Extreme Associates To Launch Publishing Venture

Extreme Associates owner Rob Black is joining forces with iconoclast publisher Shane Bugbee to release The Extreme Times, a free periodical focusing on the adult industry, extreme art, music and entertainment.

"The Extreme Times will basically have everything, with a focus on Extreme and all the whacky bullshit that goes on with us," Black said in a report from AVN.

"This is just another step for us to expand and get back out into the world, as well as get back to basics."

Bugbee, a twenty year veteran in the war against censorship, said he jumped at the chance to work with Extreme "because the company's owners Rob Black and Lizzy Borden facing 10 charges of obscenity for their films."

Bugbee has been promoting extreme free speech since he was a teenager, and has worked with such artists as Jello Biafra, cartoonist Mike Diana, filmmaker Ryan McPherson and author Jim Goad.

Black plans to rollout the premier issue at this year's Adult Entertainment Expo in January. The magazine will be published 4-6 times per year and will be distributed through events, tattoo shops, independent music and bookstores, and anywhere Extreme Associates' films are sold.