Zine Age Kicks

190mm x 260mm, 160pages

London

Editor: James Brown)

Designer: Matthew Sankey

It’s a curious thing that some of the people that live the most chaotic lives manage to maintain significant archives of their work and times. This latest example comes from James Brown, the editorial enfant terrible responsible for Loaded magazine, infamous for his drink and drug binges.

If you already enjoyed his recent autobiography ‘Animal House,’ you’ll love this visual accompaniment. Here are tear sheets of his early writing, employment contracts, backstage passes, Leeds United season tickets and run throughs of the best parts of each of the magazines he worked on. It’s an impressive and fascinating collection of images, serving to remind us of a pre-digital time of physical tickets and cassette tapes.