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I think the whole "changing of the guard" situation put them way behind. First editor in chief Chris Alexander left, then they made Mike Gingold EIC and he promptly went to Rue Morgue, and their art director left right around the time all of this was happening. They mentioned having digital issues but I don't know what is going on with print ones. It's frustrating really. I had a subscription to their relaunch of Gorezone and I think one issue was received last year. It would be nice to get updates once in awhile.
I grew up with Fango! After my teen idol phase I would cut out pictures from this magazine and hang them on my wall. I hope they can reconfigure themselves and come back better than ever.
 

GNTLGNT

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I blame the Internet for this one. That, and Fango was always pretty expensive. Who wants to pay close to ten bucks for a magazine fulla gory photos when you can get all that for free on the web? Just another causality in this bleak dystopia we're living in.
....yet, other rags thrive......I just think it's the medium......you wanna know behind the scenes, make-up work and special-effects, it's much more entertaining when the filthy pitchers MOVE....unlike my Jeep magazine-we utilize both, still pictures to scan builds and assembly videos to watch it all work....advertising thrives there as well due to all the aftermarket goodies YOU MUST HAVE........
 

muskrat

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....yet, other rags thrive......I just think it's the medium......you wanna know behind the scenes, make-up work and special-effects, it's much more entertaining when the filthy pitchers MOVE....unlike my Jeep magazine-we utilize both, still pictures to scan builds and assembly videos to watch it all work....advertising thrives there as well due to all the aftermarket goodies YOU MUST HAVE........

Aye, captain.

Yeah, though, ol Fango was the coolest back when I was in high school. Everyone else had their Circus and Rolling Stone magazines, me and my ghoul mates read Fango and Gorezone, and pasted pics of Jason, Freddy, Leatherface on our notebooks and inside our lockers. Instead of hair bands, I had posters of Tom Savini zombies and Rick Baker werewolves on my bedroom wall. Sometimes the teachers would confiscate our Fangos if we read em in class--that gory stuff really freaked em out. Ah, the eighties...
 

ghost19

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Aye, captain.

Yeah, though, ol Fango was the coolest back when I was in high school. Everyone else had their Circus and Rolling Stone magazines, me and my ghoul mates read Fango and Gorezone, and pasted pics of Jason, Freddy, Leatherface on our notebooks and inside our lockers. Instead of hair bands, I had posters of Tom Savini zombies and Rick Baker werewolves on my bedroom wall. Sometimes the teachers would confiscate our Fangos if we read em in class--that gory stuff really freaked em out. Ah, the eighties...

Yep, had a couple of issues taken by various teachers in the 80's also..amusing side story, also ended up in the Principal's office one day during 5th or 6th grade, can't remember which, after having my cassette copy of Van Halen's "1984" album confiscated by my home room teacher. It was the album cover that showed a small child dressed as an angel smoking a cigarette..lol. If any younger members of the board need an explanation of what a "cassette" is/was I'll be happy to expound...lol My teacher admonished me and told me I should be ashamed of listening to such "smut"....she actually used the term "smut" which I thought was amusing even back then. The principal ended up giving it back to me but I wasn't allowed to bring it to school anymore. He told me this as we stood outside the school as he lit up a cigarette...lol...ahhh the 80's:)
 

GNTLGNT

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Aye, captain.

Yeah, though, ol Fango was the coolest back when I was in high school. Everyone else had their Circus and Rolling Stone magazines, me and my ghoul mates read Fango and Gorezone, and pasted pics of Jason, Freddy, Leatherface on our notebooks and inside our lockers. Instead of hair bands, I had posters of Tom Savini zombies and Rick Baker werewolves on my bedroom wall. Sometimes the teachers would confiscate our Fangos if we read em in class--that gory stuff really freaked em out. Ah, the eighties...
...I bought Circus & Fango....derf
 

muskrat

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I love Fangoria. I have a whole bunch of earlier issues bagged, boarded and packed away. Gorezone was a favorite as well. Mom HATED them, especially the ones that had supernatural-themed covers. Satan was always right around the corner in my house growing up.

Yep, same here. My mom didn't mind the gory movie stills so much (after all, she was the one who turned me on to horror flicks and King), but that devil stuff--no way. She was convinced such things could bring demons into our house. Seriously. She even threw out all my Ozzy, Misfits, and Samhain records for fear I'd summon the devil by playing em. (I dug em back outta the trash, though. Are you kidding? Those were my jams!). Ahh, the eighties, when devil music and Satan cults were considered legitimate social concerns!
 

RichardX

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When I was growing up Fango was THE source of information on horror movies. And it came along at a great time in the 1980s with all the great films of that era. Hard to remember now but in the days before the Internet there often was no source of such information except whenever the magazine arrived at your local book store every month or so. I stopped reading it for a long time but came back to it a few years ago. I never cared for Chris Alexander who came off as an alpha hotel but the mag was still fun. I wonder if they actually published any of the issues they had announced but apparently never made their way out? Those would be some nice collectors items. I hope they get their act together but its been a good while since the last issue.
 

ghost19

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Yep, same here. My mom didn't mind the gory movie stills so much (after all, she was the one who turned me on to horror flicks and King), but that devil stuff--no way. She was convinced such things could bring demons into our house. Seriously. She even threw out all my Ozzy, Misfits, and Samhain records for fear I'd summon the devil by playing em. (I dug em back outta the trash, though. Are you kidding? Those were my jams!). Ahh, the eighties, when devil music and Satan cults were considered legitimate social concerns!

I had one friend of mine whose parents wouldn't let him play Dungeons and Dragons at his house. He couldn't even keep his D&D stuff at his house because his mom or dad would burn it..not throw it away...BURN it..lol They were convinced it was satanic in nature....The old D&D I mean, the role playing game with modules, dice, etc. We couldn't even talk about it if we were at his house. This, of course, made him completely obsessed with the game when he came to my place or another of our friend's houses. We probably spent thousands of hours slaying ogres, storming castles, and looting for gold..lol
 

RichardX

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Sounds like Fango is under new ownership and might start publishing again. Apparently as a quarterly mag beginning around Halloween. Tough times for mags and newspapers in the age of the Internet, but glad to see it coming back.
 

Zone D Dad

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I still remember the first issue of Fangoria I ever owned. It had "Xtro" on the cover. Fango was also my ticket for sending in a money order to obtain a copy of Tom Savini's Grande Illusions. That book has to be lying around somewhere. Tom was my adolescent hero, and I was convinced that someday I'd be doing special makeup effects in film. Not a long while later, I realized that I possessed not a shred of the artistic talent required for such a gig.