A gritty, personality-driven issue that moves between street graphics, outsider abstraction, character illustration, graffiti lineage, and raw skate energy. It follows the classic Juxtapoz layout — intro, style sheet, collectors, profiles, Showstoppers, reviews, events, insider notes, Pop Life, and a final perspective — but the mood is very “late-2000s underground,” with a strong focus on artists rooted in real subculture.
Grotesk kicks things off with bold, blocky, attitude-heavy design; Chris Johanson brings loose, emotional, outsider-expressionist honesty; and Coro delivers polished, painterly illustration with cinematic detail. MQ injects pure graffiti punch, while Steve Olson brings loud skate-punk charisma. Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant anchor the issue with definitive documentation of graffiti’s golden era, and Skinner closes things out with his maximal, psychedelic-monster chaos. A tough, colourful, deeply subcultural issue — pure RB fuel.
