Punk Globe

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History

Punk Globe, is a fanzine and online magazine, started by Ginger Coyote, in July 1977. It was originally distributed on xeroxed pages folded together. After its first year anniversary, Chris Coyle, Manager for SVT, a notable San Francisco-based punk band at the time, suggested a newsprint format.

As Ginger Coyote wrote on the website, "We found Grant Printing--a company owned by the influential Fang Family, publishers of Asian Week and the San Francisco Independent Community newspapers (and for a while, the San Francisco Examiner)--for the following 7 years. For our last 2 years, the magazine upgraded to heavier stock white paper printed at SF Litho."

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Ginger Coyote, Publisher

(shown on the right).

It was published it as a fanzine until 1989, when she started a band called White Trash Debutantes.

The content of Punk Globe included a calendar of events, gossip, interviews, record reviews, photos, artwork, the Punk Of the Month Award; and the hilarious advice column, "Ask Sonny Bono."

According to its publisher, "The magazine was lighthearted and a lot of fun... It became a hit, and in the last few years, 25,000 copies were being printed."

Punk Globe also has had its celebrity contributors: Bebe Buell was Associate Editor :and writer, Jello Biafra wrote record reviews under the name "The Taste Police;" and Dorothy Lyman, Robert Crumb, Liz Derringer, Joe Jackson, Jon Gries, Lisa Zane, Matt Dillon, Ernie Townsend, Andrew Stevens, Judd Nelson, John Synder, Mark Arnold, and Courtney Love, and Billy Gould all provided artwork, articles or photos.

The online version of Punk Globe surfaced in 2005, and contains some of the old content--articles, ads, artwork, photos and letters from past Punk Globe issues--mixed in with totally new artwork and photographs, gossip, news, interviews, record CD, DVD, film and book reviews.

According to Ginger Coyote, the website gets approximately 8,000 hits per day.

Newer additions are is the Punk Globe Forum and the myspace page.