Jabberwocky
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| Available in | Japanese |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 10th 2017 |
| Country | Japan |
| Website | website |
| https://twitter.com/Jabberwocky_web | |
| Current status | Inactive |
Jabberwocky was a Japanese-language digital magazine launched in partnership with h.NAOTO in May of 2017. [1]
History
In March of 2017, Kera announced that their June issue would be the final print issue of Kera.[2] Following close on the heels of that, Jabberwocky was launched In May of 2017. The editor of the magazine was Mariko Suzuki who created KERA magazine, the Gothic & Lolita Bible and KERA Maniacs and h.NAOTO presented the magazine.[1] On May 17th, Kera launched their digital magazine as well.[3]
The theme for Jabberwocky was a unique combination of Fashion/Culture/Art. Initially the plan was that every day there would be 4~6 new pages, with a total of over 120 pages per month. Planned features will included unique fashion, hair&makeup, culture and art. [1] The magazine published several times between May 10th and December 8th of 2017, and then ceased publication.[4]
The magazine published actual pages as flat images with text on the images in Japanese, and had more of a feeling of a print magazine that had been scanned and put onto the web than a the more blog or digital news article style seen in the digital edition of Kera. Some international readers found this frustrating as widely available free machine translation tools like google translate generally did not include OCR capabilities at that time.[5] Because the magazine was a partnership with h.NAOTO, the content is very h.NAOTO heavy.
The magazine eventually moved from it's own site, to the h.NAOTO site, and remains online as of 2023 although no new content has been posted since 2017.
Notable Figures
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Mariko Suzuki - Editor [1]
Kageyama Mika - Writer [1]
Yaegashi - Graphic Designer [1]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "GOS maga Information!". Facebook.
- ↑ "Harajuku Subculture Magazine KERA To Cease Print". Tokyo Fashion Instagram.
- ↑ "KERA's web magazine created today". Facebook.
- ↑ "Jabberwocky Snap p144-154".
- ↑ "Jabberwocky: The Beautiful and Strange Gothic Fashion Magazine". Stephano's Blog.
