Tripping Yarns 2

Northampton, England: Tripping Yarns, [1988]. 48pp; b&w illus. 4to. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. Better than very good, with short tear and crease at bottom front corner.

Second issue of this underground music and culture fanzine; notable for containing a four-page interview with experimental writer Kathy Acker by English comic book writer and novelist Alan Moore. Other contents include interviews with alt-rock bands Killdozer, Butthole Surfers, and Kray Cherubs; an interview with comics artist Edwin Pouncey, aka Savage Pencil (who supplied the cover illustration); an interview with Tony Bennet of underground comic publisher Knockabout Comics; a one-page critical summa of Clause 28 of the 1987 Local Government Bill, which limited LGBTQ rights in England; record and zine reviews; comix; etc. Copiously illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Co-editor Alistair Fruish, a school student at the time, would go on to pursue his own career as a novelist, and is credited as one of four editors of Alan Moore's 2016 novel Jerusalem. 

Scarce; no other copies on the market, and only four institutional holdings located with OCLC.