Dazed / Dazed & Confused Vol. 2 · Issue 9
The Illustrated Issue — Peter Blake / Lost in Translation / Leonard Nimoy / Coen Brothers
January 2004’s Vol. 2 Issue 9 is Dazed & Confused’s “Illustrated Issue”, built around a Peter Blake cover collage and an editorial concept in which Dazed later recalled that every page of the magazine was decorated with illustration.
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- Dazed / Dazed & Confused
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good− — structurally sound and complete-looking, with clear handling wear, rubbing, edge and corner wear and light creasing to the covers.
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages/components present under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing separately issued insert, wrap, supplement, poster, disc or other component has been reported.
- Date
- January 2004
Catalogue note
January 2004’s Vol. 2 Issue 9 is Dazed & Confused’s “Illustrated Issue”, built around a Peter Blake cover collage and an editorial concept in which Dazed later recalled that every page of the magazine was decorated with illustration. The main contents connect Blake’s British Pop-art lineage to contemporary cinema and popular culture: Leonard Nimoy is used as a starting point for an illustration showcase; Peter Blake is profiled at 71; Joel and Ethan Coen’s storyboards are examined; and Sofia Coppola discusses Lost in Translation with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. The issue also preserves an early fashion credit for Viviane Sassen, alongside Cathy Edwards and Nicola Formichetti, making the object unusually rich as a record of illustration, magazine design, film culture and fashion image-making at the start of 2004.
Why this object matters
Blake’s cover and issue-wide illustration concept constitute a specific publication-design intervention. The cinema/storyboard and early Sassen material reinforce Gold at 9.1 for the complete original editorial object.
Evidence limits: Complete — all pages/components present under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing separately issued insert, wrap, supplement, poster, disc or other component has been reported.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.1 / 10 · Gold Star.
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