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	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Cometbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cometbus consisted of band interviews, personal diaries and observations on the punk subculture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
		Cometbus' captured a slice of life in Oakland and Berkeley, California from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
		Cometbus' distinctive handwritten script can be seen in early Green Day album liner notes, the Jawbreaker collection "Etc.", and is emblematic of the decidedly lo-fi zine culture.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Cometbus (412 words)

	Maximumrocknroll Interviews Aaron Cometbus
		Cometbus began the trend of focusing on the personal side of the punk scene, instead of the usual political or musical aspects.
		Cometbus has changed the way fanzines are written, and has become, it's safe to say, one of the most important contributions to the history of punk.
		Aaron: Yeah there was a German one, printed in Berlin in '97, and a French one in Paris in '98.
	www.operationphoenixrecords.com /cometbus2.html (2876 words)

	Flipside Interviews Aaron Cometbus
		Aaron: I figured there were already plenty of others doing it and that people didn't really give a shit about my opinions.
		Aaron: It started out with me and a friend doing a weekly little newsletter during the summer of '81, when he was 12 and I was 13.
		Aaron: After the five year anniversary issue, I may be changing the way I channel the fanzine because it's going to be the best of the last five years.
	www.operationphoenixrecords.com /cometbus1.html (761 words)

	Aaron Cometbus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aaron Elliott (born 1968), better known as Aaron Cometbus, is a drummer, lyricist, self-described "punk anthropologist" and author of Cometbus, a seminal punk rock zine.
		Aaron became an active participant in the Gilman Street Project and was a founding member of Crimpshrine, a highly influential East Bay punk rock band, which also featured Jeff Ott.
		Aaron has also played in a multitude of short lived bands that generally release just a seven-inch or two before breaking up, some of which include Astrid Oto, Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, Scooby Don't, Shotwell Coho, Harbinger, The Blank Fight, EFS, Redmond Shooting Stars, Mundt and The Retard Beaters, T. Zatana and Colbom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aaron_Cometbus (449 words)

	Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Cometbus captures the everyday combination of hope, desire and depression and has an exquisite sensitivity to the "small pleasures that quench your thirst for life, and wash down those big disappointments."
		Cometbus consistently refers to the heady inception of punk culture and continues to be a fitting tribute and continuation of those beginnings.
		Cometbus is often nostalgic in the sense of acknowledging the sadness of the past passing without proclaiming that it was better.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2003summer/cometbus.shtml (1223 words)

	Main Page - ZineWiki - the history and culture of zines, independent media and the small press.
		Cometbus was a punk zine, started in Berkeley, California in 1983 by Aaron Cometbus, born Aaron Elliot.
		Aaron Cometbus' writing captures a slice of life in Oakland and Berkeley, California from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
		Aaron's travels led him accross the U.S. where he'd meet zinesters, fans, and make many new fans selling his zine at shows, conventions, punk houses, parties, book stores and on the street to people he'd meet.
	zinewiki.com (358 words)

	Amazon.ca: Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus: Books: Aaron Cometbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This happens mainly b/c Aaron just went out and lived this crazy hand-to-mouth existence in the service of experiencing the world and the people in it, challenging the very existence of social norms as a concept.
		He such an awesome individual and his stories are especially meaningful to me because he and his contributors, in writing about their lives and the punk rock community in the bay area over time, have written about my life as well, and I couldn't have written it any better than them.
		Aaron Cometus has a serious lust for life, and his genuine wonder is evident in every page he handwrites.
	www.amazon.ca /Despite-Everything-Cometbus-Omnibus-Aaron/dp/0867195614 (915 words)

	New York Press
		Aaron proudly reprints the best of what he calls a "treasure trove of Kennedy-era cranks, crackpots, and would-be assassins." There’s even a response.
		Aaron has published issues of Cometbus during residencies seemingly everywhere from Benecia, CA, to Richmond, VA. Or he might be on the next bus, hoping the driver buys his story that his ticket only looks like it expired last year.
		Aaron’s keen eye, gentle humor and deft style serve him equally well in writing about the punker side of life in and around Berkeley.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=6919 (1357 words)

	Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus
		Aaron’s writing became sharp and quick yet subtle and tender- a counterpoint to the music he and his friends were documenting.
		Aaron’s writing is about telling all the old stories with a new cast of characters.
		Cometbus holds a special place in the hearts of its readers because it is one of the few underground voices that hasn’t allowed itself to be watered down and filtered though bigger, generally corporate outfits.
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/CometbusDespite.html (640 words)

	loud paper : articles
		Pinhead Gunpowder lyricist/drummer/cover artist Aaron Cometbus is well known in 'zinedom for his super-caffinated writings in Cometbus.
		Taken as a whole, Cometbus' lyrics and writings about his wandering lifestyle and the simple joys in life's minutiae show why he just might be the closest thing to Walt Whitman that america has seen in the last 100 years.
		Cometbus and guitarist White write lyrics that detail growing old, unrequited love, diving onto hedges, staying up late and going for long walks.
	www.loudpapermag.com /article.php?id=57 (188 words)

