Advice on magazine size

I suppose this could fit under the "etc" mentioned in the forum description.

So some friends and I have a little fan-zine we call MaximumWeeaboo, and we have aspirations to be an actual magazine of some kind. Most fan-zines are the full-sized magazines, but our initial issues have been made by folding a normal 8.5x11 sheet of paper in half. This is somewhat limiting in terms of article length and picture content, though, so we've been contemplating using a larger size, possibly by folding a larger 11x17 sheet of paper in half. What would you see as a better magazine size?

Camp Wordforge --> The Workshop

Uh, Lanz, I think this was a parody, meant to work best in Camp Wordforge.

But that would risk sacrilege and Outrage!!!!11!

Parody threads are generally moved to the Red Room, regardless of where they were originally posted.

they must be manga sized, and I'll need a 35 page section to dissect Love Hina

Are you seriously interested or is this just for the parody value? If you are interested in the topic, I'll answer, because editing, designing and project-managing magazines was a big part of my job for several years.

Mostly this was meant as a parody thread. It is based somewhat in fact, as we are actually considering moving up to the 7x8.5 size, but we've been too lazy to actually make physical copies for a while now anyway.