julie Doucet|Julie Doucet,]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-23 |title=Julie Doucet: How a Zine Author Went Canonical |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/julie-doucet-how-a-zine-author-went-canonical |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> and [[Jonathan Lethem]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lethem |first=Jonathan |date=2023-08-11 |title=To Factsheet Five |url=https://medium.com/@jonathan.lethem/to-factsheet-five-200f234410ee |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref>
 
Before the widespread adoption of the web and e-mail beginning around 1994, publications such as ''Factsheet Five'' formed a vital directory for connecting like-minded people. It was the literary equivalent to such phenomena as ''[[International Sound Communication]]'' in the period of [[cassette culture]].


Before the widespread adoption of the web and e-mail beginning around 1994, publications such as ''Factsheet Five'' formed a vital directory for connecting like-minded people. It was the literary equivalent to such phenomena as ''[[International Sound Communication]]'' in the period of [[cassette culture]].
==History==
==History==
The magazine was originally published in 1982 by Mike Gunderloy on a [[spirit duplicator]] in his bedroom in a [[slanshack]] in [[Alhambra, California]], though the first issue notes he was located at Hyde Park neighborhood in [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Issue 1 |url=https://f5archive.org/issue-1/ |website=Factsheet Five Archive Project |date=9 March 2022 |access-date=12 March 2022}}</ref> He started publishing this [[zine]] due to frustrations over the infrequent publication of ''The Stark Fist of Removal'', of which he was a fan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greer |first1=J. C. |title="Zines," Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55c5d9b8e4b0d420518ad021/t/5dff9e8c58924f4510c059e0/1577033357622/Zines.pdf |access-date=10 October 2023}}</ref> The original focus was [[science fiction fanzines]] (the title comes from a short story by science fiction author [[John Brunner (novelist)|John Brunner]]), but it included other reviews. [[Bob Grumman]] contributed a regular column on [[avant-garde]] poetry from 1987 to 1992.
The magazine was originally published in 1982 by Mike Gunderloy on a [[spirit duplicator]] with a run of 50 copies soon after he moved to the Hyde Park neighborhood in [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Issue 1 |url=https://f5archive.org/issue-1/ |website=Factsheet Five Archive Project |date=9 March 2022 |access-date=12 March 2022}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He started publishing this [[zine]] due to frustrations over writing about the same oddities or discoveries to different friends back in California<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Duncombe |first=Stephen |title=Notes from underground: zines and the politics of alternative culture |date=2001 |publisher=Verso |isbn=978-1-85984-158-7 |edition=Repr |series=The Haymarket series |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Held, Jr. |first=John |title=Zinelandia: Cover Art From the Factsheet Five Era (1982-1998) |publisher=Fluke Publishing |year=2025 |location=Phoenix, AZ |pages=2}}</ref> as well as the infrequent publication of ''The Stark Fist of Removal'', of which he was a fan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greer |first1=J. C. |title="Zines," Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55c5d9b8e4b0d420518ad021/t/5dff9e8c58924f4510c059e0/1577033357622/Zines.pdf |access-date=10 October 2023}}</ref> The original focus was [[science fiction fanzines]] (the title comes from a short story by science fiction author [[John Brunner (novelist)|John Brunner]]), but it included other reviews. [[Bob Grumman]] contributed a regular column on [[avant-garde]] poetry from 1987 to 1992.


Gunderloy later moved to [[Rensselaer, New York]], where he continued to publish. By 1987, he was running a zine [[Bulletin board system|BBS]], one of the first associated with an underground publication.<ref>Shane Williams, Holly Cornell, Al Kowalewski, et al., "Factsheet Five: The Fanzine Fanzine," ''Flipside,'' whole no. 53 (Summer 1987), pp. 23-25.</ref> In 1990, Cari Goldberg Janice and (briefly) Jacob Rabinowitz joined as co-editors.<ref name="FF38">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/factsheet_five_38 |title=Factsheet Five 38 (1990 Oct) |pages=15}}</ref> Gunderloy quit publishing ''Factsheet Five'' following the completion of Issue #44 in 1991.<ref name="worldofzines"/>
Gunderloy later moved to [[Rensselaer, New York]], where he continued to publish. By 1987, he was running a zine [[Bulletin board system|BBS]], one of the first associated with an underground publication.<ref>Shane Williams, Holly Cornell, Al Kowalewski, et al., "Factsheet Five: The Fanzine Fanzine," ''Flipside,'' whole no. 53 (Summer 1987), pp. 23-25.</ref> In 1990, Cari Goldberg Janice and (briefly) Jacob Rabinowitz joined as co-editors.<ref name="FF38">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/factsheet_five_38 |title=Factsheet Five 38 (1990 Oct) |pages=15}}</ref> Gunderloy quit publishing ''Factsheet Five'' following the completion of Issue #44 in 1991.<ref name="worldofzines"/>
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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". Factsheet Five was a periodical mostly consisting of short reviews of privately produced printed matter along with contact details of the editors and publishers.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, its comprehensive reviews (thousands in each issue) made it the most important publication in its field, increasing distribution channels for self-publishers and heralding the wider spread of what would eventually be called fanzine or zine culture.[1] A number of underground artists and writers read or submitted their work to Factsheet Five, including John Porcellino,[2] Julie Doucet,[3] and Jonathan Lethem.[4]

