64 pages 29,7 x 21 cm Language: German & English Paperback Publisher: Self-Published 2005
A strong mid-decade issue of Nonstop, the long-running Swiss graffiti magazine out of Bern — one of the most prolific and consistent titles in European writing since its first issue in spring 1998. True to the magazine's remit, this number moves fluidly between the Swiss scene and the wider world: features on two of Italy's most active crews, Dias (Naples) and Arf (Rome), sit alongside a portfolio and recollections from Flint Gennari, a photographer who has documented the scene since the 1970s, looking back over thirty years of graffiti.
The issue reaches beyond the yard as well, with a historical piece on Kilroy — the wartime "Kilroy was here" legend who marked walls long before modern writing existed — and a "hello, my name is…" guest slot given to McKoy, one of Switzerland's most accomplished trainwriters. It closes on the political edge of the culture, reporting on Thomas Hirschhorn's Swiss Swiss Democracy exhibition in Paris and the funding controversy it provoked at home. Laid out in Nonstop's recognisable mosaic style and dense with train flicks, it is a well-rounded document of European train writing in 2005 — increasingly hard to find as the early and mid-run issues sell through.
