Ditto

(Did you mean a fanzine reproduction method?)

Ditto, founded in 1988, is a small, friendly, fanzine-fan convention held irregularly in the fall.

The con ditto is named for the best-known brand of spirit duplicator. Thus, maintains Dick Smith, who once worked in a building that had housed that company, when not beginning a sentence, the name of the con ought to be spelled in lowercase, matching the duplicator's expired trademark.

Ditto moves around to different locations as chosen by The Ditto Masters, an informal cadre of past conchairs that controls the convention; Hope Leibowitz, the only fan to have attended all of the cons, is also a member.

Website (archived).

Convention	Date	Location	Organized by	Notes
Ditto 1	1988	Toronto	Bob Webber, Taral, Mike Glicksohn, Alan Rosenthal, Catherine Crockett, et al.	Boyd Raeburn named goh, but didn’t attend.
Ditto 2	October 13–15, 1989	San Francisco	Patty Peters & Gary Mattingly
Ditto 3	October 5–7, 1990	Northbrook, IL	Dick & Leah Zeldes Smith
Ditto 4	October 18–20, 1991	Virginia Beach	Cathy Doyle & Kip Williams	Ned Brooks “randomly” chosen as goh.
Ditto V	October 23–24, 1992	Cincinnati	Bill Bowers, Pat & Roger Sims and the Cincinnati Fantasy Group	in conjunction with Octocon 29
Ditto 6	November 19–21, 1993	Cambridge, MA	Bob Webber & Sarah Prince
Ditto 7	1994	Ann Arbor	Leslie Smith & Ken Josenhans
Ditto 8	November 3–5, 1995	Seattle	Alan Rosenthal & Janice Murray
Ditto 9	1996	El Paso, TX	Richard Brandt & Michelle Lyons	Smallest ever.
Ditto 10	October 24–26, 1997	Cincinnati	Pat & Roger Sims, Bill Bowers, and Bill Cavin and the Cincinnati Fantasy Group	in conjunction with Octocon 34
Ditto 11	November 6–8, 1998	Newport, RI	Priscilla Olson, Mark Olson, Bob Webber and George Flynn	GoH: Ed Meskys.
Ditto 12	October 29–31, 1999	Minneapolis	Karen Cooper, Jeff Schalles, Martin Schafer, Dean Gahlon, David Emerson, Sharon Kahn	in conjuction with Minn-stf Fallcon
Ditto 13	September 22–24, 2000	Addison, Texas	Cris & Neil Kaden
Ditto 14	October 12–14, 2001	Bloomington, IL	Dick & Leah Zeldes Smith, Bob & Fern Tucker, Henry & Letha Welch	Held jointly with FanHistoriCon 11. Jack Speer, keynote speaker.
Ditto 15	October 18–20, 2002	Toronto	Murray Moore, Colin Hinz, Catherine Crockett Lloyd & Yvonne Penney, Mike Glicksohn, Taral, Jim Caughran
Ditto 16	October 10–13, 2003	Eugene, Oregon	Alan Rosenthal, Loren MacGregor and Janice Murray
Ditto 17	October 8–10, 2004	Orlando, Florida	Pat & Roger Sims
Ditto 18	October 14–16, 2005	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Henry & Letha Welch, Trinlay Khadro, Henry Osier, Greg Rihn, Georgie Schnobrich and Dick & Leah Zeldes Smith
Ditto 19	2007	Mendocino County, California	Alan Rosenthal	AKA ArtCon

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