Borderline Comics Magazine

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Borderline was one of the most innovative comics magazines of its kind. Created by former Comics International [[1]] news editor, Phil Hall, Borderline was the world's first PDF comics magazine available to read on a computer or printed out.

Launched as a free download, in August 2001, the magazine lasted 20 issues, plus two specials and won the prestigious Best Comics Magazine award at the 2002 National Comics Awards in the United Kingdom.

Borderline has been described as a cross between The Comics Journal and the NME with its heady mix of mainstream American comicbooks and coverage of comicbooks from the rest of the world.

Borderline had one of the most tumultuous rides in recent comicbook history. With over 150,000 people reading the magazine by issue #3, the magazine became the 'in-place' to be seen and subsequently the magazine had exclusive interviews with people who didn't normally do interviews. However, after a series of unfortunate events and unforeseen controversies, the magazine folded in the March of 2003. There was a special in the following summer, and that was to be followed by a new volume of issues, but to this day that has never appeared.

Borderline: The Comics Magazine was regarded by many as a definitive example of the 'all-encompassing' comics magazine, but critics all believed it was way before its time. The principal contributors to the magazine were: Phil Hall [2], Martin Shipp, Mike Kidson, Julian Eales and Danny Black.