Answer Me!

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Answer Me!
EditorJim Goad
Debbie Goad
CategoriesSocial pathology
FrequencyAnnual
Circulation13,000
PublisherJim Goad
Debbie Goad
First issue1991
Final issue1994
CountryUnited States of America
Based inLos Angeles
LanguageEnglish

Answer Me! (typically rendered ANSWER Me!) was a magazine edited by Jim Goad and Debbie Goad and published between 1991 and 1994. It focused on the social pathologies of interest to the Los Angeles–based couple. Answer Me! also featured illustrations by racist antisemitic cartoonist[1][2] Nick Bougas.[3] Issue 4 of Answer Me! was the subject of a high-profile obscenity trial against two booksellers whose magazine store carried the issue.

Issues

Issue No. 1

Released 31 October 1991.

Issue No. 2

Released 17 July 1992. Featured Anton LaVey, David Duke, Al Goldstein, El Duce of The Mentors, the Geto Boys, Ray Dennis Steckler, 100 serial killers and mass murderers, Vietnamese gangs, and Mexican murder magazines.

Issue No. 3

Released 19 July 1993. Featured Jack Kevorkian, Al Sharpton, NAMBLA, the Kids of Widney High, Boyd Rice, Suzanne Muldowney, 100 suicides, guns, Andrei Chikatilo, pedophilia in Steven Spielberg's work, Mexican deformity comics[clarification needed], paintings and drawings by murderers, and a prank call to a suicide hotline.

Issue No. 4

Released 1994. Known as "The Rape Issue", features a teen-mag-style interview with Richard Ramirez, Donny the Punk, work by Molly Kiely, Boyd Rice, Randall Phillip, Shaun Partridge, Adam Parfrey (on Andrea Dworkin), Peter Sotos (with illustrations by Trevor Brown), pieces on amputation, the police, racist country & western music, and Chocolate Impulse.

The book

The first three issues were released in a collection with autobiographical introductory pieces by Debbie and Jim. It was first published as Answer Me!: The First Three (ISBN 1-873176-03-1) by AK Press. It was reissued, along with 60 pages of new material, by Scapegoat Publishing (ISBN 0-9764035-3-6) in 2006. According to Jim Goad's website as of 2012, a collection of issues #1–4 "will be reprinted this year."[4]

Controversy

In 1995, a complaint about issue no. 4 being sold at a Bellingham, Washington magazine store known as The Newsstand resulted in owners Ira Stohl and Kristina Hjelsand being tried on charges of distribution of obscenity.[5][6] A later lawsuit against the City of Bellingham by Stohl and Hjelsand resulted in the City paying $1.3 million to the plaintiffs on the grounds of violation of First Amendment rights and infliction of emotional distress.[6][7]

Chocolate Impulse

References

  1. ↑ Bernstein, Joseph (February 5, 2015). "The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved December 4, 2018. So. You could stop right there and say that Nick Bougas is the most widely disseminated anti-Semitic cartoonist of all time and not be wrong.
  2. ↑ Ellis, Emma Grey (2017-06-19). "The Alt-Right Found Its Favorite Cartoonist—and Almost Ruined His Life". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-05-28. But internet anti-Semites (or at least people fishing for a reaction) started splicing Garrison's work together with the work of Nick Bougas, aka A. Wyatt Man, a director and illustrator responsible for one of the web's most enduring anti-Semitic images.
  3. ↑ Pafrey, Adam (1994). "Fucking Andrea Dworkin" (PDF). Answer Me! (4). Jimgoad.net: 50–53.
  4. ↑ "BUY". jimgoad.net. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  5. ↑ Bjorhus, Jennifer (1996-02-02). "Question Put Before Court: Is Magazine Smut or Satire?". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2012-06-11. {{cite news}}: More than one of |accessdate= and |access-date= specified (help)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 {{cite book}}: Empty citation (help) p 16.
  7. ↑ Schaefer, David (1997-04-13). "Whatcom 'Porn' Case Gets Vendor $1.3 Million". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2012-06-11.

External links

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