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KILLER DORK SESSIONS 11509
Daisy Ln., Glenn Dale, MD 20769
(50c)
Another leading funzine from the
dork/geek underground, a genre de-
voted to outright nonsense rather
than the grave skate coverage you
find in many rags. It's good to see
zines in this class, including K.D.S
Geek Attack, Freezine, Rag Read,
Spunk, Crank, Joke and others,
don't take their scene or themselves
too seriously with tedious trades
about what "hardcore" means, but
preach instead how skating is just
having a good time. "The only fun
session is a dork session."
Too RAD FOR
MOMSDAD
DEAD FISH 2301 Prairie, Aurora, IL.
60506 (50c)
Once upon a time, a DEAD FISH,
"a fanzine," washed up on the shore
of our minds, so we exploited it and
made our own company." So says
the business card of Kyle Why and
Adam Lost-editors of Dead Fish
and owners of Extinct Productions,
the first attempt at a skatezine dis-
tribution company. Dead Fish con-
tinues to put out issues packed full
of miniature articles, and headline:
collages, still off-base and entertain-
ing. The zine distribution dea is a
good one, write to them, for more
info.
RAT BITE 18 High Pool Close, New-
ton, Swansea, SA34TV, UK
Strange but true rag from the boyz
in Wales. Radical photos, comix,
rumors, lies, and more are jammed
in to give Rat Bite a chaotic, dry,
hardcore feel.
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FEELIN
100% FUNZINE 4221 Mill Stream Ct.
VA Beach, VA 23452 (50e)
Good photos and a professional
attitude tend to take away from the
zine' quality of 100% Fun-giving it
more of a 'clone feel. Record and
product reviews, contest coverage,
skater profiles and too many ads.
FREEZINE 4197 Beach Lane, Mis-
sissauga, Ontario LSC 3V8 Canada
(around 50c)
Great skatezine from the Great
White North, packed with original
humorous ideas and dorkish at-
titudes. Monthly columns include,
The Perfect Way, dating tips:
Meals and Squeals, food column-
#2 features sequential photo meal.
Frozen Backside" and more and
more. One of the best.
SKATE ZONE Torrance, CA
Absolutely the biggest clone yet,
even headlines are stolen outright.
Good record reviews and quality
printing job, but lacking in the origi-
nality department.
MUTANTO
SKATERS
MR. CLEAN SHRED SHEET J. Hall,
10 Park Ln.. Lakewood, NY 14750
Clever coverage from Jeff Hall and
his band of worldwide friends. Mr.
Clean #B covers the Northeast.
scene plus prime correspondence
from West Germany, Turkey and
Cambodia (Florida), Good comica,
too.
GUT FEEL N 5130 Kaiser Ave.,
Santa Barbara, CA 93111
Gut Feel'n, an offshoot of Crippled
G-Raf, is one of the best looking
skatezines yet. Phread Conrad and
Jawhn Dettman bring it together with
a 40 weight high glossy cover, plenty
of halftones, stylized artwork and
good writing. Not your average xerox
collage. Collector's item material.
AMERICAN ANARCHY 213 S. Clay,
Hinsdale, IL 60521 (50)
Gehko, Squirrel, and Mick Powell
scratch and paste-up A.A. on a fairly
regular basis, and the issues get bet
ter every time, Music, comics, skate
scene, and all the other ingredients
for a generic skate rag are brought
together into a decent piece of read-
ing.
BOW TO NO MAN PO. Box 2433,
Scottsdale, AZ 85252 ($1.00) Distri-
buted by Deluxe Mail Order.
A creative conglomeration from
team J.FA. and assorted AZ inven-
tors, B.T.N.M. is definitely worth the
price of admission. Brian Brannon,
Don Redondo, Fear Smith and
others do an export job telling the
tale of local Scottsdalia, music, poli-
tics and fiction, all very well written.
Issue #2 contains "Skater's Prayer,"
Meat Puppets interview. "Skating
Ramps Can Be Fucked, "The Man,
Board, Jo, Hill and No Shoes and
plenty more... Once again Bow to
Management has come threw with
another issue, proving the impossi-
ble, which just proves that nothing
is impossible. In fact, nothing is im-
possible, because no matter what
you consider, there is something.
even if it's atomic particles. Anyway,
the idea behind this artistic achieve-
ment is that you can put anything in
a magazine, at least if it's called Bow
to No Man.
DEAD
FISH5
Prayater's
Our Alva who art in
skateboarding
Mad Dog be thy name.
Thy parks will come.
Aerials will be done in
Upland as they are in Spr-
ing Valley.
Give us this day our dai-
ly greenie,
And forgive us our
bongos as we forgive those
that bongo against us.
And lead us not into
Florida
But deliver us to
California.
For Dogtown is the
kingdom, the power and
the glory,
Forever and ever,
MEMES A
BOWL
12 BARS
Little Debbie
SMACK CAKES
PRESERVATIVES
Sick of hearing about nu-
for gut
about health and fal
about cheap, sweet, tast
Snacks!
