Red Dwarf Magazine was launched in 1992 by Fleetway Editions. The magazine part of the title changed to Smegazine from issue three. It comprised of a mix of news, reviews, interviews, comic strips and competitions.
The comic strips featured episode adaptations and original material, including further stories of popular characters like the Polymorph and Ace Rimmer. Some of the stories made alter egos or hallucinations such as Dwayne Dibbley, Jake Bullet, and Mr. Flibble into real characters.
Other stories were set in the continuity of the novels, featuring such places as Garbage World (Better Than Life) and Blissfreak infested Mimas (Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers).
The comic strip stories were notable for the fact that hologrammatic characters, predominately Arnold Rimmer, were drawn in black-and-white. This was at the request of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who had wanted to use the technique for the television series, but the process was deemed too expensive to produce.
The magazine went through a 23-issue run (14 issues for Volume 1, and 9 for Volume 2). Despite achieving circulation figures of over 40,000 per month, the magazine's publisher decided to close the title down to concentrate on their other publications. A farewell issue was published, labelled Volume 2, #9 and cover dated January 1994. It featured the remaining interviews, features and comic strips that were to feature in the following issues.
List of Comic Stories[]
Red Dwarf[]
- The End
- Future Echoes
- Mutinous Pursuits
- The Geap
- Fashion Victims
- In Living Memory
- Wetware
- Evolution
- Sadvertisement
- Space Monkeys
- The Cantabelis Tales
- Lister the God
- Time After Time
- A Day in the Life of a Bogbot
- Dead Man's Bluff
- Home of Lost Causes
- The Scoop
- Heady Metal
Ace Rimmer Space Adventurer[]
The Amusing Misadventures of Mr Flibble[]
Androids[]
- Androids
- Androids 2
- Androids 3
- Androids 4
- Androids 5
- Androids 6
- Androids 7
- Androids 8
- Androids 9
- Androids 10
- Androids 11
- Androids 12
- Androids 13
- Androids 14
- Androids 15
- Androids 16
- Androids 17
- Androids 18
- Androids 19
- Androids 20
Duane Dibbley[]
Gelfworld[]
Jake Bullet[]
The Inquisitor[]
The Skutters[]
Other Strips[]
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Website discussing the Red Dwarf Smegazine
- Online copies - Internet Archive
- Online copies - Stasis Leak
- The Smegazine Catalogue - Ganymede & Titan
- The Smegazine Rack - Ganymede & Titan