While our two chufty boxes of zines are trekking across the Canadian landscape and dodging province lockdowns, we can enjoy another stunning promo from Emperiocism. When not having copious amounts of feelings for fictional foggy sea captains, Emperio can be found watching a vast array of terrible horror game let’s plays, with an empty canvas beside her, open and waiting. Delight in more of her amazing work at emperiocism on twitter, and keep your eye out for our upcoming test copy sneak peek!
Our copy editor, Egon Vogel, has provided a page of poetry and a longform dark fic to the Magnus Collection. While Egon is primarily an academic researcher, he also has a strong passion for fandom and all the incredible things we can do when we love something strongly and communally. He’s excited to get the books sent out to all these fans and to play a part in the collaborative creative process.
[Image Description: A segment of a larger piece of work, screenshot for promo. This snippet of poetry is typewritten onto a crinkled, folded, aged piece of paper.
Transcription:
“The Eye - Jonathan Sims (18 June 2007)
When I was a child I used to think
That the world could be made and unmade
When I closed my eyes
And that all the adults in my life
Were actors in a cosmic story”]
Today we’re sharing the front cover for The Magnus Collection, courtesy of our design editor Jack Cloverway. The print cover is a gorgeous wraparound that spans a fair portion of the face of the Magnus Institute. Look familiar? The Tate Museum (Tate Britain) stands on the location of the former Millbank Prison. Designed by architects like Sidney R. J. Smith with additions by John Russell Pope, we felt this classical style reflected exactly the kind of wealth, severity, and pomp Jonah would imbue into his vision. The back cover includes stylized Goddesses of Fears sprinkled along the roofing ornamentation.
We’re printing just 100 more copies of this volume before we turn our attentions to Volume 2, so if you’d like to pick up a copy, act quickly! The first print run sold out in a day and a half, a fact you can confirm in our breathless live-blogging of events. Don’t want to chance the unkind fates of the shipping services? We also have a PDF version you can flip through *right now*.
Head on over to The Magnus Collection storefront and reserve your copy today!
It’s really difficult to find a fun promo screencap for @marimo-art because everything in this piece is gorgeous, and we don’t want to give all the grandeur away. There are so many fantastic details, all done up in traditional pen and ink, by a real master of the medium.
Marimo says: “Hey folks! I’ve been drawing since I was about three years old and have always loved doing traditional art over all other art types. I listen to music constantly all day, every day but especially when drawing. Spooky stuff has always interested me but I only within the last three years got into listening to TMA and I’ve fallen down the hole of liking horror content more and more.”
Check out her twitter at MarimoJenn and her instagram at artbymarimo, and join us in waiting with bated breath for those books to get to our studio!
If you want to pick up a pdf or reserve a physical copy, check out our storefront. We’ve got 80% remaining on the second print run, and the first print run will be sent out for mail starting the day we receive it.
[ID: The weathered top half of the first page of a statement, with elements like address and phone number redacted, and a ‘file copy’ stamp obscuring additional information.
Transcript: “My name is Eric Connors, and I was married to my wife for 46 years. There were many details to sort out following Mary’s passing, but the most pressing by far was the mountain of debt we’d accrued for her treatments. We had once built up a nice nest egg over the years in hopes of a pleasant retirement, however, with the aggressive nature of her illness, we blew through our savings within two years. I then maxed out credit cards, took out loans, and remortgaged our house before Mary’s health took its final turn. I barely had any time to grieve at all before life demanded I stride on and get back to business. I still had the shop to run, but thrifting isn’t exactly a Fortune 500 business, and I doubted it would bring in enough to pay down these debts, even if I ran it for two lifetimes. I made what payments I could when I could make them, but the calls from the bill collectors became so frequent that I eventually stopped answering my phone all together.”]
Leedzie is a prolific writer with work appearing in several zines. Though best known for her analyses and humor articles, she has also done extensive work in the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom. Leedzie was drawn to the Magnus Archives for its eerie mood and unique presentation, and couldn’t wait to take a crack at it herself. Find more of her work, visit https://leedzie.wordpress.com/