Gulf Coast SKATE Review

Monday, June 9, 2008

Volume 1 Number 1 - 08/1985 The First Issue

The very first issue. I am pretty sure the idea or concept for GCSR came about during a pot smoking, ditch skating and school skipping adventure with Steven Jacobs (RIP). Steven was an extremely talented artist and an extremely talented skateboarder. He needed an outlet for his artwork and I had boxes and boxes of 4x6 color prints of us skating and surfing. My father owned an office building which gave me access to several xerox copy machines and hundreds of x-acto knives and bottles of rubber cement. And we thought, hey, maybe this 'zine thing will get us into a party or two and possibly meet some punk rock girls at the same time. It worked!

TWS 08/89 - Southern Comfort

Late in 1988, Roger Bridges, Abe King(Tod Swank), Dan Estabrook and Pete Diantoni drove throughout the southeastern United States searching for skate spots to photograph and a little southern comfort. They found comfort on my living room floor and in my refrigerator on more than one occasion. The resulting TWS spread is a result of that trip. Check out the images of me and my bros on page 90 & 91. Dig that mustache, man!

TWS 08/89 - CHECK OUT: Scott Stanton

My first internationally published image and writing. I still wasn't pro (I didn't get paid) and I had no intentions of becoming one, but it made me feel pretty good to have my worked viewed by hundreds-of-thousands of subscribers. Up until then, I had only self-published in GCSR to a small circulation of 500 or less subscribers. Thank you, Swank!

Gulf Coast SKATE Review

A 1980s skateboard 'zine published by Don Cudney, Steven Jacobs, Jeff Dalton (JD), Shawn Thornton (WIZ) and many other writers and photographers spread-out along the Gulf Coast during the mid- to late- 1980s.

Gulf Coast SKATE Review was published from August of 1985 until September of 1990.

Take into account this was pre-desktop publishing, pre-photoshop and pre-digital photography. Many of the images in the first few issues were photographed with a disc camera and the film was processed in my bedroom closet. All aspects of the magazine had to be photographed with negative or slide film, processed and then cut-and-pasted into the magazine layout by hand. Time consuming and not very pretty at times.

A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced [ziːn], "zeen") is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.

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