The Claremont Colleges Special Collections Zines Collection

Baitline 2009-2014

General

Baitline is a free San Francisco advertiser zine known for its suggestive classifieds and nautical cover art. It was created and published by Sy Wagon, a longtime Bay Area artist and founding member of the punk outfit Alabaster Choad. Her writing and art "aim to fulfill the various needs of the liberated oddballs and the marginalized pan-sexual communities that find home and/or connection in San Francisco," according to SFMOMA's blog. The monthly, cut-and-paste zine is filled with classified ads immersed in sexual humor.

Text copied from Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description.

Box 1, Folder 1

2009-2010

Box 1, Folder 2

2011-2014

Cholo 1980

General

Cholo is a record of Cholo culture in San Francisco's Mission District, filled with visual representations of graffiti, gangs, cars, tattoos, fashion, sexuality, etc. Edited by Ed Silvera and distributed by Gary Arlington's Fan Francisco Comic Book Company, it includes numerous photographs, as well as original art by Don, Rojelio Del Fuego, Crazy Boy, and others. Produced in a style reminiscent of science fiction fanzines of the period: photomechanically reproduced on one side of 8 ½" x 11" sheets of paper of various colors and bound with brads.

Text copied from Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description.

Box 1, Folder 3

1980

Christopher and His Step-Father circa 1994

General

Christopher and His Step-Father was a spanking zine published by Control T Studios. Located in Mission Hills, Control T Studios also published the spanking zines Hot Bottoms; Portfolio, CTS # 62: Coach Shithead!; Two Stories: 18th Birthday [and] Dad's Discipline; and Watch It Buster!!! Or You're Gonna Get It!. Now defunct, Control T Studios also produced and distributed hardcore gay pornographic videos and were considered leaders in the fetish industry.

Information copied from the Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description for Hot Bottoms.

Box 1, Folder 4

circa 1994

Dum Dum Zine 2013

General

Dum Dum Zine is an experimental collaborative zine containing writing and multimedia objects that fit inside a 45" record mailer box. Notable contributors include Jessica Garrison (One Dollar Stories), Michael Stock (Part Time Punks), Rebekah Weikel (Penny-Ante Editions), Robey Clark (Pop-Hop Books & Print), as well as designer Adam J. Kurtz. Dum Dum is an experimental zine printed annually featuring hybrid forms of fiction, journalism, art, and design.

Text copied from Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description.

Box 1, Folder 5

2013

Note

Issue No. 3. Includes cassette tape, bagged geode, Dum Dum lollipop (removed), pencil, flashcards, toilet paper, buttons, and matchbooks.

Factsheet Five 1982-2003

General

Factsheet Five (1982-1998) was a magazine that provided short reviews of zines and was instrumental in boosting the scene built around these small-circulation, self-published works. It was started by Mike Gunderloy, who resigned in 1991. Hudson Luce took over for one issue and then R. Seth Friedman became publisher. In order to make Factsheet Five financially sound, Friedman took some radical steps, including ending the policy of giving free subscriptions to prisoners, renegotiating previous subscription rates, no longer trading for other zines, and most dramatically, announcing that Factsheet Five would no longer be able to review all zines sent. By the end of Factsheet Five's run, 16,000 copies were printed, each with over 1,000 reviews. As a testament to Factsheet Five's important role in zine history, three books were published based on the periodical: How to Publish a Fanzine, The World of Zines, and The Factsheet Five Zine Reader. Mike Gunderloy's Factsheet Five Collection of over 10,000 zines and mail art is now held at the New York State Library in Albany, New York and 240 zines Friedman donated are in the collection of the San Francisco Public Library.

Text copied from Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description.

Box 1, Folder 6

Art and Artists 1984-1992

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Broadsides and Zines (1 of 2) 1982-1996

Box 1, Folder 8

Broadsides and Zines (2 of 2) 1982-1996

Box 1, Folder 9

Correspondence - A-B 1992-2002

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Correspondence - C 1991-2002

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Correspondence - D-F 2001-2002

Box 1, Folder 12

Correspondence - G-I 1993-2003

Box 1, Folder 13

Correspondence - J-Le 1994-2002

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Correspondence - Li-Ly 1995-2002

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Correspondence - M-Mah Circa 1992

Box 1, Folder 16

Correspondence - Mar-Mi 2000-2002

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Correspondence - N 2001-2002

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Correspondence - O 2001-2002

Box 1, Folder 19

Correspondence - P 1998-2002

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Correspondence - Pollination Press 2002

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Correspondence - R 1997-2002

Box 1, Folder 22

Correspondence - Sa-Sh 1996-2002

Box 1, Folder 23

Correspondence - Soc-Son 2001-2002

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Correspondence - St-Sy 1994-2002

Box 1, Folder 25

Correspondence - T-V 1992-2002

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Correspondence - W 1991-2002

Box 1, Folder 27

Correspondence - Z-Unknown 1989-2002

Box 1, Folder 28

Ephemera circa 2001-2002

Box 2, Folder 1

Photographs

Note

Contains explicit images.

