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I was going to put this in literature but calling that magazine 'literature' would be taking things too far.

How badly can a magazine be put together? You have to look no further than Gothic Beauty. The layout looks really bad, like something you would see in a high school zine.The photos,for the most part are either badly composed or just not original at all. Finally the writing itself is so simplistic that it makes me think that they are aiming their mag at junior high school age kids. If this is one of the only 'goth' mags around any longer, no wonder so many kids don't 'get' the subculture at all. How would they?

I am not alone in thinking this. I read a rant about it by Donna Ricci, and she is so disgusted by the state of goth magazines that she is starting her own called Goth, which from what I have heard will be more focused on the goth subculture instead of including more mainstream bands,etc..., like Gothic Beauty.She has a lot of resources behind her so let's hope that she can do a better job.

I understand that maybe some of you like Gothic Beauty, and that's okay.It's just that I think it is a very lame attempt at trying to market the subculture. I think the best 'goth' type magazine that was ever put out was Carpe Noctem and I have saved every issue of that magazine. To this day I still pull them out and read them because the articles and interviews were so good. Gothic Beauty will not stand the test of time.