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CONTEST! Design a mind-numbingly tedious magazine, win awesome prizes from Saddleback Leather

Rob Beschizza at 7:43 am Mon, Jun 13, 2011

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PCIAudioCard.png UPDATE: The winners! Time to get your shoop on! We've had a lot of competitions for writers and coders at BB; this one's for the designers. The premise is simple: design the cover to a skull-crushingly boring magazine, and we'll pick out the funniest to win an expensive, heavy-duty messenger bag from Saddleback Leather. They've also provided some runner-up prizes, too, so two more winners will get leather gadget sleeves good for Kindles, iPads and tiny netbooks. Read our contest rules. Submit links to your entries in the comments.

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  • dldfw

    http://www.communicorpservices.com/dummy/contest/psm.jpg

  • Ben Gundersen

    Parking Garage Digest

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bengundersen/5829576284

    • paladinmantis

      It looks so professional, I’d half expect that to be in a rack at the blood plasma clinic.

    • tim

      Ben, you missed an opportunity there
      “Just look at this *banana shaped* beauty in bUtte. Just look at it”

    • RumorsofmyDemise

      Well done, sir. You got an actual lol out of me.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    I spent a couple of hours in the magazine section of Tower Records back in the mid 90s, and there were half a dozen magazines just devoted to Barbra Streisand trivia, not to mention another dozen on fingernail extension art and technology. It’s scary out there.

  • Anonymous

    http://web.me.com/hammerl/Site/fwqmag.html

  • Japanezer Scrooge

    My first entry; still working on “LiveJournal Celebrity Gossip Comment Thread Quarterly” and a couple others…

    http://bit.ly/inxIBC

  • elizms

    http://s1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd502/elizms/

    and YES small brown paper bags DO deter wasps and hornets!!!

  • Anonymous

    http://barrystock.com/images/scranton_bilbiophile.jpg

  • SchnauzerLogic

    my humble entry is “BEN – Your Weekly Guide To All Things Stein”

    http://twitpic.com/5bjzwv

  • Aladdin

    http://www.aladdins-world.com/manualUploads/FlowerPotMagazine.jpg

  • Blake

    Not as boring as Cat Fancy.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeandshari/5829658207/

  • intellax

    http://flickr.com/gp/11045073@N05/574n90

    thrilling publication concerning hex color codes

    • Shlepzig

      I was browsing through some of the entries and saw yours, Clearly there is an unconscious consensus that the #6 is the most boring number between 0 and 9.

      Good luck to you.

      -Shlep’

  • 3232design

    Exclusive interview with Milton Knubbler, author of the irs.gov EULA! Plus, follow this one old rule for beefing up your word count.

    http://www.3232design.com/misc/agmonthly.jpg

  • nosehat

    The example entry sets the bar pretty high! “Protect your PCI Audio Card from thieves” indeed! It’s so funny because it’s just plausible enough to be uncomfortable.

  • From The Id

    So here’s mine:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/fromtheid/5843526861/in/photostream

  • fuzzicist

    here is the boing,eula,boringEULA review

  • duckwizard

    http://www.duckwizard.com/images/boringmag.png

  • Astronaut Jones

    The true compendium for Turbo Encabulator enthusiasts … http://bit.ly/lNAqbz

  • RumorsofmyDemise

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v382/henabebe/boingboing.jpg

  • Guy

    http://i.imgur.com/KDqVb.jpg

  • Anonymous

    http://www.pr6.org/images/78730726623367834013.jpg

  • Anonymous

    My entry for the contest: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18195735@N05/5831146876/sizes/l/in/photostream/

  • kmoser

    Boring, boring, boring:

    http://www.kmoser.com/boingboing/boring.gif

  • Chuck

    If only I had some graphic design skills. I’d weaponize The Monthly Journal of Issue Tracking Systems.

  • paladinmantis

    Here’s my submission:

    http://i.imgur.com/V19SO.jpg

  • KaiBeezy

    .
    couldn’t resist one more
    .
    lorem ipsum times
    http://tumblr.com/xrr2zh6i7p
    .

