Remaining Fanzines and Magazines?

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

Oh , the irony . Let's continue something that was discussed at the MSA Old Home , namely , remaining print comic fanzines - And , for diversity , pro/semi-pro/" pro-zine " comics publications as well .

  CBG remains in business . The Comics Journal has now announced that they will come out annually , with " a 600-page plus " issue .

  I am Facebook friends with Jon B. Cooke but I haven't yet checked to see if his Comic Book Artist has managed to continue recently , post-its Old Home...

  Toomorrows , which indeed has itself a little nook/corner , with The Jack Kirby Collectore , Alter Ego , and Back Issue .

  Now , including the " fan " side too...........

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...I have just come across/bought a new magazine - ISSUE of a magazine , anyway - that is rather in the ComixScene ( was that its spelling ??? no time to look it up right now . ) " covering comic-based media " vein , something I picked up at Walgreens titled " SUPERHERO SPECTACULAR " that , technically , appears to be the latest issue of a " a different theme every ish " magazine titled LIFE STORY .

  This is its site:

http://www.j-14.com , however , it appears that they may not be selling the Superhero Spectacular ish through the site as yet , however , be assured , it is very definitely the URL given in the magazine itself !

[Mr. Silver Age]

I saw something like that on the newsstand too. What I saw was a one-shot magazine taking advantage of all the super-hero movies this summer to create a movie magazine about them, showing stills from the four movies on the cover and having features on the stars.

I can see that it would tie into the J-14 publications, as they would expect their audience to have a lot of interest in those. I flipped through it but I didn't check the indicia or publisher, as I figured it was just a one-time thing. 

I didn't see anything about it on the site or with a quick Google search, so if you hear more, let us know. There often seem to be one-shot fan mags tied to fan-oriented movies like Harry Potter, etc., I think.

BTW, ComixScene was Jim Steranko's 1972 newspaper about comics, which preceded his MediaScene, which preceded his Prevue magazine.Whereas Comic Scene was the 1980s magazine devoted to movies about super-heroes. I think it kind of petered out as the interest in super-hero TV and movies started to dwindle.

That's about what Wizard had become in its final days, and what I think a lot of it is on the Web now. I'm glad they've got enough material to work with, although TV doesn't look like a good source for the coming year, compared to even last year with The Cape, No Ordinary Family, and, of course Smallville. The lack of interest in the Wonder Woman pilot doesn't bode well for the near future.

-- MSA

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

Mr. Silver Age said:

I saw something like that on the newsstand too. What I saw was a one-shot magazine taking advantage of all the super-hero movies this summer to create a movie magazine about them, showing stills from the four movies on the cover and having features on the stars.

I can see that it would tie into the J-14 publications, as they would expect their audience to have a lot of interest in those. I flipped through it but I didn't check the indicia or publisher, as I figured it was just a one-time thing. 

I didn't see anything about it on the site or with a quick Google search, so if you hear more, let us know. There often seem to be one-shot fan mags tied to fan-oriented movies like Harry Potter, etc., I think.

BTW, ComixScene was Jim Steranko's 1972 newspaper about comics, which preceded his MediaScene, which preceded his Prevue magazine.Whereas Comic Scene was the 1980s magazine devoted to movies about super-heroes. I think it kind of petered out as the interest in super-hero TV and movies started to dwindle.

That's about what Wizard had become in its final days, and what I think a lot of it is on the Web now. I'm glad they've got enough material to work with, although TV doesn't look like a good source for the coming year, compared to even last year with The Cape, No Ordinary Family, and, of course Smallville. The lack of interest in the Wonder Woman pilot doesn't bode well for the near future.

-- MSA

 

 

...Yeah , answering the last part of what you said , I more or less thought I was using the name of Steranko's mag , perhaps slightly changed , when I wrote the name I used above , I was in a hurry then .

  Comic(s??) Scene was published by Starlog ( Or whatever their corporate name may be/was . ) , and was widely distributed , to supermarkets and the like .

  It was , as , IIRC , I said earlier in this line , " better than it had to be " in depth and width of its comics coverage , I always thought .

  I think that it had two runs as a regular magazine and various one-shot/recurrent issues .

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

Emerkeith Davyjack said:

Mr. Silver Age said:

I saw something like that on the newsstand too. What I saw was a one-shot magazine taking advantage of all the super-hero movies this summer to create a movie magazine about them, showing stills from the four movies on the cover and having features on the stars.

I can see that it would tie into the J-14 publications, as they would expect their audience to have a lot of interest in those. I flipped through it but I didn't check the indicia or publisher, as I figured it was just a one-time thing. 

