Emerging arts in Found You magazine
Based in Vancouver, Found You magazine functions as a way of promoting emerging writers and artists that might be overlooked by other publications. We delivered the fourth issue to Stack subscribers in August, but editor and publisher Kolton Procter was off in the wilderness for all of September, so we didn’t manage to sit down for our Stack Magazine Club evening until the start of last month.
Early on in the conversation, he explained that the impulse driving Found You has actually been a lifelong obsession. Starting with making comics in school, he progressed to publishing a zine at university as a way of sharing the work done by other students, but which didn’t fit in the classroom. And now he finds himself making a magazine to showcase the creative output of people in his extended social circle.
“I think there’s something really special about the physicality of an object and how it takes up space,” he says. “You can’t ignore it… I like playing around with that.”
Found You magazine has taken various different forms over the years, starting as a free publication distributed around Vancouver, then shifting to a more personal, zine-like format, and most recently bulking up to become the perfect bound magazine we delivered to Stack subscribers.
You can watch our full Magazine Club conversation on the video below, and if you want to try Found You magazine for yourself, head over to our shop page to order your copy. Or if you’d rather have the surprise of a different independent magazine arriving with you every month, sign up for our subscription and we’ll add you to our mailing list. And then when you’ve had time to enjoy each of the magazines, we’ll invite you to join our Magazine Club evenings so you can hear from the editors, publishers and designers themselves.
