This August, the second pre-order run for the AMERICAN* FUJO* anthology edited by Alexis Rippen (Butchverse Zine) & tshirt3000 (Yaoi Zine) will begin. With a promised pre-order window of “several months,” those behind the adult-oriented anthology hope that everyone who wants a copy will be able to get one.
AMERICAN* FUJO*
Here’s the official description of AMERICAN* FUJO* from the PR:
“AMERICAN* FUJO* is Alexis Rippen & tshirt3000’s premier anthology on fandom culture, trans identity, and general overanalysis. Our project tries to asterisk and complicate its categories of both “American” and “Fujo” as much as possible, interrogating gender and sexuality, power of all kinds, and the virtual communities we call fandom.
“We asked our contributors questions along those lines: How has being a fan affected your gender or sexuality? How has our gender or sexuality affected how we engage in fandom? Who is a fujoshi, who wants to be one, and who doesn’t get the choice? In America-centric fan spaces, what is necessarily suppressed? How can we trouble the category and dominance of “American” from within and without? Finally, what does it mean to be in a community that’s overwhelmingly virtual, as reliant on digital social platforms as it is on fictional media, both owned by another party? And what affects or acts are uniquely enabled by these virtualized desires and sexuality?
“Our contributors range from actual self-identified American fujos to writers who are emphatically neither. They answer these questions through illustration, comics, essays, and autotheory, developing creative ways to capture fandom and its discontents. The anthology surveys a wide range of topics, from transgender fujoshism (in any direction) to race and belonging within theoretically progressive fandom. We want to make the full vibrancy of fandom as accessible as possible, and theorize both its possibilities and its limits through this anthology.”
The anthology boasts 17 creators and is 5.5” x 8.5” with black and interior pages. After an initial Kickstarter goal of $5,000, a total of $13,000 was pledged by 414 individual backers.
Coming in August
The second pre-order run for AMERICAN* FUJO* will begin in August 2026 and be open for several months. And if you’re interested instead in a digital copy, a PDF download is currently available for $12, and that page also includes a full listing of the anthology’s contents and creators (as well as a peek inside).
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