Greetings Jokesters,

In the small town of Galloway, Ohio... just south-west of Columbus... sits a school... Westland High School, or better known to the people who went there as "The Wasteland." It was there that a dirty joke magazine came forth. The magazine, Pencil Crust: The Anti-Literary Dirty Joke Magazine of Rude, Vulgar, and Obscene Humor was my creation. My name is Jason, but people then knew me as WildFire.

At the time of creation in April 1999, the English department at the school was publishing Pencil Dust, a literary magazine of poems and literature. Well, I took the chance to poke a little fun at it. Thus, the name Pencil Crust was decided upon. With the help of some of my closest friends, we formed a staff... they would send me jokes and lists of material, and I would edit. Using assumed pen names such as mine (WildFire), we got to work publishing, and then selling it in school and around the community.

In January 2000, with nearly three-hundred magazines distributed, and five different issues created, Westland's administration board hit us with copyright infringement. Not many people at that time knew why we stopped production, but that was the real reason. Yes, I'll admit that it was our fault, as in the case they used against us, we used a school letterhead in creation of a humorus letter... the page was funny, but copying that was a big "no-no"...

Later that year, I came up with the idea to reach a much broader audience... on the internet! So, Pencil Crust Limited was proud to go virtual with it's first web site, Pencil Crust: On The Web. The site you're viewing now was updated and maintained to bring out eighteen issues total, taking readers to the last and final issue in the magazine's three-volume series. The magazine, the staff, and my editorial position, were annuled in January 2002, after a span of about three years.

Spank you,