THE ILLUSTRATED APE
Established in 1998, features 100% original creative fiction, pictures, poetry, pop - and never, ever reviews! It has won popular acclaim, most notably the Creative Review 'Best In Book' award for design, and was one of only five British magazines selected for the Jam Anglo-Japanese exhibition. It is widely regarded as the most exciting and influential creative, illustration, graffiti, and writing magazine to come out of the British urban underground, and is a primary resource for anyone seeing insights into popular culture.
Famous contributors to The Illustrated Ape include:
Jamie Reid - the design king of punk, Julie Verhoeven - described in Taschen's modern design bible, Illustration Now as one of the world's top designer/illustrators, Paul Davis - award winning illustrator, John Lennon (previously unpublished work), David Hockney (previously unpublished work), Michael English, Martin Sharp - sixties design icon, Felix Dennis - OZ and MAXIM magazine founder and poet, David Sims - fashion photographer, Ryuichi Sakamoto - composer and film-star, Junko Mizuno (HELL BABIES) - manga artist and author, Jason Atomic - illustrator, Honey Manko - alt-diva, Heather Jones - songwriter and HOLE founding member, James Berry - poet, Michael Horowitz - poet, Tim Wells - poet, Cheryl B - New York feminist poet, and hundreds more acclaimed heroes of the pen and pencil.
SEND US your stories (1000 words), examples of illustrations and poems with an SAE and contact details to APE, PO Box 16329, London, E17 4FD.
LATEST ISSUE
ISSUE 28
The Selective History Of Everything Ever Issue
"UP, UP AND AWAY!"- features RADIOHEAD'S timeless artist in residence, Stanley Donwood, MAXIMO PARK'S historic Paul Smith, the immortal Holly Wales, the unborn Kim Rickcord, the infinite Salena Godden, the miraculous Marion Deuchars, the significant Siggi Eggersson, the journeying Jimmy Turrell, the legendary Luke Best, the knackered Nick Treadwell, the nuclear Neasden Control Centre, the millenial James Majowski, the Alpha Ian Armer, the O!-mega Lee Armitage, the demise of assorted poet laureates... and a whole teeming universe of mixed up space monkeys, straitlaced gorillas and orangutan grandads doing the Time Warp again... with their pens and pencils set on stun!
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