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After I told Ricky Rebel, in 1995, that I would help him make his very own magazine, he immediately got to work producing a torrent of design ideas and layouts. Above is his rough design for the front cover. I ended up designing something quite a bit less cluttered (I'll show you that later). I love his tagline here: If it doesn't say Satan it says nothing at all. I also love the little demon wearing glasses at the bottom of the page.
I wonder what "real" Satanists would make of Rick's drawings and his idiosyncratic take on their "faith"? Rick, after all, had no use for actual Satanism: "Anton Lavey is boring," he'd declare (correctly). Mainly, Rick just wanted to anger Christians, his favorite pastime.
UPDATE: This may very well be Rick Rebel on Facebook, though I can't imagine what he's doing in the presence of children. I'm not on Facebook, so I can't contact him through it. Anybody want to give it a go? Be discreet; it may not be him. OMG, I would love to get back in touch with him.
UPDATE: Pony Pal Diane has contacted Mr. Pender via Facebook. We shall see!
9 comments:
Facebook itself is pretty satanic so that could very well be him.
It really looks like him. I hope some kind Pony Pal will make discreet inquiries.
done
What if Ricky's now a born again Christian with two kids?
Then I'll be sad, Anonymous, but I'll have closure.
These two seem a bit more dick-lite than previous, to my mild disappointment.
And...are those supposed to be swastikas?
Maybe, Samael. I wouldn't read too much into it, though. Like the whole "Satanism" thing, I'm sure Rick was thoroughly ignorant of Naziism, and no doubt employed swastikas as pure "piss everybody off" tactics. I can certainly say with confidence that Rick never once displayed an ounce of racism or antisemitism. In fact, he really disliked any kind of bigotry or bias.
I really like the adorable s-shaped snakes with bat ears. If real snakes had cute bat ears like that they would be America's Favorite Pet, replacing kittens.
There'd probably be U-Tube videos called "Here's Snakey the Snake snacking on a kitten. Aww...how cute."
Worry not, Peteykins. I know "over the top" when I see it.
It's just that they look like "practice" swastikas, which are surprisingly hard to draw. I know this to be true, because used to doodle during 8th grade science a "series" that essentially was "101 Ways To Kill Pac-Man."
This typically involved daggers and x'd out eyes. But occasionally I'd get creative, and I once I put the "Juden" yellow star on Pac-Man (he was yellow already) and then had him killed by Ghost-Nazis "Heil, Blinkie!").
Believe it or not, I was a very happy, non-morbid child.
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