Magazines from Blade Runner

Cory Doctorow 6:10 am Sun May 27, 2012

Here's a collection of humorous, futuristic magazines displayed in the background of the news-stand scene in Blade Runner — documented in Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon:

Turning down the block and ducking into a futuristic newsstand revealed the most humorous touches of layering, for it was here that this author immediately noticed that a number of faux twenty-first-century magazines had been stuffed into racks mounted on the newsstand's walls, and that many of them sported decidedly tongue-in-cheek covers.

These publications had been designed by BR art department member Tom Southwell. Periodicals of note include Krotch (going for $29 a copy!), Zord (at $30), Moni, Bash, Creative Evolution, and Droid. Horn, the "skin mag" of the future, had a cover which offered articles such as "The Cosmic Orgasm" and "Hot Lust in Space." Kill (whose logo was "All the News That's Fit to Kill") sported cover stories like "Multiple Murders – Reader's Own Photos."

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