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"Three pounds forty and some tobacco"

Artw — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:09:25 -0800

The complete archive of International Times, which launched a revolution in underground publishing in the UK and paved the way for Oz (of the School Kids special fame) (previously) and a whole string of british underground zines, a heritage that Alan Moores new zine Dodgem Logic very much calls upon.

It's real! You can touch it!

You Should See the Other Guy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:17 -0800

Remember Paper is a blog with photos of interesting magazines, books, and other paper-based ephemera. NSFW.

Like StumbleUpon for magazine articles

allkindsoftime — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:45 -0800

"Maggwire.com makes discovering magazine content a personalized experience. Utilizing social intelligence, our system recommends magazine articles you will enjoy reading from over 600 magazine titles." More on how it works. They are just out of private beta and apparently will soon be offering a premium version with content from subscriptions sites.

That's one sad kitchen

mathowie — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:05 -0800

The Last Days of Gourmet Some photos of the last few days of clean-up from the inside of Gourmet Magazine's offices.

LIFE is Good

Knappster — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:49:41 -0800

Already hosting the LIFE Photo Archive (previously), Google today announces that it has "partnered with Life Inc. to digitize LIFE Magazine's entire run as a weekly: over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972."

Have some art.

CunningLinguist — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:30:38 -0800

An ever-growing treasure trove of magazine cover and advertising art from the Golden Age of American illustration. Check out wonderful covers from Theatre Magazine, Adventure Magazine, the Argosy, Photoplay, and Black Mask. Here's a scary cover from Laughter magazine, a strange and beautiful Life cover from 1887, and a copy of The Liberator that I dearly wish I could flip through. See also collections of great old ads for soap, cigarettes and books, among others. The intro page is here.

Blood and Sex

gman — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:11:09 -0800

Stagmags.com - vintage men's magazine cover scans. (slightly NSFW) From the FAQ: These covers are presented as cultural artifacts and as examples of mid-20th-century commercial artwork. We don't apologize for any of the material here – hell, we think it's awesome! If you're a prissy, easily-offended, politically correct whiner who might burst into tears at any moment, please feel free to fuck off.

Fighting Crime AND Fat

mippy — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:22:27 -0800

Marvel think that not enough of their readers are female. So they decided to hook them in in a way that girls understand.

Wet and dreamy and impossibly beautiful

maudlin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:02:22 -0800

"What you're looking for as a retoucher is a broom, something that covers your tracks, some way of obscuring where you've been. The first thing [most] people take out is bloodshot eyes. That's the last thing I take out—the last thing I'd, like, just wipe, because that just makes it look retouched." -- from Jesse Epstein's video op-ed for the NY Times, based on her film Wet Dreams and False Images ("I know that's not airbrushed. I could put a million dollars that's not airbrushed."), one of three related short documentaries on physical perfection. "Each head has to be identical to the other head, so we don't want anybody putting sandpaper to the head." -- from 34 x 25 x 36. Via the latest installment of Shakesville's Impossibly Beautiful series. (Previous posts on retouching.)

Magazines + Google = Neato

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:15:53 -0800

New York Magazine? Popular Science? The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists? Ebony? Every issue, every page, back into the mists of history. No kidding. I'm not usually one to go all Pepsi Blue with the latest bit of Goo from the Googleplex, but this is pretty cool. Extra whizbang points for the way they integrate Google maps, with pins where locations are mentioned in the magazine (at least for some of them). Too much information, not enough time. [via]

Forrest J. Ackerman, R.I.P.

dbiedny — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:11:46 -0800

His magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland was as important to my childhood as Mad magazine, he had one of the greatest collections of Sci-Fi memorabilia in private hands, and frankly, I'm a little torn up at the moment, so I'll end this FPP with a tip of the hat to Forrest J. Ackerman, a true hero of mine.

L'Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode

jack_mo — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:44:48 -0800

A complete archive of French magazine L'Officiel de la Mode, from 1921 to 2008. It's a treasure trove for fans of fashion, photography, advertising and design. Via On Shadow (possibly NSFW), which I found via Things.

I swear it's not a Best-Of list

mannequito — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:32:29 -0800

To some, Exclaim! is more or less the northern equivalent of Pitchfork, a free monthly mag for the hipster masses. But I've always enjoyed the way their Questionnaire page provides an often surprisingly clear glimpse into an odd array of celebrities' lives. This month's subject is Motörhead’s Lemmy. Some of my past personal favorites: David Cross (How do you spoil yourself? "I’ll jerk off and just let it fly, I won’t get a sock or a tissue.") Rob Zombie (What was your most memorable day job? "Working on Pee Wee's Playhouse as a production assistant when I lived in New York, in about 1984 or '85.") Tricky (What are your feelings on piracy, internet or otherwise? "Anything that takes the power [from] record companies means we’re gonna start hearing good music — they only give us what is gonna sell.") Benjamin Weinman (Current fixations: "No fixations. All I do is break shit. I like gambling too. I think that is an art.") Mark Arm (What makes you want to take it off and get it on? "My old lady. If you’re gonna put it in those terms, you have to answer with a ’70s answer.") Trey Parker & Matt Stone (What has been your strangest celebrity encounter? "TP: I was at an Academy Awards party once, the year after I wore the dress, and Jennifer Lopez came up and shoved me and walked away. Fucking bitch.") Daniel Johnston (Why do you live where you do? "Well, I live right next to my parents. I had a house built and things are goin’, you know, just fine.") Ghostface Killah (What should everyone shut up about? "I don’t wanna hear niggas fucking ask me for fucking money man. That’s what I don’t want to hear no more. Magazine motherfuckers asking me the same questions all the fucking time, I don’t want to hear that same shit.") Mike Patton (Given the opportunity to choose, how would you like to die? "Doing the thing I love most in life… mowing my lawn.") *as a side-note, I find it highly amusing that Trey Parker and Matt Stone share the same concept of a visionary piece of art with Rob Zombie.

