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Great online comic about 1960s underground publisher John Wilcock

Mark Frauenfelder at 10:48 am Wed, Oct 12, 2011

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Cartoonist Ethan Persoff pointed me to the first 8-page installment of his outstanding new online comic book (which he drew with Scott Marshall) about the 1960s underground publisher John Wilcock.

It features Billy Graham, Marilyn Monroe, others. Future installments will include the rise and fall of Warhol's Factory, Norman Mailer and the Village Voice, Lenny Bruce's first weekend in New York, other good history. A lot of politics and drug using, as well.

John Wilcock: New York Years, 1954-1971, Art by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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scifijazznik

Say, this looks keen!
http://www.peterbagge.com/ Buddy Bradley

This is fantastic! I can’t wait for further installments. I wonder if it’ll be in print as well. Thanks for blogging this, Mark!