Arcana Magazine

Arcana is a new, full colour quarterly magazine that will hit shelves in early February 2010. It’s created primarily by two guys who refer to themselves as The Odd Couple. Kris Bather is an Aussie who has been writing about comics for the last 2 years and has been reading them since before what you humans call puberty. The former head of the Comics Department at the now defunct website Infuze and current writer for Broken Frontier, Kris has interviewed more comic book writers, artists, editors and fans than he can remember. He’s also done his fair share of reviews and consumes more coffee and dark chocolate than may initially be apparent upon gazing at his slender build.

Kris’ partner in creative …creativity is Dave Lapsley. Though he may be an Englishman with an actual wife and offspring, he still manages to somehow tolerate Kris’ more insular nerdy leanings. He’s also an avid surfer, cyclist and gym visitor. A voracious novel reader and occasional incoherent rambler Dave is a newbie to the wonderful world of comics, but is finding more stuff to like every day. He knows how to talk to computers and make things look cool. Except Kris.

Discovering each other at their jobs at an architectural design company in Western Australia, the pair connected over their respective creative desires. Extra Sequential was the result of their collaboration. Three issues were created between January and June 2009 and can be found both at Issuu and Scribd. Then they got noticed by Sean O’Reilly, from Canada’s biggest comic book publisher, Arcana. And now they create the quarterly magazine named after it. It’s different, it’s bold and it’s a lot of hard work.

As long as people see the bridges they’re trying to create with Arcana, Dave and Kris will be satisfied. And hopefully you’ll be satisfied when you see it in print.

CONTACT

Kris Bather – kris@arcanaquarterly.com

Dave Lapsley – dave@arcanaquarterly.com

TWITTER

www.twitter.com/arcanamag