  • mwchapel

    Nothing like the wild sport of watching grass grow. :)

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/5829086935_70ca6b376a_b.jpg

  • joanielspeak

    http://www.icemoonstudios.com/downloads/Key-Quarterly.jpg

    After making this, I kind of wanted to subscribe. I think I failed the boring part… or maybe I am just that boring myself?

  • Anonymous

    Here’s an entry; I am recycling something I created as a joke a number of years ago. Hope the link works.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/64042444@N04/5830405386/in/photostream

  • royaltrux

    http://www.ae4rv.com/images/pstrix/hotrocks.jpg

    • Anonymous

      Very boring indeed. But that is one hot geologist on the cover…

    • dttri

      I hope there are no suggestive images of neogene rocks in there. Disgusting, that.

  • Anonymous

    http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6746/skull3o.jpg

    I opt out of the prize.

  • Eaves

    Here’s my entry (sorry if this gets double posted, I decided to not be “Anonymous”:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/18195735@N05/5831146876/in/photostream/

  • Anonymous

    Why is this only open to US entrants?

  • Govern-4-Results

    My entry (thanks for the idea Bdig):

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/64070175@N04/5833973907/in/photostream

  • antidote

    Coffee Creamer Connoisseur

    http://www.injectantidote.com/coffeecreamer.htm

    • David Pescovitz

      OMG, these are so damn funny. Great idea for a contest, Rob, and amazing entries so far, folks. I love the BB crowd.

  • KaiBeezy

    .
    doh
    didn’t see the
    one entry per person
    don’t disqualify me bro!
    take one down?
    .
    but why limit it?
    it’s too much fun
    raise limit to 2 or 3?
    .
    anyhoo
    i submit to your judgment
    .

  • MadSun

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisshort/sets/72157626956804478/detail/

    Historical Postage Stamp Adhesives Monthly!
    (with back cover advertisement)

    • Stephen

      This is my favourite so far … plus bonus points for the “Back cover advertisement featuring inappropriate use of female model fawning over technology product” as suggested by kpkpkp.

      Hilarious and tedious at the same time!

  • Anonymous

    https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3xYSXYJQK5mOGUxNDNlNTYtY2RiMC00YjQ3LWFiZjktZjM3MTNlMjkxNzg3&hl=en_US&authkey=CJTuwMYO

  • designmine

    Design competitions are for schmucks. They are an unethical way to get crappy designs. Good designers are hired to do real projects. Bad designers enter contests, doing work for no money. Boing Boing should know better than this.

    • royaltrux

      This isn’t for a logo or other revenue generating design, as far as I can tell it’s just for fun. But I generally do agree with what you said.

    • nixiebunny

      Good designers who like to have fun also enter contests. They tend to win.

    • standard

      Kudos to the kneejerk no-spec-work commenter who didn’t take the time to read the entire paragraph. Glad to know you’re a professional with an eye for detail.

    • revdru

      “Design Competition Critic” would make an excellent magazine.

  • Eric R

    Cardboard Technology and Design

    http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v387/licinius/?action=view&current=Slide1-1.jpg

    • paladinmantis

      52 Volumes! OMG! That definitely qualifies as skull-crushing

    • nanoquimico

      Having been to a paper physics conference I must say that there are at least a few cardboard technologists that would be interested in your magazine.

      This contest makes me think of whether is it possible to find something so boring that no person would be interested in it.

      Many actual magazines at the newsstands would in my mind belong to this contest, but the fact that there is a readership for them is quite amusing.

      A fun extension of this contest would be to pair the fakes with real boring magazines and quiz the readers to identify them.

      • Eric R

        That was the problem that I kept coming back to as well. And I have to say that I for one would really like to know what the Arctic Challenge entailed. Perhaps I’ll have to come up with something less interesting.

