Verbicide Magazine
Verbicide is an independent entertainment periodical based jointly out of Ludlow, Vermont and Brooklyn, New York. It is co-published via Scissor Press by founding editor Jackson Ellis and creative director Nathaniel Pollard.
Verbicide was founded in 1999 in New Haven, Connecticut by Jackson Ellis. The first issue came out in September 1999, a handmade (cut-and-paste), 12-page photocopied zine. A far cry from its inception, Verbicide is now a full-color offset printed magazine with a full-color glossy cover, with free circulation in New York, Austin, Los Angeles, Boston, and San Francisco.
The magazine includes music reviews, InterViews with musicians and authors, book and film reviews, and featured columns by Larry Livermore and Mark Huddle. Past issues have featured interviews with the likes of Chuck D, Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, Saul Williams, The Gorillaz, The Donnas, and the Beastie Boys. Verbicide has published fiction by authors including Raegan Butcher, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Diane DiPrima, Christopher Staley, Nelson Algren, John Fante, Joe Meno, and Jack Kerouac.
Los Angeles zine Razorcake described Verbicide as a "a good mag by an editor who’s fighting the good fight".