Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:55 am
Well there's Nick Roberts not really a Zzap person but a long history with Crash/Newsfield. Plus there's Phil King. They are also in contact with some other former Newsfield people.
If you consider Gordo's reign to be within the golden era then Mark was very much a part of that. Oli for all his talent contributed the covers but
didn't really have a lot to do with the internal layout/look of the magazine. If there is an art editor I associate with Zzap then it is absolutely Mark.
All of the above people also worked at Newsfield for much longer than your Penn/Rignall/Houghton's.
As to how Roger/Oli ran the magazines - well to be honest they didn't. After a certain period of time their day to day involvement with them was minor. If I had to pick a single fault with Newsfield I would say it was poor management, they could and should have developed into Future.
If you consider Gordo's reign to be within the golden era then Mark was very much a part of that. Oli for all his talent contributed the covers but
didn't really have a lot to do with the internal layout/look of the magazine. If there is an art editor I associate with Zzap then it is absolutely Mark.
All of the above people also worked at Newsfield for much longer than your Penn/Rignall/Houghton's.
As to how Roger/Oli ran the magazines - well to be honest they didn't. After a certain period of time their day to day involvement with them was minor. If I had to pick a single fault with Newsfield I would say it was poor management, they could and should have developed into Future.