Embryonic EW
An eBay auction:
Entertainment Weekly issue #14 with the first Simpsons cover. Not just any copy, but my very own copy that I've saved since 1990. Gotta love the early, clunky Simpsons covered in the early, clunky EW. Bid on this and help support my budding career as an eBay seller.
It was a shock paging through this issue and seeing how different it was then. The overall look is sedate, subtle, high minded, kind of boring. Editorial content was geared toward upwardly mobile people in their 30s and 40s. Even so, I could tell why I devoured it from the first issue. To have an entertainment magazine based around opinions and discussion-worthy topics was novel and interesting. They were still working out the kinks in 1990, but by about '95 the mag was pretty much the way it is today. Glancing at the masthead, I noticed that only critics Owen Gleiberman and Ken Tucker are still working there. Interesting to note that two EW veterans - founding editor Jeff Jarvis and music critic Greg Sandow - now have weblogs.
Posted by mhinrichs at March 20, 2004 03:54 PM
