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Grant Morrison on the cover of this month's Arthur. With Art by Cameron Stewart!

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23:39 / 13.08.04

Out on August 31st here in the States. Don't know if it gets over to the UK or Europe or Australia.

www.arthurmag.com will have more info, I'm sure.

10:06 / 15.08.04

Is there any chance of you scanning (normal or ocr) and posting the interview as i'm sure its of interest to all

15:00 / 15.08.04

why not get a subscription to the magazine? the people at arthur work really hard full time for absolutely no money, and consistently put out a brilliant, ethical, mind-expanding magazine. putting morrison on the cover is a great incentive for people like you to get the magazine and find out about all the other cool stuff in there you might not have heard about. so go to the site, get a subscription -- its very cheep and comes with some awesome free music.

16:22 / 15.08.04

Gypt is absolutley right about Arthur, these people deserve our support. There are usually TONS of copies found here in Seattle in local record stores, so I don't bother with the subscribtion myself, but for those who can't get it free, a subscription is a great idea. In my opinion, its the best culture/music magazine being published in the states (hence my exitement at Morrison being on the cover). I'm pretty sure you can just order individual issues from them too, including pre-odrering the new one.

The Timaximus, The!

17:22 / 15.08.04

Don't they post each issue on the site as PDFs? I know they used to...

17:27 / 15.08.04

I do support a number of smaller magazines , however, not all of us live in the US.

18:45 / 15.08.04

They used to post all their back issues as PDFs but don't any more, at least not right now. I suspects its so they can just charge outright for the hardcopies of the issues, they gotta make money somehow, right? I just ordered 5 issues for $25, american, including the Alan Moore issue, which I have read thanks to their one-time PDF site, and is well worth the five bucks if you haven't read it.

18:52 / 15.08.04

I'm pretty sure they ship internationally, and is still relatively inexpensive. Check out the website. arthurmag.com

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22:33 / 16.08.04

The weird thing is that I remember hearing about this interview coming out over a year ago. I hope it's been updated at least a little.

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04:28 / 17.08.04

The interview was planned for a while, but from what I've been told it's an all-new, bang-up-to-date interview.

14:56 / 17.08.04

yep, brand new, from within the past couple weeks or so

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05:52 / 18.08.04

Then I shall seek it out like the proverbial muthafuck.

Hi Cam! T'were good to see you at MoCCA!

I've actually more than once thought to try to get published in Arthur, though I'm to understand it usually doesn't pay fer dick, which unfortunately is a major consideration. Nonetheless, any recommendations as to the best way to get my foot or other door-jamming appendages in the aforementioned door?

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06:55 / 18.08.04

>>>I've actually more than once thought to try to get published in Arthur, though I'm to understand it usually doesn't pay fer dick<<<

A slightly more pleasant way to put it would be "I did the cover as a favour."

Hi Vlad - good to see you too...

15:32 / 18.08.04

Cam was at MoCCA here in NYC? I thought Cam lived far far away - never thought he'd be at MoCCA. Sorry I missed ya, Cameron.

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:43 / 18.08.04

In general, a good way to get published without much of a pedigree is to write somethng good and not expect to get paid much for it. If you can handle the second part, then I guess you need to look at the first part. Have you submitted a list of article proposals to the editor?

04:03 / 19.08.04

they do deserve the support, but let me ask: if the mag is distributed in pdf [via email, probably] why have 3 prices?

or did I miss something and now there's a paper version...

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06:01 / 19.08.04

Wolf found: Cam was at MoCCA here in NYC? I thought Cam lived far far away - never thought he'd be at MoCCA. Sorry I missed ya, Cameron.

If I remember correctly, it wasn't there in any official promotional capacity. He was hanging out with Kagan McLeod of Infinite Kung Fu fame (which, if you haven't read it, you're a fool and nobody will ever love you). They both had stories in the Rumble Royale anthology, so I lucked out and had something of his with me to have signed.

Haus disgraced: In general, a good way to get published without much of a pedigree is to write somethng good and not expect to get paid much for it. If you can handle the second part, then I guess you need to look at the first part.

Yeah, I'm okay with that, I s'pose. I'm just in starving artist mode right now, a bit too literally.

Have you submitted a list of article proposals to the editor?

I've got one idea, though I'm not certain of how much interest it would be to anyone outside of NYC. It can also be adapted into a completely different kind of article, more like a manifesto, though the specifics of that spin would make me feel a bit hypocritical with conditions as they are. (Sorry that I can't go into greater detail.) I am, of course, eminently qualified to review comics and other media, but I'm sure they've got a surplus of such schmucks. Perhaps if I manage to be witness to some sort of history during the RNC I can parlay that into something hooky.

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23:15 / 19.08.04

Here's the cover:

23:34 / 19.08.04

Hector The Friendly Vortex wrties: they do deserve the support, but let me ask: if the mag is distributed in pdf [via email, probably] why have 3 prices? or did I miss something and now there's a paper version...

Hector, ARTHUR is only available on paper, the way magazines are s'posed to be read... For a while we were making it available in PDF format, but we ain't doing that any longer because a) I never dug it in the first place b) the magazine is now available to any who want it via mail order at a pretty affordable price.

