What role do magazines play on the overall graffiti scene?
For me, viewing magazines was the main way of keeping tabs on the worldwide graffiti scene before the internet was really out and about. The first graffiti mag I had was an UnderCover in ’95. The styles were highly advanced to me. I was not on the level of making graff that looked like that. I had experience doing pieces but when I saw UnderCover, I felt that I would never be able to duplicate or surpass the styles they published. I felt like these guys were doing some real serious shit. Later on, Scribble and OnTheGo, acted as a platform to display progressive styles. Scribble magazine caught criticism because they were some what biased to the type of styles they put in there. Although you can complain on their taste, they did print a lot of the progressive styles. They would also do things like show seven pieces from the same production, but break them down into individual photos of each piece. I think people were really studying the styles coming from these magazines from ’97–’01. T
