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Punk Globe, is a fanzine and online magazine, started by Ginger Coyote in July 1977. It was originally distributed on photocopied pages folded together. After its first year anniversary, Chris Coyle, manager for SVT

Sveriges Television

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, a San Francisco-based punk band, suggested a newsprint format. Ginger Coyote wrote on the website:

"We found Grant Printing--a company owned by the influential Fang Family, publishers of Asian Week and the San Francisco Independent Community newspapers (and for a while, the San Francisco Examiner)--for the following 7 years. For our last 2 years, the magazine upgraded to heavier stock white paper printed at SF Litho."

It was published as a fanzine until 1989, when Ginger Coyote started a band called White Trash Debutantes. The content of Punk Globe included a calendar of events, gossip, interviews, record reviews, photos, artwork, the Punk Of the Month Award and the humorous advice column, "Ask Sonny Bono

Sonny Bono

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.-Early life:...

." According to its publisher, "The magazine was lighthearted and a lot of fun... It became a hit, and in the last few years, 25,000 copies were being printed." The online version of Punk Globe surfaced in 2005, and contains some of the old content: articles, ads, artwork, photos and letters from past issues, as well as new artwork and photographs, gossip, news, interviews, CD, DVD, film and book reviews. Recent additions include an Internet forum and a Myspace

Myspace

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page. According to Ginger Coyote, the website gets approximately 8,000 hits per day.

Punk Globe contributors included: Bebe Buell

Bebe Buell

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as associate editor and writer, Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra

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writing record reviews under the name "The Taste Police", Dorothy Lyman

Dorothy Lyman

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, Marc Floyd (AKA The Floydian Device), Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb

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, John Balano, Liz Derringer, De Fen, Rebecca G. Wilson, Joe Jackson

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, Jon Gries

Jon Gries

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, Lisa Zane

Lisa Zane

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, Matt Dillon

Matt Dillon

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, Gus Bernadicou, Ernie Townsend, Joe Dallesandro, Gerry-Jenn Wilson, Ms. Ligaya, Andrew Stevens

Andrew Stevens

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, Judd Nelson

Judd Nelson

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, Lisa Booth, Sharla Cartner, Kim Acrylic, John Synder, Mark Arnold

Mark Arnold

Mark Arnold is an American punk rock singer and guitarist, best known for two band projects Big Drill Car and All Systems Go! .-References:...

, Courtney Love

Courtney Love

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, and Billy Gould

Billy Gould

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http://www.punkglobe.com
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