For those who are wondering: the interview in this issue was conducted on July 22, with some additional stuff added in by Grant the following week.

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06:27 / 20.08.04

Nice one, Jay & Cam and all else involved. That white suit has actually been a fashion trend I've aspired to for a couple years now, especially within this fictionsuit. Figures le Moz would jump on it before I.

BUT. As an Oceanian, wouldn't Grant flip the bird with two fingers, not one? Or is that solely an English thing?

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ONLY NICE THINGS

08:17 / 20.08.04

We have both. The one-fingered salute is a pretty standard phallic mime.

The two-fingered is strictly speaking Welsh, not English. It is apocryphally related to Welsh archers in the wars between Henry V and France. The French plannthreatened to remove the fingers with which they drew their arrows, so they could not return to active service. So, the two fingers was a display that this particular archer was still equipped to nock and draw, apparently displayed to the French prisoners after the battle. Believe that if you will.

Oh, and isn't an Oceanian somebody from the Polynesian islands? Morrison would be more correctly, if I follow your metaphor, an inhabitant of Airstrip One...

03:45 / 23.08.04

oh, thanks for the reply, Jay! I DID miss something then. please apologize if I sounded rude.

Vladimir, I recall the piece is inspired by a pic of Grant that can be found at his website.

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06:32 / 24.08.04

Probably that pic of him sitting under the KING MOB graf in Iceland, or wherever it was. I didn't place it immediately b/c he's dressed differently therein.

Thanks for the etymology of the two- versus single-finger salutes, Haus. But as for Oceania, was not the entirety of the sceptred isles referred to as such by Orwell? And would he have cribbed that definition off some more reputable precedent?

This is all quite aside the point of this thread, but it's 3:30 am and I've nothing better to be doing with my time. Oh, that's not true, but I won't.

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ONLY NICE THINGS

07:40 / 24.08.04

(Threadrot, but hey, at least it's kind of topical, since Georges Morrison and Orwell have some aesthtic sympathies)

Oceania is the whole bloc - made up, I think, of America, the UK and Australia. Eurasia is Europe and Russia, Eastasia China and Japan, approximately. Britain is called Airstrip One, reflecting its handy positioning as what our own strategists took to describing as "the unsinkable aircraft carrier".

In everyday georgraphy, Oceania refers to the islands of the Pacific Ocean and adjoining seas - so the Oceania Cup involves Australia, New Zealand, Western Samoa etc. Oceanian is a term generally referring specifically to inhabitants of the Polynesian islands, or more generally to an inhabitant of Oceania.

15:08 / 24.08.04

So has anyone gotten a copy of this and read the interview? If so, can you give us any highlights or new stuff/news from the interview?

19:25 / 14.09.04

From the interview:

" ... I'm hoping the prose stuff will be the next continuation of where I want to go. The comics audience is becoming more and more compressed and unpleasant. It's really sad. After I did Seaguy and so many people said didn't get it, I felt completely exasperated.

... many of my readers seem to now be unaware of storytelling structures beyond the Hollywood three-act, and the literalism is so rife that nobody seems to be able to deal with symbolic content anymore."

Harsh, but probably very true. Grant! There are plenty of us who "got" Seaguy just fine, and enjoyed it terribly to boot. Don't give up on us yet!

Plenty of other juicy stuff in the interview. Like the A. Moore cover story back in issue 4, this is the best interview with GM I've yet read. Go out and find it now, people!

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06:16 / 16.09.04

I've still not seen it around anywhere in town. Usually there's a good stack of them at Hanley's, but not currently. Halp?

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08:04 / 16.09.04

Same problem. Not usually so hard to find in Montreal. Has it come and gone? Anyone care to post the article online?

15:53 / 17.09.04

Check the Arthur website, which lists regions/cities/stores/filthy caves where the mag is available. There's also a cool weblog on site, written by Jay Babcock I believe: it's called Magpie.

10:38 / 18.09.04

Jay, got my issue by mail this morning (France is far away it seems). Great job !

Is the conference thing with Jonathan Ross during London Con still on, by the way ?

07:06 / 20.09.04

Just ordered a copy. Internation copies cost $10 (so a fiver to us brits, nice!) and got to love paypal.

18:30 / 20.09.04

Cameron that cover fucking rocks! Wow, i bet Grant was chuffed with that.

18:44 / 20.09.04

Thanks! I'm pretty pleased with it, likenesses are always hit and miss for me but I think I pulled this one off. I've had a lot of positive feedback from it. It was originally supposed to be a lot more complex but time constraints prevented me from putting in all the hindu and buddhist imagery I was planning on. Ah well, it probably would have made it too busy anyway.

16:42 / 24.09.04

Louise Michel writes: " got my issue by mail this morning (France is far away it seems). Great job !Is the conference thing with Jonathan Ross during London Con still on, by the way ?"

Hi Louise, Glad you got your copy of the mag and glad you're digging it.
I do not know any details about the London Con -- sorry. Maybe someone else can chime in here?

Jay

17:47 / 24.09.04

I sent a money order 2 weeks ago and I still haven't recieved my copy

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