  • Mark Dow

    Modern Scale:

    http://markdow.blogspot.com/2011/06/boring-magazine.html

  • Anonymous

    https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3xYSXYJQK5mOGUxNDNlNTYtY2RiMC00YjQ3LWFiZjktZjM3MTNlMjkxNzg3&hl=en_US&authkey=CJTuwMYO

  • kid.chivalrous

    sad really:

    http://www.pr6.org/images/57179559534748815441.jpg

  • nanoquimico

    http://boingboingcontestentry.blogspot.com/2011/06/entry-for-boingboing-contest-6-13-2011.html

  • catfish71

    http://i.imgur.com/E2TvT.jpg

  • kpkpkp

    Suggested Extra Credit: Back cover advertisement featuring inappropriate use of female model fawning over technology product.

  • snarf

    Damn! I really wish this wasn’t just for people in the states… but then again the whole idea is funny enough that I might give it go anyways.

  • rjek

    For inspiration, watch a couple of episodes of Have I Got News For You. They do a missing-word-from-the-headline, which they often have a “guest publication” to go along with the news papers that is bogglingly obscure or dull. “Fresh Produce Journal” “Laundry and Cleaning News International” “Hair Growers News” “Semen World” “Compressed Air International” “Doorknob Collector” etc.

  • quin

    Did it for the styros!

    http://boingboingcontest.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/foammag/

  • tenesmusD

    Re-posted after signing in… hurr!
    http://i54.tinypic.com/ml33oy.jpg/IMG

  • Jaco Tremendez

    http://www.vulturewhale.com/2009/09/extra-extra/

    http://www.vulturewhale.com/2009/11/plumage-and-blubber-the-green-issue/

  • BookGuy

    You guys and gals are cracking me up. For me, the extra-funny is how close you’re getting to some actual current and former academic journals. Take it from someone who used to work in academic publishing and, for a brief time, actually copyedited a journal devoted to Eastern European research in cement and concrete. Seriously

  • ElVagabond

    There are some great designs here…

    Here’s mine.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/64122951@N08/5833229547/in/photostream

  • pidg

    Hope I’m not duplicating anyone else’s!

    Mac vs PC Monthly

  • Phil

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/27637464@N04/5829163703/

  • Steven S

    Nervous first post…and first attempt at competition on the internets…yelp!

    https://skitch.com/stevenshrago/fr34s/cloud-spotter-monthy-bb-competition

  • snailwithajetpack

    Sand WEEKLY! http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/snowandyx/Sand_Weekly.jpg

  • Rob Beschizza

    Designmine, this isn’t a design contest where we trick people into designing logos or T-shirts or performing other spec-work for us with the prospect of prizes. The entries, which are mostly posted off of Boing Boing on personal sites anyway, will never be used by us except in this thread and maybe a winner announcement, for the transient amusement of your fellow readers. There is no suggestion of future professional reward here.

    In fact, I’d say this competition is probably very bad for your portfolio. I wouldn’t hire anyone who’d even dream of entering it, and considered firing myself for creating the example entry.

    • Stephen

      “I’d say this competition is probably very bad for your portfolio. I wouldn’t hire anyone who’d even dream of entering it, and considered firing myself for creating the example entry.”

      Bravo! Just as funny as the example entry.

  • DeWynken

    I would totally buy an issue of PCI Audio Card Magazine.

    • Joe The Wizard

      I would totally buy one too.

  • Anonymous

    http://ldjessee00.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-contest.html

    “We watched paint dry, so you don’t have to!”

    The Paint Revue Magazine

  • Anonymous

    de-anonymizing my earlier post….

  • nanoquimico

    Here’s another one:
    http://boingboingcontestentry.blogspot.com/

  • designmine

    well, i stand by my comments, but I’m sorry to have assumed Boing Boing was doing this. Design away.

  • AppleC

    Flash Drive Collector:

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2465491/boingboing.jpg

  • Fedule

    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Pseudomonas/Guest_Publications_on_Have_I_Got_News_for_You

    (start reading from the bottom)

    …in case anyone needed inspiration. Tragically, the list is incomplete (only up to 2006) and will probably disappear from Wikipedia due to it’s notability standards (bah), but the info there is good. Too bad they don’t also show the covers…

  • Dave McCaig

    Shame you guys region-limit your contests for no apparent reason.

    I thought Boing Boing was supposed to be against restrictions of this sort?

