![]() ![]() Not so, he found, at art school, but he continued his studies anyway, getting his BFA in 1996. “There was never any ‘No, you can’t do that, you need to wait till you know what you’re doing,'” he recalls. He’d become immersed in the early-90s Chicago punk scene, which he says was changing rapidly, driven largely by the energy and ambition of teenagers. Sinker, an Evanston native, started Punk Planet when he was 19 and an undergrad at the School of the Art Institute studying video art. The novel–the third from local author Joe Meno–will be one of two titles to launch Punk Planet Books, a new publishing imprint funded by New York’s Akashic Books, this fall. It was a search for a skateboarding editor that led Dan Sinker, the 29-year-old editor and publisher of the Chicago-based magazine Punk Planet, to Hairstyles of the Damned, a book that has nothing to do with skateboarding. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife. ![]() Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Line-Up Announced > Close ![]()
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