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An online, new media, humor, and link magazine.
10th Anniversary
With the Los Wikiless Timespedia issue, Bunk Magazine celebrates its 10th year of publication.Bunk began a decade ago as a Super Mario Brothers' Hack. Today, you can find Bunk in barbershops and genetic labs all across the globe. Wherever people should be working, there is Bunk.
The goal of Bunk was to create a humor magazine that could not be experienced the same way if printed out -- or at least one that would require an awful lot of flipping of pages, folding it into paper hats, cutting out the lips of photographs and pretending you were talking... that sort of thing.
Founding Members
Jon Van Gieson, Mark Marino, Alan Laser, Mike Saenz (logo)
Previous Issue of Bunk
History of Bunk Magazine
Bunk begins as sketch comedy groups at an Ivy League university named for no one's favorite color and a famous midwester Irish Catholic University named for a Dame.
In the later 90s, Bunk was caught with the Internet bug. At the Time we were known as Bunk's Exciting Journal, but as that URL was taken by Internet speculators, we settled for Bunkmag.
The first online issue of Bunk featured a feature, movie reviews, and fake sex advice. In fact, that's basically the same thing in this issue.
In 1999, we developed Bunklets, or short Bunk pieces. That meant we could work even less hard to produce comedy that people basically spent the same time reading. Here's a typical Bunklet.
In 2000, we launched our low-cost airfare search engine, Travelostomy, which suffered from poor name-recognition and an underdeveloped prostate.
Shortly after the bubble burst, Bunk sold its URL and operated solely on Ham Radio.
When we returned to the Internet in 2002, we had a new emphasis: fashion!
In 2003, we were briefly purchased and used for Government surveillance.
In the years from 2004-2007, we wen through an editor-in-chief every six months. The employee-favorite was by-far Picachu
Bunk is now subsidiary of Cisco Systems International, but is in the midst of a hostile acquisition by the Buddy Hackett Holding Group.
Our More Memorable Features (that we are reminding you of)
- James Bunk Contortions: Our first feature, based on James Burke's Connections, leading off with a joke feature that sent everyone to their Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Journal of a Working Boy: Possibly the first blog -- or at least the first fictional adaptation of a Southern novel's metanarrative serialized into an Excel-style spreadsheet.
- Y2K issue: Out first newspaper parody, 10 years before or 100 years after its time. On Jan. 1, 2000 our servers failed and delivered this issue from 1900.
- Aikendo: The Art of Passive Aggression
- Bunkmates (dating service)
- Motopets
- Supreme Commanbear DVD extras: The DVD extras for a film that was never made, starring the Supreme Commanbear, El Commanbear Supremo, and introducing the Shepreme Commanbear.
- University Diplomas: Bunk's online diploma-mills.
- iTunes Issue
- Grand Thieves Audio Modologues: Driveable Machinima
- Web 2.0 App Generator
Our Contributors
Over the years, Bunk has always had its share of celebrity contributors. The 2002 issue of Bunk featured on its cover a young Norman Hussein Schwartzkopf.
Scott Baio
Jebb Bush
M.D. Coverley
Tony Randall
Scott Bakula
Scott Odom
If you would like to contribute to Bunk, just write and article for this year's issue or contact Bunk at mmarino [at] bunkmag.com
