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Post by james on Apr 10, 2009 15:29:48 GMT -5
www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_04_10.html#016943It's supposed to be temporary, but I'd guess this halting of the print magazine will end up being permanent. I have to admit, I never read Starlog very often, but being a science fiction/fantasy/horror kid, I was aware of it. I'd guess most or all of the people here know it well.
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Post by tombitd on Apr 10, 2009 16:24:02 GMT -5
It's supposed to be temporary, but I'd guess this halting of the print magazine will end up being permanent. I have to admit, I never read Starlog very often, but being a science fiction/fantasy/horror kid, I was aware of it. I'd guess most or all of the people here know it well. Apparently, the only magazine that falls under the Starlog Group banner is Fangoria. The name recognition of that is what fueled the frequent buying of the company that saw me work for three different bosses in two years, and the only one that has successfully sustained spinoffs. Starlog hasn't made money for years, and was kept afloat out of nostalgia. Although it wouldn't surprise me if all the SG titles go digital before too long. |
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Post by Derrick on Apr 11, 2009 17:16:26 GMT -5
Before The Internet, magazines like STARLOG, FANGORIA, THE COMICS JOURNAL, WIZARD and CINEFANTASTIQUE was how I got my geek on. Magazines were the only way you could get news about upcoming genre movies, TV shows, comics, etc.
I especially liked getting new issues of CINEFANTASTIQUE and THE COMICS JOURNAL. This was back in the day when a single issue of each one was damn near thick as a phone book and you could spend a whole weekend reading one of 'em.
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Post by james on Apr 12, 2009 6:47:16 GMT -5
Before The Internet, magazines like STARLOG, FANGORIA, THE COMICS JOURNAL, WIZARD and CINEFANTASTIQUE was how I got my geek on. Magazines were the only way you could get news about upcoming genre movies, TV shows, comics, etc. I especially liked getting new issues of CINEFANTASTIQUE and THE COMICS JOURNAL. This was back in the day when a single issue of each one was damn near thick as a phone book and you could spend a whole weekend reading one of 'em. is a magazine I've been reading for at least ten years, though I don't buy every issue (they're damned expensive). And, each issue is still as thick as a phone book! (with better paper and format than back then...) Wizard... um, yeah, even as a young teenager I avoided it. ;D |
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Post by Derrick on Apr 12, 2009 12:02:53 GMT -5
I had no idea THE COMICS JOURNAL was still being published. I'll have to look for it.
I would pick up WIZARD depending on who they were interviewing that month and what kind of features they had. Their Casting Call page was often amusing as well.
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Post by tombitd on Apr 12, 2009 13:55:04 GMT -5
I had no idea THE COMICS JOURNAL was still being published. I'll have to look for it. I would pick up WIZARD depending on who they were interviewing that month and what kind of features they had. Their Casting Call page was often amusing as well. WIZARD was a magazine whose content was pretty much dictated by whoever bought the most ad pages that month. And it was the only game in town when it came to mainstream comics news before the bulk of comic book fandom migrated onto the net. But then, the birds are coming home to roost there at well. A few years back, Gareb Shamus tried to re-orient WIZARD to be a geek version of MAXIM, with more 'lifestyle' oriented features and a greater emphasis on cheesecake covers. The audience he was hoping to pick up never did because, well, they already had their MAXIM, and the audience he already had abandoned him by the droves--which has resulted in the company shedding staff on an almost monthly basis to the point where I think the only people working for WIZARD are...well, is...Gareb himself. And the funny thing is how Shamus just bought the Big Apple Con and is planning to run it next year in direct opposition to New York Comicon...apparently all by his lonesomes. (And MAXIM, the last of the 'men's lifestyle' magazines? They just published their last issue in March, with ELiza Dushku on the cover). I think it's not WIZARD or STARLOG that we should be mourning...it's niche magazine publishing as a whole. |
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Post by james on Apr 13, 2009 5:31:47 GMT -5
One of the ironic things about Wizard was that it was practically a propaganda machine for Marvel's and DC's corporate offices... and Marvel Age, Marvel's promo rag, was a much better read.
Especially when they would publish a retrospective article on a specific character (Daredevil, for example) and a writer would interview various artists and writers who worked with the character over the years. And I think the rise of Wizard is one of the reasons Marvel stopped publishing that book.
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Post by james on Apr 13, 2009 5:33:28 GMT -5
I think it's not WIZARD or STARLOG that we should be mourning...it's niche magazine publishing as a whole. just shifted from eleven issues a year to six. That's not a good sign. |
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