Before the widespread adoption of the web and e-mail beginning around 1994, publications such as Factsheet Five formed a vital directory for connecting like-minded people. It was the literary equivalent to such phenomena as International Sound Communication in the period of cassette culture.

History

The magazine was originally published in 1982 by Mike Gunderloy on a spirit duplicator with a run of 50 copies soon after he moved to the Hyde Park neighborhood in Boston.[5][6] He started publishing this zine due to frustrations over writing about the same oddities or discoveries to different friends back in California[6][7] as well as the infrequent publication of The Stark Fist of Removal, of which he was a fan.[8] The original focus was science fiction fanzines (the title comes from a short story by science fiction author John Brunner), but it included other reviews. Bob Grumman contributed a regular column on avant-garde poetry from 1987 to 1992.

Gunderloy later moved to Rensselaer, New York, where he continued to publish. By 1987, he was running a zine BBS, one of the first associated with an underground publication.[9] In 1990, Cari Goldberg Janice and (briefly) Jacob Rabinowitz joined as co-editors.[10] Gunderloy quit publishing Factsheet Five following the completion of Issue #44 in 1991.[11]

Hudson Luce purchased the rights to Factsheet Five and published a single issue, Issue #45, with the help of BBS enthusiast Bill Paulouskas, cartoonist Ben Gordon, writer Jim Knipfel, and artist Mark Bloch, who had authored a mail art-related column called "Net Works" during the Gunderloy years.[12]

R. Seth Friedman then published the magazine for five years in San Francisco, with the help of Christopher Becker, Miriam Wolf and Jerod Pore,[13] until Issue #64 in 1998. Circulation grew to 16,000 during that time.[14]

Gunderloy later worked as a computer programmer before retiring in 2020. He co-authored the book SQL Server 7 in Record Time.

In other media

Jerod Pore collected articles and reviews from the print version of Factsheet Five, and with them produced Factsheet Five - Electric, one of the first zines to use the Usenet newsgroup alt.zines. Beginning in the late 1980s, Gunderloy and Pore also established a substantial online presence on the WELL, an influential, private dial-up BBS.

Three books were published based on Factsheet Five: How to Publish a Fanzine by Gunderloy (1988; Loompanics), The World of Zines, by Gunderloy and Janice (1992; Penguin), and The Factsheet Five Zine Reader by Friedman (1997, Three Rivers Press). Until 1989, Gunderloy collected and, in turn, made available several versions of the Gemstone File. A number of Gunderloy's zine reviews from Factsheet Five also appeared in edited form in High Weirdness by Mail.

Mike Gunderloy's Factsheet Five Collection of over 10,000 zines and mail art is now held at the New York State Library in Albany, New York, where it occupies Template:Convert.[15] However, only about 4000 zines in the collection have been cataloged.[16]

About 1/4 of the zines in the collection are listed on Excelsior, the New York State Library's electronic catalog; staff of the Manuscripts & Special Collection can help locate other items.[17]

R. Seth Friedman donated 240 zines to the Little Maga/Zine Collection of the San Francisco Public Library.[18]

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  15. ↑ "A Zine Lover's Dream," New York State Library News, April 1997.
  16. ↑ Jeremy Gardner, "Zines in the Academic Library: A Literature Review," Template:Webarchive Library Student Journal, May 2009.
  17. ↑ C. Janowsky, "NYSL Collections That Are Not in the Library’s Online Catalog," Template:Webarchive New York State Library, June 2009.
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