Wild Shaarkah

A perzine pubbed in English by Czech fan and pro Eva Hauser(ová) in the early 1990s.

There were 7 ishes between October 1990 and December 1991, the last "special issue" serving as her GUFF fanzine. Much of the contents, especially travel/con reports, appeared also in Czech in the newszine Interkom (see http://interkom.vecnost.cz/$hau.htm ); an important part were her own drawings.

The publication ceased somewhat suddenly and without (previous) announcement, explained later by lack of time and waning enthusiasm. In late 2018 Eva uploaded the archives to eFanzines.com and an equivalent Czech fanzine-historical site (PDF without OCR, about 5 MB per issue; the Czech site allows browsing by individual pages in JPG, although these usually too small to read properly).

The title was explained (in the masthead of the first 3 issues and again in the retrospective) as a reference to the nature preserve wikipedia:Divoká Šárka valley in NW Prague near Eva's home; the name means Wild (as in wilderness; the less rocky downstream part is Tichá, Quiet) and the heroine of the ancient legend of wikipedia:The Maidens' War (i. e. anti-male revolt at the dawn of time, supposedly centered on the locale). This suited Eva's feminist and environmentalist activities, as well as sense of humour and puns.

Note that while the pictorial masthead of the first 3 issues was spelled (in all-caps, and with a slight punning linebreak) SHARKAAAH, by the fourth issue this changed to Shaarkah (i. e. from 1 and 3 As, respectively, to 2 and 1, better corresponding to the Czech pronunciation); this latter is/was the form preferred and used within texts by Eva herself, but spelling confusion still abounds (both fanzine archives use "Sharkaah", i. e. 1+2) .

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1990—1991

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