On the side, Wes and George created album artwork, t-shirts, posters, and other promotional designs for Rhymesayers, Fobia Skate Shop, anticon Records, and other small companies run by friends and extended family, often bringing in the assistance of Mike Davis and LSD art contributors Todd Bratrud and Aaron Horkey.īy about 2003, the staff of Life Sucks Die decided to put the magazine on the back burner and shift their focus towards the various design projects which had begun to stack up. Over the next several years, the lead designers from the magazine, Wes Winship and George Thompson, would help raise funds for the magazine by organizing parties featuring performances from local hip hop and punk rock acts including Dillinger Four, DJ Andrew (Broder, Minneapolis musician of the groups Fog and Cloak Ox), and the Rhymesayers crew right in their salad days. Shortly thereafter, Mike was invited to write and contribute design assistance to the next few issues of LSD. There, they met and befriended Mike Davis, a graffiti writer / graphic design student / DJ.
Louis MO for the annual Paint Louis graffiti festival. While nobody managed to successfully rip off the style of Life Sucks Die in creating a new magazine, the influence this magazine had on the graffiti world, hip hop world, skateboarding world, and other various subcultures was more apparent than ever.ĭuring the summer of 1997, the cast of Life Sucks Die made their way down to St.
In the years to follow, aspiring graffiti magazine entrepreneurs attempted issue after issue to out- LSD LSD. Allin's "Life Sucks Scum Fuck" and "Live Fast Die" tattoos, LSD wildly defied the rules of the already defiant genre of graffiti magazine with their eye-popping collages of roadkill photos, tabloid clippings, pornography, junk culture, the best graffiti flicks from all across the globe, and articles ranging in subject matter from shoplifting to hair weaves to littering to toilet clogging tips. Named after a mixup of punk rock icon G.G. Using their writing and illustration skills and fully exploiting their after-hours access to unlimited color copies, the crew released the first issue of Life Sucks Die Magazine.
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