G & T on Smegazines?

[Tonguetied]

I would love to hear either a special Dwarfcast about the Smegazines or an indepth article. There’s just too little information about them on the net.

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[Ian Symes]

I do have a complete set. We should do something…

[p2p_productions]

>I do have a complete set. We should do something?

Dwarfcast featuring favourite Smegazine readers’ stories/artwork/articles..?

[Kris Carter]

I used to love that ol’ Smegazine…

I managed to get a complete set back in the day, and lost the lot in a house move overseas, which sucked. If anyone knows where I could get a replacement set, I’d be grateful… Ebay hasn’t been much good in my experience. Hell, if someone could point me toward some scans it’d be good… as Tonguetied said, there’s bog all online.

In fact, if anyone could even lend me the mags, I’d scan the lot and set up an archive.

I always enjoyed the comics (surprise, me being a fan of funny books). Not so much the two straight episodes adaptations of the first 6 or 7 months, but the original stuff was really distinctive. Nigel Kitching’s artwork in particular has always struck me as fantastic, and I loved the way the comics would mix concepts from the TV series with the novels. “Lister The God” was a great time travel tale that fleshed out the cat history in style, and there were some Jake Bullet noir-esque comics kicking about too. I also enjoyed the deadpan satire of just how bad Red Dwarf USA could have been.

Ah.. good times, good times…

[si]

The newsagent where I bought my very first Smegazine – Issue 4, April 92 – is now a chinese takeaway called Wah King.

Just thought I’d say.

[Nick R]

Yes, I’ve wondered why this site has never done an article on the Smegazine… I’ve never seen an issue, but it must have been a pretty important part of Dwarf fandom in the early ’90s.

Nigel Kitching?s artwork in particular has always struck me as fantastic, and I loved the way the comics would mix concepts from the TV series with the novels.

I was a big fan of Kitching’s writing and artwork on Sonic the Comic (which Dwarf-disliker Julian Hazeldine wrote about recently). It wasn’t very long ago that I first heard he’d worked on the Smegazine, but since then I’ve been curious to see what his contributions were like.

There’s an interesting interview with him here.

Last I heard, he was a graphic design lecturer at the University of Teeside… a couple of people in STC nostalgia threads in other forums have mentioned they were taught by him!

[Nakrophile]

I have no idea what happened to my Sonic the Comic’s. I had quite a lot of them, and I know I wouldn’t have thrown them away because Sonic is an amazing person.

[Dessie]

I had loads of Sonic the comic’s but i think i’ve thrown them away now. I’ve never read any of the Smegazine comics and i’d love to get the chance to. I was thinking about tracking down a set of them on Ebay or something.

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[Richietee]

You can download Sonic The Comic scans here http://tkaserver.kicks-ass.net:2020/index.php?area=comics&comic=7 you have to sign up before though

Id love to have scans of the Smegazines I’ve never read them if anyone ever finds a site that has scans could you please let me know

There is this site but the pics dont show
http://www.geocities.com/area51/lair/2548/smegazine/theend.html

[Seb Patrick]

>I was a big fan of Kitching?s writing and artwork on Sonic the Comic (which Dwarf-disliker Julian Hazeldine wrote about recently).

If you like that, you’re going to love what’s coming to NTS at an undetermined point in the future…

[Carlito]

Re: that banner.

I’m trying to rack my brains, but I must have missed that period in Dwarf history when Rimmer was played by Reg Hollis from The Bill.

[Carlito]

Funny enough, my mate was talking about digging out his old Smegazines and scanning them online just last week during BtE. I think he has them all bar the first one.

[Richey]

> Re: that banner.

I?m trying to rack my brains, but I must have missed that period in Dwarf history when Rimmer was played by Reg Hollis from The Bill.

Looks more like Gary Linekar!

[Tonguetied]

Thanks Timestone, I love Sonic the Comic, use to collect them when I was younger.

[si]

There was some great art, but also some truly awful stuff. That banner’s up there with the worst.