  • mneptok

    I have one of Saddleback’s wallets, and my wife has a case. Nod to BB for pointing us at them (on my birthday last year!).

    F-ing kick booTAY products. Pro designers (and I ain’t) are heartily urged to burn a few extra candles to win this schwag.

  • Jack Daniel

    Hi Guys,

    I’ve been wanting one of these bags bad. Real pain in gut, go to the prom with me bad.
    Here goes nothing:

    Introducing TIRED Magazine:
    http://nothingofconsequence.com/boingboingcontest

    Cheers,
    Jack

  • Anonymous

    I would probably read a magazine devoted to PCI audio cards if I saw one.

  • andyhavens

    My two entries (one went up earlier, but the Google Docs link isn’t working for some friends, so here are both on Flickr)

    “Waiting Room Magazine:” http://flic.kr/p/9TkWUF

    and “Other People’s Dreams:” http://flic.kr/p/9TGtT9

    • Mark Dow

      A bit late to the game, but Waiting Room was worth the wait.

  • McLaren+Torchinsky

    I feel like this would be full-on, body-goes-limp-on-the-floor-kid-in-a-carpet-store boring.

    I bet they’d have tours that could put you in a coma.

    http://i.imgur.com/MipML.jpg

    • Anonymous

      the best by far..

    • Anonymous

      winner!

  • DeWynken

    They had me at ‘Semen World’. Equine Insemnators Quarterly would also be a pick.

  • Rob Beschizza

    Entries are closed! Thank you, everyone. Winner to be announced shortly — keep an eye on the front door or this thread!

  • shaeon

    First submission: Store Greeter Magazine
    http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb145/ravioliglue/boing%20boing%20boring%20contest/storegreetermagazine.jpg

  • capl

    I love the entries, so had to slop something together from the CAPL collection. And the definition of skull-crushing would be in German:
    https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FGCjMpAN5WOHGFcZ6Wq2zMu46K1-l9Vtdso_3fmUiGE?feat=directlink

    PS: Great idea, Rob!

  • shaeon

    Second entry: Gnat Fancy
    http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb145/ravioliglue/boing%20boing%20boring%20contest/GnatFancy.jpg

  • andyhavens

    My entry. Hope being “meta” about it doesn’t disqualify me.

    https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3GWwyP_GRiJMDBjM2E0YTItMjcwMC00MjMxLWEwMjItMGI3ODY1ZjU1MjVj&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

  • Anonymous

    https://secure.flickr.com/photos/33485249@N06/5829241518/in/photostream

    Que Quarterly, your guide to waiting in line like the pro’s.

    • Anonymous

      It’s actually “Queue” … Que is the abbreviation for Quebec.

  • highway40

    Notational Review
    http://i.imgur.com/cVTtb.jpg

  • Brian Damage

    Sorry to whoever designed PCI Audio Card magazine but you would lose this contest. I would subscribe to that in a heartbeat.

  • hotdogcar@gmail.com

    for all your colored fluid evaporation observational needs:

    http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w279/hodoca/PaintDryingQuarterly.jpg

  • jjsaul

    Don’t underestimate the value of the prize – saddleback doesn’t make cheap nylon walmart bags. I’ve had one for a few years and the only way I could be more pleased is if it had been assembled from Rush Limbaugh’s cured pelt.

    • princessalex

      “the only way I could be more pleased is if it had been assembled from Rush Limbaugh’s cured pelt”

      That’s not an option? Dang. I had my hopes up.

  • Anonymous

    @nanoquimico wins by recursion if his entry is “boing boing’s tedious magazine cover contest entries magazine”.

  • Anonymous

    http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5471675511_8ba519cfae_b.jpg

  • Anonymous

    Worm Enthusiast:

    http://johnzima.com/pics/WormEnthusiast.jpg

  • Shlepzig

    My first draft was Frozen Peas Magazine
    https://picasaweb.google.com/shlepzig/Downloads#5618867027478059938
    The magazine logo came off pretty, and the headlines are somewhat clever. So I wanted to share.

