Banana Wings

Banana Wings is a British fanzine edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer since November 1995.

In November 1995 Mark produced Banana Skins, and Claire Waxen Wings after which the editors decided to merge the titles. This puts Banana Wings in the unusual position of having either no first issue (in common with Ploy and Fouler) or two. The editors tend to view these fanzines as Banana Wings #1.

The next two issues used the composite title Waxen Wings and Banana Skins before the final title Banana Wings emerged in November 1996.

The two #1s were both photocopied. From #2 onwards copies were A4 duplicated (duplication by Maureen Speller), switching to A4 photocopied from #14 (August 1999) and then A5 photocopied from #35 (August 2008). Prior to #50 (August 2012) copies were only available in print, Subsequently they were additionally available in various electronic formats.

It won the Nova Award for Best Fanzine in 1996-1998, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2013 and the FAAn Award for Best Fanzine in 2007, 2010, and 2013--2015, 2017, 2019. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine eight times in 2005—2007 and 2009--2013. The cover of #56 by D. West also won the FAAn Award for Best Cover in 2015.

Frequent contributors include James Bacon, Cardinal Cox, Tony Keen, Paul Kincaid, Caroline Mullan, Greg Pickersgill, David Redd, Fred Smith and Taral Wayne.

Most frequently appearing cover artists are Atom, Brad Foster, Steve Stiles, Harry Turner and D. West.

Most prolific lettercolumn contributors are Brad Foster, Steve Jeffery, Jerry Kaufman, Robert Lichtman, Lloyd Penney, John Purcell, David Redd, Fred Smith and Milt Stevens.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	November 1995	20	Banana Skins (by Mark, A4, photocopied); no cover art
1	November 1995	20	Waxen Wings (by Claire, A5, photocopied); cover by Ian Gunn
2	April 1996	52	cover by Anne Stokes; issued under the title Waxen Wings and Banana Skins;
3	July 1996	64	Cover by Sue Mason; issued under the title Waxen Wings and Banana Skins; the first issue to feature an outside article contribution, a fanzine review column by Paul Kincaid
4	November 1996	58	Cover features the covers of the fourth issues of Nebula and New Worlds; first issue under Banana Wings title
5	February 1997	60	Cover is photo of the cast of Friends underlining the subtitle of ‘Four Friends and a Relation’; this issue largely written by outside contributors
6	Easter 1997	66	Cover by Harry Turner
7	September 1997	64	Cover by Harry Turner
8	November 1997	56	Cover by Steve Jeffery
9	March 1998	56	Cover by Brad Foster
10	April 1998	34	Cover by Harry Turner; contains reprint material concerning previous Eastercons in Manchester
11	August 1998	68	Cover by Dave Mooring
12	November 1998	70	Cover by Sue Mason
13	Easter 1999	64	Cover is clipart; the last issued to be duplicated
14	August 1999	58	Cover by Colin Odell (most are mono but a few have tipped-in colour art); includes a facsimile reprint of Vin¢ Clarke’s two-page Launching Site from OMPA #1
15	April 2000	54	cover by Sue Mason; a trip report for Aussiecon 3
16	September 2000	58	Cover by Steve Stiles; including the first part of Fred Smith’s Once There was a Magazine…
17	May 2002	52	Cover by Dave Hicks; including the second part of Fred Smith’s Once There was a Magazine…
18	October 2002	48	Cover collage of clipart; includes Andy Sawyer’s academic paper on The Enchanted Duplicator
19	March 2004	20	Cover is clipart; includes an advance chapter of Peter Weston’s With Stars in My Eyes
20	November 2004	36	Cover by Brad Foster
21	February 2005	28
22	May 2005	32
23	August 2005	36
24	November 2005	40
25	February 2006	36
26	May 2006	36
27	Aug 2006	32
28	Nov 2006	32
29	Feb 2007	36
30	May 2007	36
31	Aug 2007	32
32	Nov 2007	32
33	Feb 2008	32
34	May 2008	36
35	Aug 2008	50
36	Nov 2008	56
37	Mar 2009	48
38	May 2009	60
39	Aug 2009	56
40	Nov 2009	60
41	Mar 2010	56
42	May 2010	60
43	Aug 2010	52
44	Nov 2010	56
45	Feb 2011	58
46	Jun 2011	58
47	Sep 2011	56	Cover by Colin Odell
48	Dec 2011	56	Cover by D. West
49	Apr 2012	56	Cover by Atom
50	Aug 2012	56	Cover by Dan Steffan
51	Nov 2012	60	Cover by D. West
52	Apr 2013	60	Cover by Steve Stiles
53	Aug 2013	60	Cover by D. West
54	Dec 2013	60	Cover by Brad Foster
55	Mar 2014	56
56	Aug 2014	60	Cover by D. West won FAAn Award for Best Cover in 2015.
57	November 2014	56	Cover by Steve Stiles
58	March 2015	52	Cover by Ivor Latto
59	August 2015	56	Cover by D. West; includes Caroline Mullan’s guest-of-honour talk from Eastercon 2015
60	November 2015	56	Cover by Steve Stiles
61	March 2016	60	Cover by Ivor Latto
62	May 2016	60	Cover by Brad Foster
63	August 2016	60	Cover by Ivor Latto
64	November 2016	60	Cover by Steve Stiles
65	March 2017	60	Cover by Atom
66	June 2017	60	Cover by Steve Stiles
67	September 2017	60	Cover by Rob Hansen
68	November 2017	60	Cover by Atom
69	February 2018	60	Cover by D. West
70	April 2018	60	Cover by Atom
71	September 2018	60	Cover by Steve Stiles
72	November 2018	60	Cover by Ian Gunn
73	April 2019	64	Cover by Steve Stiles
74	July 2019	60	Cover by Atom
75	November 2019	56	Cover by Ulrika O'Brien
76	February 2020	60	Cover by Atom remixed by Mark Plummer
77	November 2021	60	Cover by España Sheriff
78	March 2022	60	Cover by Alison Scott
79	November 2023	60	Cover by Ulrika O'Brien

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