Drawer 1, Folder 1

Posters 1994

Note

Posters promoting poetry at Boise State University.

Box 2, Folder 2

Publications 1991

General

Contains single issue of Bi-Lifestyles and Street Fighter II.

Box 2, Folder 3

Publications - How-To Guides circa 1997

Hot Bottoms circa 1994

General

Hot Bottoms was a spanking zine comprised in part of letters, stories, and artwork submitted by readers, with original photographs depicting all manner of corporal punishment. It was edited by Steve Powers and published by Control T Studios in Mission Hills. Control T Studios also published the spanking zines Portfolio, CTS # 62: Coach Shithead!; Christopher & His Step-Father; Two Stories: 18th Birthday [and] Dad's Discipline; and Watch It Buster!!! Or You're Gonna Get It!. Now defunct, Control T Studios also produced and distributed hardcore gay pornographic videos and were considered leaders in the fetish industry.

Text copied from Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description.

Box 2, Folder 4

circa 1994

Night Voices 1981

General

Night Voices was a goth punk zine that ran for six issues between 1979 and 1983. It was edited by Paul Perner and produced in Van Nuys, California.

Text copied from Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description.

Box 2, Folder 5

1981

Portfolio, CTS # 62: Coach Shithead! circa 1994

General

Portfolio, CTS # 62: Coach Shithead! was a spanking zine published by Control T Studios. Located in Mission Hills, Control T Studios also published the spanking zines Hot Bottoms; Christopher & His Step-Father; Two Stories: 18th Birthday [and] Dad's Discipline; and Watch It Buster!!! Or You're Gonna Get It!. Now defunct, Control T Studios also produced and distributed hardcore gay pornographic videos and were considered leaders in the fetish industry.

Information copied from the Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description for Hot Bottoms.

Box 2, Folder 6

circa 1994

Queer Zine Explosion 1992-1998

General

Queer Zine Explosion contains reviews of queer zines, recordings, and books, created by Larry-Bob. It served as a major connecting point for the Queercore movement. Larry-Bob, who also edited the zine Holy Titclamps, donated most of the zines he collected while editing Queer Zine Explosion to the GLBT Historical Society of Northern California in San Francisco.

Text copied from Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description.

Box 2, Folder 7

1992-1998

Two Stories: 18th Birthday [and] Dad's Discipline circa 1994

General

Two Stories: 18th Birthday [and] Dad's Discipline was a spanking zine published by Control T Studios. Located in Mission Hills, Control T Studios also published the spanking zines Hot Bottoms; Portfolio, CTS # 62: Coach Shithead!; Christopher & His Step-Father; and Watch It Buster!!! Or You're Gonna Get It!. Now defunct, Control T Studios also produced and distributed hardcore gay pornographic videos and were considered leaders in the fetish industry.

Information copied from the Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description for Hot Bottoms.

Box 2, Folder 8

circa 1994

Unsound 1983-1985

General

Unsound was among the first American zines covering industrial, noise, punk, and the experimental underground. It was published by William Davenport, a founding member of the influential noise band Problemist. It came about as a reaction against separatism, in which a select few became the only creative sources that are recognized, and focused on hard edge and subversive art and music, including the work of Negativland, Glenn Branca, Ellen Zweig, Einsturzende Neubauten, Karen Finley, Boyd Rice, Minimal Man, Sonic Youth, Whitehouse, Psychic TV, and Leslie Thornton. Unsound was also an important networking tool, with sections devoted to radio, affiliated zines and record stores, mail art, and tape and record reviews.

Text copied from Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description.

Box 2, Folder 9

1983-1984

Box 2, Folder 10

1984-1985

Box 2, Folder 11

1 of 2 1985

Box 2, Folder 12

2 of 2 1985

Note

Final Issue (Vol. 3, No. 2). Includes cassette tape.

Watch It Buster!!! Or You're Gonna Get It! circa 1994

General

Watch It Buster!!! Or You're Gonna Get It! was a spanking zine published by Control T Studios. Located in Mission Hills, Control T Studios also published the spanking zines Hot Bottoms; Portfolio, CTS # 62: Coach Shithead!; Christopher & His Step-Father; and Two Stories: 18th Birthday [and] Dad's Discipline. Now defunct, Control T Studios also produced and distributed hardcore gay pornographic videos and were considered leaders in the fetish industry.

Information copied from the Johnson Rare Books & Archives item description for Hot Bottoms.

Box 2, Folder 13

circa 1994