News from the Magosphere Dec 29th ‘09

Cartoonist annotates each week’s Guardian Weekender magazine
They should commission him to do it for real one week

Tablets can’t save magazines
The backlash has already begun. And they both make good points. Right now, the industry is focused on making payment possible. But will enough readers want to do so? (via Bob Newman)

Magazine Magazine to launch
Except it already exists

Archive of underground classic International Times available online
Not new, but I finally caught up with it. Contains some fantastic experiments with design on newsprint – future Newspaper Clubbers take note. Speaking of underground magazines…

“That’s what the world needs now – love, sweet love, and a good underground magazine”
Cult hero and graphic novel writer Alan Moore launches his own print magazine, Dodgem Logic. Click around the website, there’s plenty of surprises tucked away in the corners