ARTT100 Final Project - Magazine

[packbat]

Wednesday, after reminding us to put our 'Split Complement' pieces on the board in the hall for all to see, gave us our final problem for the semester, the culmination of all we had worked on before – designing the cover for a new magazine.

There were three main things we had to consider.

• Subject. He recommended working an issue dear to our hearts, here.
  
• Format. Does it have a closure? Vertical or horizontal? Regular binding, spiral binding, some other binding? Does it have to be rectangular? Etc.
  
• Audience. Is this a mass circulation magazine a la Newsweek, or a 'boutique' magazine like 2600? (No, he didn't offer those examples.)

Anyway, I got an idea. You know how back in the 'pulp' days they had sci-fi on the shelves at drugstores?

Yes, exactly.

As far as decisions so far, I've come up with (a) it's going to be PG, non-SF-fandom friendly stories and essays, and (b) it's standard large format, like Sports Illustrated and Aboriginal Science Fiction.

So, the point of this post: I'm going to have to come up with some description-of-what's-inside text; does anyone want their name on the cover? (And if you have a story that fits the bill I can try to illustrate, still better.)

[Note: Will be away from computers for weekend, as laptop is dead and PC in dorm.]

Comments

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'd love to see "Chicken And Stars" as a sci-fi pulp serial. Too bad I never wrote it. :)

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Well, hey, I still need to decide the cover image, and it's not like it's a real magazine – you got some character description handy?

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

Buck is a humanoid, but just barely, chicken, three to four feet tall. He dresses in a rocket-jockey bomber jacket and wears goggles. Also he has a rather hefty ray-gun sidearm which he wields with his (apparently) manipulative right wing in cartoon-chicken style. Buck is stern, upright and manly, in the classic Flash Gordon fashion, but this is mitigated somewhat by the fact that he is, y'know, a chicken.

Also potentially pictured is Lia, a hot female humanoid alien with light blue skin and a ridiculous alien antennae that look rather a lot like a pair of deelie-boppers. Lia is dressed in an extremely harlotized Starfleet-ish uniform, possibly torn open to the cleavage. She is rather a lot taller than Buck, which makes the pose where he stands there looking protective of her as they gaze off together at some unseen threat all the more ridiculous. She would be draped across his chest if she could reach it without squatting, in other words.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Ha!

I don't think I've got the artistic chops to pull it off, though. :(

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

C'est la vie. Would that my imagination would produce something you're really good at drawing, or, alternately, dirt-simple to draw.

(It's the fantastic adventures of Scribble Man and Murky Trapezoid! Thrill as they encounter invisible adversaries in their otherwise featureless two-dimensional planar world!)

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Well, just 'cause I don't have the skills don't mean I won't try. (http://pics.livejournal.com/packbat/pic/0000rkr7/) ;)

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

Buahahahaha!!!