Smegma the magazine #3 [with] sticker sheet [Ray Johnson, Gracie Mansion, Tuli Kupferberg, Buster Cleveland, John Evans, Peter Astrom]

New York: Smegmania Productions, 1979. Magazine and sticker sheet, both offset-printed and 8 1/2 x 11 in. Magazine: saddle stapled. 27pp. Very good; sticker sheet partially used. Item #10577

A scarce issue the early queer artists zine, Smegma. The zine
published only four issues from 1978 to 1981, and pre-figured
the photocopy montage aesthetics of later punk, post-punk,
and no-wave aesthetics, while acknowledging its own historical
antecedents in Dada and Futurism.

This issue features the work of Ray Johnson, Gracie Mansion
(then Joanne Mayhew-Young), Tuli Kupferberg, Buster Cleveland, John Evans, Peter Astrom, and others. The magazine is an extraordinary window into an overlooked avant-garde movement from lower Manhattan that bridged punk aesthetics with the international mail art scene, and, more striking yet, with a hilarious approach to queer sexuality. It is a striking precursor to the politicized gay aesthetics of the East Village art scene of the 1980s.

This example includes a rare Smegma magazine sticker sheet,
partially used, missing eight of thirty three stickers.

Price: $350.00