International QL Report

In May 1991, Bob Dyl of Seacoast Services in Rhode Island, USA, started up the International QL Report, with the proud aim of presenting QL users worldwide with a new type of newsletter, one that would endeavour to inform them of the many new and exciting developments in the QL world as they happened, "without the normal four to six month time lag."

IQLR started off as a ten page newsletter, intended to be published six times per year. By its second issue it was already proclaiming it was being read in countries as diverse as Australia, Belize, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the USA. By the second volume it had grown into a 40+ page magazine and quickly established itself as a leading QL magazine of the time.

As its name implied, International QL Report featured articles from contributors worldwide, and in those days when email was not as commonly used by QLers as now, Bob Dyl must have run up some horrendous phone bills as he contacted his contributors worldwide!

With the demise of QL World in 1993/4 and IQLR's merger with QReview magazine in July 1995, IQLR had by then established itself as the major QL magazine of the day and continued until ill health forced publisher and editor Bob Dyl to give up in early 1996.