Bad Mags Volume
2
Tom Brinkmann
Headpress 2009
“Hippie Witness
Confesses... Sharon Tate Gave Manson An Hour of Love For Drugs” touts the cover
with a photo of Sharon Tate superimposed next to Manson, made to look as if
they are in the same photograph”.....
Bad Mags is the result of a terrible
obsession, Tom Brinkmann loves bad mags. Not just your average naughty
magazines, but the strangest, sleaziest, weirdest and most bizarre periodicals
ever published. His obsession has led to an astounding website and the release
of Bad Mags (Volume 1) which introduced us to the world of these outré
publications. It sold extremely well, indeed reaching over the 10,000 copies
mark in the US alone.
Bad Mags, however, is really quite a
ground breaking series, it is not only a fascinating read for those interested
in unusual sub cultures and peculiar literature but documents history from
another perspective. You see popular obsessions, discourses which have been
swept under the carpet and cultures you never knew existed.
It offers provides an excellent guide for
collectors, buyers and sellers. You buy another magazine on Ebay without
checking these books first !
Volume Two takes us further into the underbelly
of publishing, covering some quite outrageous counter culture territory from hippies
to outlaw bikers, Satanists to punks ! There are also special focus chapters on
Sharon Tate and Charles Manson. There is also a short story and magazines by Ed
Wood and a article by Frank Leonard reminiscing about working at Pendulum.
This is a visually compelling book
overflowing with rare photos, hundreds and hundreds of magazine cover
reproductions and lots of truly mind bending extracts. Along the way you learn
about the creators, publishers and writers of this strange underworld of Bad
Mags.
You can enter Tom’s world, if you dare, at
http://badmags.com/
Reviews
appear on the Synergy website with a single cover image. In the digital and
print edition, reviews appear with multiple images. We recommend you download the free digital edition (or buy the print edition) to get the most from Synergy Magazine.
This
review will appear in Volume 2 No.4
(2009) of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.
If
you came to this page directly (and missed our menu), click here
to go to the front page of Synergy Magazine Website or click the following
link http://www.synergy-magazine.com