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June 04, 2009
New books from HeadpressThis week Headpress (UK) is publishing two new titles, Scott Stine's TRASHFIEND and BAD MAGS VOL. 2 by Tom Brinkmann. 
TRASHFIEND is based around articles from Stine's magazine of the same name. From HP's info: From low budget horror films to grisly comic art, from lurid movie magazines to late-night creature features, from campy monster toys to exploitive poster art, TRASHFIEND takes a loving look at “disposable” horror culture from the 1960s and 1970s.
Over two glorious decades the horror film waged war on good taste, exploiting every taboo and bursting every envelope along the way. TRASHFIEND is the definitive guide to the chaotic, creative and endlessly entertaining golden age of horror cinema.
Scott Stine (author of The Gorehound’s Guide to Splatter Films series and founder of the Stigmata Press) shines a fond but satiric light on everything from low budget horror films to grisly comic art, lurid movie magazines to late-night creature features, campy monster toys to exploitive poster art.
Packed with reviews, trivia, interviews, anecdotes and rare illustrations, and written with witty and insightful flair, TRASHFIEND will fascinate aficianados, nostalgists and cinema lovers of every stripe. Scott Stine picks up where his legendary TRASHFIEND magazine left off for a fun, energetic and critical look at this beloved genre.
BAD MAGS 2 continues along the lines of vol. 1, showing and analyzing the contents and making of supermarket tabloids and weird magazines. Includes chapters on Ed Wood, outlaw bikers, Sharon Tate and many other subjects. From HP's info: Following the enormous success of the instant cult classic Bad Mags Vol 1, the hotly anticipated Bad Mags Vol 2 picks up where its predecessor left off, scraping the nasty depths of magazine and tabloid pop lit.
... Chapters are divided into subject categories for easy reference. ... Packed with even more RARE and INCREDIBLE IMAGES than BAD MAGS VOL 1, BAD MAGS VOL 2 is guaranteed to SHOCK, ASTOUND and EXCITE readers.
Author Tom Brinkmann has spoken with many of the individuals responsible for these magazines, some of whom are referenced here for the first time. BAD MAGS VOL 2 also provides comprehensive background details on the creators and often maverick publishers, along with plenty of anecdotal information, mind bending extracts and hundreds of rare photos and cover reproductions.
(Other recent titles from HP are The John Sinclair Reader, by the MC5/White Panthers manager, and HP28 - guest edited by Sinclair.)
Also, out now from FAB (UK) is the Cinema Sewer Vol. 2 book which includes my interview with Bo Arne Vibenius ("Thriller") and my multi-page review of Blue Underground's 8 disc Mondo film box set. The book will also have 90 pages of "new" bonus stuff not seen in the Cinema Sewer magazine. All contents are hand-lettered, and most illos are drawings in place of photos. In related trash cinema news, Vol. 4 of the 42nd St. Forever trailer dvd series is out.
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