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Pioneer

More than 45 years in the running, Pioneer PUNK art zine is still alive and kicking. Our fifth and latest issue is the 2024 New York issue, guest-edited by Bob Bert.

Not bad, hey, for a DIY zine that turns punk into art and art into punk. As a follow-up to 2022’s London issue guest-edited by Gaye Black, with contributions by the Damned, the Raincoats, the Vibrators, Billy Childish and many other London-based punk-artists more, this fifth issue is guest-hosted by New York’s Bob Bert. As a drummer, Bob Bert played with Sonic Youth, Jon Spencer, Lydia Lunch, and with Kid Congo Powers in Wolfmanhattan Project, to name a few. For this issue of PIONEER Bob Bert joined forces with no meaner artists than Reuben Radding, Jasmine Hearst, Mark C., J.G. Thirlwell, Lydia Lunch and his former Sonic Youth bandmates Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo. Resulting in a zine literally bursting with the sweetest, harshest, rawest, best-balanced photographs, collages, drawings, and what visuals have you. In the grainiest black-and-white and the smoothest colors. Replete with all kinds of extra-special extras. New York: from the pages of the zine straight into your face. Truly a thrilling issue of PIONEER.

 

Later this year we will bring out a second edition of Pioneer #5, the New York issue.

And Pioneer #6 is in the making.

More info: 

Interested? Contact us at: info@hokgallery.com

 

Pioneer #5: New York issue

First print: Out of stock
Reprint: soon

New York issue 2024
Guest-edited by Bob Bert
Design by Lula Valletta

Pioneer #4: London issue

Out of stock

London issue 2022
Guest-edited by Gaye Black
Design by Lula Valletta

Pioneer # 1, 2, 3

Out of stock

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