Magazines
“I didn’t care if I got sacked”: Sleazenation’s Scott King in conversation with Radge’s Meg McWilliams
Radgenation — For our 20th Anniversary Issue, Huck’s editor Josh Jones sits down with the legendary art director and the founder of a new magazine from England’s northeast to talk about taking risks, crafting singular covers and disrupting the middle class dominance of the creative industries.
Written by: Josh Jones
In photos: The newsagents keeping print alive
Save the stands — With Huck 83 hitting shelves around the world, we met a few people who continue to stock print magazines, defying an enduringly tough climate for physical media and the high street.
Written by: Ella Glossop
Tech once promised connection. Print magazines are delivering it
Touch paper — After years of retrenchment in the journalism and media industry, physical magazines are making a comeback. In Real Life Media founder Megan Wray Schertler diagnoses the state of the industry, while explaining the radical history of print and why we need it today.
Written by: Megan Wray Schertler
As music journalism marches towards oblivion, a plea for salvation
We Gotta Get Through This — On reaching 25 years of the independent music blog and online community Drowned in Sound, site founder, label boss, and manager of artists such as Charlotte Church, Sean Adams, explores how music journalism is still limping, and why setting up The Association of Music Editors is an attempt to liberate it from corporate tyranny and neglect.
Written by: Sean Adams
Read and destroy: the story of the UK's seminal skateboarding magazine
RaD was inclusive, underground and unapologetically British. Almost three decades after it ceased publication, the people behind its success remember its influence.
Written by: Oliver-James Campbell
LGBTQ+ zines from places where being gay is condemned
Queer resistance — From Russia to India and Hong Kong, we take a look at the zines which are carving out vital spaces of self-expression for queer people in countries where same-sex relationships still remain taboo.
Written by: Z. Raza-Sheikh
Help save a treasure trove of vital skate culture
Read and Destroy — The definitive history of UK skateboarding is being brought back to light like never before... if it gain the right backing.
Written by: Cian Traynor
The magazine for outsiders, built from nothing but ideas
The Editorial — After being let go from her job, and turned away from every publication, Claire Milbrath started her own title to bring emerging artists into the light, away from the establishment's doors.
Written by: Josh Gabert-Doyon
Strike! Magazine on how to avoid the Dark Side and start your own publication
DIY or Die — What do you do when you’re fucked-off with the way things are? You start a subversive magazine and start exploring other planets.
Written by: Strike!
Erin Spens, Boat Magazine
Show Your Work —
Written by: D'Arcy Doran
