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Bizarre Magazine" Counterculture Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll Magazine Archive
1998224471998. Bizarre Magazine. London: John Brown Publishing 1998-2001. First editions. Archive of Eight Issues. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white. Perfect-bound in color pictorial wrappers. A striking archive of Bizarre the provocative British counterculture magazine that carved out a distinctive space in late-1990s subcultural publishing. Spanning seven issues from 1998 and one from 2001 this run offers a concentrated glimpse into the magazine's peak years under the editorship of Fiona Jerome and David McComb. Known for its outrageous photo shoots shock journalism sex-positive content and coverage of fringe and underground cultures-including fetish scenes body modification censorship battles and cult cinema-Bizarre spoke directly to a readership marginalized by mainstream media.<br /> <br /> Cover imagery is consistently confrontational and highly stylized. Among the visual highlights are a topless woman draped with a live boa constrictor Kiss My Asp! 1998 and a dominatrix-styled Tara O'Connor under the headline Game On! 1998. The 2001 issue Punk Is Dead features a pale-skinned goth model with bleached buzz cut and facial piercings. This archive includes:<br /> <br /> 1 January/February 1998 - "Banned!"A global censorship roundup focusing on film literature and sexual expression. Cover image features a woman styled as one of the Droogs in A Clockwork Orange. Features an pictorial expose into the grisly world of post-Soviet Russian grey market organ harvesting and insider information about the porn industry. <br /> <br /> 2 May 1998 - "Tasty!" Sex industry expose highlighting "Porn Past Confessions" as well as a profile on the burgeoning cosmetic surgery industry and its disasters. Includes the 16-page "Sealed Stranger Stuff" centerfold with user-submitted nude art and amateur bondage imagery.<br /> <br /> 3 July 1998 - "Let's Rock!" A countdown of "Top Ten Maddest Stage Performers" including GG Allin and Wendy O. Williams. Interviews with heavy metal groupies shock comic performance artists and underground fire-breathers. Features DIY body piercing guide.Issue: <br /> <br /> 4 September 1998 - "Kiss My Asp!"Cover story on "The Weirdest Sex Fetishes in the World-EVER!". Also includes a profile on the Foreign Legion. <br /> <br /> 5 October 1998 - "Bollywood Babylon"Focus on Indian cinema and articles on Laotian "Opium Tribes" censorship in Indian television and infamous Mumbai crime syndicates. Cover is of a woman in South Asian adornments. <br /> 6 November 1998 - "Read Yourself Raw"Special on transgressive aspects of Japanese culture such as their peculiar forms of erotica as well as their biker gangs. <br /> <br /> 7 December 1998 - "Game On!"Cover feature on gameshow host Tara O'Connor styled in a dominatrix latex suit. Inside are profiles on mercenaries "Russian Murder TV" and The Drugs Do Work" feature on psychotropics in rave culture and user-submitted fetish photography section.<br /> <br /> 8 March 2001 - "Punk Is Dead" Post-millenium retrospective of punk's commodification. <br /> <br /> Light wear and rubbing to extremities; interior pages bright and complete; sealed sections where present opened but intact. Overall very good condition. A rare and cohesive archive capturing late 1990s to early 2000s underground sexual and subcultural media notable for its intersection of alternative fashion radical sexual expression and anti-censorship advocacy. unknown
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