Slumping
Issue 2. Autumn of 1997
Seth, Stewart, and Bill mix technology, emotional insight, and blatant immaturity. Far from a slump, the sophomore effort proves wildly successful. For 16 year-olds.
Inspired by a mixture of Nirvana’s autumn classic
In Utero and Radiohead’s relatively new
Ok Computer, Stewart and Bill compiled a spectrum of content for
Slumping, the unofficial name of
Tweed’s second issue. Initially released for $2.00 per copy Seth successfully argued that selling it for an even dollar would dramatically increase sales. That is, sales in the context of teenagers hawking their cut-and-paste rants. It worked. The first printing of
Slumping immediately sold out at Fairfield’s teen center,
The Beanery, increasing local attention to this haphazard publication.
Josh contributed his first comic,
Norwood, to
Slumping. Years later he would pen the successful
Stutter Butter series. Who knew? Mike made his one-and-only appearance under the name “Dog Boy.” For Bill the other fictitious characters introduced in
Issue One became an excuse to write increasingly offensive material. For Stewart it was a chance to critique the culture of their private high school in the article
Confessions of a Kleptomaniac.
As for the cover image—it was ripped from Josh and Seth’s copy of a
Connecticut Post article on Sigmund Freud. As for
In Utero, it is clearly Nirvana’s greatest studio record. Period.
She’ll come back as fire to burn all the liars, leave a blanket of ash on the ground.
Issue Contents- Cleveland Steamer
- Cool Ways to Say “Poop”
- Child’s Play
- Complainers
- Confessions of a Cleptomaniac [sic]
- Interesting Facts
- Hydrogen Energy
- Witches
- Top 10 Reasons to use Hydrogen
- The Apocalypse
- Norwood (Comic)
- A Kick in the Face Solves Anything
- The 69 Anti-Trace
- Opium of the Masses
- In the Next Issue
- Credits
- Mucking
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