George Petros

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George Petros is an American art designer, author, illustrator and editor.

In 1984, Petros (with Adam Parfrey) created Exit, a New York-based journal featuring contributions from Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, J. G. Thirlwell (Foetus), Genesis P-Orridge, Boyd Rice, Mark David Chapman, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Michael Moynihan and James Mason. The final issue was published in 1994.

While producing Exit, Petros also served as an editor at Seconds, the New York-based music magazine (founded in 1986 by Steven Blush) published until 2000.

From 2000 until 2005, Petros served as a contributing editor of Juxtapoz and the senior editor of Propaganda.

His work has appeared in Heavy Metal, Thrasher, Paper, Screw, Apocalypse Culture 2, Needles Ink and on DEVO album covers.

[edit] Works

• Exploding Hearts Exploding Stars: The Serial Art and Propagandart of George Petros by George Petros (Norman Gosney Pubns, 1992, ISBN 1-881875-00-8)
• The Exit Collection edited by George Petros (Tacit, 1998, ISBN 0-9661340-0-1)
• American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush, edited by George Petros (Feral House, 2001, ISBN 0-922915-71-7)
• .45 Dangerous Minds: The Most Intense Interviews From Seconds Magazine edited by Steven Blush and George Petros (Creation Books, 2005, ISBN 1-84068-124-1)
• Art That Kills: A Panoramic Portrait of Aesthetic Terrorism by George Petros (Creation Books, 2006, ISBN 1-84068-143-8)

[edit] External links

• Interview with George Petros: "From Propagandart to the Art of the Interview" by Aaron Garland, March 2000.
• "How Black is Black Metal?" by Kevin Coogan, first appeared in HITLIST, February/March 1999, Volume one, Number one, Berkeley CA, USA.
• Excerpt from interview discussing Exit magazine, "Adam Parfrey and Feral House Productions", an interview by R. Nicholas Taylor in Cyber-Psychos AOD #6.