Bad trip 1992–1998

Bad trip was an Atlanta-based punk, indie, and grunge zine active in the 1990s and early 2000s under the leadership of Bruce Ciero. The editor’s column in the first issue reads: “A lot of bands have more guts than ‘talent’. This little rag is about those bands, the ones that have the nerve and lack of vision to think they can make a difference in an indifferent world”. Combining passion for the music it covered with an iconoclastic attitude and edgy sense of humor, the zine also featured sex-industry advertisements and imagery that recalled the pin-up culture of the 1950s and 1960s. Bad trip is notable for its striking art, design, and illustrations, combining high contrast, black-and-white inked images with typewriter-produced text.