Mag to Mag Journal #2
200 x 320 mm, 160 pages
Milan, Italy (English language with Italian translations)
Annual
Editor-in-chief: Anna Frabotta
Art direction and design: Laura Bortolotti
Published alongside the 2026 edition of Mag to Mag, the annual Milan magazine fair organised by local magazine shop Frab’s, the second issue of this large-format publication offers a snapshot of the current world of indie publishing, and is themed, ‘Error,’ a subject Anna Frabotta heralds as beautiful in her intro. ‘It is beautiful when it forces us to change direction, when it blows a project apart, when it reveals something we never expected. It is beautiful because it is profoundly human.’
As well as providing a guide to the fair, the magazine has an excellent selection of interviews and think pieces, with indie figures including Ernst van der Hoeven from MacGuffin, Amber Weaver from TypeOne, and the team from Fukt magazine questioned at length.
Plus Dutch distributors Idea Books, an overview of indie magazine fairs, illustrators Lavinia Fagiuoli and Jacopo Ascari, and aclose-up look at Italian newspaper magazine D.