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| Editor | Jim Goad Debbie Goad |
|---|---|
| Categories | Social pathology |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Circulation | 13,000 |
| Publisher | Jim Goad Debbie Goad |
| First issue | 1991 |
| Final issue | 1994 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Based in | Los Angeles |
| Language | English |
Answer Me! (typically rendered ANSWER Me!) was a magazine edited by Jim Goad and Debbie Goad and published between 1991 and 1994. It focused on the social pathologies of interest to the Los Angeles–based couple.
Answer Me! also featured illustrations by racist antisemitic cartoonist[1][2] Nick Bougas.[3]
Issue 4 of Answer Me! was the subject of a high-profile obscenity trial against two booksellers whose magazine store carried the issue.
Released 31 October 1991.
Featured interviews with Russ Meyer, Timothy Leary, Holly Woodlawn, Kid Frost, Public Enemy, Iceberg Slim, and pieces on Bakersfield, California, Sunset Boulevard, masturbationinliterature, and Twelve-Step programs.
Released 17 July 1992.
Featured Anton LaVey, David Duke, Al Goldstein, El DuceofThe Mentors, the Geto Boys, Ray Dennis Steckler, 100 serial killers and mass murderers, Vietnamese gangs, and Mexican murder magazines.
Released 19 July 1993.
Featured Jack Kevorkian, Al Sharpton, NAMBLA, the Kids of Widney High, Boyd Rice, Suzanne Muldowney, 100 suicides, guns, Andrei Chikatilo, pedophiliainSteven Spielberg's work, Mexican deformity comics, paintings and drawings by murderers, and a prank call to a suicide hotline.
Released 1994.
Known as "The Rape Issue", features a teen-mag-style interview with Richard Ramirez, Donny the Punk, work by Molly Kiely, Boyd Rice, Randall Phillip, Shaun Partridge, Adam Parfrey (onAndrea Dworkin), Peter Sotos (with illustrationsbyTrevor Brown), pieces on amputation, the police, racist country & western music, and Chocolate Impulse.
The first three issues were released in a collection with autobiographical introductory pieces by Debbie and Jim. It was first published as Answer Me!: The First Three (ISBN 1-873176-03-1) by AK Press.
It was reissued, along with 60 pages of new material, by Scapegoat Publishing (ISBN 0-9764035-3-6) in 2006.
According to Jim Goad's website as of 2012[update], a collection of issues #1–4 "will be reprinted this year."[4]
In 1995, a complaint about issue no. 4 being sold at a Bellingham, Washington magazine store known as The Newsstand resulted in owners Ira Stohl and Kristina Hjelsand being tried on charges of distribution of obscenity.[5] Charged with one felony count of promoting pornography, they faced a maximum sentence of five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. The defendants were found not guilty.[6][7] A later lawsuit against the City of Bellingham by Stohl and Hjelsand resulted in the City paying $1.3 million to the plaintiffs on the grounds of violation of First Amendment rights and infliction of emotional distress.[7][8]
Chocolate Impulse was a "hoax zine" created by Jim and Debbie Goad, publishers of Answer Me!. Wanting to address the negative feedback they'd received from the zine community, the Goads wrote and distributed a pseudonymous screed against themselves (in which they claimed to be the lesbian couple "Valerie Chocolate" and "Faith Impulse"), going so far as to set up a fake address for it in Kentucky. The zine received some positive response from the publishers of Feminist Baseball and other zines that had negatively reviewed the Goads. In issue #4 of Answer Me!, Jim Goad revealed the prank and insulted those who had taken the bait.
So. You could stop right there and say that Nick Bougas is the most widely disseminated anti-Semitic cartoonist of all time and not be wrong.
But internet anti-Semites (or at least people fishing for a reaction) started splicing Garrison's work together with the work of Nick Bougas, aka A. Wyatt Man, a director and illustrator responsible for one of the web's most enduring anti-Semitic images.
