Issue one's theme is HOUSE SHOWS, and features 72 pages of BRAND NEW COMICS from the following:Andra PassenAndy WarnerAnthony SorgeAshley Rowe PalafoxBen SnakepitBill PinkelBrad DwyerBrian ConnollyEmilja FrancesJosh PM FreesKim FunkLiz PrinceLiz SuburbiaMelMitch ClemNation of AmandaRamsey EverydaypantsRick VPlus gorgeous cover art by Steve LarderMakes a perfect addition to any punkhouse bathroom!

    But even if she manages to get into the scene (or get the boy), will that be enough to fix her problems and change her from the girl the world thinks she is to the girl she wants to be? And will she figure out how to throw a punch if she needs to? Molotov Hearts features punk houses, punk parties, basement shows, make-out sessions, fist fights and dumpster diving. It's funny, sad, romantic and a novel for anyone who wants to read a story in the tradition of "girl-meets-boy, girl-joins-punk-band, girl-kicks-ass."

    A conversation about the politics of methodology, and historiography, of subculture.MIMI THI NGUYEN is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the author of The Gift of Freedom. She has made zines since 1991, including Slander and the compilation zine Race Riot. Nguyen is a former Punk Planet columnist and a Maximum Rocknroll shitworker; she is also a frequent collaborator with Daniela Capistrano for the POC Zine Project.GOLNAR NIKPOUR served as co-coordinator of Maximum Rocknroll between 2004 and 2007. She is also a founding editor of B|ta’arof, a magazine featuring art, literature, historiography, and cultural critique related to Iran and its diaspora. She was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in New York City.

    25 years on, it remembers the mad, frenzied and often incoherent world of 1975-79. Variously described as middle class, working class, political, social, sexual, artistic, superficial, perverted, puerile and heroic, punk has always inspired controversy. Contains adult content.