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Who the Fuck are We? Lucky
Lawler - Crazy Glenn Wernig
- Luke Palermo - Andrew
Goldfarb - Tony Millionaire - Gary
Pig Gold - Christian Gabriel
- Beppi & Mary Knott
- Vlad -
Chuck Foster - Jenny
Gonzalez-Blitz - Bruno Blum
- Chuck
Foster - Anjanette
McGrath - Anthony
Begnal - Robert Butcher -
Bruce Alexander - Justin
Melkmann -
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Editor
in Chief/co-founder & Photographer for the NY Waste.
Lucky grew up in London during the great Punk yrs. Lucky feels saved by Punk Rock'n'Roll. Lucky has done life in NYC doing a variety of jobs. One day after having read the dictionary out of sheer boredom, Lucky moved on to the yellow pages to see what other people did in life and kept stopping at publishing, and so was born the New York Waste newspaper. One thing about Lucky is that Lucky loves the printed page. Always going to gigs and shows with some sort of camera in pocket, shooting the underground rock scene in NYC for 17 yrs exclusively for the New York Waste newspaper, "a little rag that I have put out since 97 with the help of some of the best, the weirdest and the wildest that nyc?s has to offer?" |
 Banana
Fish Zero by Lucky Lawler ©2010
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Art director/co-founder of the NY Waste.
Superb fine art cartoonist, hangs out in bars drawing the
local wildlife. His published body of work include "Having A
Hell Of A Time, Wish You Were Here" and a is looking to
produce his new one that is ready to go: "How I Spent My
Permanent Vacation."
His vision includes Punks, musicians, artists, writers and other assorted weirdos. Bartenders, bar staff n' bar owners, Promoters n' anyone who has "sumpthin' going on" ...And, of course, hot rock n' roll chicks. Artist statement: “NY Waste Premier Issue Cover” “The illustrations/comix that I’ve done for the Waste were predominately done in Photoshop. Using layers my illustrations sort of resemble animation cells. In this case I’d draw a singer, then, other band members. I scan then, drop them on a background stage, mostly painted in Photoshop. Then a crowd and the two characters. Next I would drop in dialog bubbles. Finally in Quark I would set words from my own personal typeface. Wah lah, the New York Waste is born!” –crazy Glenn Wernig “Larry The Lethargic Lycanthrope” “This here is one of my favorites comic and I was lucky to find all the major pieces and they are nicely congruous to exhibit. Only the bean bag chair is not shown because it was painted entirely with photoshop.Also, you may notice that it was originally called Lem The Lethargic Lycanthrope.” |
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for NY Waste design by Glenn Wernig ©2010
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Original web-slinger & designer for NYWaste website.
Named after Paul Newman's character in Cool Hand Luke, 1968 was a year marked with war, music and the birth of Luke Palermo. Raised
in Ocean City, NJ and graduate of Old Dominion University in
Norfolk, Virginia. Luke moved to New York City in 1992 and
began an illustrated magazine, Straight Jacket Tuxedo, which
ran four issues. During this time he was part of several
group shows at the Jack Light Gallery. In 1997 he began his
involvement with the New York Waste, and in 2002 created
Eville, a cartoon based on living in the East Village.
Luke?s
work has appeared at or in the Antagonist Art Movement NYC,
Big Art Show, The Big Takeover, Bowery Poetry Club NYC, The
Idiom, Jack Light Gallery NYC, New York Waste, Pterodactyl
Philadelphia, The R Bar, 941 Theatre and 3 AM Magazine. |
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all started off on a 5,000 watt radio station in England,
discovered as a largish fish in a very tiny pond he moved to
Sydney Australia where he photographed editorial fashion for
the major magazines. Shit happened and he became "if not mr.
Big then mr. Big Enough."
Fleeing the antipodes he ended up in NYC photographing for all the downtown publications and ended up with his own publishing company. 9/11 happened the shit hit the fan and he burrowed into his own rabbit hole only to resurface last year. Realizing the air is sweet again he is now looking into the camera again. An analog man in a digital world. |
 photo: Lucky Lawler ©2018 |
ANJANETTE MCGRATH
more talent in her little finger than...
