Wet Magazine: Gourmet Bathing and Beyond • Issue 27

Wet Magazine Issue 27 September/October 1980  8.5 x 11 80 pages Rare issue Featuring Interview with Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys 4 pages with a photograph by Raye Santos Interview with Bud Cort (The actor from Harold and Maude) plus photographed Herb Ritts These are very early Ritts and unknown images not even on his website timeline 4 page Men in Skirts fashion feature photographed by Mashe Brakha. The cover photo/illustration is by Dranoel Nerok 'inspiration by Alan Richards'. Robert Smithson, Groucho Marx, Gregory Corso, Robert Ashley Rare Issue Description The ICONIC, the one and only gourmet bathing magazine out there, WET MAG. Sprouting from creator Leonard Korean’s “bath art” era (where he encouraged Artists to get naked for him in various…..wet places), Wet mag started from the depths of Leonard Korean’s bath tub in 1976.  Wet magazine influenced and defined the Los Angeles New Wave aesthetic of the 70’s and 80’s.  Known for its prescient mixture of H2O culture, mild