RAY GUN nos. 4 and 38

Marvin Jarrett [Editor]

Marvin Jarrett [Editor], Robert Hales [Art Director]: RAY GUN. Santa Monica, CA: Ray Gun Publishing, Number 38, August 1996. Small folio. Saddle-stitched photographically printed wrappers. Unpaginated. Elaborately designed text and advertisements. Light wear overall. A very good or better copy.

[2] 10 x 12 saddle-stitched magazines [unpaginated] billing itself as "The Bible of Music and Style."

Soon after David Carson qualified as the 9th best surfer in the world, Steve and Debbee Pezman, publishers of Surfer magazine tapped Carson to design a new quarterly publication called Beach Culture. Though only six quarterly issues were produced, the tabloid-size venue -- edited by author Neil Fineman -- allowed Carson to make his first significant impact on the world of graphic design and typography -- with ideas that were called innovative even by those that were not fond of his work, in which legibility often relied on readers' strict attention (for one feature on a blind surfer, Carson opened with a two-page spread covered in black).

Soon after Beach Culture folded, Carson was hired by publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett to design Ray Gun, a magazine of supposed international standards focusing on music and lifestyle. Not afraid to break convention, in one issue he used Dingbat as the font for what he considered a rather dull interview with Bryan Ferry. Ouch.

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