    My actual entry was my second thought, Number 6 Monthly. Which I think is a stronger cover on the whole. The concept has a little more geek cred’ and the color palette was spot on (I just got lucky there).
    https://picasaweb.google.com/shlepzig/Downloads#5618613333755921570

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry, but it’s going to be really hard to beat reality on this one. See, for example Pallet Enterprise Magazine, your leading source for the latest developments on wooden pallets.

    • Anonymous

      from their header:

      “For 30 years the leading pallet and sawmill magazine in America.”

  • Wendell

    This one is SO obvious, I’m shocked nobody beat me to it (or maybe they did and got deleted)

    http://oneswellfoop.net/wp-content/uploads/boringboring.png

  • thebelgianpanda

    i would actually subscribe to this newsletter, but my wife thinks i’m insane.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/64082461@N08/5829868682/

  • zyodei

    My vote goes to either ‘Joint and Rafter’ enthusiast or ‘Thumb Drive Aficianado’; honorable mentions to Shoelace, Power Strip, and Magazine Aficianado. Great show everybody :)

  • Anonymous

    http://s1102.photobucket.com/albums/g450/eddiebaby7/

  • Stephen

    Tried entering these yesterday as Anon. Now have account (woo-hoo) and hope it works this time.

    I’m an Australian, so obviously can’t win. I’m also not a professional designer, so obviously won’t win. As I’m not bound by the rules, here are my three covers for a mind-numbingly boring magazine (all pictures are real – including the bike rider product – I mean, seriously?)…

    http://tasteless-and-unoriginal.tumblr.com/post/6514394715/umbrella-holder-monthly-december-2010-part-1-of-3

    http://tasteless-and-unoriginal.tumblr.com/post/6514422239/umbrella-holder-monthly-february-2011-part-2-of-3

    http://tasteless-and-unoriginal.tumblr.com/post/6514445600/umbrella-holder-monthly-march-2011-part-3-of-3

  • eddiebaby7

    http://s1102.photobucket.com/albums/g450/eddiebaby7/

  • bocomo

    now that i’ve created an account, i’ll repost

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32909277@N04/5829629563/in/photostream/lightbox/

    bye bye Anon for me

  • Anonymous

    Rule 35: No matter how skull-crushingly boring the topic, there is already a magazine devoted to it.

  • Anonymous

    Goodbye morning productivity!

    Here’s my entry: http://imgur.com/3qpCs

  • Anonymous

    FILL HER UP!

    Your guide to a ful-FILLING life as a petrol pump attendent:

    http://twitpic.com/5b4rpc

  • adamnvillani

    One time when I was in junior high I went with my dad to a car wash, and I remember seeing an issue of “Carwashing” magazine and thinking that sounded like the most boring thing ever. At the time I wasn’t aware of trade publications.

    Fast forward 20 years, and through Facebook I get back in touch with the girl I attended the 9th-grade junior high prom with, and it turns out that a few years earlier her husband had inherited a successful car wash and, sure enough, they subscribed to Carwashing magazine.

  • t-mas

    Ok, try this again…

    https://secure.flickr.com/photos/33485249@N06/5829241518/

    Que Quarterly, your source for waiting in line like the pro’s.

    • jeligula

      Nice Tmas, but the word is queue. I submitted a work in ad design at the Art Institute of Seattle, and it was great work. Resembled a National Geographic cover and was advertising Rapidographs. The ship/sea/sky/cliffs illustration was stippled using a Rapidograph. I put the header in “National Rapidograpic”, having concentrated on comping the type perfectly, I misspelled my header. The instructor gave me an F on the grounds that if I did that with a client, I would lose a commission. I got the grade raised to what I deserved on the grounds that Rapidographic is not a word anyway, but the instructor was right.

      I would like to submit an entry, but am too busy making money. Been in the graphic design industry since 1988.

    • Anonymous

      Well done Sir!

