Editor

from Fancyclopedia 2 ca. 1959 and Fancyclopedia 1 ca. 1944

The jerk who founds a fanzine, names it, decides what kind of material it shall carry, selects and puts together material for an issue, and/ or publishes it; and his successors. There are also positions called art editor, assistant editor, contributing editor, etc, which may mean much assistance in the dirty work or none at all. Much blood has been shed over the question whether an editor should be allowed to make any changes in the mss of his writers before publishing them. many competent writers resent it as unnecessary interference with their communication to the readership; it is defended as taking the place of the drafting and rewriting that the authors ought to do and don't. [Added in Fancy 2]: Some editors delight in interjecting their own comments before, during, and after contributors' material. This is a tradition in CULTzines.