Item sets

• Lookout Magazine
  Lookout magazine started as a xeroxed community newsletter when Lawrence Livermore lived on Spy Rock, just a few miles north of Layonville, CA. Spy Rock was part of a constellation of locales across Mendocino and Humbdolt County that, since the late 1960s, had become increasingly popular among artists, hippies, and back-to-the-landers. Initially crafted in his solar-powered home, not far from the Iron Peak Lookout Tower, from which the magazine takes its name, the magazine engaged with local politics and tackled issues as diverse as environmental issues and countercultural philosophy. Over the years, following Livermore’s involvement with the Gilman Street Project in Berkeley and the punk-rock scene that loomed around it, Lookout’s focus shifted to music, which resulted in finding a whole new audience in the Bay Area and across the United States, especially among Maximum Rocknroll readers.
• Tales from the Rat House
  Tales from the Rat House was a publication written for punks with a bent towards left wing politics and humor. The principle editors were Joe Britz, Larry Livermore, and David Hayes who were housemates in the so called “Rat House" in San Francisco. There was close affiliations with the band M.D.C. who once played on the Rat House roof to protest the motorcade of the Pope. Both Larry and David would work closely together on Maximum Rocknroll, the Gilman Street Project, and co-founded Lookout Records.
• Twisted Image
  Twisted Image was a zine edited by Ace Backwords (and later co-edited with Bruce N. Duncan and Mary Mayhem) between 1982 and 1994. The early issues of the zine (with a circulation between 5,000 and 10,000) explore different aspects of the punk rock youth culture that was increasingly making its way across the San Francisco Bay Area. They feature record reviews, interviews, visual arts, comics, and sarcastic critiques of the political discourses of the time. In 1987, Ace changed the format of the zine from a tabloid to a monthly xeroxed newsletter mostly focused on comics that he continued publishing until 1994 (with a circulation of 500 copies).
• Puddle
  Puddle was a personal zine mostly written, edited and designed by Chris Appelgren, from 1988 to 1994, covering topics such as music, the Humboldt County and San Francisco punk communities, featuring contributions from Lawrence Livermore, Abe Ringstaff, Theo Robinson, and Robert Eggplant, among others. Appelgren – also known as Chrisser and Chris Appelcore – worked for Lookout Records in several capacities starting in 1988, eventually graduating to owner and president in 1997, when Livermore and Patrick Hynes left the label. Appelgren has created original artwork for many East Bay bands (including Blatz, Green Day, Screeching Weasel, Mr. T Experience, and The Queers) and performed as a musician in The Potatomen, The Lefties, The Pattern, The PeeChees, and Bumblescrump.
• Berkeley Sucks
  Berkeley Sucks was a zine started in 1989 in Berkeley, CA. It mainly focused on the East Bay Punk scene that revolved around the Gilman Street Project. The most active editors were Jesse Townley (also known as Jesse Luscious and formerly of Philly Zine) and Ken Wisconsin. Crude art, music reviews and commentary was what made up the content of the four issues of this zine. Jesse Luscious was also a singer with the band Blatz that also featured fellow zinester Robert Eggplant, publisher of Absolutely Zippo, on guitar, poet Anna Joy Springer, Anna Lalania, and Marshall Stax.
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