Arnie Katz

Lon Atkins, left, and Arnie Katz at Midwestcon 17, 1966. Photo from Zingaro 8 by Mark Irwin.

(July 2, 1946 –)

Arnie Katz is a longtime fanzine fan and faan living in Las Vegas. He has decided opinions on the nature of trufandom and isn’t afraid to disseminate them.

In 1970, while living in New York, he married fellow fan Joyce Fisher. They published the newszine FIAWOL in the 1970s and assisted Sam Moskowitz in his publication, A Canticle for P. Schuyler Miller (1975). He co-founded the Brooklyn Insurgents and was a member of the New York in 1967 Worldcon bid, APA-45, APA APA, and APA-F. He dubbed the Arnie Katz-Approved Neofans.

In Las Vegas, he and Joyce pretty much created a local fandom from scratch. He is a member of the Fanwriting Circle, APA-V and The Cult, He was a member and officer of the Southern Nevada Area Fantasy Fiction Union (SNAFFU), hosted The Monthly Social in the 1990s and the Vegrants. He was on the Corflu 25 committee.

He published a serious novel set in fandom, The Fractured Circle. He edited The Sweetheart of Fanac Falls, a fanthology of Joyce's writing.

(R-to-L) Arnie Katz, Moshe Feder, and Joyce Fisher Katz at Corflu Nova (1984).
Courtesy of Rich Lynch

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Arundel
• Baloney (with Tom Springer)
• Bring Bruce Bayside Bulletin (with Joyce Katz)
• Claptrap
• Corflatch Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
• Crifanac
• DamnYankee [mid-60s] (for SFPA)
• The Enchanted Duplicator (1971 edition, with rich brown)
• Excalibur (with Lenny Bailes
• Excelsior
• Flicker
• Fanac Time in Glitter City
• Fanstuff
• Fanoclast Weakly
• The Fannish Worry Book
• Fanzine Dreams
• Folly
• Four-Star Extra (with Joyce Katz, Bill Kunkel, and Charlene Kunkel)
• FourPlay (Joyce Katz, John Hardin and Jacq Monahan)
• Glitz [early 90s] (for FAPA, with Joyce Katz)
• Guess Who (with Lenny Bailes)
• Heirlooms [1995]
• Implications (with John Hardin and Joyce Katz)
• The Incompleat Terry Carr (with rich brown)
• Iron Lung
• Jackpot!
• A Little of the Best of Bob Tucker (with Joyce Katz)
• Log
• Quip
• Plasma [mid 90s-mid 00s] (for FAPA)

Arnie Katz (1995) By and courtesy of Grant Canfield.

• Sidebar [1997] (with Ken Forman)
• Silvercon Memories [1995]
• Snap (with Bill Kunkel)
• Splotch
• St. Omp
• The Sweetheart of Fanac Falls
• Swerve [1995]
• Swoon
• Tandem (with Joyce Katz)
• The Ted White Sampler
• Toner 2 Times
• Trufan Detective Magazine [1995]
• Trufan's Advisor [1995]
• Vegas Fan Diary [1996]
• Vegas Fandom Weekly
• Wafe (with Kent McDaniel)
• Wild Heirs [1993–96]
• Wooden Nickel
• Xtreme
• Zup; Son of Zap

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1996 -- ConDiablo
• 2003 -- Past president of the FWA
• 2008 -- FAAn Award for Best Fan Writer and Number One Fan Face

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