CTT Magazine

It was the worst of times, it was the End Of Times.

Welcome to the Cane Toad Times Magazine 2024.

Well, you had it coming, so here it is. All the info you need to survive the coming apocalypses.

Between 1977 and 1990, the Cane Toad Times was the Eccentric Voice that countered the conservative authoritarianism of the Bjelke-Petersen regime with biting satire, irreverent cartoons, literary experiments and gutter journalism. Some survivors, and a few new friends, have been stirred by the many threats to humanity's continued existence on Earth to bring out the Cane Toad END Times edition with the same weird humour and inquisitive eye. It is the Apocalypse but not as you have seen it before. Plus, at no extra charge, the BatShit Crazy(TM) conspiracy theory magazine is included.

But as it quite hasn’t happened yet, the magazine that is, and to be perfectly honest, no one is getting paid a single cent, not even worthless crypto, so any day now we might all say, this is too hard, pull the doonah over our collective heads and avoid all the people who have contributed time, money and some funny stuff to this project.

But we're not going to do that because we're the Cane Toad Times and we published 22 issues in the 70s and 80s when Special Branch, the Drug Squad and Task Force were poking their heavily-armed, Hawaiian-shirted selves into everyone's business. Particularly if your business was bringing down the neo-Fascist, well at least highly authoritarian, government of Queensland. We saw off Joh and that's got to count for something is this crazy world.

To get back to now. Many highly talented people, and the usual coterie of ranting ideologues, have offered their words and graphics. It has been laid out and gone to print: the CTT End Of Times edition (from the front) and the Batshit Crazy magazine (from the back) with conspiracy theories, insane right-wing politics and some serious prepping advice.

It will be an old-school, printed magazine with nothing on the web except the means to buy the paper version and some very interesting t-shirts and other merch. And some history and things that were too big to put in the mag... and stuff that arrives too late but is still kind of good. It will be A4 size with 116 pages of funny, crazy stuff and a great read for summer.

We aim to have the magazine for sale in stores and online sometime in October in time for you to buy one for yourself and many more as gifts in the forthcoming festive season (that is Christmas for you non-believers).

Launches are planned: in Sydney at the Strawberry Hotel, Surry Hills, Saturday 19 October 4-6pm, Book here. And in Brisbane at Avid Reader Bookshop, West End 2.30 for 3-4pm Sunday, 3 November. Book here.

And while you’re at it, our new line of genuine Lifestyle Accessories is now online. You won’t find anything like them anywhere else, honest.

Well we certainly hope so, as we live in the uncertain end times, which quite frankly, could go on for while yet.

You can pre-order your copy of the Cane Toad Times on this website now.