Three years ago, when the first digital edition of MAN’S WORLD (“Globo Uomo”) launched, I had no idea of the reception this new magazine would receive, or the longevity it would display.

To me, it was just a bit of fun. Maybe a proof of concept—that the men’s magazine could be resurrected and made relevant again for the 21st century — but nothing much more than that. I thought there would possibly be a second issue and that would be it.

I was just an anonymous Twitter poster who spent his time posting about raw eggs. I’m not sure I even had 10,000 followers. More importantly, perhaps, I had absolutely no experience whatsoever of the business of producing a magazine. Of course I’d written essays and articles in my various guises other than the Raw Egg Nationalist, but I’d never designed a magazine cover, formatted a magazine page, solicited for adverts (or anything else, thank you very much!) or done any of the myriad things that make a magazine a magazine.

It was a sharp learning curve, and I’d be the first to admit I made mistakes, and yet— here we are, three years and 12 issues later, with a beautiful printed men’s magazine. So, little children, the moral of the story is: don’t let your dreams be memes.

..of course. The dozens of wonderful contributors deserve my undying thanks for their essays, stories and features. The good people at Passage Press, especially young master Lomez, have provided invaluable expertise, experience, contacts and the thing that makes all manner of things possible—moolah. I believe this will be an incredibly fruitful collaboration, one that will last years and help to redefine the dissident sphere as we know it.

This is just the beginning. The time has come!