The Raider Record was the school newspaper of Kimmons Junior High School in Fort Smith, Arkanasas; I was its copy editor from 1985-87 during my eighth and ninth grade years. I had lots of issues back then (all of them published!), and now you can have them too.
Click on any cover to view or download that full issue in PDF form. Apologies for discoloration, image quality and readability – these are 30+ years old. On each issue’s anniversary I’ll be posting my scattered memories and impressions here.
1985-86
1986-87
I still write and do layout! I’m currently employed as a graphic designer working in retail packaging and marketing material (read that as: catalogs, sales sheets, and web sites) for a number of regional and national brands, I’ve written, laid out, and published several books, and worked steadily in radio and TV for 20 years or so (starting before I graduated high school); now I exorcise my radio demons in podcast form. It’s probably not an untrue statement to say that I haven’t changed a bit since the Raider Record days. I can be contacted here; if you want to help support my site, which hosts this archive, consider becoming a patron of theLogBook.com’s Patreon.
This page was coded to a soundtrack of early ’80s Duran Duran and Chicago.
