Knave (magazine)

"Knave" magazine is a long-established British pornographic magazine, published by Galaxy Publications. It is the upmarket sister publication of "Fiesta" magazine.

Along with many other adult magazines, "Knave" has published the works of popular authors, including Harlan Ellison. Ellison's short story "The Pied Piper of Sex" [The work has also appeared in print titled "An Episode of Sunbather" or the "The Pied Piper of Love"] was first published in the March 1959 issue under the name Paul Merchant, whilst "The Man with the Green Nose", also known as "Survivor No. 1", and co-written with Henry Slesar, first appeared in the September 1959 issue. [cite web| url =http://harlanellison.com/bib/storylist.htm | title =Harlan Ellison Bibliography: Works List | accessdate =2006-12-01 | format =html | work =Ellison Webderland, the official Harlan Ellison homepage | publisher =Harlan Ellison ] Other people to have been published at "Knave" include Kim Newman, Dave Langford, [cite web| url =http://www.ansible.co.uk/sfx/sfx066.html | title =Choose Your Own Column! | accessdate =2006-12-01 | last =Langford | first =David | authorlink =Dave Langford | year =2000 | month =July | format =html | work =Ansible | publisher =Dave Langford | quote =Neil Gaiman reminisces briefly about how he, Kim Newman (see 1), John Grant (of whom more elsewhere) and I used to write funny articles in between the pictures of naked ladies in Knave magazine ] and Neil Gaiman. [cite book |last=Bender |first=Hy |authorlink=Hy Bender |coauthors=Neil Gaiman |title=The Sandman Companion |origyear=1999 |origmonth=December |edition=paperback |year=2000 |month=July |publisher=Vertigo |location=New York |language=English |id=ISBN 1-56389-644-3 |pages=14 |quote ="my steadiest gig was for Knave" ] Gaiman's early short stories, including "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale", were published within the magazine; [cite web| url =http://www.locusmag.com/index/s286.html | title = Stories, Listed by Author | accessdate =2006-12-01 | work =The Locus Index to Science Fiction | publisher =Locus Magazine ] he also worked at the magazine in many roles, including celebrity interviewer and book reviewer. Gaiman began work at the magazine in 1984 but left in the late 80s because an editorial change resulted in the magazine concentrating more heavily on pornographic content. cite web| url =http://www.neilgaimanbibliography.com/knave/knave.html | title =Knave | accessdate =2006-12-01 | format =html | work =Neil Gaiman Visual Bibliography ]

Eric Fuller, credited by "The Guardian" as "the man behind the success of Dennis Publishing's lad-mag, Maxim", also worked for the magazine for a time. [cite news | first=Hodgson | last=Jessica | title=IPC Media recruits Fuller | date=Wednesday September 27, 2000 | publisher=The Guardian | url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,373929,00.html Retrieved on 2006-12-01.]

ee also

* Pornographic magazines
* Men's magazines

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