Natalie Goff, D Magazine
Wick Allison, who founded our cross-metro rival, D Magazine, and served as one of Dallas’s biggest advocates and local leaders, died late Tuesday, according to the publication.
Allison, who was 72, co-founded the monthly publication in 1974. He sold the title but subsequently moved to New York and worked on other publications, including Sport Magazine, Art and Antiques, and the National Review, of which he became the publisher in 1980. He eventually returned to D Magazine in 1995 and oversaw a period of exponential growth for the city publication.
If you feel the urge to take a deeper dive into who Allison was and what he meant to the community and local publishing, I recommend you hop over to D Magazine’s website to check out editor-in-chief Tim Rogers’s fantastic obituary (probably the one and only time we will ever link to their website).
As someone who came to Fort Worth Magazine after a couple years working with Allison at D, I can say that he was an intelligent visionary with a dichotomous knack for intimidating gazes and playful banter. While the few moments I spent speaking with him in the office elevator were frightening due to his status, there was also something disarming about him. It was clear he enjoyed both a challenging conversation and a good laugh.
He was one of a kind, and the Metroplex and publishing world mourn his loss.
Allison is survived by his wife and four daughters.
