Wednesday 18 November 2015

File Magazine Vol.5 No.3 Spring 1982


“An alternative to the Alternative Press". General Idea's File gained a reputation far beyond its Toronto underground roots. It was subversive to the core, pilfering freely from mainstream media and culture, while maintaining close attention to design issues and the use of experimental layouts. File “..anticipated many queercore and punk zines of the later 70s and 80s…as well as more recent mass-media interventions, such as the widely distributed, anti-globalist Vancouver-based publication Adbusters.”  - Peter Gallo. The XXX issue with Boyd McDonald (STH aka the manhattan review of unatural acts), Les Krims, Cindy Sherman, Dali, that perv Pierre Molinier plus the usual miss general idea and toronto goss.