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kevin g shinnick	SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	Lead	[-]
Posts: 14948 (01/25/08 12:13 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Remove this ad Sorry I have not been on as much as I would like lately. My system was down today, and work & auditions have been keeping me quite busy . Mostly I have been popping on to mention DVD updates, and the ocasional news story . Since the announcement of SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE, I have received some very nice emails from various people from this and other boards ,with thoughtful inquiries, well wishes ,and even welcome offers to contribute . The mag itself is chugging along ,slowly coming together thanks to the efforts of HARRY,KEN,ARLENE, and ELIZABETH. They have gathered a fine staff of writers, reviewers and artists ,as well as the creative skills that they are also bringing to the table. It is a pleasure for me to say we will have original cover artwork as well as marvelous interior illustrations for our premiere installment and hopefully for the others to come . We are STILL looking still for writers ,etc for our upcoming issues. Several magazine publishers have offered their advice and aide (thanks,to the people of TED and HARRIET of SPFX ,JIM from MONSTER FROM THE VAULT , RICHARD fromLITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS ,among others) . Companies like MaCFARLAND ,VCI, SEVERIN, ALPHA,and REDFIELD ARTS ,KINO have taken ads as well or/and supplying review material . Several other studios have also been contacted and are coming aboard in varying capacities. RON & the crew of MONSTER BASH are making the new kids on the (chopping?) block feel welcome for our premiere there. Stores like DARK DELICACIES and HORRORBLES have already offered to carry our magazine. STEPHEN SALLY is owed a great debt for his major help . So is filmmaker TIM SULLIVAN . Any names I am leaving off, please forgive me. I hope that the finished product will do you proud . If I am not on the boards as often as I would like ,please bear with my crazy schedule ,as well as trying to get this thing called SCARLET ready .
Lelia Loban	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#1	[-]
Posts: 5265 (01/25/08 11:24 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Kevin, I'm glad to see you writing about Scarlet in terms of issues, plural. Big undertaking from everyone involved--thank you. Inevitably, this magazine will grow in new directions. That's okay. Life goes on, and, knowing the high-quality work the people involved with Scarlet have done in the past, I think you can succeed with this venture.
HarryLong	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#2	[-]
Posts: 23081 (01/25/08 02:01 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Even if we had opted for continuing SCARLET STREET, we always knew we were looking at issues... plural. And we currently have more material, in the way of feature articles, to fill more than the first issue. (And there are articles promised - from the likes of David Skal & Erich Kuersten- that won't be ready until the fall.) I suspect that once we get all our DVD & book reviews gathered we'll have more than we can cram into one issue as well. But I'm most psyched, personally, about having a nice collection of cover & interior art. I grew up with Basil Gogos on FM and various artists (including Larry Ivie & Ken Kelly) on the covers of CoF. My first contributions to fandom were illustrations for GORE CREATURES (now MIDNIGHT MARQUEE) back in the early 60s. To me horror mags and horror art are inseparable. By the end of March we should have all our material collected & have a better idea of whether we've sold enough advertising to make this project feasible. If there's no news until then, don't fret. But we're working on it. I spend 2-3 hours every night wading through emails from Kevin, Ken, Arlene & others.
lsohgirl	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#3	[-]
Posts: 149 (01/25/08 03:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Harry - sorry I haven't gotten back to you on your recent questions. Work has been wild, and I'm trying to get two issues of my own going in one year!! I want to see SCARLET succede...totally. YOu've got my support all the way. Can't be too many old guard fanzines (there, I said it! Yeah, I know they aren't really "fanzines"...but in my heart, they are.) the Klem www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com
HarryLong	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#4	[-]
Posts: 23081 (01/25/08 05:38 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I find nothing demeaning in the term fanzine, Dick.
lsohgirl	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#5	[-]
Posts: 149 (01/25/08 08:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Nor do I, Harry. I think of being a fanzine as a badge of honor; hard work and sweat because you love something as opposed to just doing it for the bucks...and lord, we aint doing this for money!!
nightmarekey	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#6	[-]
Posts: 2795 (01/26/08 03:16 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* But we're working on it. I spend 2-3 hours every night wading through emails from Kevin, Ken, Arlene & others. Said it before, say it again... Ready When You Are, C.B.! (Was that meant to be a comment on "disposable income")...?
Lelia Loban	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#7	[-]
Posts: 5265 (01/26/08 11:01 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>My first contributions to fandom were illustrations for GORE CREATURES (now MIDNIGHT MARQUEE) back in the early 60s. To me horror mags and horror art are inseparable. >> Harry, your artistic skills are among the reasons I think SCARLET has such a fine chance to succeed. The magazine will look enticing to readers and to advertisers--and the art will be part of the content, not just a decoration. The fact that the members of the senior editorial staff have worked together before on SCARLET STREET will be a huge plus, as well: You already know you can work together.
HarryLong	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#8	[-]
Posts: 23081 (01/27/08 05:40 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>I think of being a fanzine as a badge of honor; hard work and sweat because you love something as opposed to just doing it for the bucks...and lord, we aint doing this for money!!<< I'm very much with you on that. However, I've seen both SCARLET and VAN HELSING'S JOURNAL referred to as fanzines by people who I know meant the designation snidely.
Maleva	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#9	[-]
Posts: 11185 (01/28/08 01:06 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	-----However, I've seen both SCARLET and VAN HELSING'S JOURNAL referred to as fanzines by people who I know meant the designation snidely. --- Ah...but have you considered the source?
HarryLong	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#10	[-]
Posts: 23081 (01/28/08 01:50 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad Yup. As I said ... snidely.
