I remember when The Onion was an underground Chicago thing. Racks of free copies were in the doorways of businesses all over the city, especially record stores and mom and pop restaurants.
I spent a lot of my time in the LSU library reading Harvard Lampoon. Sometimes the starting point of something is more interesting than you'd expect.
I remember when The Onion was an underground Chicago thing. Racks of free copies were in the doorways of businesses all over the city, especially record stores and mom and pop restaurants.
I'd love to get a peak on one of these, preferably in you named sorts of places..
I had a friend who went to Marquette University, and he used to bring back copies of the newspaper or mail them to me. Apparently it was started by 2 students at the University of Wisconsin, and was distributed in university cities in that area back then.
I had a friend who went to Marquette University, and he used to bring back copies of the newspaper or mail them to me. Apparently it was started by 2 students at the University of Wisconsin, and was distributed in university cities in that area back then.
There was a term for it that I can't remember, like "wrapper" or "shell" â the Onion would provide content, ads and "camera-ready" layout for the 8 outside pages of the tabloid; a local paper would then sell ads and create content for the guts, then print and distribute. They often competed with or killed off local Alt-rag papers but often they'd merge. The one in Denver was mostly music and arts; the one in Oakland's guts were more local interest news (and music and arts) because it had to compete with an awesome paper called the East Bay Express.
But yes it started in Madison. Maybe back then it was one print run, sure.
I remember when The Onion was an underground Chicago thing. Racks of free copies were in the doorways of businesses all over the city, especially record stores and mom and pop restaurants.
I had a friend who went to Marquette University, and he used to bring back copies of the newspaper or mail them to me. Apparently it was started by 2 students at the University of Wisconsin, and was distributed in university cities in that area back then.
I remember when The Onion was an underground Chicago thing. Racks of free copies were in the doorways of businesses all over the city, especially record stores and mom and pop restaurants.
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