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Single page ad for Fend. It says it was coming out
November 6th 1995. John Marks from The Kingpins and The Abortions
made them. By far one of the best zines around at the time.
His art is amazing and he'd put anything you gave him in there.
Unfortunately I do not have #1. Only 20 were made, so I may not
have ever gotten one. Or it got lost in the last 13 years.
(Shit, has it been that long?!) I think he did most of the work on
these in art class our senior year. |
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Fend #2. December 1996 (?) Highlights include an
article by Kim Daniels complaining about substance abusers, Brad from
The Abortions telling you to eat quarter pounders and drink PBR, and
John Denning telling you how to get a free soda from Burger King.
Kim started abusing substances himself a year later, Brad disappeared
off the face of the earth, and Burger King on the ped mall is closed. In
my opinion, the highlight is an article from the late Matt Davis about
assholes in college and the world in general. Miss ya Matt. |
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Fend #3 January 1996. On page 2 John said "1996
will be a year full of fuked up kids, fukin shit up." I guess
he was right in a way. A few pages later he said that punk was
dead and there was no scene on Iowa City. At least there were
bands to see back then! John Denning bitches about the cops, which
I can identify with, Kim talks about friendships, and more kids complain
about growing up. |
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Fend #4 May 1996 (?) This issue was mostly writings
by John. He writes about a trip to Minneapolis and talks a bit
about what The Abortions were up to. He seemed to really like
Minneapolis, which is probably why he moved there. One thing that
kinda bums me out, he mentions that he wanted to do an interview with
The Stereotypes, but he didn't have time. "Maybe next
issue" he says. The next issue never happened as far as I
know. |
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Generation Defect. A single page zine by John
Marks. I don't know if there were any more than this one.
The art is so amazing that I had to post 2 pictures. |
