>> Read our full introduction to American* Fujo* <<

>> Our second pre-order period is open between now and November 1st! <<

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 (both ways) 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. We hope you're as excited to read AMERICAN* FUJO* as we are to make it!

We organized 17 skilled creators, with 13 writers and 5 comic creators to take part in this expedition. With our initial Kickstarter goal at $5,000, we reached more than double that in a month, with 414 individual backers pledging a total of over $13,000. The book itself is printed at 5.5" x 8.5" in black & white interior, with perfect binding. The full-color cover is illustrated by Shalida, with type design by Alexis. We were inspired by Marshall Arisman's original 1998 cover of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. And Yaoi. This book is very much 18+, both in mature topics and adult comics.

We are preparing for our second pre-order run to begin in August of 2026, and last at least a few months! We want everyone who wants a copy to be able to get one.

Currently available in .pdf form on our Itchio

Thank you everyone who contributed to the outstanding success of our Kickstarter, we look forward to showing you what we've made!

We will have our second pre-order period open between August 1st and November 1st.