The Twilight Zine

The Twilight Zine.

Zine: The Twilight Zine
Issue: Unknown
Created by: Esmann
Format: 8 1/2" x 11"
Where: Due West, SC
When: Unknown

A cool rag that I don't know much about. The one copy I have is an art-heavy, high-contrast, great-layout prototypical skate zine with some Andy Zalan and Alberto Kroeger art and a few good stories. 

Notes: The pigs on the cover remind me of something else, another piece of art, but I can't place it.

Just Another Stupid Zine

Just Another Stupid Zine.

Zine: Just Another Stupid Zine
Issue: Unknown
Created by: Unknown
Format: 8 1/2" x 11" full-page
Where: Fort Worth, TX
When: 1991

I remember absolutely nothing about this zine. I have no idea who created it, but it's from 1991, so I can imagine it was created by someone I'd corresponded with or traded zines with in the few prior years. There's a full-on Alberto Kroeger page with some of his usual artistic brilliance. The Robert Brown: A Man Of Few Words page is gold. 

Notes: This zine was copied with full 8 1/2" x 11" pages, stapled at the far left side. No half-fold letter paper here. 

Disobedience #7/8

Disobedience #7/8.

Zine: Disobedience
Issue: 7/8
Created by: Alberto Kroeger, Bryan Wendzel
Format: 8 1/2" x 11"
Where: Boulder, CO
When: 1989

An underused concept in making zines, this issue of Disobedience is like a split 7" by your two favorite bands. Kroeger does issue seven as the first half of the zine, Wendzel does the flip side as issue eight. I only have issue five and this one... I wish I had more.

Notes: I did rotate the second half of the zine in Photoshop so you wouldn't have to turn your computer upside-down. Kroeger's current work and zine Girl Greaser are available at Backward Messages.

Disobedience #5

Disobedience #5.

Zine: Disobedience
Issue: 5
Created by: Alberto Kroeger, Bryan Wendzel
Format: 8 1/2" x 11"
Where: Boulder, CO
When: 1989

Disobedience was one of those prototypical zines that everyone wanted to make, that everyone wanted to look like, that everyone wanted to feel like. It's some serious badass cut-and-paste. Great layouts, incredible use of type and a cool handwriting style – not to mention Kroeger's artistic stylings – made Disobedience one of the legendary zines of the late 80s. This issue has a cool opening contents page and it just gets better. 

Notes: This was my first introduction to Alberto Kroeger. Who knew that 25 years later, we'd meet up for Mexican food in Austin, Texas and swap boxes of old zines?

Anarchist Monthly #12

Anarchist Monthly #12.

Zine: Anarchist Monthly
Issue: 12
Created by: Aaron Pfendler
Format: 8 1/2" x 11"
Where: Forestport, NY
When: 1990

This is the last issue I've got for you of Aaron Pfendler's Anarchist Monthly. More cool Alberto Kroeger art, a fair amount of freestyle photos, an interview and photos with me and my favorite skateboard of all time (and an existential comic I drew), an amazing ad for the Aggroman video, and a really nice scene check on Puerto Rico. Pfendler's incredible diversity (and profound productivity) was always why I loved regularly getting his zines in the mail.

Notes: If anyone knows of AP's whereabouts or contact info, I'd love to know.

Anarchist Monthly #4

Anarchist Monthly #4.

Zine: Anarchist Monthly
Issue: 4
Created by: Aaron Pfendler
Format: 8 1/2" x 11"
Where: Forestport, NY
When: 1988

I used the second page of issue four of Anarchist Monthly as the cover image, because AP sent this one with a protective mailer on the outside. Read as: blank cover and back with an address. It was around issue four where I started accumulating a prodigious number of Anarchist Monthly stickers, as Aaron and I were sending stuff back and forth almost monthly. This issue has another Alberto Kroeger work, a Marty Schlesinger interview, some good old fashioned scrapbooking cut and paste, and a page listing for the first Heins/Schierling collaboration, Monkey Meets the Blowtorch. There's a shot of me grunting out as much of a method air as I could muster off of side of our junk launch ramp (black O.G. Powell Tommy Guererro, neon green rails, Tracker trucks, Powell freestyle wheels) and an image I sent of a bar-split boomerang by Jeff from Topeka, shot at the Rick Allison Western Auto show in Emporia. 

Notes: I swear there's a Rockville BMX sticker on that Tommy Guerrero. 

Anarchist Monthly #3

Anarchist Monthly #3.

Zine: Anarchist Monthly
Issue: 3
Created by: Aaron Pfendler
Format: 8 1/2" x 11"
Where: Forestport, NY
When: 1988

The early issues of AM were a lot of freeform loose layout with typewriter text and a lot of handwritten goods. This tight and tidy issue has a Chris Lashua interview, a little bit of bike, a little bit of skate, and an interview/artwork with Alberto Kroeger.

Notes: This is the first time I remember seeing Alberto's work.