The Drink Tank
The Drink Tank is a weekly fanzine edited and published by Christopher J. Garcia. It focuses on science fiction fandom, sex, weirdness and rock music. The title comes from a typo on a form filing trademark on the name for a film production company in the mid-1990s.
Evolution
The Drink Tank debuted on eFanzines.com on January 31st, 2005. At first it was a rough zine of five pages. Over the first five months, the zine went from being written primarily by one small group of friends to a more general zine featuring writers like Jay Lake, Frank Wu, Jason Schachat, Lloyd Penney, John Purcell, Judith Morel, SaBean MoreL and M Lloyd. It is well-known for featuring art of busty women and strange articles, as well as being poorly proofread.
Starting in 2006, the zine changed format (from portrait to landscape) and gained more new writers, like Mark Valentine, Niall Harrison, Ted White, and others. Art comes from Frank Wu, Bill Rotsler, Espana Sheriff, Robert Hole, Brad W. Foster and others.
In 2006, The Drink Tank came in 7th in nominations for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine. In 2007, The Drink Tank ended up on the final ballot for Hugo voting.
