THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF PENICILLIN

It started as a weekly magazine, then became fortnightly, now I think I will no longer commit to any publication schedule at all. I have too many other projects (both my own and helping other people with theirs) that require my time and attention.

    From now on issues will appear just when there is a certain amount of material to justify it. The issues will be smaller, and thinner, but none the worse for that I think.

    So if you are one of those kind people who I have contacted recently and have said they would write something for the magazine, please do send it to me when you have it, and the sooner you send it the sooner I can put it out there. You know who you are.

    One big change I think is artwork. Quite honestly, if the magazine was just words it would take no more than an hour to produce, but it is trying to fit in pictures and format all the writing around the pictures, and caption all the pictures, and crop the pictures so they fit on the page, takes up NINETY-NINE per cent of my time in producing each issue. Reluctantly, therefore, there will be less artwork in the magazine, but I will still love to feature my favourite artists on the cover.

    Who knows, if the magazine becomes easier and quicker to produce, it can go back to being quite regular again.

    Thank you for your attention, and your kind interest. A slimline Issue No.32 might well be out this weekend or next, so if you have anything for it please do send.

Your servant 
Ernst Graf