Martin Disler was a self-taught Swiss painter, draughtsman, sculptor, author and publisher. Born into a family of gardeners in the canton of Solothurn in 1949, Disler attended a boarding school in Stans, from which he was expelled in 1968. The following year he had his first studio in Solothun together with the painter Agnes Barmettler…
Provo was a Dutch countercultural movement that was mainly active in Amsterdam in the mid-1960s. Evolved from Robert Jasper Grootveld’s anti-smoking happenings in the Dutch capital and the anti-nuclear and anarchist movement (in the persons of Roel van Duyn and Rob Stolk), Provo was founded in 1965. Only…
Coda was a Canadian jazz magazine founded in 1958 by British-born publisher and record producer John Norris. the frequency of publication varied from monthly to bi-monthly and the circulation was about 3,000. Norris was editor from 1958 to 1976 when he was succeeded by the magazine’s art director Bill Smith. In 2000…
American artist Rick Griffin originally produced his comic Tales from the Tube as an insert for Surfer Magazine in 1972. An expanded 32-page version of the comic was published separately by The Print Mill, Berkeley the following year. Apart from Griffin’s own work it contained contributions by S. Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb, Bill Ogden and other…
New from Moloko Plus: Smegma – Name of the Frame Smegma came into being in Pasadena, California on November 23, 1973, when several friends decided to experiment with music, despite having no formal artistic or musical training. They developed a ‘band without musicians’ concept, only allowing real musicians to join in when special parts were…