“The underground is not a tight, formalized, and coherent social grouping with firm boundaries; instead it is a nongeographical sprawl which must be mapped out” (57) -Stephen Duncombe, Zines: Notes From Underground The final five issues of F5 spanned three and half years, from February 1995 (not September as mistakenly mentioned in an earlier post) to July 1998. Smack in the middle of these final five issues, in 1997, Stephen Duncombe published Zines: Notes From Underground with Verso Press. Duncombe’s book is by far the most influential book on zines (more than 1,500 citations) and for good reason: it carefully
Although I’ve been more active on social media the last few weeks, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here. Diving in: Hudson Luce served as the unfortunate intermediary between Gunderloy and R. Seth Friedman. Unfortunate not because of anything he did, but rather what happened to him. Luce details the tragic circumstances of the publication of the issue and its aftermath on Wikipedia’s F5 Talk page, which is worth a read. As Luce notes in the “Editorial Comment,” he had moved to Atlanta from Cincinnati just before Gunderloy posted his intentions to quit F5 via the Internet