Colophon update
Mike, Andrew and I have reluctantly had to postpone next year’s Colophon2011. But it’s not all bad news – check the website for full details.
Mike Koedinger interviewed
Luxembourg publisher and Colophon colleague Mike Koedinger, above, is interviewed about independent publishing by Qompendium editor Kimberley Lloyd here.
Näkemiin Kasino A4
That’s ‘Goodbye Kasino A4’. The final issue arrived in the post last week. This regular package from Helsinki is usually a cause for celebration. Kasino A4 was one of the first new magazines I featured on magCulture when the site launched in early 2006, and was an inspiration to keep the site going at the time. Every issue has been featured here, and it was great to meet the team behind the magazine at Colophon2007 and later invite them back to exhibit at Colophon2009. So, with the package this time containing the final issue, there’s a certain sadness to this post, the last one, about the magazine.
Melancholic
The closure of a magazine is usually sad, but for once we can celebrate it.
With the publication of issue ten of Kasino A4, the editors have declared it’s their final issue. Not because it failed, but because after four years they want to move on to something totally new. Not for them the gradual repetition and boredom of working through to issue 103.
Congratulations on a great nine magazines (and your contribution to Colophon2009, above). I’m looking forward to seeing the final tenth issue, and to what happens next.
New issues of some favourites
Presenting issue 25 of Carl*s Cars, issue 18 of 032c, and issue nine of Lula. There are as many independent magazines as ever out there (more of which soon), but these three remain essential favourites here at magCulture.
The Colophon2009 Magazine
The Colophon2009 Magazine is revealed at tonight’s launch party in Luxembourg. Here’s a preview.
Talking in Europe
I’m travelling to Europe for a couple of events next month.
First, I’m on a panel about independent magazines at ComodaMente in Vittorio Veneto, Northern Italy, on September 13th. Other speakers include Alexis Zavialoff from Berlin magazine distributor/store Motto and Omar Sosa from magCulture favourite Apartamento magazine. Full details here.
Then on the evening of September 25th I’ll be joining Reny and Anneke from the Athenaeum magazine/book store in Amsterdam to help them celebrate their 40th anniversary. I’m not sure what else they have planned, but I’ll be repeating the talk I gave at Colophon2009 earlier this year and we hope to have the Colophon magazine (three days to create the content, six months to print the thing!) completed in time for the event. Full details to follow.
Colophon NY
The latest Colophon panel discussion takes place in New York this evening, with Claudia from Me as an additional participant. Full details here.
Colophon hits New York
Following the success of the recent Colophon London event, Andrew is chairing a panel discussion in New York next week. Held in collaboration with the Art Directors Club, ‘The Future of Print’ will look at independent magazine publishing, with speakers including Sophie Mörner, founder and publisher of Capricious; Emily Gordon, editor-in-chief of Print; and Jason Crombie, editor and founder of Woooooo!
Meatpaper
It’s been very busy here at magCulture recently, so apologies to everyone who has sent me their magazines only to see them disappear onto the pending pile. The good news, though, is that despite all the doom and gloom there does seem to be a lot of magazines churning away out there. I’m working my way through them all and will feature the best over the next few weeks.
Starting here with Meatpaper, a magazine about… meat.
