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Issue 3 of the award winning KAREN MAGAZINE

Have you met KAREN yet?
She's pretty ordinary.


KAREN is more interested in the weather than what to wear, sell by dates than celebrity. KAREN MAGAZINE serves up a delightful dish of the everyday, gently observed
and presented as something quite unique. A glossy magazine without the gloss.
And as it says on the cover of this this little piece of reality, priceless!

In KAREN magazine fashion is a T-shirt about the emotional world of the potato
and beauty is goose pimples on the beach. There's a coalman and a butcher and
Roger with his bad feet.

KAREN is a very extraordinary ordinary magazine and has become cult reading
among those that have discovered her.

So, treat yourself and sit down with KAREN. She'd like to meet you.

One of the best-kept art secrets in Britain.
'Karen succeeds in weaving its humble subject matter into something poetic, profound, absurd and joyful. One issue of this magazine is more interesting
than every issue of every other lifestyle magazine in the world put together.'

David Shrigley from The Observer newspaper’s 'The best-kept arts secrets in Britain’

‘Karen is in a very English lyric tradition of exalting the unconsidered, from Gray’s Elegy
and Wordsworth’s Daffodils to
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads.’
Mary Blume, International Herald Tribune
‘An antidote for the culture of celebrity’.


EMAP Publishing Award Winner
Best Lifestyle Fanzine 2005.
The Judges said:
'An utterly original publication.
A cult best-seller.'
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