[Tonguetied]

I love the art styles of the comic strips, they are so varied and captivating. Great colour and nice touches to the design of the interior of Red Dwarf. I liked how in the adaption of The End they completely reworked all the gray sets with the sleak look of the cream coloured Series III to V production style. Also the nice touches in costume design, utilizing and paying homage to Lister’s Hawaiian shirts with his leather jackets and deerstalker. The comic strip version of George McIntyre was very scary though indeed. I just loved how the artists created an alternate version of the early shows. Of course many of the strips were original stories, but it’s nice to look at episode adaptations to compare them with the actual shows themselves and the novels.

[Carlito]

For the record, I read the Smegazine adaptation of Future Echoes before I’d even seen the show itself. (And I bet I’m not alone on here in doing that)

Added quite a bit of intrigue… when series I was finally released, that was the episode I reeeeeally wanted to see.

[Carlito]

Or when it was repeated during the Red Dwarf Genesis in 1994… cannot remember which came first, VHS release or first ever repeat run… could research it but cannot be arsed.

[Tonguetied]

Wow Carl, how did Future Echoes hold up on the small screen compared to the strip? Were you surprised with the gray sets and lines on Norm’s face?

[Kris Carter]

The VHS came before the first TV repeats…. it was really wierd seeing the episode after reading the comic first, but very cool!

[Carlito]

> Wow Carl, how did Future Echoes hold up on the small screen compared to the strip? Were you surprised with the gray sets and lines on Norm?s face?

Lol, nah I’d already seen series II.

Watching it was strange though.

[Ian Symes]

The VHS came before the first TV repeats

A sticker on the box proudly claimed that the series had never been repeated on TV. A couple months later…

[Seb Patrick]

Couple OF months.

[Kris Carter]

“Say your goddamned pronouns!!!”

[Ian Symes]

For the record, that wasn’t an intentional droppage – it was a “oh shit, look at the time, I’d better get to work, mind you I might as well just post this before I go” droppage.

[si]

>For the record, I read the Smegazine adaptation of Future Echoes before I?d even seen the show itself. (And I bet I?m not alone on here in doing that)

I couldn’t remember much about series I, so it was pretty much the same with me. I remember when I eventually watched Future Echoes being a bit surprised that the sets and emphasis of certain lines was different (when Rimmer says ‘Git’, for example. On TV, he just mutters it, whereas in the strip, that month’s strip ended with Lister throwing a cigarette butt through Rimmer, and Rimmer shouting ‘GIT!’ after him. Little things, but you remember these things…)

[Ben Paddon]

Someone needs to scan the comics. If nothing else, it’d help me complete the Red Dwarf Reference Guide as I believe the comics had some original stories in them…?

[Kris Carter]

I’ve just blown ?50 from some comic book work on getting a full set of Smegazines. I’ll scan in the comics when I get a chance!

[Nick R]

> For the record, I read the Smegazine adaptation of Future Echoes before I?d even seen the show itself. (And I bet I?m not alone on here in doing that)

These days I go out of my way to avoid spoilers. But when I first got into Dwarf, I eagerly devoured information about episodes I hadn’t seen by reading the novels, the Soup script books and the Programme Guide.

I was really disappointed when I first watched “Holoship” and found that the scene where Holly politely delays Rimmer was missing…

[si]

>I?ve just blown ?50 from some comic book work on getting a full set of Smegazines.

Damn you. I spent a lot more than that on an incomplete set at a Dimension Jump auction. I wouldn’t have minded, but I was only missing three of them. I just wanted to replace my battered copies of the others.

[Danny Stephenson]

*cough*
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RED-DWARF-SMEGAZINES-FULL-RUN-1-23-ALL-EXC-CONDITION_W0QQitemZ250407549606QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_SciFi_fantasyCollectables_EH?hash=item250407549606&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

Get them while they’re hot!! 33 mins to go!

[si]

Shocking – that’ll have that Starbug keyring which I lost and never got replaced. I can’t afford ?80 though. Can you believe I paid over a hundred quid seven years ago?

[Ben Paddon]

I’d jump on that but… well, it’s finished now. Also I’m broke.

[Danny Stephenson]

I had a crack at it for ?60. It wasn’t to be.

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