Own a piece of underground print history with the final issue of Detroit’s premier music, comix, and culture zine.

Celebrated for its striking graphic design, unapologetic attitude, and absolute disregard for sacred cows, Motorbooty Magazine presents the peak era of late-90s counterculture journalism. Founded by Mark Dancey and Danny Plotnick, this cult fanzine perfectly blends raw Detroit rock aesthetics, underground comix, and relentless, needling satire.

Issue #9 highlights:

• Mike Rubin’s and Mark Dancey’s comics essay on Insane Clown Posse, Down With The Clowns, first published in SPIN magazine; and their follow-up comic Tears of A Clown, describing the vitriolic backlash against the SPIN piece.
• More comics drawn by Dancey, including Perfect Harmony: The Tragic Saga of the Louvin Brothers; The Motorbooty Illustrated History of Pants; and other strips and illustrations.
• Comics by local and national alternative cartoonists, including Glenn Barr, Terry Laban, Mary Fleener, Terry Colon, Lloyd Dangle, and Jim Blanchard.
• “Classroom-clown”-style reviews, music exposés, a raucous letters section, and more.

Publisher / Origin: Motorbooty (Detroit / Ann Arbor, MI)
Publication Year: 1999 (Final Issue of the 9-run series)
Format: Softcover / Quarto Zine Format
Genre: Alternative Music Journalism, Underground Comix, Humor

Collector’s Note: This is a highly sought-after vintage item. Because only nine issues were ever produced between 1987 and 1999, Issue #9 marks the definitive closing chapter of one of the most brilliant and visually distinctive alternative zines in American subculture.

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