James Bond fandom is an international and informal community drawn together by Ian Fleming's James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

series. The fandom works through the use of many different forms of media, including web sites, fan fiction

Fan fiction

Fan fiction is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator...

, magazines, WebZine podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

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Fan art

Fan art or fanart is artwork that is based on a character, costume, collage, item, or story that was created by someone other than the artist, such as a fan, from which the word is derived from. The term, while it can apply to art done by fans of characters from books, is usually used to refer to...

 and songvid

Songvid

Vidding is the fan labor practice in media fandom of creating music videos from the footage of one or more visual media sources, thereby exploring the source itself in a new way...

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The first James Bond Fan Club was in the summer of 1974, when Richard Schenkman and Bob Forlini, two students at Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, NY, put together a fan club and published a mimeographed, stapled-together magazine called BONDAGE.

concept car designer Frank Rinderknecht, James Bond fan created underwater car in the movie “The Spy Who Loved Me” after three decades. He worked with his team to create “sQuba

SQuba

The sQuba, developed by Swiss company Rinspeed, is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and under water. The original idea by Rinspeed founder and CEO Frank M. Rinderknecht was inspired by the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me...

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Fan sites

Since its foundation, MI6-HQ.com (formally MI6.co.uk) has been a trustworthy resource for media organizations across the world. Press organizations and websites who've been assisted by MI6 include Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...

, and MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

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Podcasts

Commanderbond.net has featured the podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

s in enhanced iTunes format and standard MP3.