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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson once claimed she never turns right when boarding an aircraft. The Turnleft guys do – you can find them on seat 32E, nibbling salty nuts and fighting for elbow room. But they are still modern jet-setters and they wouldn’t be seen dead on a bateau mouche.

Sometimes they like posh restaurants and sometimes they fall out of taxis: Turnleft is the Kate Moss of travel guides! Wherever they are, they enjoy good friends, fashion, design, architecture, exciting art studios, concept restaurants and music gigs.

Turnleft is a series of insiders’ guides with great tips to the local scene. All the guides are free and edited independently.

THE TURNLEFT SITE

Daily by Loa Pak

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“Hey Karen - Let me read that after you!”

Have you met KAREN yet? She’s pretty ordinary.

KAREN is more interested in the weather than what to wear, sell by dates than celebrity. KAREN MAGAZINE serves up a delightful dish of the everyday, gently observed and presented as something quite unique. A glossy magazine without the gloss.

And as it says on the cover of this this little piece of reality, priceless!

‘Karen succeeds in weaving its humble subject matter into something poetic, profound, absurd and joyful. One issue of this magazine is more interesting than every issue of every other lifestyle magazine in the world put together.’
David Shrigley from The Observer newspaper’s ‘The best-kept arts secrets in Britain’

‘Karen is in a very English lyric tradition of exalting the unconsidered, from Gray’s Elegy and Wordsworth’s Daffodils to Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads.’ Mary Blume, International Herald Tribune ‘An antidote for the culture of celebrity’.

EMAP Publishing Award Winner Best Lifestyle Fanzine 2005.

KAREN MAGAZINE

Daily by Jadyn Montalgne

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ROGER RAMJET - Animators & Stripbars!

“Wait until I pop a Proton Pill then you will be in big trouble my friend!”

Fred Crippen’s Rodger Ramjet. Gone but not forgotten! Gonzo animation in its dearest, rawest form. Made on the cheap, voice over work done in one take, and animation that looked like it was made by a right handed person drawing with their left hand!

I once knew a kids cartoon animator… deceptively dangerous person! He used to animate for Danger Mouse, etc… (Full list I forget now, but at the time I remember being impressed as he reeled off all my childhood favourites).

I don’t know when he had time to animate cartoons cause he used to spend all his waking hours (1.00pm-3am) smoking Benson & Hedges fags, drinking beers and spending the occasional evening in the local strip bars. Yet he produced some of the most wonderful kid’s cartoons the world has ever seen.

I guess that contradiction that was so obvious in what this person should have been like and what he was actually like was something that stuck in my mind, and made me approach kids cartoons in a whole different way!

But now it’s obviously evident that the people who make kids cartoons are not ‘normal’ anyway! Look at Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons etc… A few examples of kids/adults crossover toons. But if it wasn’t for these deeply interesting individuals kids would be roaming around with a few less smiles and strip bar income would be significantly lower.