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Crikey! magazine: an update
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The recent collapse of Borders UK has proved a bit of a catastrophe for Crikey! magazine, as the loss of that chain and its affiliates took away about 70% of our distribution (and, incidentally, has…
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Kenny, that would be a major help-and thank you! We've obviously been speaking to the wrong people.
I would say so - can't hurt. John works for Nick sometimes sure he can put a good word in. From my dealings with Rob over the years if you make it easy for him - i.e. decent mag discount , SOR he will take it. if you want i can ask him for you - tel…
Worth another try then, you think?
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Amended - apologies!
I did suspect Tony meant the other FP - Nick Landau is always interested in seeing such magazines (I showed him Spaceship Away myself, for example) but you need to get to the FP Buyer, whose name escapes me, sorry, and that's where the 'blockage' ha…
Sorry Kenny; yes, we're well aware FPI have always supported us, I should have clarified that it was the 'other' FP I was talking about. We did offer them SOR initially, but the response we got was simply that they don't carry fanzines, which seems…
Hi Tony
don't mean to be a nit picker but Forbidden Planet - at least the International half have always supported and carried the mag from issue one. Including giving it lots of support via our website etc. Who did you speak to at the other FP? Su…
Oops-just noticed, though; to clarify, I may be the editor of Crikey!, but Glenn Fleming is still the publisher...
Thanks for that, John. Greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the update, Tony - I've plugged the news on the dtb blog: http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/crikey-regroups-after-borders-collapse.html
The recent collapse of Borders UK has proved a bit of a catastrophe for Crikey! magazine, as the loss of that chain and its affiliates took away about 70% of our distribution (and, incidentally, has resulted in us not as yet being paid the monies ow…
There are. It's only ever a question of getting the right format and identifying the right target market, I firmly believe that. CI could still work, it just needs to know who it's aiming for and be pitched at them through the right outlets.
Thing is, it was never going to work as a media mag because that wasn't what it was originally intended to be, or what the majority of its readers wanted. There are a dozen such ma\gs dealing with movies and TV in any high street newsagent-somewhere…
It would make sense to put the news online on the website if they couldn't get a monthly issue out on time. But the website appears to be gone, too...
We do need one, I agree. It's partly why Crikey has became more 'topical' of late; we've upped our news content, introduced reviews, advance listings and a comic strip segment, so we're now covering some of the ground CI did, but we're still almost…
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- About Me:
- I'm a lifelong comics fan and collector, who now writes about comics, deals in comics and in his spare time, reads comics.
I also keep rabbits. But they don't read comics.
- Favourite British Comic
- The Daredevils
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- At 1:11pm on December 1, 2009,
Phil Friel said… - I think it was because Watchmen hit the US before Eclipse relaunched Marvelman (as Miracleman) in the US (unless I've got my dates badly wrong, which is quite possible). His original appearance in an obscure British comic wouldn't have registered at all in the US. And as Eclipse was a smaller publisher, Miracleman wouldn't have hit the public attention as strongly as Watchmen, which had the much larger DC marketing and sales behind it.
I've never read Skizz, although "less annoyingly cute" than ET has to be a Very Good Thing (I absolutely hate ET with a passion). Moore's run on Swamp Thing is another I've never read, although I've been intending to track it down for years. I've heard so many good things about it that I really have to read it sometime Before I Die.
- At 3:59am on November 24, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- Agreed. I liked Watchmen, but the very first Alan Moore work that I ever encountered was Marvelman and V For Vendetta, both in Warrior comic. Those are the stories that made me a fan of his work. For me, Watchmen, and everything else, was just stuff that "came later", and built on his already remarkable reputation.
- At 1:19am on November 23, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- Unattainable is the right word for it. There's never enough time, and always too much to read. I'll be lying on my death-bed, muttering "Hold on - I gotta read this before I snuff it"!
I'm sitting here on a quiet Sunday night, making a start on the mags. I'm at the Crikeys right now. Of course, I went for the colour ones first. YUM! They're gorgeous. Really professional looking.
I'm really enjoying the Marvelman article in #11. The classic Alan Moore version is my all-time favourite superhero strip.
- At 7:39pm on November 22, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- Yeah, totally. You should see my SF book collection. I'll never read even 10% of them, even if I live 'til I'm 500 years old.
But I've been waiting for these particular mags for a long time now. I intend to drop everything else until I finish with these, and nothing is gonna get in my way (evil cackle).
- At 6:22pm on November 22, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- Well, the Spaceship Aways arrived this morning. Just the Andersonics to go now, and I'll have the lot.
I opened the box, hands trembling with excitement, flicked through the magazines taking a quick glance at the front and back covers and contents pages, then set them down beside the stack of Crikeys and Dangerous Inks which have arrived during this past week. As I took a good look at this very impressive stack of magazines, my one thought was "Oh, wow! It'll take me until the New Year to read this lot!"
I've skimmed through everything, but haven't actually read anything in depth yet. I'm waiting for the Andersonics to arrive before I make a start on everything. And I'll need a few spare weeks free of any interruptions (fat chance of that) to make a dent in this pile of gorgeous reading material.
- At 12:01am on November 22, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- Oh, yes! A Best of Crikey #'s 1-10 colour special? You can put me down for that one right now! There are so many articles from the first ten issues that I would love to see in colour, that I wouldn't know where to begin.
I'm glad you got the payment, and many thanks for trusting me. I'm always a bit paranoid about the Royal Mail losing items, that I fret over everything until it actually arrives. They've lost quite a few things on me in the past - I almost ended up in court once because they lost a large payment that I'd sent to a book club! Lucky I'd kept the postal order stubs, or I'd have been snookered!
I treated myself to a whole bunch of nice stuff as an early Christmas present to myself - the Crikeys are the first to arrive, and I'm now waiting for the entire run of #'s 1-19 of Spaceship Away to arrive, as well as the latest couple of issues of Andersonic. I've got a LOT of lovely reading ahead of me. :)
- At 9:27pm on November 21, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- The Crikey! back issues (7-12) arrived this morning. Wow! Fantastic stuff. And the two relaunched colour issues (11 and 12) look absolutely incredible. Makes me wish the earlier issues were in colour as well, or you re-do them in colour when you reprint them. It makes the mag look so much more impressive and professional, not to say "colourful".
Did you get the payment yet? You didn't have it yesterday, and, since I received these today, this makes me think you actually mailed these before you received the payment. If so, many thanks!
I'll dig out the first six issues and start a note-taking/review session from the first issue up until the current issue.
- At 5:54pm on November 20, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- Tony,
I posted the payment off yesterday. You should have it soon, if you haven't got it already.
- At 12:17pm on November 18, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- Thanks Tony. That'll do nicely.
- At 11:20am on November 18, 2009,
Phil Friel said…
- Hi Tony,
I'm about ready to send off a payment. What name do you want on the cheque/P.O.? I'm assuming "Sequential Media", so let me know if you want something different.
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