Aaron Cometbus 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 featured Jeff Ott.
12 Facts About Aaron Cometbus
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Aaron Cometbus has played in a multitude of short-lived bands that generally release just a seven-inch or two before breaking up.
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Aaron Cometbus is a co-owner of a used bookstore in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, called Book Thug Nation and a used bookstore in Bushwick called Human Relations, as well as Codex Books in NoHo, Lower Manhattan.
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Aaron Cometbus is most famous for publishing the zine Aaron Cometbus, which he began in Berkeley, California in 1981.
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Aaron Cometbus has self-published the usually-handwritten zine ever since, despite a few breaks.
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The name Aaron Cometbus was coined by Gregg Turkington during the early days of the magazine when the name changed from issue to issue.
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Aaron Cometbus consisted of band interviews, personal diaries, artwork, and observations on the punk subculture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
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From 2004 to 2006, Aaron Cometbus took a hiatus from writing Aaron Cometbus to pursue publishing his writing through other channels.
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Aaron Cometbus's work is easily recognizable by his distinctive, block-lettered handwritten script.
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Aaron Cometbus's handwriting appears in the liner notes of early Green Day albums and Jawbreaker's Etc.
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Aaron Cometbus released a few smaller collections of short stories, Mixed Reviews and Chicago Stories, a small collection about Chicago originally published in "Cometbus" issues 35,37,38,41, and 45.
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Aaron Cometbus released a book of poetry entitled "Last Supper" in 2014 through ARP Books.