JOHN WILCOCK returns to Boing Boing for Chapter Six, with the first of two installments on Lenny Bruce.
JOHN WILCOCK: Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce" will conclude next week.
View previous installments of the John Wilcock comic here and here.Supplemental material:
Discussing Lenny Bruce in the sixties, Nat Hentoff writes, "I might be able to understand – though not really – why anyone with a knowledge of the major tensions of our time would not find Bruce funny; but I cannot understand how other [cultural critics] fail completely to comprehend what he is saying." (Read the entire Village Voice column, April 6, 1960.)
Paul Krassner's Impolite Interview with Lenny Bruce for The Realist.
Marc Maron's WTF podcast interviewing Paul Krassner, discussing Lenny Bruce.
(Maron also followed up with this entertaining tweet about Dilaudid.)WFMU and Kliph Nesteroff present:
"Actual Audio of a Lenny Bruce Gig Being Raided by the Cops, Chicago 1962" (Soundcloud)
The Realist Archive Project launches a sequel: "The Other Scenes Inventory Report"
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After Eight Years on Boing Boing…The JOHN WILCOCK Comic Concludes!
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JOHN WILCOCK: A Smoke Bomb at The Anarchist Cookbook Press Conference
Thank you for reading — After eight years on Boing Boing, the John Wilcock story will conclude next week! — From John Wilcock, New York Years, by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall — (See all Boing Boing installments) READ THE REST
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