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Mark Frauenfelder

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Mark Frauenfelder is an American journalist, blogger, author, illustrator, and maker. He started the independent ‘zine bOING bOING in the 1980s with his wife, Carla Sinclair. The ‘zine became a website in the 1990s and then became the popular Boing Boing blog. Frauenfelder helped develop of cyberpunk culture in the 1980s and 90s, and worked with Billy Idol on the Cyberpunk album. Frauenfelder has published several books, and created the magazines Make: and Craft:

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1993

Joins Wired magazine

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Frauenfelder joins as an associate editor, assigning and editing stories for the magazine.

Cyberpunk

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Frauenfelder provides artwork for the Billy Idol album, and consults with Idol on cyberpunk culture, along with Brett Leonard, director of The Lawnmower Man, Timothy Leary, Jaime Levy, the author of books published on disk under the Electronic Hollywood imprint, and Mondo 2000 co-founder R.U. Sirius. They turn him onto The Well, an early online community, and teach him various other aspects of cyber culture in the early 1990s. Frauenfelder also writes a biography for the album.

1988

bOING bOING zine

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Frauenfelder and Sinclair start the zine as a creative outlet for Frauenfelder, who is bored with his job as an engineer.

Keep it small and you’ll have more fun. Newsstand distribution is a drag. The freight is expensive, the sell-through rates are low, it is a chore doing the accounting, and distributors are famous for going out of business before they pay you. You’ll probably lose money if you try it. Also, don’t start a music zine. There are already ten thousand music zines out there. Nobody cares what you think about music anyway.