[INDUSTRY] MADHOUSE USA ACQUIRES FRACTAL SPECTRUM MAGAZINE

From: ratt@mail.fractal.mandarin.REMOVESPAM.org (DJAR)

Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000

For Immediate Release : MADHOUSE USA ACQUIRES FRACTAL SPECTRUM MAGAZINE

Fractal Spectrum, the best of the alternate gaming press magazine, has
been acquire by Madhouse USA as of January 1, 1999 from former
publisher Fractal Dimensions.

According to Donald J. A. Redick, co-owner of Fractal Dimensions and
former Editor-at-Large of the Fractal Spectrum, "Over the 1998 year, FS has
been plagued by the slowing of distribution and bad printing. Coupled with
some health problems that have been looming over my head, I decided to
take Kerry Harrison up on his offer to buy the magazine, all the back stock,
and its subscriber list."

"Kerry has a sound plan for the future of FS. I'm sure he and Madhouse
can get FS back on its feet," said Kathleen Seymour, the other co-owner
of Fractal Dimensions. "The people who worked with us on FS are also
willing to work with Madhouse. And they are some great people!"

Donald and Kathleen went on to say that, "Fractal Dimensions will still
be publishing, but we decided to focus on other endeavors. Currently,
we have finished the first issue of Alternate Visions, a comic anthology
with four other comic book artists. Don will be doing more airbrush
artwork and comic penciling while Kath will be doing much of the
lettering and inking. We both will be handling the management of
Fractal Dimensions as always. We still own the Gamelet line and the
SORD RPG line so we are now out of the gaming industry. But after 19 issues
of FS, we still are going to miss it."

Madhouse USA will be the source for the Fractal Spectrum back issues as
well as future publishing and subscriptions.

Kerry Harrison, the president of Madhouse USA, had the following to
say about his company's recent acquisition "We're quite pleased to
add the Fractal Spectrum to our growing product line and we have some
exciting plans for the Fractal Spectrum's future that we will be announcing
at a later date, but chief among our new plans for FS is greatly expand
its scope to include international gaming news, a task which Madhouse
is quite well situated for."

For those who are not familiar with Madhouse some back information may
be in order. Madhouse was founded as a UK-based play-by-mail (PBM) gaming
company back in 1992 with a goal of providing the highest possible quality
games at reasonable prices and today is one of the largest PBM companies
in the world with branches in the United Kingdom, the United States, and
Australia.

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For more information on the Fractal Spectrum, contact Kerry Harrison at
madhouse-usa@play-by-mail.com or for more information on Madhouse and it's
innovative play-by-mail games check out our website at
http://www.play-by-mail.com/.

For more information on Alternate Visions or other Fractal Dimensions
activities, contact Donald J. A. Redick at djar@dryland.mandarin.org or visit
our website at http://www.fractal.mandarin.org/