Sassy
The April 1992 cover of Sassy featuring Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
editor-in-chief	Jane Pratt
Categories	Teen Magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher Image File history File links Size of this preview: 300 × 407 pixelsFull resolution (300 × 407 pixel, file size: 53 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual... 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. ... Courtney Michelle Love[1] (born July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. ... Jane Pratt (born 11 November 1962 in San Francisco, California) is the founding editor of Sassy and Jane. ...	Matilda Publications (1988-89), Lang Communications (1989-1994)
First Issue	March 1988
Country	United States
Language	English
Website
ISSN	unknown

Sassy Magazine is a defunct cult fave teen magazine. It was founded in March 1988 by an Australian feminist, Sandra Yates, CEO of Matilda Publications, who based it on the teen magazine Dolly, which is still in publication in Australia. March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Teen magazines are magazines aimed at teenage readers. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... Dolly Magazine is a monthly teen magazine started in 1970 by Fairfax Ltd. ...

Editorial Staff

Sassy's founding editor was Jane Pratt, and it had a half Australian, half American staff. Its original main writers were referred to by Pratt as "Sex" (Karen Catchpole), "Drugs" (Catherine Gysin), and "Rock 'n Roll" (Christina Kelly)^[1] because of the topics they covered. The fashion department was headed by Mary Clarke and Andrea Lee Linett, and one of their discoveries was Chloë Sevigny, whom they spotted on the street and hired as an intern. The Australian half of the staff covered the art & design (Neil McCutcheon) and beauty departments. Jane Pratt (born 11 November 1962 in San Francisco, California) is the founding editor of Sassy and Jane. ... Chloë Stevens Sevigny (born November 18, 1974) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actress. ...

Publishers

Sassy was originally published in the United States by Matilda Publications with a circulation of 250,000. It was acquired by Lang Communications in October 1989, at which point its circulation was 450,000.^[2] Petersen Publishing officially took over with the February–March 1995 issue ^[3], and its editorial offices were moved to Los Angeles from Manhattan. It then stopped publishing as its own title in 1996, when editorial sections (and staff) of Sassy were absorbed into another magazine published by Petersen called `TEEN ^[4] beginning with the January 1997 issue.^[5] Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Dirt Magazine

In the early 1990s, Sassy spun off a short-lived title for teen boys called Dirt, which was edited by Andy Jenkins, Mark Lewman and music video director Spike Jonze (collectively known as "the Master Cluster"). It published seven sporadic issues before ending its run in 1994. Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel on October 22, 1969), is an American director of offbeat music videos and commercials, and an Academy Award-nominated director and producer in film and television, most notably the 1999 black comedy film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation. ...

Chia Pet

Sassy's in-house band was named after the Chia Pet, with various members from the editorial staff, including Jane Pratt on violin, Christina Kelly on vocals, her then-husband Robert Weeks on guitar, her then-sister-in-law (and Sassy writer) Jessica Vitkus Weeks on bass guitar, Mary Ann Marshall (also a Sassy scribe) on drums. Karen Catchpole also lent co-lead vocals to some songs. ^[6] A house band is a group of musicians, centrally organized by a band leader, that regularly play a venue every night it is open for business and are synonymous with the establishment. ... Chia Pets are a brand of collectible animal figurines manufactured and originated by the San Francisco, California based company Joseph Enterprises, Inc. ... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ...

Releases

• Hey Baby -- CD single of original songs
  

1. "Hey Baby"
2. "Lunch"
3. "Blind Date"

• Tannis Root Presents: Freedom Of Choice -- various-artists pro-choice fundraising CD of cover songs
  

16. "Don't You Want Me Baby"

Book: How Sassy Changed My Life

In April 2007, Faber and Faber released a tribute to and history of Sassy by former Teen Vogue editor Kara Jesella^[7] and Marisa Meltzer called How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter To The Greatest Teen Magazine Of All Time. The book recounts the magazine's rise and fall; its unusual appeal to both men and women, teenagers and adults; and its influence on mainstream as well as alternative women's magazines. It includes interviews with staffers and fans. April 2007 is the fourth month of 2007 A.D. It began on a Sunday and will end after thirty days on a Monday. ... Faber and Faber is a celebrated publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing the poetry of T. S. Eliot. ... teenVOGUE magazine began as a version of Vogue magazine for a younger audience. ...

Trivia

• The November 1990 issue contained an offer to win a free 7" single by Sonic Youth. The A-side was a cover of "Personality Crisis" by the New York Dolls; the B-side was "Dirty Boots (8-track demo short version)." It was limited to 2000 copies. View cover here.
• Ian Svenonius of the punk rock band The Nation of Ulysses was named the inaugural "Sassiest Boy In America" in the October 1991 issue.
• After excerpting it three times, Sassy led to the publication of Blake Nelson's first novel Girl, which had been rejected previously by over forty publishers and agents.
• Three teen magazines have now folded under Christina Kelly as Editor in Chief: first Sassy Magazine, then YM Magazine, and most recently ELLEgirl, which only lasted five issues under Kelly.
• Sassy is also a Hawaiian youth magazine published by Double Talk Publishing. Its companion title is G. Both titles are unaffiliated with Jane Pratt's periodical.
• Sassy was the subject of some mockery and criticism during its run for what some saw as superficiality and trendiness. These attacks included a profanity-laden rant by the lead character in the first chapter of the Dan Clowes graphic novel Ghost World, and the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch with Phil Hartman as "Russell Clark, Senior Editor of Sassy Magazine" serving as the rather strenuously hip host of a roundtable discussion of "sassy" young men; his character inexplicably declared every utterance from the men to be "SASSY!"
• A line in the Cap'n Jazz song "Planet Shhh" references the magazine with the line "I can't shake the shapeless memories every time I read Sassy."

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See also

• Jane Magazine
• Dolly Magazine

Jane, January 2005 issue Jane is a magazine created to appeal to the women who grew up reading Sassy Magazine. ... Dolly Magazine is a monthly teen magazine started in 1970 by Fairfax Ltd. ...

References

External links

• The Sassy Era at WWD
• Sissy Magazine at Blairmag: the lost December 1994 issue -- Sassy's Last Issue Ever
• Too Young to Know: The Selling of Sassy
• KICKING SASS -- sassy's dead. R.I.P. Sassy. And it's about damn time.
• Why Jane Pratt's "Jane" never quite lived up to Jane Pratt's "Sassy"
• The New York Review of Magazines: We Still Love Sassy
• Interview with Jane Pratt in The Oberlin Review
• Cute Band Alert: How Sassy magazine created a new sex object.
• Sonic Youth 7" info
• Issue 8 of Dirt, never published (archived site that went offline in 2006; may contain dead links and broken images)
• Wired.com article on Dirt
• Hawaiian youth magazine also entitled Sassy
• Some of the articles Marjorie Ingall wrote for Sassy (as Margie Ingall)
• Recent articles by ex-Sassy writer/editor Marjorie Ingall
• Confessions of a Sassy Girl article by writer Mengly Taing
• NPR's Talk of the Nation on Sassy, April 25, 2007
• Ms. Junior: an excerpt from the book How Sassy Changed My Life in the Spring 2007 of Venus Zine
• American Sexuality Magazine. Q&A with Kara Jesella, author of How Sassy Changed My Life Accessed 5-9-07.