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1. Factual Research.
Felix Stanton

2. Kill your pet puppy
This fanzine ran for six issues from 1979 to 1983.
It was started by Tony D, (founder of the punk fanzine Ripped And Torn) The first issue was
made in a small room squatted by 8 people with no bathroom or running water, they
decided on the name Kill Your Pet Puppy, this was the reasoning behind the name, “The
words ‘Kill Your Pet Puppy’ are not about harming animals, they are about stripping away
false and externally imposed responsibilities in order to see through the illusion of society’s
conformist ‘real life’ that pins down, stifles and suffocates us.” The fanzine was finished
and ready to be printed in time for the Adam And The Ants new years eve concert in Dec
1979. Joly of Better Badges agreed to print the new publication and 500 copies where
made to bring and sell at the concert, 500 where sold.
The context behind the time this fanzine was made is very important, it was at the time
when Thatcher was elected and being punk meant more than just a style it was a way of
not conforming and going against everything the government and society tells you to do,
this fanzine shows that in every way, the writing the images the layout and the excessive
use of profanity shows that this is not for your everyday person. At the time punkzines
where already big and as one of the more popular ones KYPP really stands out with how
well it is made and how good it looks. I want to adopt a lot of the styles used in this when I
make my fanzine as I want mine to be like a bit of a throw back to the 70s and the alt
communities that existed back then. I want to try and use the same random layout used in
KYPP where text can be on its side, upside down, anywhere on the screen where you
wouldn’t expect it I think the chaotic look really makes it fun to read and aesthetically
pleasing to look at. I also want to add a lot of hand drawn and written elements, this is
what really makes it a punk fanzine the weird fonts they have created and disturbing
imagery makes it look incredibly different to any normal magazine or fanzine and gives it a
lot of character

3. Absolutely zippo
Black market magazine
Chainsaw fanzine
Lobotomy
Lights go out
Sniffin glue
Here are some popular punk fanzines
They all have similarities in the way there image and text is
presented, with a lot of hand drawn images, cut out
photographs and chaotic placement of text.

4. Context, style, techniques, content.
Link it back to your project. Why are you
looking at this? What are you learning from
it? How will it affect your project?
The sniffin glue fanzine has a wide variety of styles in
its front covers which I like and plan to use. Some of
their covers are extremely simplistic like the first
image showing the title, the name of 2 bands and
another segment titled punk reviews. There are no
photos or cut and stick text just a plain piece of paper
with some writing on it in a weird font, simplistic yet
intriguing.
The second cover has way more information and is
way more chaotic, the thing I like the most about
this one is the weird things inside it, for example
on page 8 you can learn how to spot the signs
your child is sniffing glue, this is funny but at the
same time relevant to the time period as this was
something a lot of punks did, I want to use small
weird articles like this in my fanzine

5. In the 12th issue of the chainsaw magazine there is a 5 page comic strip. The
comic is very well drawn and is about a woman who deals with a lot of men
harassing her, at the beginning she is afraid of them but by the end they are
affriad of her. The comic is a very good read and shows current issues while
also being quite comedic towards the end. Ive learned from this that there is
no set rules as to what you have to put in a fanzine and almost anything works
as long as It fits the genre, as this I s a punk fanzine, one of the main things
about being punk is being far left and believing everyone should be treated
equally this goes hand it hand with feminism so a short feminist cartoon works
well. After reading this I might try and make my own cartoon to go in my
fanzine as I have to make 12 pages so there is definitely enough space to put
something like this is, I also think its more easy reading than just colums of text
and I can try draw in some more weird ways.
Another thing about issue 12 of chainsaw was that It came with a small vinyl
record featuring 3 songs on it, I know this is not something I can do and
considering we have thing like youtube now it would be unnescesary as the
original purpose of putting a record in a fanzine would be to show people new
music they wouldn’t have heard otherwise. But I could include some other sort
of free gift for example a poster or a mixtape list of songs to listen to.

6. This is a segment in the Up Yours fanzine where they have a character sheet
showing different kinds of “groovers” these almost resemble modern card
game cards like Match Attax where they have a picture and some statistics
below. These are both funny and collectable and do have some truth to them
even though they are obviously some form of irony. For example the heavy
metal horror on the right has the characteristic that he has alarming tendency
to bang his skull on nearby doors and walls, this is obviously very over the top
but could relate to how a lot of heavy metal fans will head bang which is where
you violently shake your head while listening to music, so the hitting their
heads of walls could be play on the fact if your violently shaking your head you
might frequently hit your head on things. I like how over the top these are and
how they aren’t afraid to make some self deprecating jokes laughing at some of
the stuff they do. I want to try and do something similar to this in my magazine,
something light hearted and fun to read with some humour that only other
likeminded people will understand. I could do this with the same approach e.g.
trading card style or I could make something else entirely like a ranking system
for the different genres of punk, maybe like a wild animal thing showing how
much risk they carry when approaching them, their diet habitat etc. I would
also definitely do the drawing myself as I think they look really good with the
badly drawn jagged borders and messy handwriting. Im looking at this as I am
trying to see all the different kinds of things that have been implemented into
punk fanzines, from just images and covers to weirder pages so I can break up
my magazine and not just have it all about music.

7. Research summary:
• There is no set pattern to punk fanzines you can include whatever you want as long as it has some connection to
the music politics or style in some way
• Don’t be too professional, there are lots of bad drawing and messy writing and bad layouts and this gives it
character
• Comics are a fun way to break things up
• There are a lot of things that worked at the time when these where made that wouldn’t make sense now, for
example lists of concerts and mini vinyl records to give examples of music, this was amazing at the time but now the
internet is so accessible it wouldn’t make sense to use so I need to create my own new thing
• Black and white Is the way to go as it look great and requires less attention to colour schemes
• A weird name is attractive to this target audience
• There is nothing that goes too far, swearing talking about drugs and sex, all of this is typical stuff to find in a punk
fanzine no censorship
• Cut and stick work
• It has to be something you would read not just something for other people
• A lot of far left politics but implemented subtly, written out more like lets hate the far right
• Don’t be mainstream, this is quite hard to do now because its no longer the 70s and being punk is too popular to
not be mainstream anymore but still try and have your own thing not just a copy and paste of other things

8. Bibliography:
https://stillunusual.tumblr.com/post/28838870750/chainsaw-fanzine
Tony Drayton, Kill Your Pet Puppy, 1979-1984
Benny & Son, Absolutely Zippo, (January 1, 1998)
Black Market Productions, Black Market Fanzine, 1984-1996
Mark Perry, Sniffin' Glue and Other Rock 'N' Roll Habits..., 1976-1977
Charlie Chainsaw, Chainsaw Fanzine, 1977-1984
Rick O'Shea, Dai O'Rheea, Mal Function and Cess Pitt, Oh Cardiff, Up Yours, 1977-78