Anjanette McGrath is a native New Yorker born and raised
in Washington Heights. She discovered photography at the
early age of twelve when her parents gave her a camera for
her birthday. She carried it everywhere and was always
taking photos of friends and family. Anjanette earned a
Bachelor’s of Art from New Jersey City University. After
college Anjanette worked as a graphic designer at MMI
International Licensing in New York City for a few years
until she became a mom. Her main focus was staying home
and caring for her children. She later attended Bloomfield
College in New Jersey and obtained her art teaching
certification. Anjanette loved and still loves chasing
after her children with a camera. Now, that her children
are growing and becoming a little more self-sufficient,
she has decided to get back into her love for photography.
She enjoys photographing live performance, portraits,
events, and opened Anjanette Photos Studio at The
Manufacturer’s Village in East Orange, NJ. Anjanette
currently photographs for the NY Waste Paper, The Sound
Live, and Amps and Green Screens.
More info at |
 Isis Queen, Barb Wire Dolls first published in NY Waste - Summer 2017 by Anjanette McGrath©2017 |
ANDREW GOLDFARB Full
time genius!
Currently
suffers from acute myopia and an inflammation of the olfactory
organs.
He is reputed to be buried in San Francisco, where he performs as a one man weirdo garage band under the moniker “The Slow Poisoner,” singing songs about worms driving hot rods and witches in the woods. Andrew is also the author of the long-running underground comic strip “Ogner Stump’s One Thousand Sorrows,” and paints pooping devils and zombified Elvises on black velvet. |
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GARY
PIG GOLD The Man The Myth The Pig grew straight up in O Canada beneath the spell of mighty CHUM 1050-AM Toronto, watched The Monkees on TV faithfully every Monday night as a child, named his own first Prefab Four after a certain “I Am The Walrus” lyric, saw Jimi Hendrix at the first-ever concert he ever snuck in to, heard Joe Strummer’s 101’ers open for The Troggs on his first-ever night in London, started The Pig Paper, Canada’s first self-published music fanzine, to sell as a fake concert programme outside shows by The Who, started Pig Records so he could sell some Simply Saucer 45’s too, ran away to Surf City, USA so he could tour Australia (almost) with Jan & Dean (except he forgot his passport), spent the dreaded 1980’s back home leading the Canadian Endless Summer Band – the Great White Northland’s only, a-hemm, authorized Beach Boys tribute band, had Some Time in New York City with the former singer from Teenage Head and the former drummist from Television, released the first-ever “indie” album on the former Soviet Union’s Melodiya label, put together the severely alt. country Ghost Rockets so he could try to get a song into the second Brady Bunch movie, has contributed to books and records on and with everyone from Pat Boone and Jim Carroll to Jandek and the Bay City Rollers, and yet still proudly contributes his own particular brand of run-on sentencing to each and every issue of New York Waste he can! |
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talented artist - give this man a show Being a war veteran who struggled with PTSD, he found his outlet through painting. It was after going to local art shows that he became inspired and his monochromatic world turned colorful. A world where you can do anything or be anyone. Christian started painting in 2007. In 2010, he opened Christian Gabriel Art, a fine art studio that specializes in traditional commissions as well as digital design. He studied Media Arts and Animation at the Art Institute of Las Vegas where he earned his Bachelors in 2013. After college, Christian gained professional experience working at a high volume fine art production company. In 2017, Christian relocated to Portland where he was invited to join the advisory committee for The Oregon Society of Artists. His painting “One Mind, One Garden” was featured in an episode of the IFC hit TV series Portlandia (2017). Christian Gabriel more info: |
 Poison Heart by Christian Gabriel |
MARY
KNOTT One
day Lucky got a strange mysterious telegraph from Baltimore
City. Ding ding ding
BEPPI
ISBERT Welcome.
I am Beppi & this is a little space for some of
my creations & ideas. According to my sister,
Carol, I would not rank very high on Dr. Michael
Stone’s “Scale of Evil”. She’s probably right, but
in my work, I try to chronicle the villainy
& scroundrelism (yes, I have a Thesaurus) I see
in the world mix in some pop culture & irony.
