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''Smith Magazine'' is a U.S.-based online magazine devoted to storytelling in all its forms. ''Smiths content is participatory in nature, and the magazine welcomes contributions from all its readers. The magazine has made a name for itself with its original graphic novel projects ''Shooting War'', ''A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge'', and ''Next Door Neighbor''; and with its series of Six-Word Memoirs projects. Most of these projects have since gone from web to print publication, from such publishers as HarperCollins, Pantheon, and Grand Central Publishing. ==History== ''Smith'' was founded January 6, 2006 — National Smith Day〔Grindeland, Sherry. ("Hey, Smiths: Your day has come," ''Seattle Times'' (January 6, 2005). )〕 — by writer/editor Larry Smith and designer Tim Barkow. Previous to launching ''Smith'', Larry Smith was articles editor of ''Men’s Journal'', and has been the executive editor of ''Yahoo! Internet Life'', and senior editor at ''ESPN Magazine'', and a founding editor of ''P.O.V.'' and ''Might'' magazines. Tim Barkow is a former editor at Wired and the online general manager at ''Portland Monthly''. The site focuses on "personal media": blogs, memoirs, diaries, viral videos, social networks, "the mash-up between the professional and the amateur, and art projects rooted in personal. It’s all about the highly personal take on everything." Since its 2006 launch, ''Smith'' has been heralded as “a vision for the future of populist storytelling,〔Bussell, Rachel Kramer, "Larry Smith, Founder and Editor in Chief, ''Smith Magazine''," The Gothamist, April 23, 2007. Retrieved on December 12, 2007.〕” “a gigantic cocktail party to which everyone is invited to come, listen, and contribute their own personal stories,"〔Frith, Susan, "Web, Take Two," ''The Penn Gazzette,'' Sept./Oct. 2007〕 and “the pulse of today’s cultural narrative."〔Kealoha, Ami, ''Smith Magazine'', Cool Hunting, Jan. 23, 2006. Retrieved on December 12, 2007.〕 In the spring of 2006, ''Smith'' launched the critically acclaimed webcomic ''Shooting War'', which became a full-color graphic novel from Grand Central Publishing in the fall of 2007. In January 2007, ''Smith'' launched its second webcomic, a true story of Hurricane Katrina called ''A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge''. New chapters appeared monthly on ''Smith'' through the summer of 2008. ''A.D.'' received coverage in the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', the ''Toronto Star'', ''Rolling Stone'', AlterNet, Boing Boing, Wired.com, the ''USA Today'' blog "Pop Candy," and NPR, as well as hundreds of blogs. A four-color hardcover book edition of ''A.D.'' was published by Pantheon Books in August 2009.〔"(Pantheon to Publish ''A.D.:New Orleans After the Deluge'': Josh Neufeld's Real-Life Saga )," ICv2, May 8, 2008. Retrieved on June 4, 2008.〕 In February 2008, Harper Perennial published the ''New York Times'' bestseller ''Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs By Writers Famous and Obscure,'' which came from a six-word memoir contest held on ''Smith'' (and co-sponsored by Twitter) in 2007. ''Not Quite What I Was Planning'' collects almost 1,000 six-word memoirs, including pieces from celebrities like Stephen Colbert, Jane Goodall, Dave Eggers, and more. ''Vanity Fair'' magazine wrote that ''Not Quite What I Was Planning'' "will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists," while ''Publishers Weekly'' said it made for "compulsive reading and prove arguably as insightful as any 300+-page biography." 〔"(Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/14 )" ''Publishers Weekly'', Jan. 14, 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smith Magazine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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