This was what started everything pretty much. Catchphraze was a zine that we started together in early 1995 in hopes to try and put forth ideas, get people talking with one another, and to try and bring people together. The zine was released on a bi-monthly basis and we released four different issues. Every issue contained both political and personal writings from both of us on a number of subjects (animal rights, racism, women's rights, war, love, and much more). Every issue was laid out completely by hand, cut and paste style, and photocopies by us. For issue #3 we made hand done spray paint covers too! Every cover had a different design done with spray paint, stencils, and various other things that we found laying around to use when we were making them. It was probably a lot more work than it was worth, but we had a lot of fun doing it so thats all that really matters.
We never really kept track as to how many copies we sold of each issue, but i doubt that it was very many. Probably the most we ever sold of one was 100 copies, if that. It was from this zine that we came up with the idea to put out a tape comp to accompany one of the zines. After we checked into some prices and stuff, we discovered that it would be cheaper and a lot less of a pain in the ass to release the comp on vinyl, so we did. That was the "In Words of One Syllable" LP (which actually ended up being our second release). After we started working on putting out and distributing records, the zine just kinda faded out. We released issue #4 in 1996 and that was our last issue. In 1998 we started a new zine called Return to the Trenches that focuses on world-wide political activism and the anarchopunk community.
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