Interview: Reluctantly Online with Jim Padlow

The editor of LA's epic underground newspaper The Pen Name divulges the mixed emotions of leaving '100% offline.'

Interview with Jim Padlow, editor-in-chief of underground publication The Pen Name LA

Hi Jim,
You started the Pen Name newspaper in LA in 2015, as an anonymous underground publication – ‘an LA-based street rag dedicated to the nameless voices of the people.’ The Pen Name has only one rule: that every submission must be under a pen name. It was entirely o…