Ray Gun, No. 12, December/January 1993 [David Carson]

Ray Gun magazine, No. 12, December/January 1993, published and edited by Marvin Scott Jarrett, California. 10 x 12, pp. 108 with English text. Art Direction: David Carson.

In an interview with Dazed, publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett describes the conception of Ray Gun: The Bible of Music + Style, “First of all, we had to think about it from a higher, conceptual level – the idea was to make a music magazine that had really cool design and production values, inspired by the alternative scene that was happening in the 90s that wasn’t so well documented in the US. But we didn’t set out to be radical or disrupt anything, that sort of just happened. We were just doing our own thing and I think because it was authentic it ended up making a lot of noise, which was fantastic. It resonated with a lot of people around the world.” Prior to being known for the (at times, illegible) ‘grunge’-style typographic experimentation evident in Ray Gun, designer David Carson art-directed Beach Culture magazine.

Feature articles in this “L.A.”  issue include quintessential alternative artists of the 90’s such as L7 (interviewed by Deborah Harry), The Muffs, Exene Cervenka, Grant Lee Buffalo, Michael Stipe, Moby, Yo La Tengo, and much more.

A near fine, hard-to-find magazine with only light wear.