Say what you want about satire and invective on the web: For our money there’s never been anything more incisive and usefully savage than Spy magazine. From our admired friend Alexander Isley comes the news that Google has digitized the complete run of Spy.
Isley was the art director at Spy prior to starting his own practice. From intriguing visuals — who can forget “Separated at Birth”? — to offbeat essays and often-bizarre forays into investigative journalism, Spy was the journal of record for readers who treasured a sense of humor with their smarts.
OK, so the digitized content doesn’t have the presence or cachet of the print editions, which practically guaranteed you’d appear intellectual by their presence on your bookshelf. The digitized Spy is still the next-best thing when it comes to wit. And as far as we know, there’s nothing out there today that deserves third place. [TB]
Read Sean Adams’ three questions (plus one) for Alexander Isley here.
