Slick (magazine format)

A woman reading a "slick" magazine

A slick magazine is a magazine printed on smooth, high-quality glossy paper.[1] The term may have come into use in the 1930s, and was used to distinguish these magazines from pulp magazines, which were printed on cheap, rough-textured paper. The slicks also attempted to appeal to a more select audience. Examples of magazines regarded as slicks include Vanity Fair, Saturday Evening Post, Better Homes and Gardens, and Harper's.[2]

Notes

1. "How to buy paper for magazines". holmen.com. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
2. Earle (2011), pp. 64−65.

References

• Earle, David M. (2009). Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-6154-2.