Fluke Fanzine

Slow Service Since 1991

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Zinelandia- Cover Art From The Factsheet Five Era (1982-1998) by John Held, Jr.

Fantastic book/zine for zine geeks like me (us) in that it has, as the cover states, pages and pages (125 to be exact) of covers of old zines.  

Throughout, it has a pic of the zine cover, who the editor was, where/what year it came out, and whether it was photocopy, laser printed, etc. 

A valuable treasure trove that champions the importance of F.F. (a bible back in those 80s and early 90' really....when I got my first review in FF after doing Dagger for a year or so I was beyond stoked!. 

Thanks to John Held, Jr and Fluke Publishing for bringing this one to light (and life) 

Publishing fanzines on punk rock, skateboarding, graffiti, and more since 1991

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Fluke 20: The Big Mud is the confluence of many tributaries such as Mike Watt, Subhumans, Marcher Arrant, Stinkweeds Records, Robert and Karoline Collins, Jessica Mills, Jessie Lynn McMains, Matt Limo and more!

Read about exploring the catacombs below the streets of Paris, a cab ride gone bad in Mongolia, pinball machines on fire in Seattle, dirty hippies chugging their own piss in Albuquerque, a Replacements mixtape on a road trip to Brooklyn and Mike Watt learning punk rock up in Hollywood. Oh but there's more in The Big Mud, you just gotta hop in the boat and enjoy the adventure with us!

64 pgs, full color, offset print, $4.99. BUY HERE: Fluke 20: The Big Mud

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Fluke (#18, fanzine)

Matthew Thompson has been back in the game these past few years putting out new issue of  Fluke pretty consistently. His heart is still in it and as he says, this issues “focuses on outsider art and culture.”  There’s interviews with Bill Daniel, Susan A. Phillips and a continuation of the Gary Floyd (The Dicks/ Sister Double Happiness). Also a great piece on the forthcoming Desolation Center documentary and a live review of a Shellac show in Chicago earlier this year. Pics of skateboarders and lots more. There’s lots of terrific pieces this issue…..their best one yet? Maybe. www.flukefanzine.com

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Love Letter with Trains and Brautigan // from Fluke Fanzine #17

That night we met & you recited my favorite Brautigan poem I thought oh shit, I could love you like fucking fried potatoes. I thought oh shit, I need this like I need a self-inflicted .44 Magnum gunshot wound to the head. I mean

I like you as much as I like using gallows humor to poke fun at my own darkest tendencies. I like you like rubbing salt into a self-inflicted wound. I like you like sadding around. I like you emo & pop- punk & the top 50 albums you’ve gotta hear before

you die. I dig you epic & sorta pretentious. I like you all chorus, all the time. What I mean is I like you like 1998. Like wandering alone by the train tracks, feeling the steel rails hum. What I mean is dear you, I’m into you like a train. I’m all about you like Blake Schwarzenbach

likes killing cops and reading Kerouac. I love you ACAB. I love you like Brautigan throwing a rock through a police station window. Like Brautigan loved trout fishing in America. I love you like the old men knee-deep in the Root & Pike Rivers, fishing for trout. Like Tim

Barry loves the sun shining over the James. I love you James River, formerly known as the Powhatan. Like white settlers love stealing what doesn’t belong to them & renaming it. I love you C&O Railroad. I dig you coal mine. I love you like a train transporting West Virginia

coal to power the rest of America. I love you fossil fuel. Like the remains of ancient organisms. I love you incredible heat & pressure. I love you creosote, produced by the carbonization of bituminous coal. I love you railroad ties impregnated with creosote.

I like you like the red-winged blackbirds nesting near the railroad tracks. I love you like gurgling oak-a-lee. I love you hatchling, blind & naked. I love you the longest freight train in American history. Like over 4.5 miles or 60 football fields long. I love you the distance from

the southernmost point of Kenosha to Winthrop Harbor. I love you Illinois & Wisconsin. I love you like Wisconsinites love the Green Bay Packers. Like so much they’ll wear that awful combination of green & gold. Like so much they’ll skip a poetry reading if there’s a game on.

I dig you all the things people invent to stay entertained. I love you staged train wreck. I love you engineers leaping from their locomotives just before the crash. I love you temporary town of Crush. I love you like losing an eye to a flying bolt at a train crash I payed to see. I know

I’m not the only one. Like the red-winged blackbirds, you practice polygyny. You’re probably texting one of your other mates right now, sending her Brautigan poems. I know this will end in wounds & head-on collisions. But I love you like lovers come & go. I love you like Head-On

Joe said. Like somewhere in the makeup of every normal person there lurks the suppressed desire to smash things up.

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Jason White is interviewed in Fluke Fanzine #9 - the 20th Anniversary issue. He helped start this zine out of Arkansas in his teens. 

