JOHN WILCOCK COMIC: Mexico Break-up, Leroi Jones, and Gypsy Rose Lee

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Supplemental material:

Chapters one through three of the JOHN WILCOCK comic.

RealityStudio on Leroi Jones' YUGEN magazine.

VIDEO: Leroi Jones (then as Amiri Baraka) performing his poem "DOPE".

Ethan Persoff (Twitter) is an archivist, sound artist and cartoonist. He maintains a website of odd documents, including "Comics with Problems" and an entire archive of Paul Krassner's The Realist. He resides in Austin TX.

Scott Marshall (Facebook) is an illustrator, sound artist, and art director, based in New York City. Previous projects include audio work for Woody Allen (Small Time Crooks), and the score for a full-length dance piece by choreographer Lar Lubovitch (Men's Stories).

For more information on this project, visit: John Wilcock, New York Years (1954-1971).

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This is refreshing…what an obscure and interesting subject.
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This is relevant to my interests. Proceed!
mikei

This is fantastic, thanks for sharing.
roberto95959

Back in the early 1960s, I was trying to make peace with the cobwebs in my head about what it meant to be an American, I saw a copy of a travel book, “Mexico on 5 Dollars a Day”, I think the 1962 edition. I soon headed to Mexico and lived by that book. I’d never heard of the author John Wilcock but laughed and lived by his recommendations in each town along the long drive to Mexico City. One fond memory is a great restaurant in with a sign in the window- “Do we speak English? On course!”.

Great story, wonderful graphics. Thanks.

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