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I got an ideal job back at the offices as traffic manager, coordinating artwork and interviewing potential contributors. There was a buzz to opening each day's submissions and presenting them to the weekly editorial meetings. I got to see loads of art and artists and I learnt a lot about magazines,
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I'm sure readers will know that
Henriette and Serge were the founders of PSSST!: the groundbreaking magazine which collected the existing LUTHER ARKWRIGHT chapters previously published in NEAR MYTHS and then showcased new ARKWRIGHT material. With the sad demise of PSSST! the Boissevains went on to
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for about ten years now, patiently encouraging Bryan, publishing the first Book, putting up the money for the second, and publishing the third...; without him, Bryan might well never have managed to make time to complete
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and the rest of the cascade of
British adult comic mags that came out in the Eighties and Nineties." Critic Russell Willis, on the other hand, wrote of the publication, "It tended towards
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stories as well as some of their other work. Morrison said, "I'd done a new Gideon
Stargrave story... it's my favourite one I've ever done in my life and it's never been seen anywhere."
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magazine that sold in France would make a fortune here; instead, it nearly lost them theirs.
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