About:
Oh, hi there! You're wondering about Humphrey Magazine?
Well, you've come to the right place! Founded in 2022 by Humphrey Higgins the Cat, Humphrey Magazine is a one-of-a-kind mix of art, fashion, literature, and much more!
Our catchphrase is "decadent whimsy" - this is a place to explore the colorful, the silly, the ludicrous, the magical, the tactile, the maximalist, the cute, & the fun. Staffed by a team of hard-working puppets who are still trying to figure out how the human world works, we are committed to bringing our readers the latest in all things whimsical!
Submissions:
We’re open to pitches! Is it WHIMSICAL? We wanna hear about it! Does it MATCH OUR UPCOMING THEMES, which are: FAKE; FILTH; TIME & FEAR? By all means send it along!
Do you write SHORT FICTION of a vivid quality? We wanna read it! We’re interested in a wide array of genres, including but not limited to: surrealist; realist; postmodern; nonsensical; weird; cool; sexy; scifi; thriller; romance; noir; cat stories; & so on & so forth! POETRY of the rhythmic & rhyming, experimental & roaming variety is also of interest; especially nonsense poetry (a lá Ogden Nash & Louis Carrol), pop ekphrastic poetry (responding to pop culture), & traditional prosody forms (villanelles, pantoums, sonnets, ghazals, haikus, etc.)
Do you DRAW COMICS and/or fun/cute/weird ILLUSTRATIONS? Show us! Take PHOTOGRAPHS? We wanna see!
WHATEVER whimsical artistic endeavor you’re undertaking, we’re interested in taking a gander!
WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING INTERNS FOR ONLINE: especially BOOK REVIEWERS, NIGHTLIFE & STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS, & ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS for help with SOCIAL MEDIA, ADVERTISING, & SALES. Based in NYC is preferred but not required.
PLEASE SEND ALL INQUIRIES TO:
JOHN@HUMPHREYMAGAZINE.COM
Masthead:
Founder: Humphrey Higgins the Cat ->
Editor-in-chief: John Martin Tilley
Art Director: Bazil Lagerström
Editor-at-large: Nico Teixeira
Art Editor: Artie Farthalomew Finklestein, aka The Art Fart
What the hell even is art anymoah, am I right, people? Well, sheesh, I don't really know, I just eat it, ha!
My name is Artie Farthalomew Finklestein, better known as The Art Fart, & I've been eatin' what these yay-hoos call 'art' since the Venus of Willendorf - you ever hear about the Adonis of Willendorf, do ya? Of course not! That's because I ate him, nom nom nom! He was pretty tasty, but art comes in all sorts a flavors, & I'm here to give you a tour of what's happenin' in the great buffet of the art world, & what you can & cannot much on, if you happen to be a little yellow art monster like myself.
Now, what's for lunch?
Literature Editor: Cowboy Books
Well hey there y'all! I'm the book guy, Cowboy Books!
I sure is a lover a letters n' such - you know Faulkner was a Southerner, too? A good ol' boy through n' through! Gimme a thick tome & a couple fingers of whiskey rye & I'll be out of your hair quicker than a jackrabbit. I've always been a lil' bookworm down to my boots, but I sure do get distracted: comics, poems, radio shows, and gee whiz all that good stuff - that counts as literature too, you say? Well then!
Let's get readin!
Hello, dahling, you can call me Auntie, dahling! Your go-to fashion correspondent reporting straight from the catwalks of Paris & Milan, sussing out all the posh whimsy that's fit to print, quite right!
Well, go on then, take a look for yourself - and don't mind my handwriting on the notes around those runway shots, I like a long & slender alphabet to make me feel less short & fat, jolly good show.
Time for tea & cakes, dahling, & do take a gander at the smartest cloethes of the season, yes?
Fashion Editor: Auntie
Performance Editor: Peggy Hepburn
Peggy Hepburn's the name, all things performance is the game - & don't you forget it!
I've got the 411 on the stage and screen: reports, reviews, and bonafide opinions on all the hippest ring-a-ding-ding moments worth watching here & now!
Pour yourself a stiff drink - hey, maybe one for ol' Peggy, too! - and let's do what audiences do best: watch!
Horoscopes Editor: Madame Moonlight
Come in, come in (cough, cough)! I just flew in the window there, brought my crystal ball & Tarot deck - you requested a reading?
They call me Madame Moonlight - I come from a long line of crows gifted in the art of seeing past, present, & future. I'm well renowned! Just the other day I predicted a hen would find her husband, & the next day a rooster strutted into town - can you beat that?
The stars communicate easily once you open up to them, my dear (cough, cough!), hey, do you have a light?
Thinkpiece Editors: The Brainworms
Hello fellow brainy cerebral discovery crew, greetings from inside your brain!
We're The Brainworms, & we've been feasting on the grey matter of many great contemporary thinkers, gobbling up their thoughts & dreams & neurons & frontal lobes, all in the name of modern science & academic research, duh!
Puzzles & Games Editor: Pugsly the Puzzler
Hello, my fine gentlefolk!
Pugsly the Puzzler at your service: hedgehog-at-large & professional purveyor of puzzles, games, & miscellany of all kinds! You know what they say: the fox knows many small things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. (That’s me!)
Happy to be gainfully employed by this fine publication, & here to offer you some diversion in these troubled times!
Now pull up a chair & get out your writing stylus—let's have some good clean fun, shall we?