Muppet Magazine was a quarterly publication that came into being in the wake of The Muppet Fan Club. From 1983 to 1989, each issue featured celebrity guests who were interviewed and photographed especially for the magazine. Other features included regular columns ostensibly written by Muppet characters, parody photographs of the Muppets as then-current pop culture figures, and original comic stories. The latter ranged from tales of The Muppet Show characters to original Fraggle Rock and Muppet Babies comics.
Credits
Muppet Magazine, starring Jim Henson's Muppets
Frog-In-Chief: Kermit the Frog
Publisher: Donald E. Welsh, Lorimar Publishing Group
V.P./Editorial Director: Katy Dobbs
Art Director: Gail Segerstrom
Editor: Jim Lewis
Associate Art Director: Rocco Alberico
Assistant Editor: Betsy Loredo
Contributing Editors: Marianne Meyer, Frederick R. Newman
V.P./Associate Publisher: Samuel O. J. Spivy
Advertising Director: Geoffrey C. Gropp
Advertising Manager: Myles Grossman
West Coast Advertising Manager: Bonnie Bates-Davidoff
Advertising Representatives: Lisa Hazen Davies, Rob Jiraneck, Storey Johnson
Production Manager: Bob Coddington
Promotion Director: Bart G. Boehlert
Circulation Director: Megan Lane
Circulation Assistant: Amy J. Eisenberg
Advertising Coordinator: Lyle P. Cogen
Accounting: Vinny Albanese, Karen Peycke, Evelyn Pons
Administrative Assistants: Diane Nesin, Nancy A. Helman, Debora Newberger
For Henson Associates
Vice President of Publishing: Jane Leventhal
Senior Editor: Louise Gikow
Administrative Editor: Jennifer Rinkerman
Editorial Assistant: Bonnie Weir
Creative Consultant: Michael K. Frith
Muppet Photo Studio: Mary Strieff, Barbara Davis, Danielle Obinger
Art Director: Lauren Attinello
Associate Art Director: Lyndon Mosse
Chief Photographer: John E. Barrett
Photo Assistant: Christie Sherman
List of issues with volume information
- Muppet Magazine issue 1 - Volume 1, Number 1 - Winter 1983
- Muppet Magazine issue 2 - Volume 1, Number 2 - Spring 1983
- Muppet Magazine issue 3 - Volume 1, Number 3 - Summer 1983
- Muppet Magazine issue 4 - Volume 1, Number 4 - Fall 1983
- Muppet Magazine issue 5 - Volume 2, Number 1 - Winter 1984
- Muppet Magazine issue 6 - Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1984
- Muppet Magazine issue 7 - Volume 2, Number 3 - Summer 1984
- Muppet Magazine issue 8 - Volume 2, Number 4 - Fall 1984
- Muppet Magazine issue 9 - Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1985
- Muppet Magazine issue 10 - Volume 3, Number 2 - Spring 1985
- Muppet Magazine issue 11 - Volume 3, Number 3 - Summer 1985
- Muppet Magazine issue 12 - Volume 3, Number 4 - Fall 1985
- Muppet Magazine issue 13 - Volume 4, Number 1 - Winter 1986
- Muppet Magazine issue 14 - Volume 4, Number 2 - Spring 1986
- Muppet Magazine issue 15 - Volume 4, Number 3 - Summer 1986
- Muppet Magazine issue 16 - Volume 4, Number 4 - Fall 1986
- Muppet Magazine issue 17 - Volume 5, Number 1 - Winter 1987
- Muppet Magazine issue 18 - Volume 5, Number 2 - Spring 1987
- Muppet Magazine issue 19 - Volume 5, Number 3 - Summer 1987
- Muppet Magazine issue 20 - Volume 5, Number 4 - Fall 1987
- Muppet Magazine issue 21 - Volume 6, Number 1 - Winter 1988
- Muppet Magazine issue 22 - Volume 6, Number 2 - Spring 1988
- Muppet Magazine issue 23 - Volume 6, Number 3 - Summer 1988
- Muppet Magazine issue 24 - Volume 6, Number 4 - Fall 1988
- Muppet Magazine issue 25 - Volume 7, Number 1 - Winter 1989
- Muppet Magazine issue 26 - Volume 7, Number 2 - Spring 1989
- Muppets! Muppets! Muppets! - The Best of Muppet Magazine - 1986