Acta Brutusica is probably the strangest journal published at Jagiellonian University ever. Unlike its complex, intricate, tricky, baffling, abstruse, recondite, puzzling, obscure, annoying, hard, fatiguing, exhausting, laborious, arduous, strenuous, sober, staid, demure, sedate, profound, weighty, earnest, serious, solemn, grave, dull, dreary, fatuous, boring, distractive, repulsive, pressing and depressing counterparts as ApJ, AA, MNRAS and so on, AB is simplex, plain, clear, manifest, gentle, spontaneous, perceptible, apparent, readable, understandable, comprehensible, interesting, fascinating, engaging, restful, soothing, entertaining, amusing, funny, jocular, comical, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, absurd, ridiculous, diverting, cheering, pleasing, pleasant, enjoyable, delightful, enchanting, waggish, brilliant, ingenious, adroit, shrewd, satiric, lampooning, jocose, excellent and attractive.
A typical scientist usually reads only one or two articles in ApJ: just a few pages in a volume thick as a brick. Another wise man reads some other pages, maybe the next person browses an paper and stares a while at a flourishy figure, but finally a majority of the volume remains intact. This is not our case: people read Acta Brutusica from the first to the last page. Every single word in this journal is perceived, mocked and then -- thoroughly discussed.
The journal has appeared to be a tremendous success with many enthusiastic opinions from both the critics and from constantly growing circle of readers from Poland and from abroad. This was possible due to the excellent quality of published papers, many of which had rather unusual form such as poem, drama, short story.
Acta Brutusica is published irregularly, just while the Editorial Staff feels like doing it. That means the new issue is in print a month or two or six or whenever after the previous one. You never know. The size of circulation is usually 50 copies. The editor-in-chief is Brutus herself.
MG, May 3, 1995