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Fray Issue 1 Ships!

Fray Issue 1 is coming soon to a mailbox near you! These packs went out to contributors on Saturday - they get a few copies each - and the single issues will go out to subscribers today. Mad props to May at the Portola Post Office for dealing with our many boxes with a smile.
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Let’s Talk Binding

I’ve always thought of Fray as more of a book series than a magazine. That’s because most magazines are made to be disposable, but we want issues of Fray to last. So instead of using a traditional magazine “perfect” binding, which falls apart after a few months, Fray uses a sewn binding that’s usually reserved […]

New in The Magazineer

New in The Magazineer: Southwest’s Eclectic Spirit
(And, yes, the guy sitting next to me on the plane thought I was nuts.)

New in Fray: Busted in Jena

When a group of black students in Jena, Louisiana, defied tradition and sat under a “whites only” tree, no one could have predicted that it would become a national story, that Reverend Al Sharpton would lead a march through town, or that Michael David Murphy would quit his job and travel to Jena to meet, […]

Upcoming Appearance: TOC in NYC

I’ll be speaking at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference for the second time on 11 February 2008. If you’re involved in publishing, this is one conference not to miss. Register with the code “toc08em6″ for 10% off. Here’s my talk topic:

Audience as Authors: Creating, Managing, and Sustaining a Community of Contributors
“When the going gets weird, […]

Rhymes with “Neener”

Introducing The Magazineer, a blog for people who make and love magazines.

Making “Hand” Bags

A while back I scored a Gocco from a friend. A Gocco is a novel screen printing kit from Japan that’s no longer in production. I stowed it away in our office, waiting for a good project to bring it out. Today was that project.
I wanted to do something cool for Fray’s first subscribers. Since […]

I told you it was only on hiatus

Yes, that Fray.
Illustration by the enormously talented Kevin Cornell.

Launching a Magazine the Un-Dumb Way

Dave Eggers, on launching magazines:
With Might, we did it the dumb way. We thought we had to do 100,000 circulation and we had to have all this advertising, and it was never going to happen and no one got paid, we were all perpetually disappointed, and it folded. We found out that wasn’t the way […]

T-Post: Magazine in the form of a T-Shirt

T-Post comes six times a year, contains one story and one illustration per issue, and is printed on cotton. That’s right, T-Post is a magazine in the form of a t-shirt.
I just received the September issue, pictured above. The story, printed on the inside of the shirt, is about companies turning away from the murderous […]