Punk Planet Stops the Presses
The independent press lost a publication recently, with the demise of Punk Planet Magazine. An online Eulogy for the magazine reads, “Over the last 80 issues and 13 years, we’ve covered every aspect of the financially independent, emotionally autonomous, free culture we refer to as the underground.” The magazine died when their distributor went under.
This is a fate likely to befall much of the zine world, and many other less-than-ubiquitous print publications. When asked whether Punk Planet would be reborn online, the answer was: “Slow down dude. Everything in due time.” I do hope to see Punk Planet reborn online, where printing and distribution budgets are a non-entity, but there’s probably a lot of other fish to fry, like debt for example.
You can help out if you buy back issues of Punk Planet.
Tags: Ephemera