Swindle Magazine
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| Swindle | |
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| Type | Art&Culture magazine |
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| Publisher | Shepard Fairey Roger Gastman |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, CA |
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| Website: www.swindlemagazine.com | |
SWINDLE is a bi-monthly arts and culture publication, founded in 2004 by Shepard Fairey and Roger Gastman.
SWINDLE has featured street artists like Banksy, Space Invaders, Faile and Miss Van on its cover, as well as cultural celebrities like Billy Idol, Debbie Harry, Henry Rollins(who is now a columnist for Swindle), the Germs and Grandmaster Flash. The magazine puts out an Annual Icons issue, the first of which came out in 2006. This issue shows 50 “icons” in arts and culture, and has included Buzz Aldrin, William Gibson, Chalmers Johnson, Steve Buscemi, Marianne Faithfull, Slash, Twiggy, Robert Crumb, Hulk Hogan, Larry Clark, Jack Rudy, Yoko Ono, Jane Goodall, Bobby Seale, Sonny Barger, Cheech Marin, Gloria Allred Elvira, and John Waters among others.
Each issue is a collaboration with SWINDLE's editorial staff and Shepard Fairey's Studio Number-One. In 2006, Advertising Age picked SWINDLE's issue 8 as one of the "10 Magazine Covers We Loved."[1] The L.A. Weekly listed SWINDLE's creators among the "L.A. People of 2006."[2]
