K-Zone

K-Zone (commonly abbreviated as KZ or K-Z) is a magazine in Australia, New Zealand, The Philippines and Malaysia. It is aimed at children aged 8–16. It is published by Pacific Magazines and Summit Media in the Philippines.

Background

The magazine is run by Daniel Findlay, Editor. K-Zone has been published since 2000.

Each month, K-Zone features regular sections: Comics, Prank Patrol, GameZone, Jokes, Big Screen and more. The magazine also features the latest in music, TV, movies, books and DVDs. There are also temporary categories for special events, such as the Olympic Games, Australian Idol, Celebrity Idols, etc. In April 2005, K-Zone started the section 'GameZone'. It contains reviews, news and cheats about video games. Also, all of the competitions in K-Zone have a fair chance of play, with little or no competitions relying solely upon luck itself. In the October 2006 issue the magazine changed its style and logo. This also occurred in the January 2007 issue of the Philippine edition.

K-Zone's sister magazine is Total Girl, both sharing similarities such as competitions and attached freebies.

Books

The K-Zone staff also publishes books that are also for ages 7+ and each of them are titled as:

ALMANAC Books - is a book that contains facts. Some Filipinos complained about the book because the pages are easily torn from the book.

BOREDOM BUSTERS Books - is a book that contains activities that readers can do.

Philippine Edition

The Philippine edition of K-Zone was first released in October 2002 and is published by Summit Media.

The content of the Philippine Edition is almost remarkably the same as the Australian version but more on gaming, anime, international and local celebrities. Changes will show upon every issue collected by the collector.

In mid-July 2004, K-Zone Philippines launched a forum called K-Zone Headquarters (KHQ for short), an online forum for readers of the magazine. The forum is used to discuss the content for every issue of the magazine and contribute various content for the magazine.

As of May 8, 2010, KHQ experienced database error, as well as other website forums from Summit Media. However, no word was heard from the K-Zone staff about what date it would be fixed. But the problem was fixed on May 11, 2010 as of the afternoon.

The Philippine K-Zone contains the following (as of 2012–present):

• Your Zone – Where the readers can send drawings, tweets, text messages, and also online messages.
• Ultimate Showdown – Where readers or staff play a game or a challenge. """REMOVED"""
• Calendar – Where events, and birthdays of celebrities and also the readers are listed.
• KNN – A page of information relating places, events and other stuff.
• The Heat List – A top ten hits after or before the monthly issue.
• Game Zone - Where readers can check out brand new games or old games.
• Art Fart - Where readers can learn how to draw different characters.
• Animajor - Is a section which contains different anime shows.
• Last Laugh - A section which contains jokes from different people and pranks to do.
• Flick Pick - Where readers can read movie updates.
• Foldabots - Where readers can rip out a page and make mini-figures.
• Comics - A section where readers can read comics which features (the current comics that are being shown in the newest layout of K-Zone) Foldabots, K-Zone in... and Batrisha.
• Tune in – Contains episodes of cartoons, new releases of CD albums, new release DVDs and new release books.
• Superhero Spotlight/Supervillain Spotlight - Features about superheroes and villains and their facts about them.
• Toy Chest - Contains reviews about new toys.
• Couch Tater - A section that contains about new shows and episodes. Others may contain mini-games.
• The Terror Tribune - Contains scary stories, happenings around the world, and experiences by their K-Zone crew.

Many other pages contain information on celebrities, anime and many more. On their August 2010 issue, K-Zone went 3-D. The magazine also has its own "robot-mascot", called K-LEB (K-Zone's Loopy Experimental 'Bot), who appears in his own comics in the Comic Section of the magazine. On the January 2012 issue, K-LEB was altered and is now called K-LEB 2.0. There are other robots; they are: KAYLA who has a crush on K-LEB, EVIL K-LEB who is the nemesis of K-LEB, CHEESE-LEB who is a cheese K-LEB and MINI-LEB who is K-LEB's sidekick.

Staff

Philippines

• Editor in Chief – Maggie M. Adan
• Art Director – Ramona R. Gonzalez
• Managing Editor – Lana Chan
• Creative Editor – Grace R. Marcellana
• Associate Section Editor - Karen Mae de Vera
• Associate Features Editor - Chris Martin Alarcon
• Editorial Assistant – Wrenz Carlo Serrano
• K-Zone Kid Crew
  • Karl Ahumada
  • Cecila Castro
  • Kyle Go
  • Basil Jamito
  • Carlos Lopez
  • Alyssa Manuel
  • Enzo Monsod
  • Nicolas Tittel

(Lio S. Mangubat, the Associate Editor, left K-Zone Philippines. His last edited K-Zone Magazine is the November 2011 issue.)

External links

• K-Zone Australia
• K-Zone Philippines
• KHQ

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