Sunday, July 4, 2010

Unearthing the History of Fangoria: Schlockmania on Issue #7

If you've been enjoying the Starlog Project here on this blog, but you like your genre magazines a little more ... wet, then you should check out Don Guarisco's ongoing exploration of the early issues of Fangoria, Starlog's unruly younger brother.

Don's just posted his writeup for Fango issue #7, which was something of a turning point for the horror film magazine. As then-editor "Uncle Bob" Martin notes in a comment he posted to the article, it was the first issue of the magazine to actually make money. It was also the issue (if you ask me) where Fango's horror specialization started to gel.

Read Don's description of the issue, and Uncle Bob's additional background info, for more.

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6 comments:

Schlockmaniac #1 said...

Thanks for the ever-so-generous plug. It is much appreciated. Keep up the great work with the Starlog Project and I hope you have a happy Fourth Of July.

Anonymous said...

anybody for a CFQ project ?

thank you very much for the Fangoria and Starlog projects

jzipperer said...

A great idea about CFQ. I'd love to see it. (I'll be too wiped out after doing the Starlog Project and a similar effort for Future LIfe, but I'd love to see someone do it.)

Anonymous said...

A question off topic regarding the Future Life project.
In the #8 issue, there is an article on Starcrash by Director Luigi Cozzi. Is it an interview of the director or a synopsis of the movie ?

thanks

jzipperer said...

Re: The Starcrash article: It's not an interview; it's written by Cozzi himself, and in it he both gives a synopsis of the storyline as well as discusses the trials of making a science-fiction film on an ultra-low budget.

Anonymous said...

OK. thank your for the answer