Art Condoms

Pedigree

Art Condoms are the brainchild of Kevin Segall, Director of Sales and Marketing at Condomania. Not coincidentally, Kevin was the founder of the Essential Media Counterculture Catalog, a fixture of the alternative culture scene from 1996 to 2001. Essential Media published an exhaustive website devoted to the best in underground books, comix, incredibly strange recordings, cult videos, and small press zines.

Essential Media's quarterly print catalog featured interviews with and articles by such visionaries as Rev. Ivan Stang (SubGenius Foundation), R.U. Sirius, Rev. Al (Cacophony Society), Anton LaVey (Church of Satan), Jello Biafra, and Crispin Glover.

Lauded by such publications as Time Magazine, Playboy, Wired, and the Los Angeles Times, Essential Media nevertheless went the way of the dinosaur - as did other alternative magazines Fringeware Review and the Whole Earth Catalog around the same time.