About

Skate and Annoy started as a skate zine in the Midwest in 1986. We published issues into the mid 90’s. We’ve been mentioned in Thrasher a few times in the 80’s and early 00’s, and even had a bit of an international following in the U.K. and Yugoslavia. In the late 80’s we also published Skate & Annoy Update, AKA S&A Update. S&A Update was a regional newsletter that provided updates for contests and regional skateboarding events. In 1996 we established a presence online under the umbrella of Annoying.com before registering the domain dame Skate and Annoy in 2000. We’re thanked in the credits of the Movie Deathbowl to Downtown (we contributed archival footage) and we’ve even been on TV once. Remember Attack of the Show? Well somebody probably does.

Issue #2!!!

1988 mail from Yugoslavia!

Stickers!

Postcards!

Print issues from mid 2000’s

Some of our earlier web incarnations, this one as seen on Annoying.com

Getting ready to buy that domain name. They were expensive back then.

Circa 2010 on the left, 2003-ish on the right.

Below: 2006-2010

Below: 2010-2014

Below: 2014-2019

More early print issues. In issue 4 we looked back to 70’s roots, which seemed ancient at the time, but we were young then.

Issue 5 included coverage of a pro contest in Dayton Ohio and an interview with Blockhead Skates pro Dave Cunningham.

Issue 7, one of the Godoy brothers on the cover and an interview with Tod Swank inside. We interviewed the Godoys again for a lengthy article with a focus on Iron Cross Skateboards in 2001.

The first of many “lost issues.” We had a bad habit of wanting to put everything into each issue. Production lead times seemed to grow exponentially with the page count.

Black and white paper stickers, because that’s all we could afford in the beginning. These used to be a DIY mainstay. Remember street plants?

Some early merch. The Nash boobie girl started as a zine intro page for a story about the Nude Bowl and then became a t-shirt in the late 80’s. What can we say, we were adolescents… Of course that doesn’t explain why we resurrected her for a limited run of skateboards around 2007.