I didn't see anything about it on the site or with a quick Google search, so if you hear more, let us know. There often seem to be one-shot fan mags tied to fan-oriented movies like Harry Potter, etc., I think.

BTW, ComixScene was Jim Steranko's 1972 newspaper about comics, which preceded his MediaScene, which preceded his Prevue magazine.Whereas Comic Scene was the 1980s magazine devoted to movies about super-heroes. I think it kind of petered out as the interest in super-hero TV and movies started to dwindle.

That's about what Wizard had become in its final days, and what I think a lot of it is on the Web now. I'm glad they've got enough material to work with, although TV doesn't look like a good source for the coming year, compared to even last year with The Cape, No Ordinary Family, and, of course Smallville. The lack of interest in the Wonder Woman pilot doesn't bode well for the near future.

-- MSA

 

 

...Yeah , answering the last part of what you said , I more or less thought I was using the name of Steranko's mag , perhaps slightly changed , when I wrote the name I used above , I was in a hurry then .

  Comic(s??) Scene was published by Starlog ( Or whatever their corporate name may be/was . ) , and was widely distributed , to supermarkets and the like .

  It was , as , IIRC , I said earlier in this line , " better than it had to be " in depth and width of its comics coverage , I always thought .

  I think that it had two runs as a regular magazine and various one-shot/recurrent issues .

 

 

...The one I saw & still have had its cover dominated not by stills , but by somewhat semi-amateurish/semi-professional paintings of the movie versions of Magneto , Green Lantern , Thor and Cap from this summer's blockbusters (??) , rather in a " street/oceanside/swap meet in an old drive-in theater " artist style ( Infinite times better than my non-existent at figurative painting , natch ! ) , and though there was some cover blurb space covered by fotos , I believe more sq. inches were occupied by screenshots?? (presumed) from the present Avengers and Young Justice series , advertising features on those series .

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...Oh , a new issue of COMIC BOOK ARTIST , focusing on Peter Bagge , is out soonish , BTW !!!!!!!!!!!

[Dave Blanchard]

a new issue of COMIC BOOK ARTIST , focusing on Peter Bagge , is out soonish

 

Is that the same issue that was originally promised back in 2009? I swear, the guys who do CBA must look at Moore & O'Neill's production schedule for LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN and wonder, "Why do they keep cranking those things out so fast?"

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...Guess so !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

( I was going to put up a Sherwood Schwartz obit in the form of...Well , " Here's an obit/for a dead TV guy/who made sitcoms loved by Generation X........./They were re-run/in the late afternoon/as they were made before TV had much sex..." , so forth . Oh well :-( . )

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...To-day , in the same convience/whateveryawannacallit store that I saw the MAD Harry Potter one shot I've also posted about here to-day , I saw a COMICS CON SPECIAL one-shot mag...I thought...that I thought about buying , but then I saw it was a special issue???...regular issue??? - of the present-day TV GUIDE magazine .

  Over at the old CBGXtra boards we had a discussion about TVG when it dropped its old digest/part-pulp paper/comprehensive format and went to glossy mag-sized...At about that time TVG was a sponsor at Wondercon up here in San Francisco , I went that year , and their present-day logo of their famed logo was on the plastic giveaway bags the con gave out...I suppose they can count their blessings that they're not associated with Rupert Murdoch anymore !...

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...That TVG Con special was being sold on the mini-rack at the convenience store's check-out island , BTW , so presumably reflecting some co-op money dispersed from TVG's hands .

  There was also , back at the " council estates " , " mere " , newsstand of the cs , a new issue of this selfsame  LIFE STORY mag that had a new Harry Potter spotlight , obviously for the newest , HPVIII film...It WAS a new one , and not the older one shown in my issue , wasn't it ???????

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...THE COMICS JOURNAL has apparently released a new print issue , ultra-thick , as they promised , but I cannot see any promotional blag for it over at the still-quite-active TCJ.Com !!! ( Which is no longer handled by Fantagraphics itself , Fanta four-walled the Web site out when they ended the " older " TCJ.Com and closed down :-( their message board :-(:-(:-(:-(:-( . )

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...I keep seeing that San Diego Special issue of TV GUIDE on the special rack , in that same convenience store...Unsold !!!!!!!!!!! Like , just this week .

  I actually SAW , at Carl's Jr. , someone reading what turned out to be THE COMICS JOURNAL #301 t'other day...

[Martin Gray]

I adored Amazing Heroes, while my favourite single issue of any fanzine remains LOC #1, which boasted an amazing array of articles. I do blame the cover, though, for what happened to Wonder Woman!

 

Image lifted from this piece at The Cosmic Treadmill: http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2006/2006_Monthly/200...

 

The UK had some great ones - Fantasy Advertiser, BEM, Worlds Collide ...