Feb 11, 2014
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Updated: Jul 22
The caption for the picture in the bottom left corner reads “Iggy in action: just another exhibitionist asshole?”
In a lot of ways, this picture/caption combo sums up the attitude that Heavy Metal tried to present – hipper than thou with regard to the newest new stuff and the old classics that readers have probably never heard off at the same time without any sense of conflict or irony. Plus they get to say “asshole” because the magazine has tits in it.
There is also a ton of empty space at the top of the page, which makes me wish they’d rearranged the text around the Iggy Pop picture so that the paragraph directly below him was more obvious to the reader.
(Heavy Metal issue #71, February 1983 – Page 8 Dossier)




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