Punk Magazine: The Original Fanzine

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Punk Magazine: The Original Fanzine - Marc H. Miller with Punk co-founder and cartoonist John Holmstrom, photographer Roberta Bayley, and contributing editor Chris Stein

#1 in the Pop to Punk: Ramones and Visual Art conversation series at the Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk exhibit at Queens Museum on Jun 19 2016

Punk, the magazine that named the movement, was started by John Holmstrom, Legs McNeil, and Ged Dunn—youngsters who saw the magazine more as a trick to get into clubs than as a stepping-stone to careers in publishing. Holmstrom, a student of Mad magazine founder Harvey Kurtzmann at the School of Visual Arts, brought a comic-book aesthetic to rock journalism. His illustrations appear on two Ramones albums. Roberta Bayley, Punk’s principal photographer and photo editor, also worked the door at CBGB, where she got to know subjects like Blondie, Richard Hell, and the Ramones, who used one of her images from Punk as their first album cover. Chris Stein, a co-founder of the band Blondie, studied along with John Holmstrom at SVA, and his photography in Punk’s earliest issues established Blondie’s place in the magazine’s tongue-in-cheek world. Moderator Marc H. Miller, the co-curator of Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk, was one of the curators of the 1978 exhibition Punk Art at the Washington Project for the Arts.