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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 17:58:55 GMT
Do you read any specialist mags or comics related to your interests & hobbies? Which ones do you like? Any you wouldn't recommend? Let us share interesting articles (not verbatim - mustn't breach copyright rules), competitions etc. Good cover gifts would be useful to know about too.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 30, 2016 18:23:01 GMT
When I was commuting I used to buy The People's Friend for the story. Easy read on the train. Knitting patterns tend to be very old-fashioned though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 19:26:43 GMT
I don't really buy magazines now. I got a Gardener's World magazine at the garden centre last year, nearly had a coronary when I saw how much it cost .  I wouldn't care, but most of it was adverts. I get the odd Amateur Gardening if I fancy the seeds on the front. |
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Post by sleepyp on Jun 30, 2016 22:10:08 GMT
Family Tree magazine and occasionally the WDYTYA one as well... sometimes articles are totally relevant to my research, sometimes not at all, but I enjoy reading about other people's searching and there's usually a few general history items too  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 22:21:27 GMT
Private Eye for as long as I can remember.My darling OH bought me a subscription for The Spectator which she thought would be to my taste.I must confess I don't even look at it,it goes straight in the bin.
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Post by sleepyp on Jun 30, 2016 22:28:45 GMT
I'm looking forward to the next issue of the Eye  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 12:25:31 GMT
Do you read any specialist mags or comics related to your interests & hobbies? Which ones do you like? Any you wouldn't recommend? Well, comics are my hobby, or one of them (the other being Doctor Who), so yes, I read a lot of them. Currently including (though not limited to): 2000 AD Judge Dredd Megazine all of the Titan Comics Doctor Who titles Johnny Red Dejah Thoris Red Sonja All the Avengers titles Captain America Uncanny X-Men All-New X-Men Extraordinary X-Men Howard The Duck Ms Marvel Scarlet Witch Dr Strange The Vision Weirdworld Squadron Supreme Amazing Spider-Man All of Marvel's Star Wars titles Titans Hunt ...and quite a bit more. I've also been buying Doctor Who Magazine ever since its first issue back in 1979 (when it was still Doctor Who Weekly) and woud happily recommend it to anybody. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 12:50:28 GMT
Golly tingramrero, that sounds like an awfully expensive hobby! Do you keep them or pass them on to others or just recycle?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 14:03:51 GMT
Golly tingramrero, that sounds like an awfully expensive hobby! Do you keep them or pass them on to others or just recycle? "Recycle"? Recycle comics? Are you utterly insane!!!? They're collectibles. My personal collection, which has been growing for forty years now and takes up a full room and much of the hallway, contains about 30, 000, all bagged and catalogued, with an estimated value of about eighty grand. Comics are very, very collectible, and can be very profitable (I deal as well as collect, myself). You'll find very few people reading comics these days who would simply discard them. You never know what'll end up being worth something, even if most modern Ammerican comics will end up going for a quid or two in ten years time when they cost more than that to buy new. Most readers, I think, are now also collectors. This is one of the gems of my collection.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 13:26:42 GMT
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first issue of the self styled "Galaxy's Greatest Comic", 2000 AD, which unleashed Judge Dredd and a host of other insane characters on an unsuspecting public back in February 1977. Back then, "2000 AD" sounded suitably futuristic for a sci-fi title; now, seventeen years after that date, it's a brand too valuable to update. It is the last of the traditional weekly adventure comics, and it recently celebrated it's own 2000th edition. Happy Birthday, 2000 AD!  |
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Post by Miranda on Feb 22, 2017 15:33:42 GMT
40th Anniversary? Lordie me, that makes me feel old!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 16:31:49 GMT
40th Anniversary? Lordie me, that makes me feel old! It's pretty amazing to think it's been that long-it began when i was seven, and I was reading it then! I doubt it'd be considered suitable for a seven year old now... |
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Post by Miranda on Feb 22, 2017 17:52:15 GMT
I was about 12 when I started and my mom would probably have had a fit if she'd read it. But to her it was just another comic that I read.
Although, I read a recent one and it did seem more violent. But I don't know if it was or not. Maybe at this age I've lost my taste for it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 18:11:00 GMT
I was about 12 when I started and my mom would probably have had a fit if she'd read it. But to her it was just another comic that I read. Although, I read a recent one and it did seem more violent. But I don't know if it was or not. Maybe at this age I've lost my taste for it. When it started, the age range for boys adventure comics, which is basically what the publishers considered it to be, was roughly 8-14. Nowadays, most kids basically don't read comics or much of anything else, so the target range is roughly 18-35 (though many readers are older). |
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Post by Miranda on Feb 22, 2017 18:22:19 GMT
Ah! So it is more violent now? My memory hasn't played me false then.
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Anymore to come?
