Dead-Frog
That's what Spy co-founder
Kurt Andersen says. He's asked by
Todd Jackson: Was anger a core of Spy? "I wouldn't say anger, I would say a certain recklessness and a certain willingness to regard human beings as cartoons and a kind of bordering on if not going over the line into cruelty. But it certainly didn't feel like it was born of anger at the time. ...What made the magazine good when it was good was a sense of joy actually. Even when you were fragging people, there was a sense of pleasure in life, rather than some kind of dark anger."
