Publisher Ian Koss and Art Director Francis Dreyer envisioned Ink 19 as a monthly program guide to accompany Room 19, a public-access cable television show where strange music happened. While the show never got off the ground, Ink 19 magazine did, and in June of 1991, the first free issue was printed.

We distributed 5,000 copies of that initial 16-page installment throughout Central Florida, from Melbourne, our home base on Florida’s Space Coast, all the way to Orlando, an hour and a half away by station wagon. Over time, more outlets fell under our sway, and in late 1993, we entered the Tampa metropolitan market. By 1995 we’d added Atlanta, Georgia, and in late 1997, Miami and South Florida to our growing territory, making us the largest music magazine in the Southeast U.S. We launched ink19.com in 1997, the first music magazine to “go online,” reaching a global audience with a mere mouse click.

Ink 19 helped bring many emerging artists from the Southeast scene to the mainstream, including Marvelous 3, Less Than Jake, the Mercury Program, Underwater, Jucifer, the Causey Way, and Hot Water Music, among others. We’ve published Ink 19 for over 30 years, and we have no intention of going away.

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