Quoz

Quoz is a fanzine published by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer for ANZAPA with some very limited external distribution. Its title is derived from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841). In the section on 'Popular Follies of Great Cities', Mackay wrote:

London is peculiarly fertile in this sort of phrases, which spring up suddenly, no one knows exactly in what spot, and pervade the whole population in a few hours, no one knows how. Many years ago the favourite phrase (for, though but a monosyllable, it was a phrase in itself) was Quoz. This odd word took the fancy of the multitude in an extraordinary degree, and very soon acquired an almost boundless meaning. When vulgar wit wished to mark its incredulity, and raise a laugh at the same time, there was no resource so sure as this popular piece of slang. ... Every alehouse resounded with Quoz; every street-corner was noisy with it, and every wall for miles around was chalked with it.

On this principle the fanzine might have been called What a shocking bad hat! or Has your mother sold her mangle?, phrases that Mackay places in the same class. However, Quoz was chosen because it had the letters 'oz' in it.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	May 2005	8
2	October 2005	20
3	December 2005	8
4	July 2006	18
5	September 2006	20
6	March 2007	34
8	September 2007	20
9	March 2008	10
11	July 2008	38
12	September 2008	24
13	January 2009	24
88	April 2023	14	ANZAPA 332
89	June 2023	58	ANZAPA 333

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Publication

2005—

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