Irregardless Magazine is filled with factlets, quibbles and ravings for the literary mind. Sometimes it’s interesting stuff; sometimes it’s silly nonsense. Much like the English language itself, Irregardless Magazine is a jumbled mess that is always evolving.
History
On the summer solstice of 2012, the first post of this blog was published under the title Irresistibly Concise on Tumblr. The blog’s sole reason for existing was to find your humble editor a job by showcasing his web writing and HTML/CSS skills. He didn’t get the job. It was soon renamed Irregardless.
In the spring of 2014, Irregardless became Irregardless Magazine and migrated to WordPress with the hopes of becoming an “audio literary journal”—that is, a podcast featuring storytelling and discussions about storytelling. For the following year, your editor struggled to gather submissions for the first “issue” and soon found out that Irregardless probably wasn’t going to be a podcast either.
Currently, Irregardless Magazine is packed full of readables for you to nom on. Articles answer questions like why can’t you eat your cake and have it too? Why is English is such a weird language? Why is it so hard to design a book cover for Lolita? And what’s the deal with pumpernickel bread?
Editor
Irregardless Magazine is written and edited by Mark-Anthony Lewis. Mark-Anthony is a writing tutor whose head is filled with useless little facts. He has presented papers relating to rhetoric and communication at the Harry Potter Academic Conference and the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Mark-Anthony has also contributed fiction to Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook, and he has an essay in Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter. In his free time he enjoys eating cake and wearing sweaters.
Colophon
Irregardless Magazine is powered by WordPress using the “MinimalistBlogger” theme by Superb Themes.
Headers are in “IM Fell English”, a type designed by John Fell in the 1600s and developed Igino Marini for the web. Body text is “Libre Baskerville”, designed by John Baskerville in 1754 and developed by Pablo Impallari for the web.
The Irregardless logo and nameplate were both designed by Mark-Anthony Lewis using Adobe’s “Baskerville” based off of the original 1754 type by John Baskerville.
Irregardless Magazine uses a house style guide.
Contact
If you’ve got any questions, queries or quibbles, Irregardless Magazine would like to hear them. You can address your Letters to the Editor to sayhi [at] irregardlessmagazine [dot] com.