Fuknoath 19

This issue of Fuknoath feels like a love letter to Australian skateboarding printed while the building burns down around it. With Jack O'Grady blasting a back smith noseblunt across the cover, the issue charges through rough street skating, DIY photography, BMX chaos, and fried humour featuring Adelaide Norris, Raphael Langslow, Karl Dorman, Casey Foley, Cameron Markin, Rome Collyer, John Parmeter, and Jesse Noonan. Between “Sports Brah,” “Fuk’n Goofy,” “Quacked,” and “Demoted X Deported,” the mag swings from serious clips to total nonsense without ever losing momentum.

What really gives the issue weight is the editorial from Rolan Gravenall and Andrew Peters reflecting on the collapse of Australian print skate media. The piece captures a scene trying to survive in a world where magazines are disappearing, ad money has dried up, and independent publishing is being held together by skate shops, small brands, and stubborn lifers refusing to let print die quietly. It gives the whole issue an almost time-capsule feeling, like every photocopied page and blown out photo matters a little more because nobody knows how many issues like this are left.