Putting The Linking In Punk

Steve Heller, the almost inhumanly prolific art director of the Times Book Review and author of approximately nine trillion books, is our new unilateral best friend ever since a) he was very nice to us and b) we discovered that he totally rocks punk. Or make that Punk. In Voice, the AIGA’s journal, Heller interviews John Holmstrom, cofounder of Punk the magazine, and, it seems, punk the movement.

Legs, who had aspirations to become a “PR guy,” insisted that the magazine would never be popular unless we started a youth movement to go along with it, so he started calling himself a “punk” (as opposed to the hippie), dressing in leather jacket and turning his lazy-ass tendencies of eating hamburgers and sleeping with the TV on into a lifestyle.

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