Fair Use: The Magazine of Public Domain Sequential Art is a specialty magazine for fans, researchers and historians. The magazine will act a guide to comic book history within the public domain, creation, and investor pricing. The articles while mainly about superheroes, will cover other popular aspects about comics, including film, television and more. We will use original cover art and features from past industry creators and independent historians.
The public domain comprises the body of knowledge and innovation (especially creative works such as writing, art, music, and inventions) in relation to which no person or other legal entity can establish or maintain proprietary interests within a particular legal jurisdiction. This body of information and creativity is considered to be part of a common cultural and intellectual heritage, which, in general, anyone may use or exploit, whether for commercial or noncommercial purposes.
All aspects of this series are to compile and preserve the timeline, creator bios, publishing companies, and art reproductions of these historical works for educational purposes and preservation.
A combination Fanzine, hobbyist magazine and analytical journal, the regular content will include (but not limited to) industry news, comics creator interviews, histories of comic book characters and reviews. Some features (which are subject to change) to be included:
Note: As with any magazine, column and article titles as shown below and in the following samples, are subject to change.
FEATURE ARTICLES
- Hero’s Journey – Covers the history of a particular defunct company & personnel interviews including interviews with modern creators and academics on the company, modern interpretations & character impact
- Hero Index – Index of company’s full publication history
- Hero’s Unmasked – A more detailed history of the company’s characters
- Hero’s Wanted – Aforementioned characters appearances other media such as movies, serials, animation & radio
FEATURE COLUMNS
- Citizen Domain – Editorial Page
- Joe Public – Op-Ed
- The Public Sphere (Commons) – Letter’s Page
- Bullpen Bios – Staff Bios (per issue)
- Bound by Law – Articles on Copyright, Trademark, & Licensing Laws (current legal decisions /debates)
- Say What!?! – Parody and satire based on public domain characters
- Off the Shelf (Book Reviews) – Review of currently published books based on public domain characters
- Most Wanted – Fan Art, Prose works & Warpath
- Home Made – Fan Spotlight on toys for public domain characters
