I've been thinking, wouldn't you say fanzines are a once-in-a-lifetime-encounter type of thing?

Yeah.

Since they're only sold at their given time, you really get a sense of their era.

Hmm...

And there are a lot of people that stopped drawing either because they quit or went pro.

Huh...

If they're going pro, then they're no longer people just for me.

They were never yours from the start.