FORMAT: A4 (210×297 mm) | COLOR: black & white | PAGES: 20 | RELEASE DATE: December 1996
Editorial
The End Complete… yeah, that’s right — the end of 1996, and it also looks a little like it might be the end of the Radioactive ’zine as well. There are reasons for this sacrificial suicide, but there won’t be any pathetic explanations in this magazine — so save those tears. Life goes on. Even after death.
1996 looks a lot like 1990–1991 when it comes to graffiti in the media. There has been so much bullshit and false media coverage about this “terrible graffiti problem” that it sometimes seems like graffiti writers are responsible for everything miserable in life!
For your information: huge youth unemployment, gang violence, car thefts, muggings, robberies, murders, drug dealing and abuse, rapes, child molestation, dishonest politicians, wars, and environmental catastrophes are not the result of graffiti writing…
And what about the new task force in Espoo? You fucks can do anything you want, but the graffiti “problem” cannot be eradicated. The very first thing you should realize is that graffiti is not a problem — it’s a cold, hard fact that’s here to stay! The very existence of this and hundreds of other magazines, and the growing number of writers, should prove that!
The original magazine contained almost the same amount of photos than presented here. Although about one third of the images presented here never appeared in Radioactive. Again, many of the originals are missing. Luckily we have a lot of material from 1996 which we’re able to use, to make up for the missing photos. The texts, short as they are, still remain about 90% faithful to the originals. | Radioactive Crew, 2026