The Magazine

The Magazine is an experimental novel conceived as a series of 13 books, written and illustrated by Mason and produced over a decade. The novel was commissioned by the independent publishers, The Caseroom Press (University of Lincoln.) To date, three books have been published. (January, Autumn 2013, February, Summer 2015 and March, Spring 2019). The Magazine takes its inspiration from Victorian illustrated compendia. It employs the inherent multiplicity of the compendium form to explore ideas of authorship, narrative and relations between text and image.