Red Dwarf Smegazine

Red Dwarf Magazine / Smegazine

The Red Dwarf Magazine was launched in March 1992 by Fleetway Editions and Edited by Mike Butcher. The magazine comprised of a mix of news, reviews, comic strips and competitions.

After the second issue the magazine changed it's name to The Red Dwarf Smegazine from Issue 3.

The comic strips featured episode adaptations and original material, including further stories of popular

characters like the Polymorph and Ace Rimmer. Some of the stories made alter egos or hallucinations such as Dwayne Dibby, Jake Bullet and Mr. Flibble into real characters.

Some of the stories were set in the continuits of the novels, featureing such places as Garbage World (Better Than Life) and Blissfreak infested Mimas (Infinity Wlcomes Carful Drivers).

Red Dwarf

Volume 1 - Issue 1 March 1992

The comic strip stories ere notable for the fact that Hologrammatic characters, predominately Rimmer, were drawn in greyscale. This was at the request of Rob Grant and Doug naylor, who wanted to use this technique for the television series, but the process was deemed too expensive to produce.

The magazine / smegazine, went through a 23 issue run (14 issues for Volume 1 and 9 issues for Volume 2). Despite achieving circulation figures of over 40,000 per month, the magazine's publishers decided to close the title down to concentrate on their other publications.

A farewell issue was published, labelled Volume 2 issue 9 and cover dated January 1994. It featured the remaining interviews, features and comic strips that were to feature in the following issues.