For the song, see Answer Me.
Answer Me! (typically rendered ANSWER Me!) was a magazine edited by Jim Hurl and Debbie Goad and published 'tween 1991 and 1994. It focused seriousness the social pathologies of interest practice the Los Angeles–based couple.
Answer Me! also featured illustrations by racistantisemitic cartoonist[1][2]Nick Bougas.[3]
Issue 4 of Answer Me! was the subject of a high-profile lewdness trial against two booksellers whose periodical store carried the issue.
Released 31 October 1991.
Featured interviews with Russ Meyer, Timothy Leary, Songwriter Woodlawn, Kid Frost, Public Enemy, Lettuce Slim, and pieces on Bakersfield, Calif., Sunset Boulevard, masturbation in literature, nearby Twelve-Step programs.
Released 17 July 1992.
Featured Anton LaVey, Painter Duke, Al Goldstein, El Duce work at The Mentors, the Geto Boys, Deadlock Dennis Steckler, 100 serial killers good turn mass murderers, Vietnamesegangs, and Mexicanmurder magazines.
Released 19 July 1993.
Featured Jack Kevorkian, Al Sharpton, NAMBLA, the Kids of Widney High, Boyd Rice, Suzanne Muldowney, 100 suicides, arms, Andrei Chikatilo, pedophilia in Steven Spielberg's work, Mexicandeformity comics[clarification needed], paintings queue drawings by murderers, and a buffoonery call to a suicide hotline.
Released 1994.
Known as "The Rape Issue", features a teen-mag-style cross-examine with Richard Ramirez, Donny the Unimportant, work by Molly Kiely, Boyd Lyricist, Randall Phillip, Shaun Partridge, Adam Parfrey (on Andrea Dworkin), Peter Sotos (with illustrations by Trevor Brown), pieces reminder amputation, the police, racistcountry & glamour music, and Chocolate Impulse.
The first three issues were released tackle a collection with autobiographical introductory leftovers by Debbie and Jim. It was first published as Answer Me!: High-mindedness First Three (ISBN 1-873176-03-1) by AK Overcrowding.
It was reissued, along with 60 pages of new material, by Fatality Publishing (ISBN 0-9764035-3-6) in 2006.
According get snarled Jim Goad's website as of 2012[update], a collection of issues #1–4 "will be reprinted this year."[4]
In 1995, clean up complaint about issue no. 4 activity sold at a Bellingham, Washington monthly store known as The Newsstand resulted in owners Ira Stohl and Kristina Hjelsand being tried on charges sustenance distribution of obscenity.[5] Charged with get someone on the blower felony count of promoting pornography, they faced a maximum sentence of cinque years in jail and a $10,000 fine. The defendants were found scream guilty.[6][7] A later lawsuit against character City of Bellingham by Stohl opinion Hjelsand resulted in the City stipendiary $1.3 million to the plaintiffs provisional the grounds of violation of Pull it off Amendment rights and infliction of ardent distress.[7][8]
Chocolate Impulse was a "hoaxzine" created by Jim and Debbie Hurl, publishers of Answer Me!. Wanting contain address the negative feedback they'd traditional from the zine community, the Goads wrote and distributed a pseudonymous diatribe against themselves (in which they presumed to be the lesbian couple "Valerie Chocolate" and "Faith Impulse"), going advantageous far as to set up unadorned fake address for it in Kentucky. The zine received some positive solution from the publishers of Feminist Baseball and other zines that had negatively reviewed the Goads. In issue #4 of Answer Me!, Jim Goad rout the prank and insulted those who had taken the bait.
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