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Click here to purchase PROTECT: A Benefit For the National Association to Protect Children featuring unreleased tracks by Coalesce, NOFX, Jawbreaker, Anti-Flag, and much more! 26 total tracks at an affordable price--all for a great cause.
Click here to purchase Get Away Volume by The Mishaps, Pale & Skinny: 1986 - 1992 by Raegan Butcher, back issues of Verbicide, and more!
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Scissor Press is a media company that formed in late 2000. Our flagship publication is Verbicide Magazine, a quarterly periodical that focuses on independent literature, music, and art. It is released in March, June, September, and December, and currently has a per-issue press run of 25,000 copies. It is distributed freely across the US in cities include New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston/New England (via Newbury Comics), Portland (OR), Bloomington, Rochester, and many others.
Verbicide magazine was founded by Jackson Ellis in 1999. The first two issues were cut & paste photocopied half-sized zines--a far cry from the current offset, glossy cover format!
Over the years, Verbicide has featured many bands and musicians, including Chuck D (Public Enemy), Henry Rollins (Black Flag/Rollins Band), Mike D (Beastie Boys), Saul Williams, Ian MacKaye (Fugazi/Evens), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Dan Hoerner (Sunny Day Real Estate), Jesse Michaels (Common Rider/Operation Ivy), and many more. We've also featured interviews with and writing by some of the top writers and publishers of our time--ranging from world-famous authors Hunter S. Thompson, Ray Bradbury, John Fante, Jack Kerouac, Nelson Algren, Tim O'Brien, and Dennis Lehane, to lesser-known scribes such as Raegan Butcher, Mark Huddle, Christopher Staley, Kris Sevillena, Christopher Connal, Seth Gotro, Charles Romalotti, Amy Schroeder, Jason J. Marchi, Todd Taylor, and Sean Carswell.
Other projects of Scissor Press include the publication of Nate Pollard's Abstract Fantasy comic books, and the New Sounds CD sampler series, available for free at Newbury Comics.
Past projects of Scissor Press have included the release of a CDEP by Maryland punk rockers The Mishaps , the PROTECT punk rock compilation CD released in conjunction with Fat Wreck Chords to benefit The National Association to Protect Children , two issues of Excommunication Fanzine, one issue of Boston Heights Magazine, one issue of the writers' resource guide The Anvil, and the online literature zine Terraspatial, created by former Scissor Press co-publisher, Douglas Novielli.

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Member Since: 2/15/2005
Band Website: scissorpress.com
Band Members: Jackson Ellis
Editor, Advertising Director, Head of Waste Management and Special Events Catering Depts.
Nathaniel Pollard
Creative Director, Layout, Website Designer
Author/Illustrator of Abstract Fantasy comics
Mark Huddle
Editor of the National Affairs Desk of Verbicide Magazine
Larry Livermore
Columnist
Michael Twohig
Staff Illustrator
REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS
Kris Sevillena
Avir Mitra
Jeremy Robert Johnson
Raegan Butcher
Christopher Staley
Christopher Connal
Kevin Munley
Cayte Nobles
REVIEW STAFF
Seth Gotro, Sean Collier, Craig Gilbert, Peter Terebesi, Agent Automatic , Jenny Carter, Asher Ellis , Ryan Brosmer, Sean Lambert, Alex Murphy, Heather Schofner, Garrett Lyons, Jon Aubin, Casey Boland, Erin Gambrill, Melissa Koh, Matthew Wright, Dr. Heid, Nathaniel G. Moore, Erin Roof, Brian Moss
Influences: Anger and coffee.
Sounds Like: AOL IM: verbicidemag
Type of Label: Indie