  • rkr7

    http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2017/recursionweeklyfinal.png

    Scan the barcode for an extra laugh ;P

  • Anonymous

    http://i.imgur.com/SW0aa.jpg

  • MS

    Wow. I don’t envy the job of the judges. Very good work out there…

  • rozerosie

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/roseburt/5829912266/

  • brucegulick

    https://img.skitch.com/20110613-kxpmuyy58g1r83yumd9huybm92.jpg

    :D

  • ZigZagatha

    woo! do it! <3 fiber!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/29530192@N08/5839247538/in/photostream

  • thebelgianpanda

    CC licensed according to flickr
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/64082461@N08/5829934582/

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes I read this in public just to see if anyone reacts.

    http://versastudio.com/misc/modernTwineMag.jpg

  • Anonymous

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/absenthero/5471675511/sizes/l/in/photostream/

  • 337

    man…picasa decided to leave and have a few beers when I went to upload the pict. Good thing Docs is more responsible. Anyways, I don’t think anyone did this one, thought it might be a bit obvious, but hey, who doesn’t love watching paint dry?

    https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BypAj02VGGYiNzE2ZGYzMjYtMDFlNy00MWIzLWIwZTUtZjBkMWRlZjYwMTkz&hl=en_US

  • Shlepzig

    I’m a clot and I’ve ruined my links. From the above, I stupidly renamed the album so I could clean things up a bit, and voila messed things up good.

    Frozen Peas:
    https://picasaweb.google.com/shlepzig/BoingBoingMindNumbinglyTediousMagazine#5618867027478059938

    Number 6 Monthly
    https://picasaweb.google.com/shlepzig/BoingBoingMindNumbinglyTediousMagazine#5618613333755921570

    -Shlep’

  • Enormo

    Honey, I’m Home! Magazine

    Husbands’ Edition

    Wives’ Edition

    • Anonymous

      OMG–I laughed so hard my boss came in and asked me what was so funny. Then HE laughed out loud. F-ing brilliant.

  • websorcerer

    The Navel Lint Digest

    http://www.websorcerer.com/images/NavelLintDigest.jpg

  • KaiBeezy

    .
    audio cable aficionado!
    http://tumblr.com/xrr2zf2lzm
    .

  • Mark Pitcavage

    All right, I’m resubmitting mine non-anonymously. Hope the link works. It’s actually something I created some years ago as an inside joke, so I am recycling it.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/64042444@N04/5830405386/

  • mierla

    I’m in with Radiator Quarterly: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mierla/5838817983/in/photostream

  • joshwithpowers

    http://i.imgur.com/MODkT.jpg

  • jphilby

    Oh, oh, oh. I’d read that Audio Card Magazine from cover to cover.

    *sigh* Geek kids these days. Get off my platform!

  • Anonymous

    “Pin-Out Monthly” – with, yes, a pull-out pin-up centerfold of a pin-out chart. Hmmmmm…. diagrammatic!

  • Brainspore

    My mother was a civil engineer who often had copies of a trade mag called “Concrete Today” on the coffee table. I’m not sure you can even parody that kind of thing.

    • IronEdithKidd

      I was half-ass considering submitting the most recent issue of the Journal of Protective Coatings and Linings. The lead article is entitled “Inspection Plans for Bridge Work”.

      You really can’t make this shit up. Actual trade mags, FTW!

  • hectorinwa

    Maybe too obvious, but: Drytime

    And then of course: Screw

    • 337

      about 20 mins too obvious – ha! I came up with the same one. I like the stopwatches feature.

  • nolangate

    Thrilling!
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ieOI1UWm43c/TfY8w9B2qbI/AAAAAAAAAV0/KtuYdB95mBE/s1600/drywall.jpg

    • deathbychildren

      All ceilings!

  • ryanmsmith

    Yay dust.

    http://www.ryanmsmith.com/images/DustCollectorsMonthly.png

  • elizms

    Not an entry but my Dad used to subscribe to this:

    http://www.awci.com/ht/ht.php

    exciting for the watchmaker :)

  • yongi

    There is nothing more boring than this. Except maybe… nope. Nothing. :)

    http://www.yongi.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IAM1.jpg

  • Anonymous

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/22161109@N02/5837493945/in/photostream

  • monma

    My entry is near and dear to my heart
    http://i.imgur.com/jBN38.gif

    just so I know, are we allowed to have more than one entry?

