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K Composite Magazine was created in 1991 as a Xeroxed fanzine by me, Scott Ritcher.
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 ISSUE #1 1991 |
The new magazine was comprised mostly of interviews with my friends in Louisville. |
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It caught on quickly and was honored as Zine of the Month in Sassy. |
A new issue came out whenever it was ready, which ended up being about once a year. |
 ISSUE #3 1993 |
By 1994, people had heard about K Composite in Rolling Stone, Harper's, The Courier-Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and on several radio programs including NPR's Talk of the Nation.
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 ISSUE #4 1994 |
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Orders for the magazine were coming in from everywhere, and K Composite began enjoying a national following. |
In 1998, I ran for mayor of Louisville. That took up a lot of time.
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In 1999, I got some of my friends involved in helping me expand the magazine.
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We rented a little office in downtown Louisville which became known as the "clubhouse."
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Sometimes we worked until the middle of the night.
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Other
times we quit at noon |
 ISSUE #7 1999 Our first edition from the new office was the first K Composite to be printed in color.  |
The magazine launched a website which has additional stuff not in the paper magazine.
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Each issue starts as a list of interviewees. Just like when I started the magazine, the people who appear in it are friends of the editors. |
After we have the questions ready, we photograph our subjects and give them the third degree. |
 ISSUE #9 2000 |
Progress is charted as the edition begins to take shape.
The page numbers are continuous from the first issue. |
Proofs of finished pages are hung on the wall where they are scrutinized and revised. |
We invite some advertisers to come along for the ride.
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The final version is sent to the printer electronically and comes back as pallets of wonderful magazines. The whole place smells like ink. Mmmmmm. |
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At the beginning of 2001, I moved to Providence, Rhode Island, in search of new adventures.
I stayed for a year or so and then moved to Hollywood. About a year after that, I returned to Louisville. |
With the help of a small cast of contributors, K Composite continues to evolve and now reaches thousands of readers across the United States. It is distributed directly to subscribers and at bookstores and newsstands. |
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