History of Fan Films Quarterly

1987 to the Present

In the late 80's, a group of friends in Florida collaborated to create a teenage vigilante group combating urban crime.  The group, which soon became the Knight Squad, was the creative inspiration for David Noble to enter film production.  Through his studies at the University of Tampa in the late 90's, David Noble created a short film based on Star Trek called Invalid.  He also spawned four Mortal Kombat parodies called Moron Kombat.  

 

Through the next ten years David Noble would focus his energies in the professional world, but never lost sight of his joys as a filmmaker.  After creating two magazines through his work, David Noble discovered an online print-on-demand company known as Lulu.  Through Lulu, David Noble was able to fulfill another dream when he began to publish his own written works.  After several books (Clarissa's Flame, which is really a horror novel despite the harlequin sounding title) and comics (Loss of Legends) later, David Noble was motivated to move to the next level.

 

Throughout the last twenty years, David Noble has never shies away from the artistic world of comics.  Live action movies, television shows, graphic novels, and the occasional comic made their way into David Noble's possession.  While living in Chicago, he discovered a fan film called Dead End, based on Batman, Predator, and Aliens.  The movie peeked his curiosity to search for other films similar to the Sandy Collora film.  Soon he discovered other great fan films like Dark Redemption, Grayson, and Green Goblin's Last Stand.  A whole new underground cult world opened when hundreds of fan film began emerging from across the globe.

 

David Noble attempted to purchase a copy of the fan film magazine entitled Online Entertainment (OEM).  When the publisher never shipped, he soon discovered that several dozens of fan film fans also received the same discourse.  Troubled by this predicament, he decided to create his own magazine based on the genre he had grown to love.  In the Fall of 2005 the first issue of Fan Films Quarterly was published.....to slow readership following.

 

Was it because of the bitter taste that OEM left to fans that FFQ would be just the same?  Was it the unique method in which FFQ must be purchased?  Was it the fear of stepping into uncharted territory?  The mystery will remain, but with One Year Later, FFQ marks the coming of its 6th issue with the Winter 2006 edition fast approaching.  The fans have grown, sales are up, and everyone at FFQ are excited with what lies ahead for fan films.