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Offworld is the new section in Event Horizon that guides you to featured sites on the internet to enjoy sound, motion and performance. The pdf edition (and necessarily the print edition as well) has no active links – only URL address listings.  For your convenience,  links have been provided to the featured sites.  Find the links on the Home page, exactly where you go to download the issue.

Did I mention that it’s time for a Call for Submissions?   Here it is:

Event Horizon is seeking submissions in poetry and fiction. Event Horizon is calling for 2D graphic arts including painting, drawing, computer design and photography. Event Horizon welcomes photography and narrative on travel, craft or other image-based presentation. Event Horizon calls for submissions in manga, graphic novels, comic books – picture-based story narratives. Event Horizon welcomes non-fiction including critique, biography, art history and contemporary art reporting. Look at Offworld and see if you want to share music or performance from your website.

If you wanna be a savvy, plugged-in, mover-and-shaker in the art world like me, make sure you get Hyperallergic sent to your mailbox.  Solid reportage; inclusive of a wide community of interests; fun to read.  I’ll steal from the best when I report to my readers.

Wish I could go to the FUNHOUSE Bookfair where I could rub shoulders with in-person cartoonists.  Maybe I could get them to submit stuff to Event Horizon.

When: March 24-25, 11am-5pm
Where: The Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan)

More info at The Drawing Center. Tickets cost $10 via Eventbrite.

Thanks to hyperallergic.com

Issue 3 is available as a free pdf download.  The print edition for purchase will be available soon.

Event Horizon may be boldly leading the charge to the craggiest outposts of art.  But it is also a quaint throw-back to the age of print.  What else is this whole-issue pdf-download than a digital rendering of a print medium?  Event Horizon is parked at a website – like Deep Space 9 at the edge of the galaxy – but the publication is not a website; no tabs, no pages to navigate, no live links. Offworld – a new department of Event Horizon – will be its portal to the rest of the internet.  Offworld is the guide to  sound, motion and performance.

Event Horizon is pleased to co-host a debut performance –  a reading of a newly translated short story by the Russian autho, Olga Onoyko, with an interview of the author.  The short story is The House behind the Vacant Lot. The reading is performed by her translator, Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. Event Horizon is collaborating with She’s in Russia, a podcast hosted by two Americans whose avowed mission is to short-circuit Cold War II and pull the rug out from propaganda in both directions.  The podcast for the reading – in English – will be available  at Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/shes-in-russia, on March 20.  The translation is available in Issue 3 of Event Horizon.

… with one special caveat:  I  hope  I can make Issue 3 pdf edition available on March 20.  If I cannot, the translation will be available on the Home page here at Event Horizon.

Thanks again to Hyperallergic, this time for telling me about 13-year-old “kid cartoonist” Sasha Matthews at Twitter, @RumbleComics.  Most recent target, the NRA.

But here’s the catch and the nit-picky back story:  I don’t read print periodicals that much.  But if I did, my two favorites would be The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.  I love their success – they still have a thriving print presence in the digital age.  I love how they do what they do.  The content and presentation of The New Yorker resonate with me. And Vanity Fair is beautiful, lush, extravagant.

The first 48 pages of Issue 691 of Vanity Fair (“Hollywood 2018”) consist of full-page display ads. Masthead and Table of Contents start on page 49.  The magazine promotes material culture and the arts.  The “content” is there. The ads are there in more than equal measure.  Everything is beautifully packaged. Do I aspire to be a Vanity Fair of the arts?  I’d rather be a New Yorker for the arts but as a publisher, I find much to admire in Vanity Fair.

I will not make any money on single-issue sales or subscriptions to my print edition.  If I invite entry fees, they really do only cover costs (prize money).  This is a rewarding hobby. If I ever “monetize” it,  it will be with ads.

I have made public service ads promoting public education,  ads for protecting public lands and  private reserves, and shout-outs for local arts and cultural centers.  If the ads are pretty, why can’t I do tattoo artists, produce vendors, and glass manufacturers?

So that’s where you come in.  I’m interested in promoting your business.  The main thing I need is your permission.  And this “offer” is not a quid-pro-quo or an agreement or contract (I hope) in any sense.  It’s mostly on my terms and subject to my needs and resources at any moment.  You do get thumbs-up or down on the ad before it goes anywhere.

I provided an example here: A full-page photo or illustration.  A block of text up to about five lines for name, contact info and maybe a motto.

This is a great chance for low-cost promotion.  Anything more is speculation about the future: sweetheart deal, grandfather clause, preferred pricing, whatever. 

Let’s talk.

Just so you know, art and culture added $763.6 billion to the economy in 2015 – a little more than the GDP of Switzerland.

Be sure to check this out at hperallergic.com.