PA in The Gazette

Protoculture Addicts and Anime News Network are mentioned in a newspaper article of the Montreal's Gazette (Saturday 2008/03/29: B2 “City Subculture: Anime fans have lots to choose from”) discussing the local fandom (clubs, stores & publications):

“One of those shows, Robotech, inspired Montreal’s Claude Pelletier to start Protoculture Addicts in 1988. It’s now North America’s longest-running anime magazine, and currently associated with Montreal-based Anime News Network, which publisher Christopher MacDonald describes as “arguably the most trafficked anime website in the world.”

MacDonald says Quebec’s anime and manga fans are lucky. Access to manga translated by producers in France and the U.S. makes Quebec “the second-best place” to be a fan.

“After Japan, of course.””

The full article can be read here.

Thanks to Al Kratina for the article.

PA#95 & new orders shipped (2008/3/21)

All new orders received between 2008/3/10 and 2008/3/20 shipped today, along with the last part of #95's mailing (small distributors & stores, First Class & Air Mail subscriptions, comp list).

Protoculture Addicts #95 has now been shipped or mailed to all distributors (on 2008/3/11) and subscribers (on 2008/3/18). Therefore, in most cases, it should be on your doorsteps or in your local stores by the end of the month.

Please keep in mind that regular subscriptions are sent by surface mail (unless you have a first class or air mail subscription), so subscribers should expect to receive their copies within a week in Canada, 2 to 4 weeks in the USA (within a week for First Class subscribers) and 3 to 6+ weeks overseas (1 to 2 weeks for Air Mail subscribers). Please don't email us to inquire about the status of your order until this shipping period has passed. Check this blog entry or our Ordering & Shipping Policy for details.

We are quite satisfied with this issue and hope you will enjoy it.

As usual, your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Please let us know of any sighting of PA #95 in your local stores, how long it took for your subscription copy to arrive or what you think of this issue, by e-mail or in the forum!

Have a nice Easter week-end!

Survey on PA#94

If you have read issue #94, you can answer a survey on what you think of that particular issue. That would greatly help us know what you think of the magazine and improve Protoculture Addicts. Thanks! [Link]

Update 2008/03/11

The upcoming issues and release schedule pages of the website have been updated.

PA#91 Now Available in eBooks Format!

There is now a total of 43 issues of Protoculture Addicts available in eBook format from Drive Thru RPG! The latest addition is issue #91.

Click the image to order it from Drive Thru RPG with a special discount ($3.99 US instead of the regular eBook price of $4.99 US or the print cover price of $5.95 US/CDN).

Issue #91 (Witchblade, Wings of Honneamise, Death Note, Flag, Gedo Senki, Night Head Genesis, Pumpkin Scissors, etc.) is an excellent way to sample, at a great price, the new full color format of the magazine. It can also be ordered from Protoculture's online catalog.

PA#95 available for order

Protoculture Addicts #95 is now available for order.

To get a copy you can either order it directly from us, get a subscription or check your local store. If they are not carrying the magazine, please encourage them to do so. Retailers can order it directly from us or they can order it from several distributors (our web page has a list of distributors that carry the magazine). Remember: the best way to support the magazine is by the word of mouth. Tell your friends about Protoculture Addicts and encourage them to buy it as well.

We have just updated all the information related to Protoculture Addicts #95 on the web page (click the links for details).

The magazine will ship next week and should be in stores by the end of the month.

New orders shipped 2008/3/10

All the orders received between 2008/2/15 and 2008/3/9 shipped today (excluding orders for issue #95).

New orders will ship with issue #95 (individual orders, subscriptions, stores & small distributors) later this week or early next week.

New orders shipped 2008/2/15

All the orders received between 2008/2/8 and 2008/2/14 shipped today.

New orders shipped 2008/2/8

All the orders received between 2008/2/1 and 2008/2/7 shipped today.

New orders shipped 2008/2/1

All the orders received between 2008/1/22 and 2008/1/31 shipped today.

New orders shipped 2008/1/22

All the orders received between 2008/1/10 and 2008/1/21 shipped today.

Update 2008/01/12

The Special Deals section of the Catalog, as well as the How To Order and Ordering & Shipping Policy pages have been updated. Please have a look.

The release schedule was also updated.

New orders shipped 2008/1/11

All the orders received between 2007/12/18 and 2008/1/9 shipped today.

