The Best of PUNK book
A Harper Books' "IT" Book!
Everyone at PUNK magazine has been busy for the last year preparing to produce a huge project: The Best of PUNK Magazine. Harper Books, under its new It Books imprint, will be publishing it, with their top gun Cal Morgan overseeing it. It's expected to hit bookstores in a year or two.
What separates this from all other PUNK reprints and even the back issues is that The Best of PUNK Magazine will reproduce all of our most-requested and popular material with the highest possible quality reproduction on gloss paper. For the first time, the photos will be crisp instead of muddy. This is a massive project, since we are tracking down the original art and photos to present the material in it's most readable and handsome edition yet.
PUNK magazine art director Bruce Carleton, who created the Monster and much of the artwork for Mutant Monster Beach Party (PUNK #15) is painstakingly reproducing the images from that issue. Most are being scanned in high resolution from the original artwork.
Kevin Hein, who has worked in the New York underground publishing scene for many years, is reproducing The Legend of Nick Detroit, from scans of the original photographs.
PUNK's original editor, John Holmstrom, is writing the historical background to accompany the material, which will include never-before-published photos and artwork. The story of PUNK magazine, from its sudden founding to its floundering ending, has never been told in detail.
Bridget Hurd, who contributed to the last couple of issues (PUNK #20 and #21), is co-editing the book with Holmstrom, and has the massive task of trying to find everyone who ever contributed to PUNK magazine. She's tracked down most of PUNK magazine's original writers, artists and photogs (such as Roberta Bayley, Bob Gruen, Mary Harron, Bobby London, Legs McNeil, Robert Romagnoli, Chris Stein and Ken Weiner), as well as many other valuable contributors, and they've all agreed in principle to cooperate with the book publication, so arrangements are being finalized, but so her work is ongoing. We are still having trouble locating some of you, so if you see this and contributed to PUNK, let us know.
We also plan to publish material that never appeared in print before, from the infamous PUNK #9 and PUNK #18, two of the "lost issues." Hopefully this will include Mary Harron's interview with The Damned and the Joey Ramone interview about Rock 'N' Roll High School.
We plan to post material that doesn't fit in the book on the Website in the months and years to come, as well as other news and information.
Anyhow, this book is gonna be a big deal. So remember, you heard it here first...
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