	Media Mouse: Book Review: Chicago Stories: Grand Rapids Michigan Indpendent Media
		Aaron Elliot's Cometbus is perhaps the best known of the fanzines that once provided the lifeblood of the underground punk rock scene in the San Francisco bay area, and to a large extent, the United States as a whole.
		Cometbus' success has always been that rather than simply interview bands and review records it address the intersection of punk rock and the personal and how the ideals and ethics of the punk scene manifest themselves in the author's everyday life.
		Aaron has a knack for taking seemingly mundane and trivial aspects of both life and punk culture and making them seem at once significant and interesting.
	www.mediamouse.org /reviews/011205chica.php (351 words)

	MadInkBeard - Mixed Reviews by Aaron Cometbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After publishing 49 issues of his zine "Cometbus", he has now put out two of these tiny square bound paperbacks (the other being Chicago Stories).
		I've always read Cometbus as a kind of ongoing diary/autobiography (which, really, it is), and I'm always trying to piece it together into a chronology.
		If you're familiar with Aaron's writing this book won't be a surprise, if you aren't it's as good as any a place to start.
	www.madinkbeard.com /archives/mixedreviews.html (290 words)

	City Pages - The Road to Everywhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was Aaron stinking Cometbus, a ubiquitous punk-scene presence I'd last seen 2,000 miles from here in a Stadium Village copy shop, where he was running off copies of his zine at 4:00 a.m.
		Aaron (and the other Cometbus folks) have done things and lived lives that, by common standards of what is normal or safe, could be considered certifiably insane.
		Aaron and his pal hauled me all over the nooks and crannies and secret places of Chinatown.
	www.citypages.com /databank/23/1135/article10696.asp (2041 words)

	Double Duce by Aaron Cometbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not only does Cometbus weave an enthralling tale though, the way he writes is smooth and enjoyable.
		Cometbus is a master at reading people, and a total "fly on the wall" kinda guy like a good writer should be.
		Aaron Cometbus writes this book like he sees from God's eyes.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Double-Duce-086719586X.htm (626 words)

	LA Weekly - Taking Thee Piss
		Chatham, England’s Billy Childish and Berkeley, California’s Aaron Cometbus are two punks who have maintained the word’s true tang.
		And, increasingly, the zine is devoted to Cometbus’ short stories — dry, cleanly written accounts of anarchistic group houses or the lives that flit through a small-town punk scene.
		Cometbus’ world accepts all comers, while Childish, with his silly clothes and his manifestoes, spends much of his time scaring people away.
	www.laweekly.com /music/music/taking-thee-piss/5290 (1264 words)

	riverfronttimes.com \| Music \| Listening Post
		GET ON THE BUS: Although he would be the first to downplay it, Aaron Cometbus has become something of a legend to thousands of funny-looking kids across America.
		Now he has returned with No. 44, titled "St. Louis Stories." Cometbus' extensive travels have been the basis for much of Cometbus and are a significant reason for his nationwide renown, so it's not too surprising that he would get around to our city eventually.
		For one, it's a little light on the local color and commentary Cometbus is known for, instead focusing on the troubled relationships Cometbus has with his St. Louis friends.
	www.rftstl.com /Issues/1999-06-23/music/listeningpost.html (962 words)

	Amazon.com: Despite Everything: Books: Aaron Cometbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		if cometbus has meant anything to me over the years it has meant a curiosity about society that stems from true love of people (not "the people", but people as individuals), & the promise of a life that doesn't revolve around wage slavery or greed or a desire for consumer electronics.
		Aaron's handwritten adventures show not only the towns and places he visits, but the people and the mood.
		Enjoying a freedom to go where ever he wants becouse he can live on next to no money and other people's garbage, he is still at the mercy of his doubtfulness, saddness, joy, and depression.
	www.amazon.com /Despite-Everything-Aaron-Cometbus/dp/0867195614 (1502 words)

	Pinhead Gunpowder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pinhead Gunpowder is a Berkeley punk band made up of four guys better known for their other projects, who just enjoy playing together.
		They are: chief instigator and drummer Aaron Cometbus (creator of the notorious Cometbus fanzine and member of Crimpshrine), guitarist/vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong (better known as frontman for a rather famous band called Green Day), guitarist Mike Kersh (also the frontman for Fuel), and bassist Bill Schnieder (also of Monsula.
		Cometbus rounded up the other band members in early '91 after returning from a miserable experience trying to put a band together up north in Arcata.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/pinheadgunpowder.html (271 words)

	Teens @ APL: Despite Everything: a Cometbus Omnibus
		Collected here are selections from the first 20 years of Cometbus, including the ultra-rare and embarrassing early issues, plus new intros, notes, and a scrapbook.
		"Aaron is in love with the world, and he survives...magnificently, with wit and words to spare"--The Rocket
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	www.apl.lib.in.us /2005/06/despite-everything-cometbus-omnibus.html (233 words)