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It’s music, for god’s sake! Do it anyway that helps you laugh or cry or dance or be mad or happy

Gary Floyd, Fluke Fanzine #18 (via candont)

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Fluke Fanzine- the first two years  (issue 19.5, 108 pages)

In 1990 a punk from Little Rock, Arkansas began to talk about publishing a fanzine. A year later, with the help of two friends, the zine became a reality (under a different name than they had originally planned) and Fluke number one had appeared. Eventually, two of the friends bailed out to focus on their band, and that left Matthew Thompson to keep the zine going, which he did for many years.

This issue a Fluke combines the first two issues of the zine as well as 40 show flyers from issue 14 (the issue came out in 2017, but the shows were from 1988-1992). It has interviews with Fugazi, Trusty (who seemed to be the kings of the Little Rock scene for a few years before heading off to DC and eventually releasing  records on Dischord), Nuisance, Lungfish Econochrist and many more. Add in reviews, columns, photos and plenty more and you have one fantastic zine. 

It’s a bound zine and looks great so kudos to Thompson for putting the hard work in and producing a terrific mag here  (Thompson continues to publish new issues of the zine as well). 

People always talk about there not being any good music zines anymore, well, here’s one right here. Buy now!

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[LINK IN BIO] New release! Everett Gee’s show flyers from 2010-2022. He’s calling it Carpal Tunnel Headache. 92 pages, $4.99! From 2010 to 2022, when he wasn't releasing comix or screen printing, Everett Gee was cranking out fliers left and right for punk shows—mostly in Little Rock, Arkansas and surrounding areas—amongst a thriving punk scene. When there was no show, he'd put together a fake flier for shits and grins (there's at least a couple of those in this zine). Carpal Tunnel Headache (Fliers From The Flu Factory) is a collection of most but not all the fliers Everett managed to not lose during this time. HALF SIZE, OFFSET PRINT (at Little Rock, Arkansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClPB8W2ys3a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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☕️ Today is my birthday and I got to spend the morning with one of the two friends who started Fluke with me way back in 1991. The new book is now available in my online store [LINK IN BIO] or mail $10 cash to me: FLUKE / POB 1547 / Phoenix, AZ 85001 Fluke 19.5: The First Two Years In 1990 in Little Rock, Arkansas, local punk Steve Schmidt set out to be in a band (Chino Horde), host a punk rock radio show on KABF (Adios Amerika) and publish a fanzine (Plaid). While Chino Horde and Adios Amerika achieved greatness in Little Rock and abroad, Plaid never saw issue 1. A year later, Jason White and Matthew Thompson stepped in to collaborate with Schmidt on Fluke issue 1, picking up where he left off with Plaid. Steve had interviews with Fugazi and Plaid Retina in the can, Jason interviewed Tim Lamb (of legendary '80s Little Rock punk fanzine Lighten Up) and Matthew submitted a few writings. They wrote dozens of punk and hip hop record reviews, shot photographs and sought contributors around town. There's content addressing the societal pressures of the Bible Belt onto the youth—military recruiters to religious crusaders and anti-abortionists. While not at shows or skateboarding, the three high school friends created the design and layout at Kinko's in North Little Rock, where local punk and friend Colin Brooks worked. With a very nice "deal" on copies, Fluke 1 was born. The following year, Fluke 2 was published soon after Steve moved to Eureka, California but eventually returning to Little Rock. Issue 2 featured touring bands, including interviews with Lungfish, Ben Sizemore (Econochrist), Bay Area bands Nuisance and Monsula, and Toronto's Phleg Camp. As things progressed, Steve and Jason channeled their energy into Chino Horde while Matthew continued publishing Fluke. Issue 14 (2017) contains 40 show flyers from 1988-1992, all from the one punk club in town. The early '90s Little Rock scene was centered around these shows, with local sweethearts Trusty as the driving force. The show flyers are the centerpiece here, completing Fluke 19.5: The First Two Years. 8.5x11, 108 pages, perfect bound, offset printed book. Wholesale prices available! 🎂 (at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkjbparS0Mb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fluke 19.5: The First Two Years is available in the US via mail order and stores only, until my birthday (Nov 4th)! Send $10 cash (or stamps) to: Fluke/POB 1547/Phoenix AZ 85001. Here’s some info on this one: In 1990 in Little Rock, Arkansas, local punk Steve Schmidt set out to be in a band (Chino Horde), host a punk rock radio show on KABF (Adios Amerika) and publish a fanzine (Plaid). While Chino Horde and Adios Amerika achieved greatness in Little Rock and abroad, Plaid never saw issue 1. A year later, Jason White and Matthew Thompson stepped in to collaborate with Schmidt on Fluke issue 1, picking up where he left off with Plaid. Steve had interviews with Fugazi and Plaid Retina in the can, Jason interviewed Tim Lamb (of legendary ‘80s Little