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.
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.
Zine: Anarchist Monthly
Issue: 2
Created by: Aaron Pfendler
Format: 8 1/2" x 11"
Where: Forestport, NY
When: 1988
Anarchist Monthly number two is packed with good stuff – an interview with Mark Lewman, comics/art and a fair amount of Pfendler prose.
Notes: I love the zines from back in the day that had the receiver's address on the back page of the zine with stamp and postmark. Not only does it carbon copy the zine as far as age, but there's usually hand-scribbled notes to whoever is receiving the zine that postal workers would inevitably read.
Zine: Anarchist Monthly
Issue: unknown
Created by: Aaron Pfendler
Format: 8 1/2" x 11"
Where: Forestport, NY
When: unknown
Aaron Pfendler's Anarchist Monthly was consistently one of my favorite zines, and it's the title I have the most copies of in my collection. Pfendler and I traded content for a couple of years, and there's even an interview with me in issue 12. I'm not sure which issue this is, but I do have 2-12, so it's somewhere after 12 I'd imagine.
Notes: Vital Force zine address in this issue, probably how I started trading zines with Mike Ging in Westchester, PA.
