Draft:Pingo (magazine)
PINGO ducktales issue #9 | |
| Editor | Luca Hillen (Art Director) |
|---|---|
| Categories | Fine Art, Design, Food, comic, Spirituality, Health, Photojournalism, Travel |
| Frequency | triannual |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Final issue | 2008 |
| Company | Tom is Jerry |
| Country | The Netherlands |
| Language | English |
| Website | https://www.pingomagazine.com - Pingo |
Pingo is a triennial fine art magazine published by Tom is Jerry Books. It is distributed throughout Scandinavia and internationally.[1]
History
[edit]Before Pingo had had its official release in 2008 in Wales, photography students Luca Hillen and Robin Thomas were publishing their own fanzines. Robin Thomas assembled photographs and illustrations of acquainted photographers in a paper called Boris - New German Photography.[2] Luca Hillen published his short stories and excerpts from his never officially published novel Cairo in a self-folded and stitched fanzine titled Passio. The first paper of Pingo came later on in A6-size and had been set up to promote passionism: an art direction invented by both Robin and Luca.
From 2009 Pingo expanded its remit to include review coverage of movies and concerts, across Europe and the US.[3] In 2015 Pingo published its 9th issue Pingo Ducktales[4] which celebrated its release at MARS[5] - a contemporary art gallery in Munich. Pingo Ducktales was relaunched in a new special format with additional pages and a special focus on merging illustrations with spiritual quotes and comic art. Since 2020 it has also included extensive reviews of hotels and restaurants.
Target audience
[edit]According to Luca Hillen Pingo was intended to appeal to "art enthusiasts and museum visitors wishing for an honest and direct language coming from the heart instead of artworks hiding behind irony", that is, predominantly middle class and upper middle class (A, B, and to some extent C1) younger people. As such, advertisers include The Barry Long Foundation and The Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam. In order to appeal to older customers, Pingo underwent slight changes to give it a more modern look, including changing the Paper size of the magazine from 4.1 × 5.8 inches to 5.8 × 8.3 , and writing the issue numbers in numeric format rather than text.
Couverage
[edit]The magazine is primarily concerned with comic strips, the arts, travel, haute cuisine and self-knowledge . Luca Hillen edits the magazine since 2006. The magazine deals largely with art photography. In 2020 Pingo started both focusing on rare graphic novel publications and travel guide persiflages.
What comes to its visual interest Pingo is primarily concerned with social, historical or aesthetic uses of photography rather than technical or amateur photography. However, as well as art photography the magazine is also concerned with other areas such as self-discovery, children-drawings, graphic novels, short stories, paintings and illustrations of all kind.
Pricing
[edit]Pingo was available for around $10. The move came after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine which - due to raising printing costs - led the magazine to almost double its reseller-price.
Cover stars
[edit]Each issue has a theme and sometimes a celebrity on the cover. Below is a list of cover stars to date:
| issue | cover star | back cover star |
|---|---|---|
| #3 (Jan. 2010) | Ascan Helmbold | |
| #4 (April 2010) | Nora Kapfer | |
| #3 (Jan. 2010) | Ascan Helmbold | |
| #6 (Nov. 2011) | Calypso Schuijt | |
| #9 (Mar. 2015) | Thomas von Poschinger | Daniel Jacoby |
| #12 (Mar. 2019) | Roger Federer | |
| #13 (June 2019) | Captain Hook | |
| #16 (Feb. 2022) | Isadora Tomasi | |
| #17 (Dec. 2022) | Daniele da Volterra | Michelangelo |
| #19 (Dec. 2024) | Robert Walser |
References
[edit]- ^ Luca Hillen (6 May 2018). "distribution Pingo Magazine". archived from Pingo website. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ westend studios (12 December 2008). "about Robin Thomas". Campaign. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ printed matter (2 August 2019). "hors d'oeuvre". Campaign. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ Auf Kunst (12 November 2015). "release: pingo magazine". Campaign. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ mars (14 November 2015). "release: pingo magazine". Campaign. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
External links
[edit]Category: photojournalism Category: Avant-garde Category: Mindfulness Category: comics Category: Photography