Comedy platinum here gang! Let's begin with the infamous "punk" story that opens issue 327 of Jughead. Considering it's age, I'm totally shocked that photocopies never found their way onto records, flyers, or fanzines since the comic's initial publication (outside of scans of single panels on various sequential art blogs). The tale is hysterically absurd of course, normies wrote and drew the damn thing (though the artist, Stan Goldberg, was a legit legend in the industry), but it makes for phenomenal giggles when weighed against punk's actual cultural norms.The "How To Look Punk" pamphlet wasn't an intentional joke either, as it was seriously compiled by a fashion and cosmetics expert who specialized in trend forecasting for Max Factor, Revlon, and Vidal Sassoon. Aesthetically, the tips were surprisingly on the mark, though the text will have you cringing so hard you'll fold in half ("Everything goes if you want to look wild, Star Wars is as good a guide as any").
Garry Bushell's single (?) issue of "Punk's Not Dead" has aged amazingly well with it's coverage of the 2nd wave of punk and embryonic beginnings of hardcore. The opening editorial alone is applause-worthy for it's call to unity and calling out of already fractured subscenes obsessed with fashion over passion. There's plenty of professionally photographed pin-ups and snotty leers, but the contents as a whole are more exploratory than sensationalistic. Bushell wasn't trying to cater to any demographics here, he just loved all things punk, believed in it's cathartic power both as a movement and music genre, and put in a herculean amount of effort in legitimizing it's existence.
Before the link, here's a few factoids on Goldberg and Bushell, further info on poor Marliz / Mary Elizabeth Norton is as impossible to find as the unrl Neos LP (!!!!!!!!!!!!) !
Stan Goldberg (May 5, 1932 - Aug 31, 2014) was an American comic book artist, best known for his work with Archie Comics and as a Marvel Comics colorist who in the 1960s helped design the original color schemes for Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and other major characters. Goldberg stopped freelancing for Marvel in 1969. Shortly afterward he began a decades-long association with Archie Comics, drawing the misadventures of Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and the rest of the Riverdale High teens. Goldberg's work appeared across the line, including the flagship series Archie (for which he had been the primary artist from at least the mid-1990s through mid-2006). He ended his nearly 40 year relationship for Archie with two three-part, alternate-future stories in Archie #600-605 (Oct 2009 - Mar 2010) titled "Archie Marries Veronica" and "Archie Marries Betty".
Garry Bushell is an English newspaper columnist, rock music journalist, television presenter, author and political activist. He also sings in the Oi! band The Gonads. From 1978 to 1985, he wrote for Sounds magazine, covering punk and other street-level music genres, such as 2 Tone, NWOBHM, and the Mod revival. He was at the forefront of covering the Oi! subgenre. In 1981, Bushell wrote the book "Dance Craze, The 2-Tone Story", and in 1984 he wrote the Iron Maiden biography "Running Free". While managing the Cockney Rejects, he coined the term Oi! after another disparaging journalist noted that the Rejects’ singer Stinky Turner seemed to shout little else between songs. "And lo, a movement was born..."
