
| Back in the days when the internet consisted of message
boards and email was a novelty, one of the best ways to express yourself
to the world was to publish a "zine," that is, a home-made magazine.
All you needed was a computer with desktop publishing software and a photocopier
(thank God for Kinko's).
From 1994 to 2000, PAGAN PLACE, the "Irrelevant but Important" art, text and poetry magazine, was put out by New York City denizens Merry Fortune and Robert Martens. All the paper issues are now a part of history, but the final issue "WaterWorks," which was published as a webzine in 2000, is permanently online. |
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Issue #12 - 2000 WaterWorks Webzine Art and Text regarding H20. Featuring the work of Peter Bushyeager, Marcella Durand, Merry Fortune, Bill Kushner, Susan Maurer, Judy Nylon, Eve Packer and many others describing the life acquatic. |
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Issue #11 - 1999 As the name implies, a collection of runoff and detritus from New York's Lower East Side. Also the only magazine ever dedicated to New York City's Collect Pond Park. Art and writing by Carl Alessi, Angela Bocage, Peter Bushyeager, Brenda Coultas, Fielding Dawson, Jean Dougherty, David Huberman, Andy Plumb a.k.a. Selene, Liz Longo, T. Motley, Judy Nylon, Shoshana Rothaizer, Larissa Schmailo, Faith Schwartz, Sparrow, Mat Straub, Richard Treitner, The Twenty Percent Tippers, Vashti, Carl Watson, Paul Weinman. Plus the Incredible Upsey-Downsey Bird! OUT OF PRINT |
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Issue #10 - 1997 Cellar Door Psalms 38 pages, saddle-stapled The most elegantly designed and inspired of all Pagan Place issues. An evocative journey through perfume and decay. Art and writing by the Ahia Art Ark, Lynne Beyer, Cricket, Merry Fortune, Cliff Fyman, Kim Lyons, Eileen Myles, Susan Maurer, Robert Martens, Jason Rogan, Shoshana Rothaizer, Richard Treitner, Larissa Schmailo, C. Szmatowsciz, Ur, Vashti, Monika de Vries-Gohlke, Suzanne Wimmer. Plus Merry Fortune's interview with Barbara Barg of the band Homer Erotic. OUT OF PRINT |
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Issue #9 - 1996 Lovers and Deviants 32 pages, saddle-stapled Funny and gross, Art and writing by Joan Carra, Brenda Coultas, Merry Fortune, Bill Kushner, Diane Lilli, Jon Mazur, Joseph Pomerance, Shoshana Rothaizer, Tom Savage, Gary Schoichet, Rosalie Schwartz, Ilka Scobie, Violet Snow, Ken Sorkin, Sparrow, Dangerous Diane Spoderek, Michael Teterboro, Tommaso, and The Twenty Percent Tippers. Extra Special Plus - Merry Fortune's interview with SPARROW!! OUT OF PRINT |
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Issue #8 - 1995 LOVE IS IMMORAL 34 pages, saddle-stapled Funny and perverse! Includes the most pathetic confession letter ever found - NAKE! (sic), and excerpts from Ric Doonan's self-published (and later discovered in a trashcan by the editors) diatribe against love, Love is Immoral!. Also includes good art and writing by Peter Black, Merry Fortune, Bingo Gazingo, Marcella Harb, Gillian McCain, Joseph Pomeranz, Judith Ren-Lay, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Rosalie Schwartz, Ken Sorkin, Dangerous Diane Spodarek, Mel Thompson, Richard Treitner, Frank Wallis, plus found material and snippets from the usual circle of jerks. Plus - Merry Fortune's interview with legendary East Village poet Tommaso! OUT OF PRINT |
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Issue #7 - 1994 The Language of Space 40 pages, saddle-stapled UFO humor, and then some! Plus, Merry Fortune's interview with WFMU's The Hound (Jim Marshall). Click here to see the ALTERNATE COVER ART OUT OF PRINT |
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Issue #6 - 1993 Domestic Dis 36 pages, corner-stapled Takes on subhurbia and growing up - Art and Text by Merry Fortune, Lenny Kaye, David Matthew, Jon Mazur, Matthew Paris, Wanda Phipps, Michelin Quill, Romaine-In-One a.k.a. Faith Schwartz, Rosalie Schwartz, David Shepherd, Elyse Taylor, Michael Teterboro, Richard Treitner, Michael Teterboro, and Trevor Wagon in addition to the extended family of dysfunctionals. Includes part 2 of Merry Fortune's interview with Eileen Myles. OUT OF PRINT |
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Issue #5 - 1992 Death and Faxes 28 pages, corner-stapled Office Life, or Death. With part 1 of Merry Fortune's interview with Eileen Myles. OUT OF PRINT |
| Older issues, also out of print: #4 - 1992 POLITICS AND PARLOR TRICKS #3 - 1991 GENIUS ISSUE #2 - 1990 HAMSTER MURDER #1 - 1991 FIRST ISSUE |
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