Voila! If all goes well, there is a beauty in the
ugliness of the subject matter. In the Bauhaus
tradition, everything I do is an extention of my art
from the obvious paintings & comics to my
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Somewhat
of a tortured soul. Writes because he has to. Not so sure if
anyone will ever hear his songs or read his work but that's
OK, as long as he is amusing himself, it's all good.
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JENNY
GONZALEZ-BLITZ J Gonzalez-Blitz is a multi-disciplined artist born working with painting, drawing, collage, and assorted objects, and also does comics and cartoons. Musically she and her husband, percussionist Eric Blitz, create soundscapes and noise under the name Astral Knife. Her current work can be seen at |
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BRUNO BLUM Bruno Blum is a vegan cartoonist, illustrator, singer, guitar slinger, producer from Paris, France. His beginnings included being London corespondent for Best Magazine in the late 70s. He is also known for his numerous books on rock culture, (Bob Marly, Lou Reed etc...) and many hip reissues of super rare cd albums. Some say he's at his best with cartoons. This
artwork was first published in Best in France and was used by
Motörhead on the "Overkill" European Tour in the spring and
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Since
2002, Chuck has regularly written columns as a music
critic/journalist for publications like The New York Waste,
Under The Volcano, Horror Garage, Fear and Loathing in Long
Beach and The Big Takeover in both print and online versions.
Over the years, he has interviewed diverse voices, such as
Jello Biafra, Buzz Osborne of The Melvins and Sky Saxon of The
Seeds.
Additionally, he has co-written award-winning screenplays for Hell’s Belles and The Summoners (aka Girls Play Games for YouTube’s BlackBoxTV) with director Christian Ackerman. They are currently developing their next project together. |
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is a semi-legendary punk rock artist, originally hailing from the wilds of Pennsylvania and currently located in NYC. His art has spanned from Necros flyers to paintings hanging in the LA Punk Museum. He released a successful sold out first issue of a comic book series last fall. He also mangles the guitar for punk/metal horror legends Chesty Malone and the Slice ' em Ups. He's inspired by his lovely wife, crazy sons and three cats. |
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Justin Melkmann has been creating and self publishing his own underground comic books for upwards of twelve years now. Melkmann holds nothing back, and leaves little to the imagination as he introduces the reader to his band World War IX, and takes us deep into the dingy dives of New York City’s punk rock music scene circa right now. His biggest seller is a book called Slap In The Face: My Obsession With GG Allin. In this Justin chronicles his years of devotion to one of punk’s most twisted performers, The Mad Man Of Manchester, Public Animal Number One, GG Allin. From avid listener, friend and biographer, to enemy, Melkmann takes the candy coating off the joys of being a super fan. Amidst the tales of blown apart friendships, soul crushing hangovers, vengeful bandmates, and death, Melkmann manages to keep the laughs rolling…like an empty beer bottle on a desolate midnight subway train. He brutally captures, in raw black and white, both the euphoric highs as well as the nauseating lows of following ones dreams. His eye catching self taught style is all his own with clear nods to his heroes R. Crumb, Peter Bagge, and John Holmstrom. |
 Watch Justin Melkmann Cartoons on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-i359DEZA |
I was born in Brooklyn. Moved to Manhattan in the 1970's. Have been living on The Lower East Side since the the 1980's. Got my BFA at The School Of Visual Arts . I transitioned from painting to photography. Then became a photojournalists and have been photographing rock concerts and media-art events the last 20 years, 15 of which were for The New York Waste , my column (Bruce’s Bits). Bruce Alexander for more info: www.brucesworld5.wordpress.com |
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TONY MILLIONAIRE Thank you for being part of NY Waste for so long! It was a real pleasure to have you in the paper! Just
follow him, wherever he goes!
Winner of over one million comics awards for his creation, "Drinky Crow", Tony Millionaire began his career at the now defunct and debunked New York Press. He soon started drawing comics for SCREW magazine where he met Danny Hellman and Peter Landau, which led to his failure as an artist, lowering himself to such demeaning rags as Village Voice, Seattle Stranger and L.A. Weekly. He now draws anything anyone will pay him for, which he calls, "Dancing on coffee tables like a fucking monkey." |
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