A letter from SFScope friend Andrew Porter:

Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll’s JANUS (later AURORA) is available as pdf’s here.

“Janus was the idea and namesake of Janice Bogstad. Jeanne Gomoll worked on the first issue and joined Jan as co-editor in the second issue. Jan focused on text content while Jeanne was primarily responsible for the layout and graphics.

“Jan and Jeanne suspended their editorial partnership in 1979. Jan began publishing a fanzine named New Moon. SF3 [Madison, Wisconsin’s ‘Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and SF’] and its publication committee continued to publish Janus, and subsequently changed its name to Aurora, although the numbering system was retained. By issue #20, Diane Martin took over as head of the SF3 publication committee and managed the fanzine until its final issue, #26, was published in 1990. One of the main causes of the fanzines’ demise was the increasing amount of the group’s energy consumed by WisCon, which is now recognized as the leading feminist science fiction convention.

“Janus was nominated for three Best Fanzine Hugos in 1978, 1979 and 1980. Jeanne Gomoll was nominated for two Best Fan Artist Hugos in 1978 and 1980. Janus and Aurora were the most prominent feminist science fiction fanzines of their time. With the exception of Amanda Bankier’s fanzine, The Witch and the Chameleon, which ceased publication in 1976, Janus and Aurora were the ONLY fanzines with this focus.”

Link first posted on Fmzfen by Murray Moore. Jeanne Gomoll is one of the Guests of Honor at the 2014, London, Worldcon.