Doll Mags

I quite enjoy reading magazines and when I was a fresh new collector I was able to read HauteDoll. I somewhat enjoyed this, HauteDoll would have at least one article on my particular style of BJDs and it was usually fairly substantial and interesting.

I didn't like having to flip through all the pages of pictures of Tonners and Sybraties and at the time I wasn't particularly interested in articles on Blythes, although now I would probably like the inclusion more.

A while ago, HauteDoll shut down and merged with Doll Reader. It shrunk to a couple of pages at the back of the magazine and BJDs were shunted to perhaps once every second magazine, sometimes it was limited to a single page or a couple of words. Sometimes there was nothing on our style of BJDs.
Doll Reader itself was about bigger dolls and the more "European/American" BJDs - artist dolls and the like. Late last year after struggling to find Doll Reader in shops, I bought a digital membership.

Today I read that Doll Reader is closing and merging with another magazine called DOLLS. so I searched and found their website and had a look at their current issue... not a thing about BJDs and modern styled dolls such as Blythes (which didn't particularly get a look in with Doll Reader) were no where to be seen. All the BJDs that were covered were the big limbed, large faced young child type or the artist dolls (which I am not a fan of).

So in like two years the ability to read any articles of any sort on Asian BJDs has dried up.

Some might then point out the online offerings - I know of two which are BJD related, BJD Collectasy, whose articles are rarely updated and often simply don't interest me. The other was BJD Magazine, which has simply stopped being updated - it was mostly doing interviews of BJD artist doll makers, which I'm not massively interested in.

The other magazine that I was reading was TinyFeet - which has just announced a sabbatical and was mostly a photography magazine and had no real articles.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying any of these online offerings are terrible or anything like that, they're just not meeting my want of articles as well as nice photos.

One of the girls at work suggested that I write a magazine myself - which stuck in my mind and I was thinking about articles that I could write, things like 'Aesthetic v posability' or on a topic like the the growth of more realistic dolls - Iplehouse, SOOM, the Fairyland F65s. But I don't know, I don't honestly know if people are interested in that sort of thing and even I can't think up enough for a full magazine.

But I am sick of the LACK of stuff for collectors of our particular version of BJDs. So if you know of any good magazines which give BJDs more than a single page every so often and actually do an article or similar, please tell me, I really want to know!