Lollipop Magazine

Graffic Traffic – As Our Story Continues – Column

July 1, 1997

Basement Comics has collected the six early, self-published issues of Bud Root’s CaveWoman, a well-drawn mix of Good Girl cheesecake and lots of dinosaurs.

Your Hero Complex is Bull – Fiction

July 1, 1997

While terrifyingly large creatures, Michael fancied he saw the same desperation in the bulls. But it’s difficult to read the expression of a stampeding bull.

Trona – Interview

July 1, 1997

An interview with Chris Dyas (guitar/vocals), Mary Ellen Leahy (guitar/vocals), and Pete Sutton (bass)

The Third Eye – Reality Whispers – Column

July 1, 1997

There were three of them, but only one spoke. A child-woman with long blonde hair and an elfin face, who resembled what I would look like in another realm.

The Culture Bunker – Welcome to the Messiah Complex – Fiction

July 1, 1997

We manufactured designer “accessories of Godliness” at the Sweatshop of Heavenly Piecework. These were rare and glorious times and I have the scabs to prove it.

Signs You Are Too Drunk – Fiction

July 1, 1997

You lose arguments with inanimate objects. You fall off the floor. The shrubbery’s drunk from too frequent watering.

Rollins Band – Come In and Burn – Interview

July 1, 1997

An interview with Henry Rollins

Mötley Crüe – Generation Swine – Interview

July 1, 1997

An interview with Tommy Lee

Mike Royko: The Rare Newspaperman – Fiction

July 1, 1997

Mike Royko was the midwesterner’s Jimmy Breslin, a two-fisted muckraker who could write himself and his blue collar cronies into every maelstrom he covered.

Lunachicks – Pretty Ugly – Interview

July 1, 1997

An interview with singer Theo Kogan