Back in 2009 the Columbus Alive ran a two-part piece on Tim Anstaett, former concert promoter and publisher of fanzine The Offense. Here's a bit:
In 1980, Anstaett helped ignite the local punk and new wave scene by booking bands like The Cowboys at South Campus bar Mr. Brown’s.
After a few months, he grew tired of concert promotion and started a fanzine instead. The first issue of TKA Offense debuted on April 11, 1980, fully handwritten and printed in the basement of the insurance office where Anstaett worked by day.
“I just slapped one together,” he said. “And then I thought, well, let’s slap another one together.”
Soon the zines - semi-regular collections of reviews, interviews, quizzes and local scene reports from around the Midwest - became a hit. Despite (or perhaps because of) their homemade look and feel, the books gained distribution of about 1,000 copies in record shops around the country and even spread to England.
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