Magic Teeth is the creative space of Gareth Gaudin who writes, draws and publishes a comic book called "The Magic Teeth Dailies"
The first related publication was a zine called "Strictly Street," a black and white, photocopied skateboarding magazine that lasted four issues between October and
December 1988. These issues were done by a then-fifteen year-old Gareth Gaudin and fellow skateboarder-slash-publisher, Frank Bunce. Notable only for a series of
pathetic cartoons drawn by the obviously sub-par artist, Gareth Gaudin, Strictly Street should not, for any reason, be searched out or asked for in any way.
After Strictly Street "folded," Gareth moved on to pursue his skateboarding career by traveling across North America, Europe and Australia skating the various hot-spots and never passing up a photo opportunity. Arriving back home with a new batch of skate photos, Gareth then set to work compiling, photocopying and distributing his next magazine: "Magic Teeth Skateboarding."
It was named after something that he thought was funny at the time: A smug little preschool kid was asked, on one of those network television shows about smug little preschool children being asked questions, "What would you like to get your mother for Christmas?" His answer was "Magic Teeth, so she never has to brush." Gareth thought it was funny because his friend Geoff Byatt was throwing around the phrase "Corn Teeth" at the time. It was similar, but not his own. Lame story, but there you have it. That's the beginning of the empire. Can you hear it getting bigger? Keep listening.
Magic Teeth became a comic book when Magic Teeth Comix #1 debuted on January 2nd 1993 while Gareth was working the desk at Island Fantasy, the long-standing comic book shop in Victoria's Market Square. Moving work places one final time in August of 1993, Gareth acquired his position at Legends Comics where he can still be found today.
Magic Teeth, the comic series, has seen over sixty issues released over the past eleven years and became, with issue #36 split into two distinct institutions: Magic Teeth Records and Magic Teeth Comix. Eventually Gareth decided to do a "comic a day", and thus the Magic Teeth Dailies. Check out the dailes over on the comics page.
After Strictly Street "folded," Gareth moved on to pursue his skateboarding career by traveling across North America, Europe and Australia skating the various hot-spots and never passing up a photo opportunity. Arriving back home with a new batch of skate photos, Gareth then set to work compiling, photocopying and distributing his next magazine: "Magic Teeth Skateboarding."
It was named after something that he thought was funny at the time: A smug little preschool kid was asked, on one of those network television shows about smug little preschool children being asked questions, "What would you like to get your mother for Christmas?" His answer was "Magic Teeth, so she never has to brush." Gareth thought it was funny because his friend Geoff Byatt was throwing around the phrase "Corn Teeth" at the time. It was similar, but not his own. Lame story, but there you have it. That's the beginning of the empire. Can you hear it getting bigger? Keep listening.
Magic Teeth became a comic book when Magic Teeth Comix #1 debuted on January 2nd 1993 while Gareth was working the desk at Island Fantasy, the long-standing comic book shop in Victoria's Market Square. Moving work places one final time in August of 1993, Gareth acquired his position at Legends Comics where he can still be found today.
Magic Teeth, the comic series, has seen over sixty issues released over the past eleven years and became, with issue #36 split into two distinct institutions: Magic Teeth Records and Magic Teeth Comix. Eventually Gareth decided to do a "comic a day", and thus the Magic Teeth Dailies. Check out the dailes over on the comics page.