Re: The life and death of Flimsies magazine
Author: hepkema
Date: 07-12-2011 - 22:39
One of the biggest mysteries that I was ever associated with.
I was the Managing Editor for Bill at the time. I had done either that or edited a column for 4 or 5 years. I never met Bill and never even talked to him over the phone--all was via e-mail. Bill had a vision for that magazine following the demise of PacNews. He let me in on some of his grand plans, but he didn't have the assets to get anything going. We actually shut down for a month or so about a half a year before finally pulling the plug, but nobody really knew what was going on. I think Bill "lost" all of his equipment to put the mag together in a repo raid of some sort. Things got patched together for awhile longer, but... Sad. Fun while it lasted. Made a lot of great friends. Bill really seemed to have a passion for what he was doing, but couldn't hold it together.