Front of Garbaj magazine – in its A4 former layout, and smaller recent format. All cover images are CC-BY-NC-ND
Garbaj was one of the five 'zines produced by Atlantean Publishing, but ceased publication with its seventieth issue (although the tagline Garbaj presents... has been used subsequently). It was dedicated to humour, satire, surreality and anything that doesn't really fit in elsewhere. Its tagline was The Satire and Humour 'Zine. Contents have typically included spoof news headlines, joke articles, fake advertisements, cartoons, much political lampoonery and a fair smattering of humorous and/or satirical poetry. Formerly it was about eight sides of A4, but later issues were mostly single folded 'broadside' sheets of A4 in the style of Bard. It was initially edited by 'The Garbajitor'* DS Davidson (until issue 18/August 2004), but was latterly edited by DJ Tyrer (joint editorial duties on issues 16-18, sole editor from issue 19).
* Thanks, Neil K. Henderson...
Covers
The recent broadside-sized 'mini-issues' have been featuring cover art, in the same vein as Bard; these are now collated in the Garbaj Covers Gallery.
Issues
A later mini-sized issue, Garbaj 56All cover images are CC-BY-NC-ND
- Garbaj 1
- Garbaj 2
- Garbaj 3
- Garbaj 4
- Garbaj 5
- Garbaj 6
- Garbaj 7
- Garbaj 8
- Garbaj 9
- Garbaj 10
- Garbaj 11
- Garbaj 12
- Garbaj 13
- Garbaj 14
- Garbaj 15
- Garbaj 16
- Garbaj 17
- Garbaj 18
- Garbaj 19
- Garbaj 20
- Garbaj 21
- Garbaj 22
- Garbaj 23
- Garbaj 24
- Garbaj 25
- Garbaj 26
- Garbaj 27
- Garbaj 28
- Garbaj 29
- Garbaj 30
- Garbaj 31
- Garbaj 32
- Garbaj 33
- Garbaj 34
- Garbaj 35
- Garbaj 36
- Garbaj 37
- Garbaj 38
- Garbaj 39
- Garbaj 40
- Garbaj 41
- Garbaj 42
- Garbaj 43
- Garbaj 44
- Garbaj 45
- Garbaj 46
- Garbaj 47
- Garbaj 48
- Garbaj 49
- Garbaj 50
- Garbaj 51
- Garbaj 52
- Garbaj 53
- Garbaj 54
- Garbaj 55
- Garbaj 56
- Garbaj 57
- Garbaj 58
- Garbaj 59
- Garbaj 60
- Garbaj 61
- Garbaj 62
- Garbaj 63
- Garbaj 64
- Garbaj 65
- Garbaj 66
- Garbaj 67
- Garbaj 68
- Garbaj 69
- Garbaj 70
Regular Targets
Certain figures such as Tony Blair, George Bush, Osama Bin Laden and Richard Dawkins have been the regular targets of satire in its pages, especially when DJ Weston and DS Davidson were regularly contributing.
Spin-off Publications
Following two spin-off publications under the Garbaj banner, a one-shot leaflet snappily entitled Preparing For Things You Cannot Reasonably Expect To Prepare For Adequately (and that's only its short title) and its spiritual sequel, Deal or No Deal: Surviving Brexit, Garbaj Presents... became a new broadside series in its own right.
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