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250 251 <!-- AddThis Button END --> 252 </div> 253 </header> 254 255 <div class="entry-content"> 256 <div id="attachment_45486" style="width: 390px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.thesnipenews.com/about-the-snipe-news/attachment/snipelogo-resized/" rel="attachment wp-att-45486"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-45486" class="size-large wp-image-45486" title="Snipelogo resized" src="https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Snipelogo-resized-380x306.jpg" alt="spacegirl and alien illustration for The Snipe News" width="380" height="306" srcset="https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Snipelogo-resized-380x306.jpg 380w, https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Snipelogo-resized-240x193.jpg 240w, https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Snipelogo-resized.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-45486" class="wp-caption-text">Illustration by Jeremy Couturier</p></div> 257<h2>About The Snipe – Movies, Music, Comics and Books</h2> 258<p>Independent and irreverent, The Snipe News (formerly Guttersnipe) is a Vancouver-based online magazine covering music, movies, books and comics, with occasional forays into food, fashion and video games. We like to find the silly, fun and sexy in pop culture, with a special emphasis on concert and movie reviews, concert photos, comic book movies, graphic novels, Canadian culture, and the intersection between mainstream and the underground. We pride ourselves on having one of the best concert photo sections on the Internet. Other special features unique to the site include Shoe Star of the Week and entertainment news digests for movies, music, and comics.</p> 259<p><strong>Shawn Conner</strong>, editor/publisher: A full-time freelance journalist, Shawn began publishing The Snipe News first as a blog and then as an online magazine called <em>Guttersnipe</em>. He currently divides his time between freelance writing, social media and marketing consulting and editing/publishing The Snipe News. His work has appeared in <em>The Georgia Straight</em>, the <em>Vancouver Sun</em>, the <em>Globe and Mail</em>, and many more publications.</p> 260<p>Other contributors: literally hundreds of people have contributed, both on a one-off and regular basis, to <em>The Snipe</em> since its inception. Our writers and photographers come from all over North America, including Seattle, Toronto, Montreal, and Winnipeg. Some of the writers who have written for the site include <strong>Adrian Mack</strong>, <strong>Michael Kissinger</strong>, <strong>Steve Burgess</strong> and <strong>Robin Bougie</strong>. We’ve also run galleries by professional photographers such as <strong>Melissa Skoda</strong>, <strong>Christopher Edmonstone</strong> and <strong>Tamara Lee</strong>. Cartoonists <strong>Evan Larson</strong> and <strong>DJ Bryant</strong> have contributed illustrations to the site.</p> 261<p class="large"><a href="https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bookgirl1.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-26468" title="bookgirl1" src="https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bookgirl1-e1295891973818-380x301.jpg" alt="" width="380" height="301" srcset="https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bookgirl1-e1295891973818-380x301.jpg 380w, https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bookgirl1-e1295891973818.jpg 630w" sizes="(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px" /></a></p> 262<p><a href="https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/thesnipefinalweb.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-37881" title="thesnipefinalweb" src="https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/thesnipefinalweb-380x321.jpg" alt="The Snipe illustration by DJ Bryant" width="380" height="321" srcset="https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/thesnipefinalweb-380x321.jpg 380w, https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/thesnipefinalweb-240x203.jpg 240w, https://www.thesnipenews.com/thegutter/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/thesnipefinalweb.jpg 853w" sizes="(max-width: 380px) 100v
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