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Born along bold, black-and-white lines in Berkeley, CA in 1968, Aaron Cometbus began publishing Cometbus at age 13, months before Maximum Rocknroll got off the ground in 1981. A few years later, Aaron participated in the Gilman Street Project and started his band Crimpshrine. By 1989, Crimpshrine had broken up and Aaron steadfastly focused on Cometbus, which he honed to focus on "punk anthropology," partly to create a legacy bigger than his broken-up band. He was involved with many more part time and project bands over the next twenty five years, such as Pinhead Gunpowder, Thorns of Life, Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, Redmond Shooting Stars, The Blank Fight, and filling in for Green Day and This Bike is a Pipe Bomb. Cometbus became a consistent and determined force to be reckoned with predating trends and inspiring legions of imitators. After over thirty years of steadfast involvement in the scene, virtually everyone you meet has an anecdote about meeting Aaron. Cometbus, when at its best, which is most of the time these days, is a perennial reminder that if we just apply hundreds of thousands of hours to one solitary task across 40 years, we too could become a Great American Classic.
Downtown Local (Cometbus #53)
by Aaron Cometbus Author
Cometbus 53! Maddalena Poletta and Aaron trade writing duties in this issue, and their writing styles compliment each…
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The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah (Cometbus #51)
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This issue of Cometbus is a history of the East Bay through the lens of independent bookstores and their mercurial…
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A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309
by Aaron Cometbus Author and Scott Satterwhite Author
At their best, punkhouses are a shelter from the storm of society and our dysfunctional families. At their worst, they…
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Cometbus #59: Post-Mortem
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What are the successes and failures of punk and its institutions? What happened to a once-thriving punk underground…
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Cometbus #56: A Bestiary of Booksellers
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The 56th issue of Cometbus is a loving ethnography of New York City's wild, weird, and bearded used book trade. Aaron…
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Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection
by Aaron Cometbus Author
Add Toner collects recent, out of print issues of Cometbus, including Lanky (a novel about dating at 18), Back to the…
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Punks Around #10: Zine About Zines
by Alexander Herbert Editor, Matthew Thompson Contributor and Aaron Cometbus Contributor
A love letter to the zines that have formatively inspired editor Alex over the years. Includes a long conversation with…
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$20 Superpack: Ride the Wohl Whip (Cometbus)
by Aaron Cometbus Author and Super Pack! Author
Featuring a pile of issues of the classic Cometbus zine. Includes the long out-of-print, now unearthed contributor issue…
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Cometbus #58: Zimmerwald
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A teenager finds solace in a diner full of grumpy seniors during the heydey of San Francisco punk. It's a mythological…
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Cometbus #49
by Aaron Cometbus Author
This is a contributor issue of Cometbus. It's got a TON of stuff, including some gritty, experimental poems, an…
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Cometbus #57 NY Comics Scene
by Aaron Cometbus Author, Gary Panter Author, Nate Powell Author and Julia Wertz Author
The comics scene is thriving in New York, and comics play an oversized role in the city’s myth. But why? In this…
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Last Supper
by Aaron Cometbus Author
Next door to the chain stores and mini malls are the cheap restaurants with chipped paint and handwritten signs which…
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The Snake Pit Book: Daily Diary Comics 2001-2003
by Ben Snakepit Author and Aaron Cometbus Foreword
Ben Snakepit draws his life everyday in 3 comic panels. This was his first book, collecting quite a few various zines.…
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