  • Matt Mayer

    http://www.mattmayer.com/images/international-paper-size-monthly.png

  • Anonymous

    Get your copy of On/Off Knob Quarterly today!

    http://beatcopsguide.com/blotter/mentioned-in-onoff-knob-quarterly/

    • wrybread

      > On/Off Quarterly

      I’d subscribe to that if you had a panic button issue…

  • jphilby

    No image-maker, but inspired by an old title, I’ll forge ahead.

    STEAM
    The magic world of gaseous H2O

    Top 50 Yellowstone fumaroles!
    Spelunking locomotive boilers
    ROUNDUP: Steam Stamp Collectors
    Arctic or Antarctic? Astounding variety
    Using Fractals To Model Outgassing

  • Anonymous

    Nothing beats watching Paint Dry! Here’s my entry!

    http://i.imgur.com/mrJzS.jpg

  • Anonymous

    http://bit.ly/jWDFoW

  • Anonymous

    Here you go.
    Compound Fulcrum Nail Clipper World.

    http://www.mzla.com/images/clipperworld.jpg

  • dttri

    Not entries, but actual magazines (or good fakes):

    http://www.modernasphalts.com/archive/28/MA28.jpg
    http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4702976303_3de0dcb147.jpg

  • Anonymous

    Here’s my submission, “LOOK AT THIS” magazine:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiojar/5830126826/in/photostream/lightbox/

  • Thad E Ginataom

    Add my name to the list for PCI Audio Card. I want to be sure I don’t miss the very first issue!

    I’ll be giving Ridiculously Expensive HDMI Cable a miss, though…

  • xhonk

    http://i.imgur.com/wDbyS.png

    Corpse Digest.

    Hurr…

    All images used, rasterbated, or otherwise mistreated are from Wikimedia Commons.

  • deathbychildren

    On/Off Knob Quarterly!

    http://beatcopsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/onoffknobquarterly.jpg

  • buzz graphics

    here’s mine:
    http://i.imgur.com/sS4JE.jpg

  • Illryion

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/seldom_seen/5828924207/in/photostream

    Now, this is just NUTS!

  • dirtbag kingdom

    From the exclusive, secret, almost fetishistic world of the Staple Enthusiast; STAPLES MONTHLY
    http://thehandsomewerewolf.blogspot.com/2011/06/boring-magazine-covers.html

    click on image to enlarge.

  • Pip_R_Lagenta

    I have decided to not do a cover for “Does This Look Infected” magazine. You’re welcome.

  • Anonymous

    here is mine:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32909277@N04/5829629563/in/photostream/lightbox/

  • Treespyders

    Mind…Numbingly…Boring…

    http://www.squishyanimal.info/serif.jpg

  • Anonymous

    White Mug Monthly!

    http://imageshack.us/f/804/whitemugmonthlys.png/

  • Scary_UK

    US only!? What about the rest of us?

  • Anonymous

    Sleep… A Magazine By and For New Parents
    http://boingboingboingboingboingboingboring.blogspot.com/

  • phxartboy

    Grout!

    http://bit.ly/jCj2oF

  • Anonymous

    This appears to be a similar contest:

    http://www.mathontheweb.org/mathweb/mi-journals5.html

  • Anonymous

    I saw the graphic, clicked furiously to figure out where and how would could acquire PCI Audio Card Magazine, and only afterwards read the posting text. Thoroughly disappointed, I was ready to subscribe.

  • Anonymous

    http://glomper.blogspot.com/2011/06/boring-magazine-cover-boing-boing.html

  • oddharmonix

    http://freebacon.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/boingboing-2/

  • dabey

    nice diversion. i want the bag too.

    http://pics.livejournal.com/dabeyc/pic/0000204c

    • hassenpfeffer

      dabey, you’ve obviously never watched Phineas & Ferb:
      http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/Tip_of_the_Day
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVvd6iuTvSo

      • dabey

        ha ha no i missed that one.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sure that Thumb Drive Aficionado would be the most boring magazine ever. I mean, Cat Fancy is still out there!

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/5829658207_9242c38327.jpg