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Hey, it's Friday... Time for a new theme! :)
Seriously, I came across this one and felt it has an old-time magazine/paper content feel to it, so I thought it would work. What do you think? I think it makes the site look less "busy". I think it detracts less from the magazines. But what do you guys think? Your input is appreciated.
I've been working quite a bit behind the scenes to complete The Publishers in the Matrix. At this point, aside from a few magazines with unknown publishers, every magazine on this site is indexed and in its proper place under Publishers. Now when you click on a link to a publisher (from the box that appears on the left at various points in the site), it will take you to a page listing magazines from that publisher. These pages are different than before. If more info is available, it will show on the page. Among that info is:
Also, when it lists magazines, it will only show one magazine for a title on the publisher page. Click on that, and it will take you to a new page that shows all of the issues for the title. For example, instead of listing every issue of Adam on the Knight Publications page, it will show you one issue of Adam that links to the complete list. This allows you to see at a glance which titles a publisher produced.
As the site grows, and more information is made available, I'm trying to keep things organized and presented in an appealing way. I appreciate all the many contributions that all of you have provided and encourage you to contribute what you can, be it a full issue, a cover, an article, a post, etc. The site is growing rapidly and I'm in awe of all that you do here. Thank you all!
Eric
I finally got some free time and designed a logo that I'm MUCH happier with. It has a very "late 50's-early 60's" feel to it, which is what I was aiming for. Jackie (Jocelyn) Lane was never lovelier! LOL.
Now would be the time to say something about Miss Lane. She was an Elvis girl, appearing with the King in one of his lesser films, "Tickle Me". She was born Jocelyn Lane, but started her modelling career as Jackie Lane. She soon changed it back to Jocelyn to avoid confusion with another British actress named Jackie Lane who was a supporting character on Doctor Who in the 60's. In 1971 she married Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg of Marbella, Spain and retired from acting and modelling. The picture we see here was taken when she was 20 years old.
I decided to spruce up the logo a bit. The current one is NOT the one I'll stick with, but if anyone wants to contribute a logo, it would be much appreciated... Here are the requirements:
If anyone feels the urge to be creative, please feel free to make something up. Otherwise, I'll come up with something myself. I just thought someone with more creativity could do better than me.
Jackie Lane Read more
Hello, all! Sorry I haven't been on the site in awhile. I've been busy as heck the last few weeks. I still pop in but haven't been able to get enough time to interact. Bear with me please. As soon as I can get myself out of the extra work, I'll do some catch-up work.
Sorry I didn't post a specific "Merry Christmas" message before the 25th, but the personal life is always so busy this time of year.
I did want to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas and a "just-in-the-nick-of-time" Happy New Year. I've been enjoying the heck out of the website this time around and it's all due to the wonderful contributors and users here.
Just for an example of what I've been doing behind the scenes here, check out this link:
http://www.vintagegirliemags.com/matrix/magazine_titles
A list of magazines by title. This has not been as easy as it might seem. The trick was getting it to show only one magazine for each title, as opposed to all the magazines, as it does when you look at a "by publisher" listing. This required me to create a special content type and requires a new page for every title! (ex. Adam, Bachelor, Trojan, etc.) The end result looks nice, but it will take me awhile to index everything. When it's finished, however, I can do some interesting things with how the data is sorted. Stand by for that!
Again, thanks to everyone who has made this site such a joy and I hope you're all having as much fun as I am.
One thing that you people will quickly learn about me is that I'm never satisfied with anything. This is particularly true of the website layout. So I've changed the theme. Again.
Note that I have decided that all aspects of these magazines (Database of magazines, Creators, Models, Publishers, etc.) are now part of the Matrix. This makes more sense, I think. Do you agree?
UPDATE: I just noticed that this theme makes the "Recent Comments" block disappear. I'll fix that later. Got to run. Bye!
Just a note that I've done a few things in the last day or so.
With my limited online time, that's the best I can do for now.
I just wanted to thank all of the magazine contributors. If I haven't added some comments to the front page about your newer magazines, please bear with me while I work through them.
thebigtc, I will probably post just one article about your Australian Cavalcade magazines when I get to them. Not because they're not appreciated (They are GREATLY appreciated!), but because the sheer number that you've uploaded have left me a bit speechless (not an easy task, amigo). I'm afraid that I would get even more redundant than I already am if I commented on every single issue.
They are a wonderful set of magazines and looking at them allows you to see how the magazine differs from American pin-up mags and how they have changed over the years. It's a fascinating read. Thank you!
Well, that's it for now. See you all on the pages.
Regards,
Eric Read more
You knew that a lot of girlie magazines gave lip service to "providing a tool for the artist, photographer, and model" when they published magazines. Some, like Playboy, even spoke at length about being artistic. Yet here was a magazine that put their money where their mouth was.
Figure Quarterly (I don't know if there was just a title called Figure out there) really was designed to assist the artist and photographer, with simple nudes and lots of tips about how to do it right. The fact that the models were sometimes the same women who posed for men's magazines seemed to be just a coincidence. The end result was a girlie mag that aspired to art and often achieved it! Bettie Page is in this one, and she never looked classier.
Thanks for this great mag, arun.yothin! Read more
Thanks, as always, to waw5114 for a great contribution!
Follies was in transition during this period. The publishers had finally gotten the message that nudity sells, and this particular issue is full of nude pictures. I assume that someone at the publishing company didn't like the idea of nudity as Follies, Gala, et. al. were dragged, kicking and screaming, into the world of girlie magazines (as opposed to pin-up magazines). These magazines, published by Cavalcade under a different banner (Frolic Magazines Inc.), were in the process of dying, but it was a slow, lingering death. By the time Frolic caught up with other magazines (in the 1970's) it was a ghost of its former self.
Still, the girls are, as expected, many and beautiful. Enjoy! Thanks, waw5114! Read more
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