Ox-Fanzine
German punk fanzine
Ox-Fanzine is a monthly punk zine from Solingen, Germany, founded in 1988. It is edited by Joachim Hiller and has had many contributors. Besides its focus on punk subculture, it also covers similar genres, reviews of comics, books and films, and has included serial novels by authors such as Klaus N. Frick.
By 2019, Ox had a circulation of 10,000 copies.
History
Ox-Fanzine was founded in 1988 by Joachim Hiller and Biggi Häußler in Heidenheim an der Brenz (Southern Germany). Its first issue was published in January 1989. The zine was named after the cat of Häußler, which appeared on the first cover. After some time, Ox merged with the zine Faces the Facts and was joined by its editor Thomas Hähnel, but eventually Häußler and Hähnel left it to focus on other endeavours, leaving Hiller as the only editor. In the 1990s, Hiller relocated to Solingen in Western Germany.
Since the first issue of Ox-Fanzine there has been a page of vegetarian recipes and from there Hiller and his wife Uschi Herzer have published five cookbooks, the latest being entirely vegan.
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