New Protoculture Addicts eBooks Available

There is now a total of 42 issues of Protoculture Addicts available in eBook format from Drive Thru RPG! The latest additions are issues #50, 89 and 90.

Click the images to order them with a special discount of $2.99 US (instead of $3.99) for #50 and $3.99 US each (instead of $4.99) for #89-90:

      

Issue #50 was celebrating the 10th anniversary of the magazine with features on Macross 7 and Robotech. It is a great companion to #94 (the 20th Anniversary issue).

Both issues #89 (Ultimate Hellsing, Mushishi, Voltron) and #90 (Haruhi Suzumiya, Top 9 Directors, Visual Novels) are an excellent way to sample the new full color format of the magazine at a great discount.

Update 2008/01/01

The catalog has been adjusted to reflect the tax change in Canada.

New: eBook Compilation of the first 10 issues!

This new eBook compiles together the first ten (10) issues of Protoculture Addicts. It covers the early days of the magazine from its creation in Fall 1987 to the end of 1990. That's the period when the magazine was the “Official Robotech fanzine.”

It offers 362 pages for only $12.99 US (nearly half the combined cover price!) or $9.99 US if ordered from Protoculture's web site. All those issues have not been available in print for years! They are now made available in a single volume to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the magazine.

This volume contains short fanfics and comics, Robotech trivia, Uh?! (a series of funny articles that chronicles oddities in the Robotech TV series), optional RPG rules (Robotech, Mekton, Teenagers From Outer Space), plenty of news & reviews and cover several aspects of Robotech (The Zentraedi Way, What's Protoculture, Lyrics, comics, novels, etc.) but also of anime (Introduction to Japanimation, Project A-ko, OsamuTezuka, Iczer-One, Laputa, Megazone 23, Akira, Dangaio, Gunbuster, etc.). It also includes several interviews (Carl Macek, Kevin Siembieda, Jack McKinney, Toren Smith, Robert Napton & David Riddick, Jerry Beck, Tom Mason & Chris Ulm).

Going through those articles, news & reviews will allow you to retrace not only the beginnings of Protoculture Addicts but also the history of anime & manga in North America. It is a reading that is both amazing and amusing!

Purchased separately, all those issues would cost $23.25 (or $33.25 with shipping)! Purchase it now from Drive Thru RPG at the regular eBook price ($12.99 US) or from here (or anywhere else on Protoculture's webpage) with an exclusive discount (only $9.99 US). Click on the icon to purchase:

Happy New Year!

PA wishes to all readers the best for 2008.

Index

As promised in Protoculture Addicts #94 we have added to the web page a content index for the magazine.

It is something that we wanted to do for a long time but it requires lots of data compilation and we were not sure of the way to present it, so it took some time to implement. However, we have started gathering the data and have decided to go with the simplest presentation.

The index is only available through the Top Menu: PA Magazine: Index: Protoculture Addicts: by Subjects:

Anime Stories / Spotlights (#1-50)

Anime World

Fan Fics / Comics

Interviews / Anecdotes With

Japanese Music

Role-Playing Games


More indexes (Anime Stories for #51+, Convention reports, Live-Action, Reviews, etc.) will be added whenever it is possible.

Such an index can be quite useful to find stuff in your collection of back issues without spending hours flipping through it. And, if you don't have lots of back issues yet (but you should consider ordering those back issues because even in old magazines there is a treasure trove of information!), it can help you determine which issues can offer subjects that would particularly interest you.

Happy Holidays!

PA wishes to you all Happy Holidays!

PA #94 has shipped

Protoculture Addicts #94 has now been shipped or mailed to all distributors (last week), subscribers and stores (earlier this week) so, in most cases, it should be on your doorsteps or in your local stores before the end of the month.

All the orders received between 2007/11/9 and 2007/12/17 also shipped at the same time.

Please keep in mind that regular subscriptions are sent by surface mail (unless you have a first class or air mail subscription), so subscribers should expect to receive their copies within a week in Canada, 2 to 4 weeks in the USA (within a week for First Class subscribers) and 3 to 6 weeks overseas (1 to 2 weeks for Air Mail subscribers). Please don't email us to inquire about the status of your order until this shipping period has passed. Check this blog entry for details.

Finally, you can let us know if you see PA#94 in your local store, how long it took for your subscription copy to arrive or what you think of this issue, by e-mail or in the forum! Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Enjoy!