The Cherotic Revolutionary #8
1997
it is so fresh and sort of 'clear', I don't know exactly how to define it. GOOD perhaps, or is that too worn out?" J Luoma, Trapezchedron Press, Finland |
| “a zine caught between wisdom and child's play, sex, and good ideas.” Jesse Beagle |
| “Just read the new TCR from cover to cover and was fuckin blown away. Raindog, Catfish, Linda Montano, all the art! Elliott, the Labash "softer' style. Leaping, thrilling, alive. The disability piece. DONT get a life, listen to LUVER. Raced through the zine. The black and white became acid colours. Streaming through my saturated brain. I was out of breath when i put it down.” Barb Golden |
| “Read it cover to cover, just couldn't put it down. Ya know, alot of publications look pretty, and catch the eye, but this did alot more for me. I'm impressed at the quality of the content, and how it seemed like almost every part of the thing reached me on level after level. I found your article on fame especially valuable as I often grapple with the sense sometimes that my work attracts profit mongers, yet I tend to run like hell from them, even though I admit I wouldn't mind making a buck sometime. It's funny, no matter how explicit the work, it's never "dirty" until money starts to become involved. Ray Heinrich's poem "Someone else..." was terrific. A genuine expression. Delightful and somewhat risky. Good art. I loved the Grapin photos. They had a fantasy quality along with a real quality, and bore alot of looking at again and again.” Daak Madison |
| “Really interesting articles and over all such outrageous vitality and idealism... such a relief from all the gloom and conformity of the 90's.” Tony Ryan |
| “Okay. On the surface this appears to be another underground, sex-themed zine. It’s not. At least, it’s not just that. It’s more of an on-going “mission statement” by publisher Frank Moore and his army of (r)Evolutionaries. It contains poetry, stories, essays, sexy photos, drawings by Claudio Parentela (you see his work in the Journal, as well as the LRB series). Blair Wilson and the ever-demented Michael LaBash, an interesting article on Assembling Magazines, letters and commentaries on Frank’s many projects in the realm of Sex-Magik and the breaking down of sexual taboos. In other words, something for everyone (assuming your mind hasn’t been shut down or sanitized “for your protection”), unless you’re Jesse Helms.” Raindog, LUMMOX JOURNAL, October 1999 |
| “I started wondering what the hell happened to that really cool hippie magazine that use to come out of Berkeley. It’s been about two long years, but Frank Moore has finally graced us with a new issue, and I have to say that is was time well spent. Some of the contents are “Rethinking the Disability Agenda”, “Assembling Magazines”, a great piece by Frank Moore called “What Price Fame”, poetry and art. Also included, at least in my mailing, is a copy of Frank Moore’s famed “Out of Isolation” which was a real treat. All in all, it’s well worth the $5 Frank wants for it. Yes, it’s truly a zine of all possibilities.” Ken Wagner, BLUE RYDER PRESENTS…BEST OF THE UNDERGROUND, Vol. 3 (October 1999) |
| “Frank Moore, with Linda Mac are at #8 with this zine of all possibilities in which plenty of drawings and pictures make it most unique. Tony Ryan’s B&W pictorial is a treat and there is a presentation made by Frank that indeed reveals much of Tony’s talent Beautiful women and interacting people presented with class. Frank has a lot to say in there and other contributors are really taking it to the edge in drawing as much as in writing. The nude aspect is not shied upon so is the sensual and erotic aspect. It’s all in there in B&W. Their web of all possibilities is at http://www.eroplay.com.” Peter Riden, The Affiliate Jan/Feb 2000 |
“…had a great night and read the entire zine (TC(r)#8) thoroughly: wonderful, every article and poem; (LaBash’s) outerspace drawings! and wiggle/drawings (my hair) – also a fantastic article on a wish to see death (Linda Montano) and a fine poem that turned out to be our Ralphy’s (Ralph Haselmann) re: Burroughs.” “Re-read your (Frank Moore’s) outstanding article on fame; I relate to so much of that! – Well, obviously, my poem follows it!!!! ALL the poetry was good!!” “Frank, the Zine is not just Hors d’oeuvre, it is breakfast, lunch and dinner and dessert. I mean, all encompassing and from so many avenues of words and from the simple statements to the erudite, it is substance!” |
| “The cover photo alone, of the nude nymph trimming her pubes, makes this issue of The Cherotic (r)Evolutionary worth picking up, and the inside freedom of expression continues to reign in the forms of articles, art, and poetry. The poetry end is a little heavy, comprising about a quarter of the mag, and some of the special interest pieces (‘Theater Rant’ and ‘Rethinking the Disability Agenda’) sort of evade me, but there’s some other good and wide-ranging material here. Besides artwork by the prolific and talented artists Claudio Parentela and Blair Wilson, there’s an essay on editorial collectives and correspondence art projects, ‘Assembling Magazines’ by Stephen Perkins, Tony Ryan’s photos of nude hippy chicks, a satirical obituary for Monica Seles (dead at 76 due to botched anti-aging treatment after a successful career in mainstream porno), and a mini-zine, Out of Isolation, which is the story for a film by editor Frank Moore about the love affair between a nurse and her severely disabled patient. The most surprising and amazing piece here though is ‘Subject: India’ by Linda Montano, about her travel to Benares to better understand the nature of death. And it seems the place is ideally suited to such lessons, as portions of her travelogue read like A Panorama of Hell: ‘Not look at the wild pig nudging the little girl’s ass and eating her feces as it dropped to the earth…a bloated, headless, bluish, one breasted woman floated by.’ Fascinating stuff which makes what seems like a difficult existence working for a living here in the U.S. feel downright heavenly by comparison. You can expect nearly anything from a publication coming out of Berkeley, and Cherotic (r)Evolutionary maintains a better creative balance than one might expect.” Tom Crites, Paniscus Revue #6 |
| “Every evening when I get up I thank God for Frank Moore. Powerful poetry, incredible artwork, essays, and photos of pretty girls naked! What more could a guy ask for?” Robert Penick, Chance Magazine Reviews |
| “Very thought and libido provoking” Tero Lehto, Finland |
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