Description
SOLD OUT
Hal Kelly (Ed.)
$40
978-1-988817-16-3
9 x 12
152 pages
Softcover, perfect-bound, colour
1st Edition, 2022
No Toner: Trash Culture Zines of the Eighties and Nineties. A visual dumpster dive into the alternative press. Featuring over 100 cover images from the era annotated by Hal Kelly, creator of Trash Compactor, “The Magazine of our Disposable Culture.” Each copy comes jam packed with a sexy Parkdale Wrestler poster ripped from the pages of Panicos zine, a trashy books for trashy people sticker and a reproduction of an old Trash Compactor subscription card featuring Tura Satana and John Carradine in a dramatic scene from T.V. Mikels astounding classic, Astro Zombies. No Toner is co-published by Midnight Mass Press.
“This is a great book about a great era of civilization. Back before the computers ruined everything. Back when underground culture required some effort, an envelope and a stamp. Hal Kelly knows all about it because he was there. I was there too—but only as a sidekick. Hal was the main character!”
—Seth, author of Clyde Fans
“Hal Kelly collects the disgusting and the scandalous like the best biologist. The bacteria created from this culture will excite and sicken you.”
—Fiona Smyth, Somnambulance and You Know, Sex
“Remember transgression? These polymorphously perverse, fringe, violent, and sometimes repulsive zines were an assault on the repressive authoritarian culture of the 80s and 90s. No Toner recalls that dystopian utopia when the angry, awkward energy of punk music, underground comics, sexual deviancy, b-movies and trash culture, found strange but beautiful expression in these DIY masterpieces.”
—Jim Shedden, author of DIY Toronto 1975-1989, co-curator of the recent Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition I AM HERE, and the Manager of Publishing at the AGO.
“Before the internet came along and took all the fun out of underground culture, zines were the go-to forums for the subterranean arts; black and white bibles of sleaze devoted to the obscure, neglected and rejected. Ahh…the memories. No Toner takes you back to those oh-so glorious days.”
—Glenn Salter, editor of many zines including his most recent publication Why I Am Disgusted Today, a collection of the really obscure works of noted street curmudgeon (and author) Crad Kilodney.
“Sniffing glue sticks, slamming staplers, and jamming copiers – the strange world of zine editors is laid bare in Hal Kelly’s No Toner, the shocking new compendium of the publishing revolution of the 80s and 90s. You have to see it to believe it!”
—G.B. Jones, artist, filmmaker, musician, and zine publisher
“No Toner is composed of over 100 zine cover images split into sections with titles like Badass Lesbians and Gender Terrorists, Who Says Culture Has To Be Good For You? and Government Mandated Canadian Content. (Shouldn’t that be Cunty Canadian Content?) Anyway, you had me at badass lesbians. Zines, like trash, were supposed to be disposable, but hey, it’s fun now and then to dumpster dive and remember all the filth that made you the person you are today!”
—Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s co-editor and pornographic filmmaker
“No Toner catapults me back to a time when I found a common voice in xeroxed pages, and could read, write and create with that community. Had I not stumbled into that insanely creative subculture, would I have become a chartered accountant?”
—Colin Geddes, Asian Eye zine editor/publisher, film producer, TIFF Midnight Madness programmer (1997-2016)
“Hal Kelly knows of what he speaks. Responsible for Trash Compactor, one of the best written and looking zines of the era, he has turned those skills into a telescopic overview of that scene. The writing is succinct and visually this is a stunning example of the medium’s punch. YOU NEED THIS!”
—Craig Ledbetter, editor of European Trash Cinema
