This classic book is back in print. All copies come with a special bonus print.
SNIFFIN’ GLUE may
have been the closest thing to perfection ever achieved by a magazine.
Untroubled by the demands of owners, publishers, designers and
production editors, it was a one-man enterprise that perfectly mirrored
the spirit and manners of its subject matter - punk rock - by being
intentionally amateurish, passionate and crude.
Mark Perry’s
first issue (1 of 12) set the tone for an exercise in kitchen-table
publishing that did not even have a kitchen table. Boldly scrawled in
his bedroom SNIFFIN’ GLUE started out as a
fan’s rallying cry, went on just as long as it needed to (one year) and
then stopped, as good punk enterprises should.
Its twelve issues
were surely meant to be disposable, the polar opposite of those glossy
lifestyle magazines that some people like to collect and file away. Who
was going to treasure Perry’s startlingly crude graphic fanzine? Yet
today, when any amateur can run up a professional-looking publication on
a computer, SNIFFIN’ GLUE looks somehow even more heroic.
And
here it is again in its entirety, a potent slice of 1976 / 77 Brutalist
punk culture, complete with fascinating new insights from its creator
Mark Perry. So look inside, wake up and smell the glue once more...
Sniffin' Glue... And Other Rock ‘n’ Roll Habits - Mark Perry
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