My, it seems you have uncovered a periodicals repository!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:19:56 -0800

Mygazines is for sharing magazines online.

'zines v. 2.0?

FunkyHelix — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:13:49 -0800

MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and they take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.

Magazine Design and Print Culture

dobbs — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:30:42 -0800

"The Magazineer is a blog about magazine design and print culture, written by people who love, and make, magazines." {The most recent entry is by Jess, actually.}

Vintage Girly Magazines

jason's_planet — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:53:33 -0800

Vintage Girly Magazines is a blog devoted to nude photography from the era before Photoshop and breast implants. NSFW. My own personal favorites. (Also NSFW)

The Modernist Journals Project

mediareport — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:50:15 -0800

The Modernist Journals Project collects literary arts journals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including both issues of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist manifesto Blast, the first ten years of Poetry magazine (with Amy Lowell, T.S. Eliot, G.K. Chesterton and foreign correspondent Ezra Pound), topical essays, the Virginia Woolf-inspired December 1910 Project, the amazing proto-dada zine Le Petit Journal des Réfusées and a searchable biographical database of famous and not so famous artists and writers.

Bookmarks Magazine: book reviews periodical

stbalbach — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:07:49 -0800

Bookmarks Magazine has long been one of my favorite book review periodicals because it aggregates and summarizes reviews from many sources, for example: The Children of Húrin. Recently they have opened up the back-issue archive to non-subscribers. In addition to reviews, each issue has a number of regular features including "What one book.." (expert recommendations on the best books for a subject), "Book by book" (classic author and books profile) and a cover page featured article. Most of these are not online (yet?) but here are some: Featured article: 101 Crackerjack Sea Books
Featured article: Historical fiction
Book by book: Emile Zola
Book by book: James Joyce
What one book: Globalization
What one book: Investing

Three new online magazines

stbalbach — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:15:04 -0800

Three new online magazines - Triple Canopy, Issue Magazine and Rosa B - tackle the problem of text presentation on the screen in innovative ways. via

Database of 30 years of Adverts/Graphic Design

peacay — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:37:22 -0800

The Gallery of Graphic Design has a huge collection of magazine print adverts from the 30s to the late 60s. The images are fairly large and organised/searchable by year, product, magazine and advertiser. [via]

Archive of 19th Century Americana

Rumple — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:08:45 -0800

Cornell University and the University of Michigan collaboratively present two sites on the "Making of America" (Cornell Site; Michigan Site), together including over one million pages of 19th Century American books and periodicals online. At this Cornell page you can browse or search some well-known, full-text periodicals including: The Atlantic Monthly 1857-1901; Harper's 1850-1899; Scientific American 1846-1869; Putnam's 1853-1870; and The Manufacturer and Builder 1869-1894. From Michigan, you can browse less well-known journals, including American Jewess 1895-1899; Ladies Repository 1846-1871; and the Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers 1880-1891. warning: frames abound I'll probably get no work done for the rest of the month, at least not until I have ingested such gems as: The Woman Who Talks The Ill-Bred Girl A Man in the Kitchen Life in Danbury The Ladies Medical Guide (1865) The Ladies Handbook to Etiquette and Politeness Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln A novel application of electricity A practical guide for making post-mortem examinations, and for the study of morbid anatomy, with directions for embalming the dead, and for the preservation of specimens of morbid anatomy (1873) A magician's tour, up and down and round about the earth. Being the life and adventures of the American Nostradamus (1890) Oh what the hell, just browse everything...... and everything else

Visit your friendly local zine archive!

ethel — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:07:59 -0800

Housing, preserving, and providing access to these small-scale, homemade rags that document some corner of [often do-it-yourself and punk rock] culture, zine archives can be found via independently operated centers in Georgia (physical library in construction), New Orleans (myspace link, www address out-of-commission), Florida, Minneapolis, Denver, Cambridge, Olympia, Chicago, Seattle and... University libraries' collections in New Orleans, Wisconsin, Chicago, NYC, San Diego, San Diego again, Durham; Public libraries in Maryland, Oregon, San Francisco, Tennessee. also on line*. You can submit work (pdf) to some of these, and there's even a book about building a zine collection in your repository! *via Prelinger Library (also collects zines) Blog, and previously.

Are dead-tree magazines good or bad for the climate?

finite — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:12:14 -0800

"So by this analysis dead-tree magazines have a smaller net carbon footprint than web media. We cut down trees and put them in the ground. From a climate change perspective, this is a good thing" explains Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine's editor-in-chief. While some decry this type of carbon footprint accounting as "cheating", the paper industry has lately been eager to convince the public that they are carbon-neutral.

French language ephemera and visual miscellany blog

Rumple — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:53:37 -0800

Agence Eureka is a French language image-blog with hundreds or even thousands of scanned illustrations, mostly from mid-20th century French schoolbooks, educational material, magazines, and ephemera. The current front page is slightly NSFW. Some of the categories include anatomy 1 & 2 (mildly NSFW); chocolate wrappers/trading cards; bricolage; decoupage (cut-outs); math education; playing cards; books and magazines; cars; cinema; orientalisme; sport; mild pin-ups; and many others (scroll all the way down the right to see the tags). In most cases the above links are to only one set of images within many of that category - there are about 10 pages of decoupages, for example. A number of the same illustrations are available in alternate organization here and in their flickr sets. Also, their blog of French hats is fun.