Bang!
| Title: | Bang! |
| Publisher: | Saída de Emergência |
| Editor: | Luís Corte Real |
| Type: | cultural magazine |
| Date(s): | August 2010-current |
| Medium: | print and online archive |
| Fandom: | science fiction, Horror, Fantasy, multifandom |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| External Links: | Official Website |
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Bang! or Revista Bang! is a Portuguese multi-fandom, professional cultural magazine with a fantasy, sci-fi and horror focus. It's a free biannual magazine available online[1] or, if fans would rather have a physical version, it can be exclusively found in Portuguese Fnac stores. It's published by Saída de Emergência (Emergency Exit, in Portuguese), a Portuguese Editor and Book group.
The magazine contains articles about new books, analysis of tropes and authors as well as showcases of illustrators and complete original short stories and comics by known and unknown authors.
It also serves as a medium through which fans have shared their fannish activities, such as talking about fanfiction, sharing their own stories and cosplay photography.
It spawned Festival Bang!, labelled "O teu festival de cultura Pop" (Your pop culture festival) which amongst other events, hosts a Cosplay Competition. While the magazine describes itself as more literature oriented, the festival describes Literature, Comic books, Gaming, Board Games, Merchandise, Cosplay and Music as its main focus.
Due to the magazine's geeky and fannish appeal, many fans try to get their hands on physical copies through exchanges and even buy them second hand online.
References
- ^ Offical Website where the magazine can be read for free (in European Portuguese) https://revistabang.com/category/revistas-bang/