A slick magazine is a magazine printed on high-quality

glossy paper Coated paper (also known as enamel paper, gloss paper, and thin paper) is paper that has been coated by a mixture of materials or a polymer to impart certain qualities to the paper, including weight, surface gloss, smoothness, or reduced ink absor ...

. The term may have come into use in the 1930s, and was used to distinguish these magazines from

pulp magazines Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazine ...

, which were printed on cheap, rough paper. The slicks also attempted to appeal to a more elite audience. Examples of magazines regarded as slicks include '' Vanity Fair'', ''

Saturday Evening Post ''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely c ...

'', '' Better Homes and Gardens'', and '' Harper's''.Earle (2011), pp. 64−65.

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* {{Cite book, title = Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form, last = Earle, first = David M., publisher = Ashgate Publishing, year = 2009, isbn = 978-0-7546-6154-2, location = Farnham, England Magazine publishing