Le Debbies are the
best buy at the supermar
You can get a box hig
enough to fill up it or is
huniary skaters for on!,
cou 154 And look what
you get to choose from:
BROWNIES, BARS, CAKES, AND
COOKIES! Befinitely FUN food!
She Skates A
50
OPEN
HING
ATHENS POCKET SKATE GUIDE
Athens, GA
Smallest yet, most locally biased.
and awfully funny, A.P.S.G. by Rik
and Scot stands apart from the
crowd. Trends, dreams, travel,
thoughts and gossip fill the one
page/twelve page flyer. Nice layout.
HICK TOWN Rt. 3 Box 233, Idaho
Falls, ID 83401 ($1.00)
Jason Guyer and Jim Kelso paste
together lots of small, hard to see
pictures, good chunks of writing and
interesting artwork and form a tight
rag covering the Idaho scene."
Doggy Style interview, short fiction,
Tahoe coverage and more. A bit over-
priced at a buck, but check it out
anyway.
STUF c/o American Bauhaus, 56290
S.Dort Hwy., Flint, MI 48507 (50e)
As fashion collides with trash,
things are looking better everyday.
Finally haute couture comes down
to the street. Now we're gonna have
some fun!!" Skot Werner's classy
STUF an art/fashion/skate/rock/re-
view mag that's sort of a xerox-rag
Vogue/Skate Fate, has got to be one
of the most original ideas for a zine
so far. Real fashion coverage, com-
ios, stolen into, skate shots, art dis-
plays, movie and band reviews, etc
are all brought together into a good
looking spread. There have been
hints that STUF will be no more,
hope this isn't true.
Mies
SKATE DEPRESSION c/o Bill!
Board, 909 Upton Ave., Springfield,
MI 49015
An offshoot of Bill Board's Depres-1
sion mag, Skate Depression is a
non-skate photo skatezine with well-
written scene reports, music cover-
age and more. The printing quality
is way above par, overall it's worth
checking out.... More people skate
and the tricks are getting more com-
plex and flashier Without the Walsh
Quarter-pipe and curb chunk we'd
still be in the crawling stage..."
SKATE THREAT 566 Northlawn CL.
Lancaster, PA 15213 (75c)
Good skate + music zine that
does a fine job of covering the eas
coast area on a regular basis. Qual-
ity writing, good pics and computer
typesetting give it a well thought-out
look. Skate Threat gets award for
most indignant about not making it
in the last zine column. When I forgot
to mention them in Feb. issue they i
whined. Real sorry guys.
TWISTED ACTION Berkeley, CA
A one-man job courtesy of Ken
Leiserson that rips. Excellent photos
of friends and pros, and clever writ-
ing make this one worthwhile. Only
one issue so far, we're looking for
ward to the next.
GRIM RIPPER 6525 SW 133 Drive.
Miami, FL 33156 (75)
With a distinct view of what is and
is not "hardcore" and therefore ac-
ceptable, Roger Bridges and his
gang put together a fine zine with a
defined attitude. Grim Ripper is a
well laid-out view of the southern
scene, music and skate. The 'I'm
OK, you're a poseur" rhetoric is a bit
thick, but not overwhelming and sin-
carely presented. Good coverage
and pics...check it out. Keep your
scene underground and whatever
you do, don't get sucked up into
thinking what they think about you
is true."
SKATE RAT 3157 Barkside Ct..
Chamblee, GA 30341 (a stamp or a
sixpack)
An all-skate Georgia booklet
printed in the questionable splendor
of blue-line paper. Skate Rat must
be friends with someone in the print-
ing business, since he makes his is-
sues out of the light-sensitive paper
used to proof negatives before print-
ing. (Maybe ours was just special.)
Issues continue to improve, maybe
one of these days he'll go ahead and
print the thing.
AMERICAN
GYARCIN
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DANGLING UNITS
STIPP LEGSED SEEP
GOOD ARTICLES
SLIGHT COMMENTARYS
JOKE 33231 Mesa Vista Dr.. Dana
Point, CA 92629 (2 stamps)
Another representative in the
dork/geek class. Joke is a joke and
very enjoyable reading. Every page
is a chaotic collage of headlines,
jokes, pictures and odd ideas. Put
this on your list of rags to read.
ROLL IN SKATE ZINE 6616 N. Lost
Dutchman Dr., Scottsdale, AZ 85253
(75)
First-rate job by Rob. M. Work
who's been pumping them out since
1983. Full skate, excellent photo-
graphy and writing and in-depth
coverage of Arizona skaters. "It
seems everyone is changing these
days in the skate world. Skate com-
panies are turning into skate em-
pires. It's just like the good old late
seventies, when everything went
from good to bad in a few months.
Will history hold through once.
again? That is the question. Beware
of those ty by night operations,
Wheelie Boards have yet to come
back."
STUF
RAG READ 1778 Summit St., Col-
umbus, OH 43201 (one stamp)
Pure satire and a sense of the ab-
surd make Eric Harrison's Rag Read
well worth checking out. Excellent
fake ads, interview with non-skater,
1080 air trick tip, and more. Raw
but funny.
THE
DORK ART
POCKET
ATHENSSE
I GAVE
UP SEX
The insse Stow
by RIK +Scor
AMEN.
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