HERMENAUTICA (13)
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April 7, 2023
One in a series of posts featuring pages from Hermenaut, a DIY intellectual zine/journal published by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn from 1992 through 2000-01.
Jennifer Engel, our art director, had the idea — for the cover of an issue whose theme was “vertigo” — to create a diorama of an astronaut who’d come untethered. Our friend Kenji Messenger created the moonscape and set up a photo shoot. I think the astronaut’s broken tether is a shoelace spray-painted silver?
PS: We did not have an interview with Evel Knievel — this cover line was a joke. There is an article in this issue, by Dan Reines, about how he tried and failed to get an interview with Evel Knievel.
Pub. Date: July 1998
Theme: Vertigo
Hermenaut: Baudelaire
Pages: 104
Print Run: 3,000
MORE HERMENAUT on HILOBROW: HERMENAUTICA series | MEET THE HERMENAUTS | HERMENAUT’s last five issues | Snapshots | Letters to HERMENAUT | Dialectical Design | Josh Glenn on CAMP, KITSCH & CHEESE | Josh Glenn on DANIEL CLOWES: Q&A | Clarke Cooper on APOCALYPSE ALREADY | Lisa Carver on THE ART OF BEING UNCOMFORTABLE | Josh Glenn on FAKE AUTHENTICITY | Chris Fujiwara on ZOOMING THROUGH SPACE | John Marr on CAMPANILE FREE-FALL | Clarke Cooper on THE WILL TO SCORN | Dan Reines on PURE EVEL | Chris Fujiwara on ROADWORTHY JAZZ | Dan Reines on LETTER FROM LA | Mary E. Ladd & Julie Wiskirchen on ONWARD CHRISTIAN TOURISTS | Chris Fujiwara on SAVED BY BETRAYAL | Margaret Blonder on MEMORIES OF THE BIOSPHERE | Josh Glenn on HERMENAUT: PHILIP K. DICK | Ingrid Schorr on ROCKVILLE GIRL SPEAKS.