Grim Humour was a UK based fanzine/underground magazine edited and published by Richard Johnson (Fourth Dimension Records, Splintered (band), Lumberton Trading Company, Theme (band), etc.) between 1983 and 1993. It spanned 18 editions during this period and sometimes included flexidiscs, compilations (a cassette and an LP, respectively) or split 7" records which themselves featured artists as diverse as Ausgang, Portion Control, Bushido, Shockheaded Peters, Hotalacio, Rake, Cindytalk and Richard Johnson's own band, Splintered (band). The magazine itself covered underground music, films, art and literature reviews and featured Wire, The Fall, Killing Joke, Crass, Coil, Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch, Front Line Assembly, Big Black, Swans, The Virgin Prunes, The Cure, Sonic Youth, Whitehouse, The Butthole Surfers and more besides. Following a gap of several years, it then transmogrified into another publication, Adverse Effect, which lasted for four printed editions between 2000 and 2005 and then became an online magazine which still exists and also houses Johnson's Fourth Dimension Records imprint. At the moment, Johnson is also compiling a book devoted to some of the best features from Grim Humour. It is hoped it will be ready to publish in 2010.
Famous quotes containing the words grim and/or humour:
“Tattoo-shops, consulates, grim head-scarfed wives;
And out beyond its mortgaged half-built edges
Fast-shadowed wheat-fields, running high as hedges,
Isolate villages, where removed lives
Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
Hidden weeds flower....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.”
—V.S. (Victor Sawdon)