No Magazine #1, edited by Bruce Kalberg and Michael Gira, 1978, tabloid first issue of this iconic Los Angeles quarterly, folded with age-toning, 34 pages, oversized, a few small tears on top edges, VG overall, features X interview, Pandora interview, Plugz, Go-Gos, LAFMS advert, French performance artist Gina Pane and others. Scarce![A4.5rbr]<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce Kalberg started NO MAG in 1978 with Michael Gira, a friend from Otis College of Art and Design, who left for New York after several issues to form the early noise band the Swans. Aside from the requisite profiles of X, Fear, the Germs, Johanna Went, Phranc, Suicidal Tendencies, ad gloriam, this sub-Slash tabloid fanzine amply captured the corrosive admixture of medical atrocities, sexual pathology, gallows humor and political anarchy endemic to the times: autopsy photos; profiles of working dominatrixes; textbook entries on female circumcision and how to synthesize heroin from morphine; cartoons of \u201cNancy Reagan\u2019s favorite color\u201d (bloody Tampaxes); and house ads featuring photos of progressive gum disease, with the caption, \u201cYou liked our smile, now catch our disease\u201d \u2014 what Kalberg once called \u201cthe old clich\u00e9 of shit-and-guts imagery\u201d by which to wage war on polite society.<\/p>\n
“It also frequently bordered on the pornographic \u2014 Susanna Hoffs topless, Belinda Carlisle naked under tights, Germs producer Geza X with his cock in his hand, the Cramps\u2019 Brian Gregory with a semi-erection and a python, and the irrepressible El Duce shitting on a plate are a fair representation\u2014forcing him to manufacture it in San Francisco, where printers are apparently more tolerant.”<\/p>\n
-Los Angeles Weekly <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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