	My Life With Aaron Cometbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I told him I used to, and went on with electrochemistry, but for a minute there, I'd thought he said "cometbus," which reminded me of someone I used to know named Aaron Cometbus...I wonder where he is today?
		I never got to say hello, because the waitress was hanging around their table so much.
		For a while, when I worked with a news crew, I thought he was selling guns out of his apartment, but it turns out we had the wrong address.
	members.tripod.com /~boronic/cometbus.html (220 words)

	Pinhead Gunpowder - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: It would be easy to label Pinhead Gunpowder as a supergroup, considering that the lineup features four players from other well-known bands.
		There's drummer Aaron Cometbus, formerly of Crimpshrine, Billie Joe of Green Day on guitar/vocals, Bill Schneider from Monsula on bass/vocals, and Mike Kirsch from Fuel on guitar.
		Not that these guys got together for the intention of making money or to be the ultimate scenester band, but rather to take a break from the main musical projects that occupy most of their time.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/103/062/8/1030628.html (216 words)

	Readables A - B - C
		The first novel from underground writer Aaron Cometbus, Double Duce reads like a reality TV show from the lows of Berkeley punk life -- take two underachieving pranksters and let them figure out how to pay the rent when neither has a job.
		What Kerouac was to the Beat Generation, Aaron Cometbus is to the East Bay punk scene, and the strange tribe of punks and dropouts has never before been so perfectly chronicled as in this oral history made into written saga.
		Collected here are selections from the first twenty years of Cometbus, including the ultra-rare and embarrassing early issues, plus new intros, notes, and a scrapbook.
	www.needles-pens.com /zines.html (414 words)

	www.myspace.com/introvertzine
		Aaron Cometbus, Tim Sandlin, J.D. Salinger, Beverly Cleary, Ann M. Martin
		My love for zines started after a summer day of beholding an issue of Cometbus found in a record store in Washington D.C. Introvert is personal zine.
		Hah, yeah, when Aaron Cynic and Grant do their podcast, they said they wanted to get matching glasses and strike a "myspace angle".
	www.myspace.com /introvertzine (555 words)

	Despite everything: a Cometbus omnibus - Zine Thing Thrasher Magazine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I raved about Aaron Cometbus' 'zine tor a long time, just as I have been reading it for the last 13 of its 20-or-so year existence.
		This is a book--in Cometbus terms a huge book--of collected stories from Cometbus over the years.
		It doesn't seem to follow a particular order, but that's fine as it does not need (nor is probably meant to be) read cover to cover.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSE/is_2002_Dec/ai_93988515 (241 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Carry The Banner [EP] - Pinhead Gunpowder at Epinions.com
		With the incredible lyrics of Aaron Cometbus and music written by Billie Joe Armstrong, one cannot go wrong.
		Pinhead Gunpowder includes Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), Jason White (Influents), Bill S. (Monsula, a bunch of other East Bay punk bands), and Aaron Cometbus (Crimpshrine, writer of Cometbus 'zine, that is why the lyrics are so incredible, they are written by him!).
		Do not look for this band to tour, because they do not, they are merely a side band who play for fun.
	www.epinions.com /content_17656483460 (387 words)

	Media Mouse: Book Review: Mixed Reviews: Grand Rapids Michigan Indpendent Media
		In 2004, Aaron Cometbus, author of the highly regarded Cometbus zine, announced that after twenty years of self-publishing his writing in zine format that he was going to pursue other avenues for that writing.
		The two titles share a considerable amount from their small, pocketsize format and short length to their esoteric topics, but it is the absence of Cometbus’ distinctive handwritten prose and cut-and-paste layout that previous readers will most likely notice.
		Readers should instead consider picking up a copy of Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, an anthology from 2002 that includes a large selection of writings from previous issues of his zine presented in their original layout.
	www.mediamouse.org /reviews/020106mixed.php (326 words)

	Interview: Zak Sally of La Mano & Low \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Porcellino and Sally’s art is also on display at the northeast Minneapolis gallery Creative Electric through Oct. 8, along with work by future La Mano collaborators Kim Deitch, Ida Pearle, William Schaff, and Aaron Cometbus.
		I think when you do something very personal, which Recidivist is and I know which Cometbus is for Aaron, and King-Cat is for John—I can say things to John about how much I love his work, but John can’t say it himself, and vice versa.
		You know, and I could say the same thing for John and Aaron, and so many other artists, writers, or musicians, like they’re offering up a piece of their life with all the warts and the ugliness.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/40938 (4629 words)

	MadInkBeard - Chicago Stories by Cometbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		by Aaron Cometbus (self-published, 2004) If asked to name contemporary authors I really enjoy reading, I'd invariably forget to add Aaron Cometbus.
		He tells stories about his life, a wandering punk rock, coffee drinking, drum playing, traveling, falling in love life that seems oh so romantic when put down in a story.
		This tiny collection (both in height, width, and number of pages) collects a few of his stories from past "Cometbus" issues, mostly focusing on some time he spent in Chicago.
	www.madinkbeard.com /archives/chicagostori.html (279 words)

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