I live in Boston, MA, a very artsy and technology driven city, and I can't seem to get a steady flow of this magazine at my local bookstores.  They sometimes skip an issue or drag 2 and 3 months behind the current issue I see on the site.  I can understand being a month behind, but when they start missing full months or don't get them for two or three months I start to get the DT's.  I'm hooked on this magazine and not being able to obtain it with some consistency and reliability is really bumming me out.  A subscription won't really work for me either because I hear that they go missing in the US Post, and if not there, someone will steal it from my hallway.  I guess there's a lot of ImagineFX fans out there?  So I'm stuck, and there's not much I can do about it, so my only course of action is to write a post here and vent.  For those of you in the UK and Eastern Europe, don't take for granted the fact that you get this magazine on schedule.  You're extremely lucky.  In the USA there is nothing like ImagineFX.  There are no publishing companies, that I know of, in the USA who are doing anything like this.  Even the UK Photoshop and Corel Painter magazines don't match what can be found in ImagineFX.  At least not for an aspiring fantasy and science fiction concept artist. (I'm learning drawing and painting solely for myself, not for career or commision.)  Everything here is for fine arts, which is all well and good and I have my fair share of technique books, but fine art is not my main interest.  FX is by far the best magazine I've found for the kind of art I like, and Boston magazine racks are pretty diverse, so when I can't get the one thing I really, really want it's very deflating.  I can read only so many color theory, composition, and painting technique books, and as instrumental and important as they have been for my learning and understanding of fundamentals they don't really inspire me in the genre of art I really enjoy.  So here I sit, after walking a mile to see if issue 31 of FX was in, with empty hands and a deflated sense of what to do now.  The last issue I was able to get, over a month a go is issue 30 - Composition, and I'm reading it for the 3rd time.  That is the last one they've had on the shelf (5 days ago) and right now there is nothing at all.  I don't even feel like painting tonight...  bummed...  I guess I'll just go to sleep.

Awww you sound down in the dumps Djkitt, i can feel the passion you have for IFX thats for sure.

I dont know if its any use to you but there was a posting on here somehwere, and it was someone over there looking to sell their entire collection of IFX.

 

 

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"Sleep... those little slices of death, oh how i loathe them!"

Hummm... I wonder how much that costs?  I pay 16 US dollars an issue over here.  I feel much better this morning though.  I watched my Boston Celtics win an NBA Championship last night and this city went wild.  I live a 5 minute walk from the Celtics home over at the Boston Garden.  This is our 6th professional sports championship in 7 years. 3 by Patriots (2001, 03, 04), 2 by Red Sox (2004, 07), and now the Celtics (2008). This is unheard of for any US city.  So I'm feeling pretty good this morning.  Hopefully the magazine will be in tonight.  It's quite rare that there are none to be found on the shelves.  Thanks for the info though!