Kick Bright Zine was created by Jeffrey Howard in 1996 as an online webzine separate from a print zine/comic called But It’s A Good Insane. It mainly focused on personal stories, concert reports, record reviews and artwork/photography. The term blog had not even been invented but basically that’s what early Kick Bright was.

June 2025 will be the 29th anniversary of Kick Bright, making it one of the longest running webzines in internet history. Print issues of Kick Bright are published from time to time with exclusive content not available online.

Jeffrey has been in many music projects including Hot Hands, Courtneys, The Hot Six and many others. He has toured extensively across the United States, released and recorded several CDs and cassettes independently. The YouTube channel chronicles past tour tourist stops between shows.

In August 2015 Jeffrey opened a physical store in Orlando, Florida called Kick Bright Shop & Buttons inside a repurposed mall called Artegon Marketplace selling vintage clothing, buttons, records, Kick Bright zines and a whole bunch of other cool stuff with, now ex-wife, Kristin Anne. The entire building closed in 2017 so the two joined the growing market scene. At the end of 2022 they opened another physical store in the Milk District, just east of Downtown Orlando along Robinson Drive. That location closed the summer of 2023.

Jeffrey now resides in Savannah, Georgia and hopes to love again.

You can contact Jeffrey at kickbright@hotmail.com.