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In 1993 the world was awash in small press zines. It was a Golden Age of the pre-internet information and graphics explosion. Xerox machines everywhere were humming as multitudes of young artists put out their own comics and commentary 'zines. ('Zine is short for magazine...)From the beginning of the Underground (UG) comix revolution of the early 1960's to the early '90s people were creating their own magazines in odd formats and sizes. A few of the cooler comic book shops around university areas would carry these wonderful items and one never knew what he or she might stumble upon. Most were flashes in the pan. However others like Matt Groenig, creator of the Simpsons and Futurama published 'zines like "Life in Hell" which were extremely well received by the Cool Community of those 'zine readers "in the know." Of course the works of various Church of the Subgenius members (of which I was one) also found there way onto the stacks at local comic and zine shops. Computers were about to change all this in a radical way. But until about 1998 it was still Print media that ruled our lives. In 1993 I and some fellow artists in Albuq. New Mexico, who had belonged to various art group incarnations: Notably "Guerilla Artists" (We put out one small newsletter...and "NuMoon" Illustrations, came up with a half-baked idea to print up a Mad and Cracked magazine type of book. We searched for a title. I came up with "HUH?" because basically it was supposed to be a journal dedicated to crackpots and weirdo half-wit inventors, street-people and others who had bizarre ideas about Life, the Universe and Everything. After having created several small press comics like: "Comics for Aliens on Earth," "Aliens In The House! comics," "Coyotero All Southwest Stories" and "Illegal Aliens Jive" I felt ready to take on the world of the odd and creepy. So I began to cobble together the first issue of Huh? Magazine: The Journal of Neo-Confusionism.