GAD! Zine Issue 5

  In theory, this site was originally supposed to supplement the print version of the GAD! Zine and maybe even surpass it. With the immediacy of the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY, how could it not? 

    I dunno, but it hasn't. 

    I still hope to one day offer crap-tons of content to this page, things that are just too of-the-moment to wait and put out in a physical zine a month or three late. IN THE FUTURE, maybe, kinda, this page will offer cool and interesting content on a regular basis. Perhaps DAILY?? We'll see. But in the meantime, I figure we can at least share the back issues of GAD! (and maybe some of our other zines) here. We also plan to make every issue available in PDF format, just not today.

    Below, you will find the fifth issue of GAD!, an Alabama-based underground zine. Every issue is a raw disaster made with lots of love. 

Ah. GAD! 5.... I was still predominantly gluing "source pages" together and printing copies off from them. Basically, every page is an old-school collage with the articles actually part of da art. Looks cooler, might also be harder to read. Later, I'd mostly create "background" art and then add the articles and other art on my computer. I purposely continue to use older computer and simpler programs to do the work. Golly, it shows!! But the logic is that we're staying true to the anyone-can-do-it attitude that we've always pushed. YOU can make your own zines. too!! We tried out actually numbering the pages for this issue, something that didn't stick cuz we're always slapping these things together and rearranging them up until the last minute. It just usually doesn't happen..... 

Interviews in this issue: 

Barron from the legendary Birmingham punk band Skeptic? 

Filmmaker Chance Shirley (Interplanetary, Hide & Creep)

Kallie Ingle (Fat Bird - handmade soaps & curiosities)

Ian Wise (I've Got The Bible Belt Around My Throat comp)

-Harmless