New Issue # 18!
The Bindlestiff Family Circus, Beetlejuice, the Sideshow
Gathering, Pimpnuts Caddylogue, Redneck Games, Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish,
and much more!
Cover photography by Liz Steger.
New! From the publisher of Backwash!
As seen on CNN and MSNBC!
Found on eBay
Buy my new book, published by Universe. It's filled with the most bizarre things found on eBay, plus letters to the sellers with questions as ridiculous as their auctions. Buy yours now!
Purchase at amazon.com! or at Barnes and Noble.
"A hysterical, if not disgusting, encyclopedia of items that have appeared on the trading site." - NY Post, June 2, 2002
"After gawking at Marc Hartzman's new book, it's hard to get excited
about the latest rash of "amazing" discoveries being trumpeted in
the news... Such treasures pale in comparison to the artifacts unearthed by
Hartzman in "Found on eBay" (Universe Publishing), an encyclopedia
of weird knickknacks sold on the Internet auction site."
- LA
Times, July 25, 2002
"After leafing through all the unbelievable junk in Marc Hartzman's
Found on eBay, I may never look at a trashcan the same way again."
- The
Wolf Files, abcnews.com, Aug. 20, 2002
Backwash #17
Melvin Burkhart, the Original Human Blockhead, The Lizard
Man, Laloo, Sideshow artist Mark Frierson, Bingo,
A Redneck's Guide to Toilet Etiquette, and much more!
Cover photography by Liz Steger.
NEWS!
Backwash featured on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show. Listen to the interview.
Backwash voted 36th favorite zine out of 250 ranked in
Zine Guide #5. That's not too shabby!
Writer's Digest Magazine awards Backwash
Honorable Mention.
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Updated May 15, 2003
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New! From the publisher of Backwash
American Sideshow:
An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
(Tarcher/Penguin)
More than 200 performers profiled, over 170 photographs!
Covers performers from the early 1800s to today.
Backwash #16
The Gratuitous Sexy Goiter Cover! Plus:
Rudy Ray Moore, Dan the Automator, The 2000 Hands
on a Hard Body winner, The American Dime Museum, Amputation, and a Special
Boring Section!
Backwash #15!
Read the new Beetlejuice
interview! See what the little fella's up to.
Sword swallower Johnny
Fox and his Freakatorium •
Dean Ween
Trailer Parks and Mayonnaise
SPECIAL FETISH SECTION!
with feet, germs, and zits!
Cover photography by Liz Steger.
