Coming on like a low-budget Grand Royal, Backwash is a pretty
special little 'zine. Issue 16 features a special Boring Section featuring
paeans to the humble moustache and the American version of the TV abortion
that was Touch The Truck; an article on goitres which mentions hot girl-on-girl
action involving said protuberances, and includes a photo of a goitre with
a happy face drawn on it; and an interview with Rudy Ray "Dolemite" Moore.
Superb Stuff.
Bizarre, July 2001.
They're mad, those Americans. No really, they are... There
are a lot of strange people out there and, judging by the warped contents
of its latest issue, most of them contribute to American 'zine Backwash. Both
funny ha ha and funny peculiar, it's the sort of mag that David Lynch would
have fashioned in his 20s had he lived on little else but comics and LSD.
Issue 15 boasts articles on acnephilia (a zit fetish, obviously), 'man breasts'
and dwarf tossing, as well as crazed reviews of the likes of Quasimoto, Amon
Tobin and Mike Ladd. Better still are the aphorisms which adorn every page
('The great thing about shoes is it doesn't matter which one you put on first')
and the agony aunt Da White Bitch who thinks -- get this -- she's black. And
they say that Americans won't understand Ali G.
Jockey Slut, Nov. 2000
...Perhaps you saw the latest Backwash cover boy on the
Howard Stern show as he was tossed across the room onto a mattress and wondered
to yourself, who is this freak? Wonder no more. The editors of this profanely
funny publication ask the important questions and discover that the "dwarf
Beetlejuice" gets way more action than you.
Financial Times, Apr. 5, 2000 (Backwash #74)
Writer's Digest 2001 Zine Publishing Competition Honorable Mention
#36 of 250 ranked favorite zines, Zine Guide #5, 2001.