Lelia Loban	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#11	[-]
Posts: 5265 (01/28/08 10:24 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>As I said ... snidely. >> And that got them...where, exactly? A magazine speaks for itself. SCARLET will speak for itself, whether we or anyone else might label it a fanzine or a prozine or a something-else-zine.
The Right Honourable Bill Maynard	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#12	[-]
Posts: 3744 (01/28/08 12:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Better to be tagged a fanzine than a thorazine.
kevin g shinnick	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#13	[-]
Posts: 14948 (01/28/08 01:32 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hi- I am sure there will be people who won't like the magazine/fanzine/prozine/ however we designate it. It is sort of like the acting world-I am a proud member of the three main acting unions in the U.S. However, I do not think that makes me a better actor than some people who are NOT in the union .There are shows and performances done in local theatre that blow away most of what is on Broadway at the moment. Amateur -French, from Latin amtor, lover, from amre, to love. So amateur does not neccessarily mean bad, but merely that money is not always made . The same with the designation of pro zines as to amateur. There are writers who do not make their living doing this, but whose research and opinons I greatly admire. That said, I think we should keep the discussion positive. We have some really good writers and artists attached for the first issue, and I am proud to say, some great new ideas for future THEME issues are likely to spark debate in a constructive vein. Thank you everyone who has been contacting about contributing and for ideas! They have been great. Also, for the positive comments about the mag, especially for publishers of other magazines .
Ken Hanke	Re: SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE	#14	[-]
Posts: 61283 (01/28/08 02:55 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think it's worth noting that much of the negativity is almost certainly going to come from folks who wouldn't read the magazine in the first place, making it a pretty solid non-issue (inadvertent pun, but it fits). I'd also add that anything that seeks to please absolutely everybody is essentially pretty darn worthless.
lsohgirl		#15	[-]
Posts: 128 (01/28/08 10:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's what I kept saying about the Tim Lucas Bava book. To the best of my knowledge there are only two people who contribute regularly to this site, Bruce and I, who bought the book. Bruce voiced his opinion that the wait was too long, and posted often about it. Me, I was willing to wait. Yet people attacked the book and the time link over and over...people who both had no intention of buying the silly thing nor every reading it. Same situation with SCARLET, I guess.
sirharryflashman		#16	[-]
Posts: 801 (01/28/08 11:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	To the best of my knowledge there are only two people who contribute regularly to this site, Bruce and I, who bought the book. Ahem, while my posts to this site are mainly of the Sherlock Holmes related variety, with some forays into other topics, I did buy Tim's Bava book. Have I read it yet? Nope, skimmed bits and pieces, but I've 3 weeks of holiday time coming up in July when I might take the plunge. Considering I first heard about it around the turn of the century, but didn't have the cash then to pre-order it, I'm in no rush, after 7 years, to get to it now. I like and admire Bava's work, but its not like anything is about to change anytime soon on that front. As for SCARLET, well, I've been a buyer and reader of SCARLET STREET since around issue 11, so I'm very much looking forward to seeing what Kevin Shinnick does with the legacy and hope that it can be a successful ongoing and regular publication as the writing talent is very much consistent, notwithstanding one sadly obvious loss, with the magazine that I loved on first sight all those years ago. If people don't pick up SCARLET because they didn't pick up SCARLET STREET due to personality problems, well it's their loss. There simply isn't enough insightful genre coverage, a hallmark of SS, available today and cutting off your nose to spite your face is simply an unpleasant exercise in futility. Cheers, Charles Prepolec Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes available October 2008 BakerStreetDozen.com: Sherlock Holmes in Film, Books and Media
HarryLong		#17	[-]
Posts: 14131 (01/29/08 01:07 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My memory may be faulty, but I think a review of the thread on the Bava book will show that the attacks - if that's what you choose to term them - were not on the book (how could they be when it didn't exist?) but on the repeated delays in delivering it and the perceived inconsistencies in the explanations for those delays. The Mysterious Mr. Long Last Edited By: HarryLong 01/29/08 01:20 AM. Edited 1 times.
kevin g shinnick		#18	[-]
Posts: 8500 (01/29/08 07:42 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	--- oh sure, put the pressure on me =) . I am very proud of what we ae coming up with ,and not to be modest, but the idea would have remained so without the active work of Ken and Harry, as well as Arlene & Elizabeth and Ted,as well as the wonderful people who are contributing their time to write and/or create art for us,those who are contributing photos , as well as the companies who are providing review material and ads . There, I spread the blame =)
lsohgirl		#19	[-]
Posts: 129 (01/29/08 08:51 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I agree with your summation of the contents, Harry, of the Lucas/Bava book line..But again, it was belaboring the same points over and over again - and in most parts by Richard and Ken who do not like Lucas, wouldn't buy the book, and wouldn't read it if they had had the chance. Only Bruce K, Charles and myself were waiting. If the wait or erratic explanations were a factor for us, we could at any time ask for our money back. To go on and on for years over those same points seemed.....pointless? I think the personal ire of a few at the CHFB will keep them from reading SCARLET. These people don't like certain people here. But the vast majority of CHFB are going to give SCARLET a chance, and I think will really enjoy it, just as they enjoyed SCARLET STREET, which barring personal insults, was really respected and enjoyed there.
Ken Hanke		#20	[-]
Posts: 45393 (01/29/08 10:05 AM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad "But again, it was belaboring the same points over and over again - and in most parts by Richard and Ken who do not like Lucas, wouldn't buy the book, and wouldn't read it if they had had the chance" That's a pretty extreme simplification of both a complex relationship ("who don't like Lucas" is a totally ill-chosen phrase) and a series of objections that have nothing to do with whether or not we'd buy or read the book.

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