Rock punk fanzine Lighten Up) and Matthew submitted a few writings. They wrote dozens of punk and hip hop record reviews, shot photographs and sought contributors around town. There’s content addressing the societal pressures of the Bible Belt onto the youth—military recruiters to religious crusaders and anti-abortionists. While not at shows or skateboarding, the three high school friends created the design and layout at Kinko’s in North Little Rock, where local punk and friend Colin Brooks worked. With a very nice “deal” on copies, Fluke 1 was born. The following year, Fluke 2 was published soon after Steve moved to Eureka, California but eventually returning to Little Rock. Issue 2 featured touring bands, including interviews with Lungfish, Ben Sizemore (Econochrist), Bay Area bands Nuisance and Monsula, and Toronto’s Phleg Camp. As things progressed, Steve and Jason channeled their energy into Chino Horde while Matthew continued publishing Fluke. Issue 14 (2017) contains 40 show flyers from 1988-1992, all from the one punk club in town. The early ‘90s Little Rock scene was centered around these shows, with local sweethearts Trusty as the driving force. The show flyers are the centerpiece here, completing Fluke 19.5: The First Two Years. 8.5x11, 108 pages, perfect bound, offset printed book, $6. Thanks! (at Little Rock, Arkansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkKCTLPvYbM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I got these really cool Pharaoh Sanders stamps in the mail from Henry Denander! Henry is featured in Fluke 19: the issue with Mail Art, along with other greats such as Ray Johnson, Anna Banana, John Held, buZ blurr, Ryosuke Cohen, Noriko Shimizu, Ed Higgins, Leslie Caldera and more! Link to purchase the 76-page full color book for $5 is in the bio. #henrydenander #annabanana #annabana #ryosukecohen #buZblurr #johnheldjr #rayjohnsonfanclub #rayjohnson #mailart #mailartist #mailartists #pharaohsanders #jazzmusic #jazzgreats #artistamps #artistamp #zine #zineclub #fluxus #fanzine #fanzines #juxtapoz #painters #paintersofinstagram #artzine #flukefanzine (at Phoenix, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjqnueKPhBp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A few years back, I handed my fanzine over to my friend James B. Hunt aka NXOEED, one of my favorite artists (and the most creative artist in Phoenix). Favorite quotes include, “life was joyless,” “we were kids and it was 1985,” and “humans are alright.” This issue is $2.99. Here's the interview with him ➡️ #nxoeed #nxoeedlaboratories #flukefanzine #flukezine #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines #minimalzine #punkzine #artzine #artzines #darkart #hifructose #juxtapoz #fantagraphics #comix #comics #inktober (at Phoenix, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjlDtH8Le0a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fluke Publishing presents MISCREANT issue 0! LINK IN BIO. Writer Eric Williamson and visual artist NXOEED were fifth graders when they met in 1983. Both fans of comic books, they began collaborating on superhero and sci-fi stories that were eventually collected and printed with the help of a copy machine in their neighborhood supermarket. Though they didn’t know it at the time, they had self-published their first zine. The two reconnected at an art show in the fall of 2021, after decades of virtually no contact. The conversation picked up where it had left off all those years ago. It was suggested that they begin collaborating again, maybe on a new version of the old zine. Several weeks later, they were back to work. Miscreant Issue Zero is a preview of a much larger publication still to come. What started at the kitchen table after school continues 40 years later at an art studio and a home office. $1.99, 16 pages, comic size, offset print. #darkart #nxoeed #comix #comics #comixzone #comixology #zine #zines (at Phoenix, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLM6K5rTlb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Can I still get the bobby madness issue?

search the internet and book/record stores. good luck! you can get other back issues here: bit.ly/thisisfluke

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Hi! Is there any way I could buy one more copy of Matt's Limo Zine Anthology? The Fluke shop has just ran out of stock. Or, is there any way I could purchase a pdf copy of it? Many thanks!~Alvin

bit.ly/thisisfluke

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[LINK IN BIO] New stuff is in the works for @fluke_publishing! In the meantime you can get six copies of the most recent releases for $19.99. That includes Fluke 19, NXOEED 2, Beef or Mutton 1, Municipal Threat 1 and Invisible Eye 1. While supplies last! ➡️ . . . . #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines #flukepublishing #flukefanzine #flukezine #publishing #diypublishing #punkzine #punkrock #minimalzine #zinemaking #etczine #zineart #darkart #horrorzine #horrorzines (at Phoenix, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdUVUYEpDHS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Their band could be my life. . . . Such an amazing show last night! Go see #mssv #mssvband on their haru tour across the United States. @wattfrompedro has the dates ⚓️ (at Phoenix, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbK6UxXrFUM/?utm_medium=tumblr