I’ve got a lot to get off my chest right now.

I’ve been reading Computer Arts for a while now, over 18 months and counting. Recently they had a change of editor-in-chief. Now while the last one Vicki Atkinson wasn’t a babe, she did her job WELL. She kept pushing the design of the magazine forward, she kept the ideas and content fresh, she had a vision and really knew what her audience wanted.

Enter shebag of horror, Gillian Carson. Oh dear, nice to look at, but she’s running the damn magazine into the ground. What’s really frustrating for me is that I renewed my subscription before she came on board, and that means I have to see through a whole year of her rubbish. Man that really hurts, it hurts soo much I refuse to ever buy the magazine as a subscription until she leaves, we get an actual editor worth a damn, and is guaranteed to last the entire tenure of my subscription.

Seriously there is loads and loads of comments about the complete wank the magazine has become under her in the very short 4 months. Here’s a couple:

cover to issue #99 gillian you’ve ruined it

What’s triggered this off is the new issue. 100 issues of Computer Arts, that’s a major thing. You’d think it would be something amazing, instead what do we get? A dvd with demos, a book with tips and tricks ripped from the magazine from the past few months; not even a full version of Vue D’Espirit, and five stock images, worth 1000 quid, MY ASS are those 5 images of people running on the god damn beach worth 1000 quid. If they are actually worth that much, there are some mighty dumbass art directors in this world, with waaay too much time and money on their hands.

The magazine itself doesn’t inspire either. The interview with House is more interested in giving me pictures of the people that work there than their work, which is relegated to a few smaller sections, c’mon, they’re not rock bands that don’t have something visual to show. You want me to know what they look like? Fine do that, but don’t let that take presidence over their work.

The rest is filled with the general gumph, that keeps talking about ‘stunning’ this, ‘fantastic’ that, ‘astonishing’ the other, ‘beautiful’ whatever. It’s getting really old, real quick.