JACK magazine

[house your seagull]

just watching the FHM highstreet honeys video for their cover of 'i touch myself' on FHM TV and i'm quite dissappointed. FHM, once, used to be a very good magazine and a really cool brand but now it's just another cog in the emap machine, as a brand it has no credability now.

made me think about the furore surrounding Loaded and FHM in the mid nineties and their perceived mysogynist output, but compared to Nuts or Zoo they were cultured.

it was such a shame that Jack was shelved, quality magazine that i'm sure would sell enough to justify the demands of a publisher. What happened to Jack? East London Seagull will know.

I only buy Viz and Four Four Two, there's f*ck all else out there these days - what does everybody else read?

 

[Hungry Joe]

Don't know about Jack but Jackie magazine rocked my world in the 70's.

 

[ali jenkins]

I buy Nuts/Zoo every few weeks but i dont normally read mags.

 

[Soul Finger]

Old issues of Scars & Stripes...

 

[Robot Chicken]

Empire, Total Film, When Saturday Comes, Four Four Two, various DVD magazines, PC Format, other PC magazines

 

[bigc]

I buy Nuts/Zoo every few weeks but i dont normally read mags.

Well reading isn't really an issue when it comes to those two is it?

 

[ali jenkins]

Well reading isn't really an issue when it comes to those two is it?

I realise that no-one will beleive me ut i find the reading bits more intresting than the tits and arse!

Im not saying that im not intrested in tit and arse one bit, but some of the bits can be funny and informative!

 

[Gwylan]

it was such a shame that Jack was shelved, quality magazine that i'm sure would sell enough to justify the demands of a publisher. What happened to Jack?

I believe that it was selling just over 30,000 issues a month when it was shelved - that's why.

Magazine publishing is simple: if you don't sell,you get canned - no matter how good the mag might seem to be.

Maxim's the next mag that looks fragile by the way, it's just had terrible ABC results.

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

The only mags I buy are 'Guns and Ammo' and 'Caravan Monthly'

 

[urbanjim]

Still got all my old issues of Jack knocking round my flat.

Agree with you, it was a quality read. All the other mags keep going by relying on scantily clad ladies to sell copies.

Not that I have anything against scantily clad hussies. I'd like to though.

 

[Chesney Christ]

When Saturday Comes is the best football magazine by a country mile, and pisses on FourFourTwo (which may now as well be called Shoot Monthly) from a great height.

The only other mag I read is The Wisden Cricketer, which is superb, and occasionally NME.

 

[Mrs Coach]

That's Life, Chat, Pick Me Up, Real People, Woman, Womans Own, Bella, Best, Take a Break, The Argus,

I'm a housewife you see..........

 

[Dave the OAP]

The only mags I buy are 'Guns and Ammo' and 'Caravan Monthly'

Its you who buy all the copies up


I get When Satdi Comes ( delivered) and occasionally BBC History and BBC Music.

 

[Dave the OAP]

That's Life, Chat, Pick Me Up, Real People, Woman, Womans Own, Bella, Best, Take a Break, The Argus,

I'm a housewife you see..........

reading whilst lying on the sofa, eating chocolates and watching daytime tv no doubt

 

[Les Biehn]

Buy Sight and Sound occassionally but rely on papers in general for all my football and film news. All lads mags are shocking.

As for porn, who needs to purchase mags anymore.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I don't think there was anything mysoginistic about Loaded in its heyday whatsoever - quite the opposite: I think it played on the fact that girls quite liked boys being boys.

I think there was a big London/provinces gap there though: I suspect that the editorial team behind it were basically posh ponces having fun play acting at being lads, whereas much of its readership was thinking "hey, these people are acting like stupid yobs, just like me" - can't imagine too many of them got much out of the fantastic Hunter S Thompson interviews, say. Now it's just bad cheap porn for teenagers, of course.

I still think there's good mileage in the old-fashioned Playboy formula: tits AND real brain fodder, with lengthy intelligent interviews etc. The Playboy interviews with John Lennon, say, were definitive.

 

[Soul Finger]

I get When Satdi Comes ( delivered)

Ditto. Great read.