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A look back at Elska in 2021
Reflecting on a year's worth of our local boys and local stories
As we approach the end of another year, I'd like to take the time to reflect on the past year of Elska content, and also to give a few stats and 'awards' surrounding this year's Elska issues.
What year was better in general, 2020 or 2021? I guess for me 2021 was better, if at least because I had the fortune to travel rather a lot, taking advantage of vaccination privileges in various countries, and having done my travels before the latest variant arrived and sparked fresh regulations and lockdowns. A good portion of 2021’s travel however will reflect Elska issues to be released in 2022 — the 2021 releases were based on content gathered during 2020, when travel restrictions were the most severe and vaccines weren't yet available. Because of the difficulty with travelling, this meant that two of Elska's six annual issues in 2021 ended up being re-releases of past issues (Elska Lisbon and Elska Toronto). Although I did my best to make these feel new by adding lots of previously unpublished content from those cities, I fear that they still didn't quite give the excitement of a truly new issue. That said, the original release of Elska Toronto sold so poorly that for many it felt brand new. Similarly the new version of Elska Lisbon caught much more attention than it did in the past.
