Second pre-order window opens for AMERICAN* FUJO* anthology

AMERICAN* FUJO*, an anthology on fandom’s intersection with gender and sexuality that’s edited by Alexis Rippen (Butchverse Zine) and tshirt3000 (Yaoi Zine), is opening a second pre-order window for its print edition in August 2026. Organizers expect the window to stay open for “several months,” per an article published by Comics Beat, aiming to give anyone who missed the first run a chance to order a physical copy.

What the AMERICAN* FUJO* anthology covers

The collection bills itself as a survey of fandom, trans identity, and “general overanalysis,” probing how gender, sexuality, and power shape (and get shaped by) fan communities. Contributors were asked to reflect on questions like who gets to claim (or is denied) the fujoshi label, what gets flattened in American-centric fan spaces, and what it means to build community almost entirely through platforms owned by someone else.

Its 17 contributors include both self-identified American fujoshi and writers who explicitly aren’t, working across illustration, comics, essays, and autotheory. Topics reportedly range from trans experiences of fujoshi identity to questions of race and belonging in fandom spaces that see themselves as progressive.

See the full list of stories below:

•  don’t you miss it yaoi girl: homosociality and butch (trans)womanhood by Max F.

• Oh Boy! Male Idols and Beating Fantasies by tshirt

• death in the chrysalis: asian/american fujoshi ft. akimi yoshida’s banana fish by CEL

• The Prince by A.C. Esguerra (COMIC)

• “I’ve never known myself as well as I know myself when I’m with him, or, an Autotheoretical Account of Forcemasc Fantasy in Season One of Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal by Elliot Asher

• Against Interpretation of the Body & Its Genders/Labors by K. Lee

• SPECTRAL SAVAGES & SETTLER FETISHES : on fandom, fujoshis, & frontier psychosis by angel

• to have it when you have it not: fantastical possibility and the symbol of the anime girl by simk skolomorphic

• Dude, Is That an Alien? by Calliope Neurotoxins (COMIC)

• Between Fujos by roland lennox

• FRAGMENT EATERS by Max Banshees (COMIC)

• Just Give Them What They Want: Bilingualism, Performance and Power in KinnPorsche The Series by Frank

• The Eating of American by Julia Norza

• BOYS TOYS by Elle Shivers (COMIC)

• THE LESBIAN GAZE AND ITS VICTIMS: Reality TV and the Women That Watch, Star In, and Make It by [Pigeon]

• do not be deceived by his boba eyes: On literary trope, generic Asianness, and fanfiction by Trisha Lowe

• Y12000 by Spicyyeti (COMIC)

• Postproduction for the Fan by Alexis Rippen

The book runs 5.5” x 8.5” with black-and-white interiors. Its Kickstarter, which set out to raise $5,000, ultimately pulled in $13,000 from 414 backers.

Read the official description below:

AMERICAN* FUJO* is Alexis Rippen & tshirt3000’s premier anthology on fandom culture, trans identity, and general overanalysis. Our project tries to asterisk and complicate its categories of both “American” and “Fujo” as much as possible, interrogating gender and sexuality, power of all kinds, and the virtual communities we call fandom.

We asked our contributors questions along those lines: How has being a fan affected your gender or sexuality? How has our gender or sexuality affected how we engage in fandom? Who is a fujoshi, who wants to be one, and who doesn’t get the choice? In America-centric fan spaces, what is necessarily suppressed? How can we trouble the category and dominance of “American” from within and without? Finally, what does it mean to be in a community that’s overwhelmingly virtual, as reliant on digital social platforms as it is on fictional media, both owned by another party? And what affects or acts are uniquely enabled by these virtualized desires and sexuality?

Our contributors range from actual self-identified American fujos to writers who are emphatically neither. They answer these questions through illustration, comics, essays, and autotheory, developing creative ways to capture fandom and its discontents. The anthology surveys a wide range of topics, from transgender fujoshism (in any direction) to race and belonging within theoretically progressive fandom. We want to make the full vibrancy of fandom as accessible as possible, and theorize both its possibilities and its limits through this anthology.

The second physical pre-order run begins in August 2026. In the meantime, a digital edition is available now as a $12 PDF download through the anthology’s itch.io page, which also lists the full contributor roster and offers preview pages.