First publication: A Jello Biafra insert in 1994. Most recent publisher: Insert Press

The limited edition version of the The Consumed Guide is now available thanks to Insert Press. You can order a copy here or read more about this text project here. Funny enough, last week I tracked down a copy of my first ever publication, a collage featured in the insert for Jello Biafra’s album, Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police.

In 1989 I’m sure I was like many other 14-year-olds in that I collaged found images together with notices of bizarre deaths from the newspapers and mailed such things to Jello Biafra. Five-years later in 1994, I had forgotten about those mail art projects and graduated to what we now call “street art” but back in the day was just called vandalism–installing oversized Xeroxed collages on banks, hoardings, etc. I was also working at a college radio station and when I was going through the new arrivals one day I caught my name on the back of the Biafra album, in among names like Dan Clowes and Tom Tomorrow. It was an interesting moment in a young life, when you realize there are things like trajectories, narratives and oeuvres. In my case, the oeuvre begins with…