The Glass Eye was an eccentric Toledo, Ohio-based monthly reader/zine published by Edward Shimborske III

Edward Shimborske III

Edward Shimborske III is an American record executive, music producer, singer/songwriter, graphic artist, journalist/author, radio personality, lyricist and voice-over artist...

 that focused on Ohio area music and featured exclusive interviews with both regional and national acts. The debut issue hit stands in 1994 and ran until 2006. Like a counter-culture version of Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...

, Shimborske's highly praised 'zine featured lengthy interviews with musicians, novelists, actors, adult-film stars, boxers, directors, rappers, professional wrestlers, models and witches. Readers were never surprised to find pieces on Zamboni-drivers next to reflections from cast-members of the X-Files and The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...

. In fact, the small publishing house printed pieces on everyone from Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...

 and Vincent Bugliosi

Vincent Bugliosi

Vincent Bugliosi is an American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders. His most recent books are Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy , The Prosecution of George W...

 to Kid Gavilán

Kid Gavilan

Gerardo González , better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former world welterweight champion from Cuba...

 and Catherine Bach

Catherine Bach

Catherine Bach is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies.-Career:...

 to Rudy Ray Moore

Rudy Ray Moore

Rudy Ray Moore was an American comedian, musician, singer, film actor, and film producer. He was perhaps best known as Dolemite , the uniquely articulate pimp from the 1975 film Dolemite, and its sequel, The Human Tornado...

 and Bernie Wrightson

Bernie Wrightson

Bernie "Berni" Wrightson is an American artist known for his horror illustrations and comic books.-Biography:...

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Glass Eye Contributors

• Keith Bergman (Metal Maniacs, Blabbermouth)
• Martin Popoff
  Martin Popoff
  Martin Popoff is a Canadian-born music journalist and critic who covers the genre of heavy metal music. The senior editor and co-founder of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles magazine, he has additionally written over twenty books that both critically evaluate heavy metal and document its history...
  
  
• ES3
• Alexander Clarkson
• Jeffrey 'Jude' Welsh
• Peggy Stierman
• Micah Shimborske
• Tim Bueter
• Mark Tinta
• Cati Leigh
• Frank Esposito
• Mahlon Orrin
• Jay Hathaway
• Chris Kozak
• Phil Klink
• Tim Livingston
• Michael Seday
• Edward Shimborske Jr.
• David Lee
• Robert 'Pops' Lichman
• Steve Campos
• Malcolm Harper