Hyphen

Hyphen was nominated for the 1954 Best Fanzine Retro Hugo.

from Fancyclopedia 2 ca. 1959

(Madeleine Willis) "A fanzine", defines Chuck Harris laconically, "First issue May 1952". It was co-edited by Walt Willis and Harris, but was really more or less the product of the group known as the Oblique Angles. It became a focal point for a lot of people on the fringe of fandom as well as within it, succeeding Quandry as Zeitgeistsprecher of the old Sixth Fandomites who opposed 7th Fandom during the Sixth Transition. It influenced Anglofandom (and US Fandom) muchly by its amiably irreverent attitude toward fandom and stf in general — the "Serious Constructive Insurgentism" of Walt Willis' which found its most perfect, if not most typical, expression in The Harp Stateside and such other works as Through Darkest Ireland and The Enchanted Duplicator. "Neither Walt nor I cared for the name when Madeleine coined it," Chuck explains, "but now we think it's about perfect and wouldn't change it for anything."